Hips Ads to Target Youth – Become a Donor

(TrendHunter.com) This is a campaign from Chile designed to encourage organ and blood donation by young people. The photos show us a bunch of young, tragically cool people getting in line to do their duty. The message, off course, is that it is, like, totally cool to become donors and by performing this selfless act …

Retro Reshoots 2 – Jessica Simpson as Virna Lisi on Esquire Mag

(TrendHunter.com) Esquire Magazine May front cover has been leaked and it is making the rounds on the internet. The cover has Jessica Simpson shaving off what I assume is an imaginary beard. The stunt was inspired by a similar Esquire cover in 1964 featuring Italian actress Virna Lisi. The magazine is celebrating its…

Offbeat Wedding Cake Toppers – Argumentative Bride & Groom (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Not a fan of brideszillas? (Get over it, girls) These non-traditional cake toppers really tickled my fancy. I love the idea of having an arguing couple on top of a cake. Lets face it, that will be a million times more realistic than a couple kissing, entwined with doves or other such nonsense!

In t…

Bullet-Proof Hoodies – Defender is Sign Of The Times Fashion Statement

(TrendHunter.com) Bladerunner Apparel is taking some serious heat for it’s latest contribution to the fashion world, the “Defender” is a bullet-proof hoodie designed to keep its wearer safe when confronted with the possibility of street violence. The owner of the London-based company says the hoodie is not being mark…

Laptop Forcefields – Hi Volt Antivirus

(TrendHunter.com) Is existing antivirus software not cutting it? A new, physical method called “Hi Volt Antivirus” plans on using electricity to protect your computer. OK, not really but, let’s not burst anyone’s bubble. This guy created a rotating electrode and decided to take a pic as it hums around his laptop and …

Social T-Shirt Shopping Communities – Rumplo

(TrendHunter.com) Rumplo, a newly launched, but already very active community, aims to provide a home to the most creative t-shirt designers from around the world. Not only is it very easy to search through the ever growing library of great designs, but it provides a great platform for designers and means that it wil…

Redneck Road Signs – Hitch Hands (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Are you tired of idiots on the road? Or does your vehicle just need a little personality? Let the world know how you really feel with these Hitch Hands brought to you from the same rednecks who felt your truck needed balls. Whether it’s a peace sign, love sign or the ever popular flipping the bird s…

Shock Fashion for Awareness – I Was Raped T Shirt

(TrendHunter.com) Rape survivor – Heather Corinna – has turned her terrible experience into something positive and set up a support group for fellow survivors. But it is the “I was raped” shirts which people were talking about. Designed to try and break down the stigma many people is attached to this crime. I will l…

Celeb Cartoon Shows – Headcases (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This cartoon image of Victoria Beckham is a screen grab from Headcases, an computer animated TV show featuring media icons like politicians and celebrities. Like most caricatures, the illustrations on the ITV show aren’t particularly flattering, but they are incredibly entertaining!

“The best sket…

Website Parodies – Dyslexflix Spoofs Netflix

(TrendHunter.com) This is a really funny site. Dyslexflix is a spoof of Netflix the largest online DVD rental service which offers flat rate rental-by-mail to customers in the United States. Dyslexflix will recommend completely disparate films to the users and the result can be very amusing. I visited the website and…

Canoe Made of 7,382 Chopsticks

(TrendHunter.com) Shuhei Ogawara, a city-hall employee, has made a 13-foot canoe from thousands of disposable chopsticks that he collected from the city hall cafeteria. He was disturbed that perfectly good wood was being thrown away – so, he spent two years constructing this 66 pound boat out of 7,382 chopsticks. A l…

Micro-Media Outlets – Pitchfork.TV

(TrendHunter.com) While mainstream channels and broadcasters everywhere scrabble to diversify and work out new revenue models in the face of plunging viewing numbers (MTV, that means you), some independent media outlets are quietly starting low cost online TV channels, most recently Pitchfork.TV.

Essentially an ext…

European Pop Culture – Worst Eurovision Songs Of All Time (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s all going Eurovision Crazy at the moment (Ireland is entering a Turkey called Dustin) so I thought I would have some Monday fun to cheer everyone up. Thanking the lord for wifi, I took a look some of the top Eurovision “car crashes” of late. I mean, who can forget a heavily-pregnant Jordon in p…

Olympic Protest – Torch Snuffed Out Twice in Paris, Attacked in London (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Olympic torch was extinguished twice this morning in Paris. Protesters, in both London and now Paris are making attempts to silence the Olympic torch because of China’s human rights record.

Interestingly, the police in Paris were intending to protect the torch like a, “head of state,” but in …

Celeb Height Comparisons – Who Tall Are You Mirror

(TrendHunter.com) Who tall are you? No, that’s not a typo; with the Who Tall Are You Mirror, you can find out who else stands at your height.

The mirror looks like an ordinary rectangular mirror in shape, but it’s etched with an image of measuring tape with heights of the stars marked along either side. The chart h…

Hair Tattoos – Gallium Ions

(TrendHunter.com) What you see on the pictures is human hair magnified many, many times. Carved on the hair is the logo of McMaster University in Ontario Canada. How is that possible? Dr. Ray LaPierre, a professor at the Department of Engineering at that institution, came up with a way to tattoo hair using something …

Royalty on YouTube 2 – Queen Rania of Jordan (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Queen Rania is a very young, influencer of Jordan, and she’s dedicated to keeping positive ties with the west. One technique to develop good relations and appeal to today’s younger generations has been the launch of her own YouTube channel.

In her clips, the beautiful queen asks the YouTube commun…

Interactive Wishes – The Big Flake

(TrendHunter.com) According to The Big Flake, the site is “a collective visual peom created to show the links between all of us and our wishes.”
Click on the hypnotic falling snowflakes to view the wishes of others around the world, or post your own wish and a new snowflake is created. The shape of your snowflake is …

Morbid Light Fixtures – Enpieza’s Colgao Lamp

(TrendHunter.com) This morbid lamp was created by design studio Enpieza located in Spain. The Colgao (“hung” in Spanish) is hanging from the top horizontal rod of the lamp. The lamp looks very simple except for the tasteless, hanging anthropomorphic figure. Either the designers were fresh out of ideas or they are int…

Medicinal Marijuana Ads – The Tom Cruise Purple

(TrendHunter.com) A strain of marijuana in California has been baptized as the “Tom Cruise Purple” and is promoted with a label showing a picture of the actor laughing like a crazy person; Cruise and his reps are not exactly elated about this. The weed in question can be found in clubs where marijuana is used legal…