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(TrendHunter.com) This collection of commencement speeches by celebrities not only offers rich insight, fascinating stories and valuable advice for recently graduated students, but also for adults. These speeches…

With London in the rear-view mirror, pop stars like Joe Jonas retook their usual places on our weekly chart of the top trends on Twitter.

Falling squarely in the semi-blasphemous category is this ad for Venezuelan plastic surgery center Clinica Dempere which shows what happens to our favorite Disney characters undergo the knife.

In the ads, Evil Witch, the Frog Prince and Little Mermaid (Ariel) become transformed. Evil Witch gets major facial reconstruction and becomes a hottie, Frog Prince has a total body transformation and becomes a debonair hunk. And Little Mermaid has her tail removed, her boobs enlarged and her face transformed into, well, a train wreck as compared to Ariel’s original beautilicious innocence.

We’re all for bigger boobs in certain circumstances (especially in the case of this dancer whose boobs kept spilling out of both the top and the bottom of her much too small top) but not when it comes to the overblown efforts of some who feel turning a human into a freak is worth getting paid for.

The least they could have done was make Ariel look pretty.

(TrendHunter.com) Light Years Lingerie has not released the typical lookbook. In place of writhing bodies and sensual poses, this catalog concentrates on subtly quirky captures that allow its audience to focus on…

We have to agree with AdWeek’s David Gianatasio on this one. To “demonstrate the precision and control of the new Volvo FH series truck,” Swedish ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors set up a slacklining stunt whereby slickliner Faith Dickey would walk a tightrope between two moving trucks approaching tunnels.

As with other stunts similar to this that attempt to illustrate the superiority of a machine or vehicle, as Gianatasio argues, it’s really the skill of the operator as opposed to the technical precision of the machine that truly matters. Volvo could have grabbed two 20 year old 18 wheelers, a pair of great stunt drivers and accomplished the same thing.

Sure, this stunt is fun to watch but does it really demonstrate the capability of the vehicle? We’d buy into this more if Volvo had hired two overweight, beer gut-sporting slobs who’d just each downed a six pack and put them behind the wheel of a vehicle that actually could maneuver itself through the use of a sophisticated computer-aided guidance system.

Of course we take nothing away from Dickey’s accomplishment here. As she says in the video, she’s done a lot of slacklining but never before between two moving trucks. SO there’s that.

(TrendHunter.com) The Villa Asserbo is a quick assembly house that essentially snapped together like one big toy. Built using 400 Forest Stewardship Council-certified Nordic plywood components designed in digital…

(TrendHunter.com) These rich kid creations are an almost comical round-up of some of the most unnecessary products intended for teens and children.

The super rich kid fascination was popularized by blogs like Rich…

The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer achieved rare monthly circulation increases in July, but The Sun on Sunday registered its fifth month of decline.

Rather than debating which form is better, marketers should focus on how well they're integrating social within search, and vice versa.

National Geographic a dévoilé comme chaque année les gagnants du concours des plus beaux clichés de l’année 2012. Des images splendides, d’une beauté saisissante à découvrir dans la suite de l’article en commençant par le vainqueur du concours : le cliché de Cédric Houin dans une yourte isolée au Kyrgyzstan.

Vo Anh Kiet – 2nd place winner

Andrea Guarneri – 3rd place winner

Fred An – Merit winner

Lucia Griggi – Merit winner

Peter DeMarco – Merit winner

SauKhiang Chau – Merit winner

Camila Massu – Merit winner

Ken Thorne – Merit winner

Ken Bower – Merit winner

Michelle Schantz – Viewer’s choice winner