Gum Blondes (Update) – Jason Kronenwald’s Bubblegum Portraits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Jason Kronenwald makes portraits of blonde-haired public figures using a very unusual medium: chewed bubblegum. The malleable portraits are manipulated onto a plywood surface, and sealed with an epoxy…

Reverse Graffiti (UPDATE) – Now Cleaning the Streets of San Francisco

(TrendHunter.com) The artist, “Moose” is one of the early pioneers of a technique called “Reverse Graffiti” which involves using natural methods and natural cleaners to create large scales mural. Moose makes his in San…

Showcasing Ugly Art – MUMOK’s Bad Painting-Good Art Exhibition (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I think many of us have gone through the experience of going to a museum or to one of those ultra hip “art galleries” and finding ourselves saying, “What is this crap? This isn’t art. This is …

Politcal Icon Fashion – Witty Presidential Candidate Shirts

(TrendHunter.com) T-shirts are something to wear, a canvas for art, and a place to keep the pulse of a thin slice of the American public. Whether Republican or Democrat, there are already numerous designs to choose fro…

Art Made of Nails – DaVinci Portrait (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Artists help make the world a more beautiful place. Innovative artists can do this using about any medium – paint and canvas, chalk and blacktop, and in this case, nails and wooden boards. The artist …

Fake Bodies as Street Art – Mark Jenkins Embed Series (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Mark Jenkins has been featured on Trend Hunter before, but his new Embed series was worth a mention. Jenkins is an American artist who specializes in street installations, some of which can be describ…

Transparent Toilets – Nature Scene Tanks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These pieces of art will give your #1-toilet-using guests (as opposed to going #2) something to look at while going potty. They will probably also spark some interesting discussion into the world of r…

Customized Sci-fi Cars – Alien-Themed Hoods (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter featured an article recently about an Alien-themed bar in Switzerland designed by the Oscar winning creator of the mean, highly aggressive Alien monsters H. R. Giger. Now, we are introduc…

Real Life Pinheads – Self-Piercing for Olympics

(TrendHunter.com) A Chinese man turned himself into a real life pinhead, not as a demonstration of mind over manner or some twisted form of acupuncture, but as a PR stunt to promote the upcoming Olympics. Dr Wei Sheng …

Commercial Body Painting – John Vargas’ Work (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Here at TrendHunter.com, we have featured works of body paint on a few occasions. Now, we want to introduce the work of John Vargas. Vargas is an Ecuadorian artist who does commercial body painting an…

Revealing War Mysteries – Secret Weapons of World War 2 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Second World war is riddled with stories of mad scientists working for the Nazi’s and the Allies, developing technology which was much far advanced than any of the technology seen today.

Michae…

3-D Virtual Reality – The Third Eye (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Third Eye is a device conceived by Japanese designer Takehito Etani. The contraption, which goes on the head, offers the user a very different and unusual perception from outside his/her body. The…

Girly Gothic Art – Queenie’s Pocket Full of Posiez (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Multi-talented L.A. based gothic artist Queenie is the ruler over a kingdom of playfully wicked characters she calls Posiez. Her Posiez are portrayed in a series of paintings, shown exclusively at the…

Broadway Poster Spoofs – “Evil Dead: The Musical” Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Toronto-based Evil Dead: The Musical released three promotional poster spoofs using the iconic images of three Broadway plays: Les Miserables, Mamma Mia! and Hairspray.

The images have been give…

Famous People Tattoos – Celebrity Tribute Tattoos (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Some people are so celebrity obsessed, they’re willing to have their bodies inked with images of their most admired idols. A while back we mentioned someone had Tay Zonday, the baritone Chocolate Rain…

Creative Contextual Drains – Matrix by Honfay Lui (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) To think of drainage systems as anything but cesspools of waste is really difficult for me and I suspect for lots of other people as well. Honfay Lui is trying to change that way of thinking, and to t…

Dental Paintings – Custom Tooth Art II (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter published an article about dental tattoos not long ago, which you can see below, and now we’re happy to do a follow-up. The dental designs in this gallery are made with very colorful pain…

Gold Guerrilla Street Art – The Midas Project in Barcelona (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Have you ever heard of King Midas? To make a long story short, he was a pretty greedy king who wished that whatever he touched would turn to gold. As a result, he ended up starving to death because all the food he touched turned to the valuable metal.

The project by an unknown rebel street artist q…

Manimals – Animals of the Chinese Zodiac (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember that 1990’s show which had a super sleuth transform into different animals? Well ‘Manimals’ is not exactly related, but does share the name. Manimals is an exhibit by artist Daniel Lee. Drawing inspiration from the Chinese Zodiac, Lee has created portraits of people in likeness to the anima…

Reinterpreting Movie Heroes – The Incredible Hulk by Jonas Thornqvist (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) There have been rumblings of discontent in the blogosphere with the computer-generated Hulk of The Incredible Hulk movie, scheduled for theatrical release on June 13th. So perhaps in response, Swedish artist Jonas Thornqvist created this 3D version using a graphics application called 3ds Max, a 3-D …