Anatomically Correct Art – 10 Brainy Examples (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The following 10 brains were designed to be anatomically correct.

The Delicate Woolen Brain by Sarah Hillienberger is great. I would love to be able to add this brain onto other items such as cushions…

Designer Spoof Footwear – Melissa’s Plastic Shoes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Melissa has designed some plastic shoes for some very well known designers. The Melissa footwear brand selects big designers and allows them to enjoy the fun of creating an iconic shoe. 

The Brazilian-based…

Double-Jointed Body Popping – Robert Muraine on “So You Think You Can Dance” (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The judges on the popular “So You Think You Can Dance” TV competition were unprepared for the body popping moves of Robert Muraine. He is a 20 year old street “popper” from Los Angeles, California where…

Kept From TV, Report on Moscow Finds an Audience on Web

Like magazines, the Internet has so far avoided heavy censorship, analysts say, mostly because it has a smaller audience.

Top 50 Viral Posts in August – Bigfoot, Chupacbra, Olympics, Sarah Palin Photos and Obama (CLUSTER)

(TrendHunter.com) August was a sensational month for viral news, driven by Bigfoot, Chupacbra, the Olympics, Sarah Palin Photos and everything Obama. These viral posts drove Trend Hunter to a record 6 million monthly views…

Jenga Block Architecture – The “Next Generation House” by Sou Fujimoto (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sou Fujimoto Architects has designed The Next Generation House within a small but functional 13’ x 13’ x 13’ cube. The house looks as if it was built from strategically placed Jenga blocks.

The blocks…

DIY Disaster Dioramas – Spitefuls Paper Crafts

(TrendHunter.com) Cubicle workers will never be bored again with the Disaster Dioramas from the Spitefuls website. Free downloads of plans will help you recreate the Titanic and Hindenburg disasters by cutting out and folding…

Value-Priced Hip Hotels – aLoft Hotel Review: Montreal Airport (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Starwood’s new aLoft hotel chain has been generating buzz as one of the first value-priced hip hotel chains.  More than a year and a half ago, Trend Hunter first introduced you to the aLoft concept, and…

Faces as Artistic Objects – “BallPoints” by Levi van Veluw (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dutch artist Levi van Veluw’s “Landscape” and “Material Transfers” self portraits were featured on Trend Hunter a few months ago, where we explained that the concept of elemental transfers means that the…

Wall-Mounted Stiletto Racks – Mashallah Shoeshelf

(TrendHunter.com) A girl can’t have too many shoes but they need to be organised and preferably not in a jumble on the floor of the closet. Mashallah Design has come up with a neat wall mounted shoe rack specifically for…

Nocturnal Aerials – London at Night by Jason Hawkes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As the Olympic eyes turn from Beijing to London, so do the photographers. Jason Hawkes photos of London at night are awe-inspiring. Shooting from a helicopter in the daytime is challenging enough, to do…

Fashion Inspired by Disasters – Hurricane Gustav Pants (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These Hurricane Gustav-inspired pants have to belong to some of the strangest fashion innovations I’ve seen. While natural disasters have long been the source of artistic products, like paintings of storms,…

Gustav a Nightmare for GOP Brand

On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Hurricane Gustav is not only threatening New Orleans, it's playing havoc with GOP scheduling and acting as a reminder of Hurricane Katrina, often seen as George W. Bush's biggest domestic failure. For the GOP brand, the timing couldn't be worse.

Fuller Bodied Icons – Average Sizes Return to Runways (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Ultra-thin models and body image problems have been fiercely debated issues for over a decade. We have heard the stories of model malnutrition death and girls and boys as young as 7 who claim they should…

Flickr Documentaries – Hurricane Gustav (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) With the National Hurricane Center declaring Hurricane Gustav a category 4 storm, people have turned to flickr to document their experiences.

A few groups have been created where members can post images…

Digital Creationsim – Oilcorner’s DeviantART (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Photoshopping has become almost impossible to detect thanks to spectacular software and amazing creativity. A fine example of this can be seen on oilcorner’s deviantART page – a self-proclaimed photo manipulator.…

Athlete Comedians – Michael Phelps to Host SNL (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) America’s Golden Boy, Olympian Michael Phelps, is set to host the 34th Season Opener of NBC’s Saturday Night Live on September 9, 2008.  I’m eager to see whether Phelps can give a gold medal comedic performance…

Upright Nap Capsules – El ZULO (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Frank Ehners, has designed el ZULO (spanish for ‘the hideout’) to allow employees to hideout while on the job.

The expression ‘power-nap’ was coined by Cornell University social psychologist James Maas.…

Stars Playing Themselves – 10 Famous Cameos

(TrendHunter.com) There are so many glorious examples of people guest staring as themselves in movies and on TV, so we’ve put together 10 of the best. The UK TV show “Extras” shows how it is done, and seems to have the…

Manimal Sculptures – Prodigious Products by Rebeca Gilling (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Rebeca Gilling’s unusual human-animal hybrids are 3-D fantasy artwork. Some of her creations are mounted just like taxidermal work except that these were the figments of her fertile imagination.

One…