Coffin Tables – Memento Coffee Table Casket (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designed by Charles Constantine, Memento is a wooden coffee table that can store books, magazines and other personal mementos during your lifetime. The design twist is that it also awaits your death to store YOU. As a bonus, an open casket is easily arranged with the conveniently removable top piece…

Nightmare-Inspired Photograpy – “After Dark, My Sweet” by Joshua Hoffine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Joshua Hoffine is an artist who finds inspiration in Hollywood icons like Stanley Kubrick. He directs the stars of his photos, usually family and friends, using elaborate sets and props, make-up and lighting to create creepy images that are terrifyingly beautiful. Hoffine evokes the fears that we al…

Angry Anchorman Remixed – Bill O’Reilly Flips Out (Now With Music) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The “Bill O’Reilly Flips Out” video is quickly climbing the charts on ViralVideoChart. The clip shows the newscaster’s short fuse as he unleashes his temper on during a taping due to frustrations with the teleprompter text. It’s only been two days, but already a musical mashup has been pro…

Sartorial Extremes – SJP’s Flower Hat at Sex & The City Premiere (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Sarah Jessica Parker showed up at the London premier of the Sex and the City movie in an eccentric flower hat and an outfit typical of the over-the-top fashion choices worn by her SATC character, Carrie Bradshaw.

The vibrant, very quirky hat perched on her head dominated her petite frame, and even…

Famous Apples to Promote Cereal – Eve & Snow White for Kellogs

(TrendHunter.com) To advertise the use of “more fruit than before” in Kellog’s All-Bran Fruit’n Fibre cereal, JWT advertising agency brought in non-other than Snow White from the beloved children’s fairy tale and our mother, the first female, Eve.

While it’s usually one red apple in the hand of Eve or snow white, we…

Rotary Phone Animals – Telephone Sheep

(TrendHunter.com) Talk about telephone installations! Jean-Luc Cornec’s Telephone Sheep is totally made from telephones and telephone cable. There is a whole flock of them, artfully arranged at at the Museum for Communications in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Some of the sheep appear to be grazing, some huddled toge…

Sumo Car Wash – Subaru Forester TV Spot (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) What do you get when you combine a group of nearly naked sumo wrestlers and a catchy disco beat with dramatic slow-motion video footage? One of Subaru’s most hilarious TV spots to date! Just imagine Zoolander and his crew each gaining 200 lbs, stripping down to their undies and putting on sumo costu…

Mutant Guitars- Pikasso

(TrendHunter.com) The Pikasso, created by Linda Manzer, quite simply makes regular guitars look boring. With two sound holes, four necks, and 42 strings, you can just imagine the range of chords that could be produced!

This wooden beast is surprisingly light, at under 15 lbs. It is also surprisingly easy to handle,…

Sneaky Musical Promos – Apple Mac Music Video Ad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The tech blogosphere has been fascinated by this cleverly edited video by digital filmmaker Dennis Liu. Essentially it’s a music video for the song Again and Again by The Bird and the Bee using all sorts of cool software, utilities and programs running on an Apple Mac Leopard operating system.

Ther…

Junk Food Motorcycles – The Hamburglar Bike

(TrendHunter.com) Harry Sperl of Florida had this Harley bike customized to look like a really fat hamburger. I think it’s a total riot!

“Frankly, I’m surprised we don’t see this kind of thing more often, since Harley’s are a symbol of the American dream,” Slipperybrick says. “Judging by the hoardes [sic] of …

Event Style Blogs – Cannes Film Festival Fashion (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Want to know what to wear in the South of France? After covering Coachella and the Kenutcky Derby, we bring you a gallery of the best fashions worn by attendees of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

First it was runways and celebrities that people looked to for fashion guidance, but with the rise of th…

Maestro Robots In Action – Honda Asimo Conducts Symphony (UPDATE) (VIDEO)

(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…

Singing Actors – Scarlett Johansson Sings Falling Down (VIDEO)

(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 …

Doll House Tables – Desk Mini Fortress (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Soojin Hyun designed this strange concept called the House on the Table. What looks to me like a tree house on a desk is a structure conceived as a sort of personal fortress intended to safeguard a person’s privacy. The House on the Table comes complete with a bookshelf, a vaulted ceiling, four wall…

Sushi Cologne – Smell Like Dinner Wherever You Go

(TrendHunter.com) If you love the smell of Japanese restaurants, then you’ll be excited to know you can experience the aromas of white rice, seaweed and fish wherever you go. Demeter created a sushi cologne that seeks to transport a person to a special place or time.

If the smell of sushi brings you back to an amaz…

Bread Parties – Dough Something Different in SF

(TrendHunter.com) Flour power has struck the west coast. While it sounds like something your grandma would have done as a young housewife, bread baking parties are actually a hip type of social get-together people in San Francisco are excitedly participating in.

Curious bakers are gathering to learn the recipes of …

Animated Retooning – Turning People Into Humanized Cartoons (VIDEO)

(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 …

Fresh Baked Heads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Believe it or not Artist Kittiwat Unarrom who has a family baking business is baking Hhads and other body parts.

Does that seem gruesome? You probably would be relieved if I told you that those heads and severed limbs are not actually the real deal but made out of bread.

Kittiwat Unarrom from Th…

Anonymous Texts at Bus Stops – Big Brother’s Creepy Bluetooth Campaign (GALLERY)

(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…

Free Trips for Bloggers – International Invites (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Companies, tour operators and event makers are realizing how powerful the blogosphere has become.

Despite what many people still think, it’s not just bored mommy bloggers ranting and raving about their lives as wives; many blogs are written by powerful opinion makers with large readerships. GM, wh…