Fake Melted Wax – Candle Drips Made of China (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These candlesticks recreate the effect of dripping wax with intricate faux wax made out of fine bone china. I am particularly fond of the idea that your real candle drips can add to those of the fake candle…

Danish Cancer Society: Bear trap

Bear trap

Advertising Agency: Halbye Kaag, JWT
Creative Director: Carsten Kaag
Art Director: Søren Lund, William Stahl
Copywriter: Anne-Marie Mygind
Photographer: Thomas A.
Producers: Mette Stuhr & Rasmus Sanko
Aired: November 2007

Angela of Adrants to Interrogate ADs and Art Buyers for Shoot! the Day

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Tomorrow I’ll be moderating a panel for Shoot! the Day, a stock photography conference put together by PhotoShelter.

Nike Builds on Roger Federer and Tennis

Movie Trailer Birth Announcements – Baby Production (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Parents of new babies now have a cute alternative to plain old birth announcement cards. They can have a personal movie trailer made – their very own baby production. The Movie Trailer Birth Announcements…

Masterlock: Hippies

Hippies

Tough Enough For Any Job

Advertising Agency: FoxP2, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Directors: Andrew Whitehouse, Justin Gomes
Art Director: Ryan Barkhuizen
Copywriter: Mike Pearson
Photographer: Bryan Traylor

Masterlock: Magician

Magician

Tough Enough For Any Job

Advertising Agency: FoxP2, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Directors: Andrew Whitehouse, Justin Gomes
Art Director: Ryan Barkhuizen
Copywriter: Mike Pearson
Photographer: Bryan Traylor

Masterlock: UFO

UFO

Tough Enough For Any Job

Advertising Agency: FoxP2, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Directors: Andrew Whitehouse, Justin Gomes
Art Director: Ryan Barkhuizen
Copywriter: Mike Pearson
Photographer: Bryan Traylor

Iphone Apps iBeer vs iPint

iBeer is the #5 top paid app on the iPhone. It’s a great tool to show off to your friends and it costs $3.99 AUD

Cool. But for Free you can get the iPint App which does the same thing + has a free game. This is what picked up silver at Cannes 2008.

I always assumed Apple users were pretty smart. But this might be a case of over excited and over cashed nerds.

Many app on there are what you’d expect for free anyway. Todo lists apps for $3. C’mon.

It’ll be interesting to see the new breed of apps coming for the iPhone in the future. Apple will also have to create a better way to sort through them as already it’s 80% utter shite, 10% useless and 8% what you’d expect anyway and 2% inspired.

Olivetti, Una bella società

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Football Swimwear – Diesel at Miami Fashion Week (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Diesel showed its inaugural swimwear collection, going with the varsity look by adding props such as baseball helmets, boxing gloves, football pads and other gear.

Diesel kicked off the Mercedes-Benz…

Gas Prices Inspiring Wild Stunts – Hookers & Priests Offering Free Gas?

(TrendHunter.com) Giving away gas cards with purchases of goods was explored in an earlier Trend Hunter post, as seen below, but now people are going to real extremes to help fund the fueling of their vehicles.

David…

Customized Latex Gloves – Dirty Dishes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Every woman with manicured digits needs a pair of Dirty Dishes gloves. Sudsing up in murky dish water post-meal isn’t exactly the most practical way to maintain your French polish, which is exactly why…

Trend Hunter Submission Panel Test – Trend Hunters Will Freeking Love This (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The new submission panel is almost ready for rollout.  I’m personally testing it right now and I’m pretty sure that all of the Trend Hunters are going to freekin’ love it. 

It’s smokin hot, easy to…

The LOLCats Blog Empire

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If you told someone that you’re main source of icome was for a site about LOLcats the reaply would be WTF!

But the team behind I Can Has Cheez Burger not only have themselves one of the top blogs in the world (#8 to be pricise) but they also now have a network of 4 other blogs with the same simple structure and same social network tools.

Failblog, Graphjam, Pundit Kitchen and their newest one Totally Looks Like are all perfect examples of what people want from online. Tiny bite sized laughs that they can contribute to easily. It’s easy to join and play along and these are perfect email fodder.

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This is a lesson for all potential bloggers or agencies trying to create blogs for their clients. Find something and do it well. These blogs pretty much run themselves now. The community do all the work and the teambehind it reap the rewards.

After studying these more closely I need to tweak a few of my blogs. WTFcostumes is the easiest to update but doesn’t have any of the neseary tools to let people contribute properly while Sleevage requires alot of research and some posts take me more than two days to put together. The blog I’m working on now for City of Ember an underground blog also takes quite a long to put tegether.

Even Bannerblog could use a major overhaul in how I let people digest the site.

Fake BJ Ads – Do American Apparel Ads Cross The Line?

(TrendHunter.com) American Apparel ups the sleaze factor big time with their latest amateur porn-ish ad.

I have no clue how this company is doing so well in sales with someone like Dov Charney steering it. Past and current…

Picnic Table Pyramids – The ‘Rest’ Air Restaurant in the Netherlands (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While most of the information I could find on this exhibition was in Dutch, I thought it was still worth posting. This massive triangular stack of wooden picnic tables is an art project titled ‘Rest’…

Futuristic Eco Cities – Foster + Partners Plans in Rimini, Italy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Giant architecture firms tend to think big. Foster + Partners not only want to make a statement in the sleepy beach town of Rimini, Italy, they want to transport the entire seafront to make a tourist mecca…

Controversial Cuisine – 8 Banned Foods (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve featured some wickedly daring foods before, but NewsWeek rounded up a delicious sampling of eight forbidden meals just starving for a mention. A mere description in words wouldn’t quite be sufficient…