(TrendHunter.com) If you look real, real close at this poster of bad-ass Tony Montana, the main character of the movie classic Scarface, you may notice that the poster was created entirely with letters. The unique technique used is called micrography and the poster was created using the film’s entire script from the …
(TrendHunter.com) There is a currently an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that is creating buzz around the world. The exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind, is a combination of art, science, technology and design and includes influential projects from around the world.
We’ve featured a few indiv…
(TrendHunter.com) Japanese chef Ken Kawasumi shows off his recreation of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers series at an event celebrating the release of his book”The most simple way to make decorative sushi-rolls’ in Japan”. Predictably, Kawasuni’s Sunflowers rendition is made entirely of sushi and somethin…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re having headaches looking for the BIG idea, maybe you should try a different approach for your sketches. Designer Heli Hietala makes colored crayons in the shape of the human bodies all for the sake of art. They are fun, come in an array of different colours and may give you the boost to go…
(TrendHunter.com) Lovers of eco-friendly buildings will not be disappointed with the hippies in NoCal. This fall, the new museum will be open and the public will have the chance to see what is under those giant bulges covered with grass and flowers. The roof alone is a marvel.
“The $484-million structure will most …
(TrendHunter.com) A Tokyo school has just begun teaching an innovative new subject called Cosplish, a hybrid of the words “cos-play” and “English.”
The strange course focuses on three topics which have become increasingly popular among Japanese culture: the English language, manga, and costume-play. It’s centered ar…
(TrendHunter.com) I ran across this item at Alibaba.com in the Gifts & Crafts > Sculptures > Fairies Fantasy Erotic Sexy Statues category. It is a life-size statue of a fairy (or perhaps larger-than-life; I’m not quite sure how big a fairy actually is). I always thought of fairies being small like Tinkerbell. Perhaps…
(TrendHunter.com) This is a modular snake robot from Biorobotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. The robot wiggles around, twists, turns, climbs walls and flight of stairs, swims and does a host of other things that other conventional legged or wheeled robots cannot do.
What I am not sure about i…
(TrendHunter.com) We all want art that does something more than just hang there, right? We’re used to multi-tasking, so why should art get away with just hanging around. Oscar Diaz made these artworks that change as the ink bleeds onto the paper. It’s still art because you don’t control the speed or final outcome, th…
(TrendHunter.com) The brilliant bit.fall by Julius Popp –which is currently featured at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008– is a metaphor for the incessant flood of information we are exposed to. bit.fall artistically reveals internet-based information generated b…
(TrendHunter.com) The beautiful Endless Nile table by famous multi-talented designer Karim Rashid takes its inspiration from the slow and perpetual flow of the Nile river. The new design combines the inspiration by the past with a futuristic deconstruction of conventional table and seating concepts resulting in an or…
(TrendHunter.com) Alice Wang is one of my favourite concept artists. Everything she does is interesting and thought provoking. This also is the case with her newest project, that is called Asimov’s First Law.
Let’s talk about artificial intelligence. Let’s talk about how machines could harm us. Let’s talk ab…
(TrendHunter.com) ‘The End of an Era’ by Ian Burns is a chandelier of sixteen small monitors hanging from the ceiling, all displaying a live-feed image of a light bulb created by the “perversely archaic method of a camera obscura.” By focusing on the ubiquity of the screen and our ever-more sedentary relationshi…
(TrendHunter.com) I love this project by the artist Sighn. The project features hand-crafted “Its OK” pieces. For each piece sold, a tree will be planted (in cooperation with Arbor Day Foundation). The interesting part is that the project has a “limited” edition of 1 Million pieces! That’s one million new trees. How …
(TrendHunter.com) Subject to fetish, seen as a necessary nuisance, a protection, a manifestation of female beauty and seduction, or of pure aesthetics, the bra is an extremely important piece in the feminine world.
During the sixties of the last century women threw their bra’s in any fire available during this per…
(TrendHunter.com) Take a break from complicated advanced technology with this fun free pinhole camera! Download, print and build your own beautiful pinhole camera, designed exclusively with Corbis images and illustrations. And it works! Designs include Peyote, Photos Of Your Mother, Dr. Livingstone, Astrocam and Pabl…
(TrendHunter.com) Absolut has released another fun ad campaign to promote their world famous vodka, this time called Absolut Machines. We’ve featured one machine already, the Absolut Quartet already, but now we’re showing you the Absolut Orchestra.
The project is an amalgamation of cutting edge technology and the f…
(TrendHunter.com) I knew George Clooney was eye candy, but I had no idea he could be this sweet! This fantastic portrait of the sexy 460year-old was created out of Jelly Belly jelly beans, forming a sort of candy mosaic.
I adore Jelly Belly beans, so I don’t think I could have this on my wall without picking. His c…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen so many recycled fashions on Trend Hunter, but it’s a very good thing that we love to feature. The fact that eco-chic has now been picked up by the masses is fantastic and shows our society’s commitment to the environment. It also goes to prove that recycled doesn’t equate to trashy.
Th…
(TrendHunter.com) Well they say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure as the “Can Man” demonstrates this admirably with his extreme recycled fashion. He simply views trash as the raw materials for his art. You have to see it to believe it so check out the video – I like the cork suit the best personally!
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