(TrendHunter.com) We told you Honda’s Asimo robot was scheduled to conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a performance of The Impossible Dream from Man of la Mancha. The successful performance took place yesterday, and we have the video to prove it.
Even though I feel a little uneasy about the idea of robots in…
(TrendHunter.com) Scarlett Johansson as a singer? The actress belts out a song in this video called “Falling Down†from her album “Anywhere I Lay my Head†and she can sort of sing. No, she’s not Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston but I think she knows that. She does not have a dominant voice and the video for …
(TrendHunter.com) The Trend Hunter community has been fascinated by what’s being referred to as “untooning.†The new graphic art form strips famous pop culture characters of their “cartoon†characteristics and transforms them into what artists imagine they would look in the flesh. This process gets to the …
(TrendHunter.com) To promote popular reality show Big Brother 2008 on Channel TEN in Australia, advertising agency Marketforce in Perth came up with a unique bluetooth SMS campaign that really caught people by surprise. The ads embodied the “Big Brother is watching” slogan, which is the essence of the show.
The camp…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve covered futuristic fashion before, and while we’ve touched on the galactic fascination numerous times, never has it been more clear that luxury space travel is a huge part of the inspiration. Just look: Robyn is wearing a spaceman helmet.
Will pushing her wardrobe to extremes help with her c…
(TrendHunter.com) Criss Angel, the young rock magician and escape artist, is collaborating with Cirque du Soleil to launch Believe, a new Las Vegas show at the Luxor Hotel and Casino.
The teaser for the much-anticipated show has finally been launched, and can be seen above.
The show kicks off in about five months…
(TrendHunter.com) EasyJet was probably the first airline to use its aircrafts as giant brand billboards, and now it seems aerial advertising is starting to hit the skies hard. We have already seen Armani and Versace transform ordinary aircrafts into superb pieces of design, now MTV is taking off with the idea too.
V…
(TrendHunter.com) First Karl Lagerfeld was featured in Grand Theft Auto IV, and now the Chanel designer has been forever immortalized as a Simpson, alongside fellow designer Marc Jacobs. Both are known for their quirky personas, and Matt Groening did a fantastic job capturing their colourful characters.
The images …
(TrendHunter.com) If you were a TV producer launching a new show about 1970s swingers, would you admit the plot was based on the lives of your parents? Mike Kelley, the creator of Swingtown, which airs on June 5 on CBS, didn’t have a problem with the attribution.
Bored of traditional comedies and the flooding of …
(TrendHunter.com) Several weeks ago, Trend Hunter started breaking the news about Untooning, the process of transforming cartoons into art.
Now, there is a rash of untooning going on in the blogosphere. Lucky for us all, Worth1000 decided to launch Untooning as a contest.
The result is that a whole bunch of very…
(TrendHunter.com) With the help of computer graphic technology, cartoon characters are “coming to life”. First it was the Simpsons, then Jessica Rabbit, Bowser and Mario. Well, now its Sonic the Hedgehog’s turn to be converted to realism.
The design by Marcus Blättermann (essenmitsosse) depicts how Sony’s Sonic wo…
(TrendHunter.com) ABC has launched a new initiative in conjunction with several US universities that would be every journalism student’s dream. They are setting up on-campus broadcast stations in which students can work with ABC directly to gain hands on experience.
The company is committed to getting younger demog…
(TrendHunter.com) Remember when Madonna brought back retro cone boobs, making the pointy bra style hot again? Well now thanks to Girls Aloud, it’s back, and this time with a galactic blast!
The UK girlband showed off this look when they kicked off their Tangled Up tour in Belfast this week.
“All credit goes to Ju…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve been entertained by a user-generated Zoolander spoof, a parody of Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, and now we’re finding ourselves captivated by this remake of Michael Jackson’s Beat It.
The high energy black and white with music video features flashes of red and a killer soundt…
(TrendHunter.com) Omadaka has created a new video for the chiptune disco track “Kyoteizinc,†featuring the computer tweaked dance moves of Masako Yasumoto.
The Omodaka creative project adopts a process which they describe as “trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics”.
The so…
(TrendHunter.com) People love celebrity gossip magazines because it “humanizes” the stars to them. That now includes political candidates.
“But not since John F. Kennedy posed for Life magazine during the 1960 campaign — tanned and windblown in his sailboat — have the entertainment media been so infatuated with…
(TrendHunter.com) Want to compete against Jessica Alba in a grueling, out of this world staring contest? Here’s your chance. Alba squares off against some mean, lean professional starers in the latest of a series of stunts to promote ibeatyou.com, the start-up internet enterprise co-founded by her boyfriend Cash Warr…
(TrendHunter.com) Does masking photo shoots with retro flare make it OK to use artistic nudity?
Eva Mendes posed for Vogue Italia’s most recent issue and many in the online community seem to be digging the photos judging by the fact that they’re spread (no pun intended) on quite a few of my favorite websites today.…
(TrendHunter.com) Back in the day I had some truly tasteless New Kids on the Block memorabilia. Today, there isn’t much of a boy band for teenyboppers to flip over, so it would seem they’ve taken a lusty liking for their favorite American Idol contestants. MTV compiled a list of the most ridiculous items targeting th…
(TrendHunter.com) The new Graz Theater (also known as Mumuth Theatre) at the University of Graz, in Austria is a fusion of music, architecture and futuristic vision.
Designed by Ben Van Borkel and Caroline Bos, the theater has two entrances, one for the performers and one for the patrons. It’s all about springs tho…
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