Cube-Shaped Architecture – Taipei Performing Arts Center is a Building for Blockheads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) NL Architects have designed the Taipei Performing Arts Center like a giant cube of Swiss cheese set over a public square, with the missing sections there to provide light and visual interest for the overall…

Collaborative Stories on Skin – A Story Written On The Bodies of 2,095 Strangers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A story tattooed in words across the bodies of 2,095 strangers started with a call out on a public forum, and slowly people started showing their interest…

I am word number 275 in a story of 2,095 words.…

Surreal Music and Images as Art – Cathedral Oceans by John Foxx (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) John Foxx is an English musician, graphic designer and educator who loves to create works of art that blend audio and visual sensation.

Cathedral Oceans is a long ongoing project by Foxx and the first…

100 Mile Drawings in the Sand – World’s Largest Human-Made Art by Jim Denevan (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Jim Denevan is a Santa Cruz, CA-based artist who makes freehand temporary drawings in sand using only a stick and a rake. Working up to seven hours and walking long distances to work on his drawings, Denevan…

Giant Waterfalls as Urban Art – The New York City Waterfalls (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) New York City now offers a spectacular public waterfall installation for those who yearn to see cascading falls but are far from what one would consider to be an outdoorsy type. There’s no hiking involved…

Digitalized Children – Ray Caesar’s Surreal Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Ray Caesar (b. October 26, 1958) is a visual surreal artist and digital painter residing in Toronto, Canada.

Caesar’s art redefines possibility and pushes the boundaries of digital art, moving away…

Art Made of Medical Vials – “Sunny Day” by Aleksandra Stratimirovic (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Stockholm-based lighting artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic created the Sunny Day installation using medical vials filled with colored fluids.

Stratimirovic utilized 4,000 vials in a sterile laboratory…

Edgy DIY Couture Fashion – The Creative Designs (and Shocking Work) of Naco-Paris (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Acting like an in-your-face showgirl, Naco-Paris is bursting into the fashion scene with edgy designs…

The designs are exceptionally creative with a DIY edge and appeal. The designs are much different…

Landscape Self Protraits – Art by Levi van Veluw (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dutch artist Levi van Veluw’s self portraits are not photoshop enhanced pictures. His artform involves what he calls “material transfers” whereby he adds all kinds of things on himself. His landscape…

Vehicles as Works of Art – The BMW Art Cars (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The BMW Art Cars tradition began in 1975 when French race car driver Hervé Poulain asked Alexander Calder to customize his BMW 3.0 CSL. For 33 years, BMW cars have been turned into rolling works of art…

Hollywood Operas – Brokeback Mountain to Become Opera (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Brokeback Mountain, the movie starring the late Heath Ledger, will go from being a pop culture movie sensation to a cutting edge opera. The New York City Opera will put on their own adaption of the bi…

Plays Based on Web Scandals – User 927 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The User 927 scandal, a huge web privacy issue back in 2006, has resurfaced in Philadelphia in the form of a theatrical play. The production, aptly named USER 927, was put together by Katharine Clark …

3-D Living Wallpaper – The Work of Emma Hack (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings. The effect is beautifully crisp, vibrant, liv…

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…

Instruments Made of Food – Ocarina (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Ocarina is described by Wikipedia as a flute-like wind instrument, made of various mediums, with origins in Chinese and Mesopotamian cultures.

However, the more unique version of Ocarina as reference…

Musical Painting – Paintjam by Dann Dunn (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The work of Dan Dunn, as featured on his website Paintjam.com, is simply amazing.

In a theatrical performance, (as featured in the above video) to a song by Ray Charles, he produces a seemingly effor…

Tunnel Telescope From NYC to London – Telectroscope (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Completion of a 100 year old engineering project finally happened a few days ago. The tunnel between New York and London, called the Telectroscope, allows residents of both cities to peer down the gia…

Sculptures for the Sole РCouture Shoes by Marloes Ten Bh̦mer (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dutch designer, Marloes ten Bhomers’ radical shoes beg belief when you see them for the first time. Their highly sculptured lines are far removed from what we think of as shoes. Indeed, some of her designs need a second look just to make sure they are shoes.

“I never let functionality get in the…

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 …

Guerrilla Musical Theater 2 – Flash Mob for Lastminute.com (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a guerrilla ad by a group of actors who surprised and shocked people waiting at Stansted Airport in London with an impromptu musical performance, a la Improv Everywhere. It’s always fun to see people’s reactions when they see actors pop out of nowhere singing and some even tap dancing.

Ther…