(TrendHunter.com) This past week a fabulous light festival called “Luminale†has been taking place in Frankfurt Germany. Designers exhibit fantastic illuminated projects on various architectural canvases including bridges, buildings, churches and river embankments. The festival occurs every two years, in various…
(TrendHunter.com) The Halal Inn, in Oldham UK, is the UK’s only Islamic pub. Inside is everything you would expect from a pub except there is no booze…
Of course in addition to the range of expected pub snacks there are also specific Asian foods and rather than pop songs Islamic songs are played over the radio. Ot…
(TrendHunter.com) Vindict, an Amsterdam wine company, has come up with a really fun campaign featuring water graffiti.
The striking reversed-graffiti is not only an eye catching promotion, but it’s also environmentally-friendly, and a great way to showcase innovative Dutch design. The campaign was launched this mont…
(TrendHunter.com) A cafe in Tokyo, called the Cat Cafe Calico, has 14 felines in residence which people can hire to play with whilst they relax over a cup of tea! Sound odd? The shop is not alone in offering this service, there are at least two other cafes offering the same thing.
It costs 2,000 yen to rent the ki…
(TrendHunter.com) Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum, crown prince of the United Arab Emirates of Dubai, purchased the female camel for 10 million dirhams (2.72 million dollars) at a camel beauty pageant in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.
When you are a crown prince and can have any camel in the world, …
(TrendHunter.com) Make a panda (specifically one called Jingjing) an Olympic mascot and it goes straight to their huge black and white heads.
There is no doubt, Panda’s are everywhere at the moment – a fact cemented in my mind by the panda website – panda fix – which is dedicated these furry beauties… …with even…
(TrendHunter.com) These photos of seniors doing the bunny hop is just down right scary and I AM a senior! A group of naked Canadians are looking into a class action lawsuit against PayPal. The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN), aka Canadian nudists, claims that after four years of business, PayPal suddenly cut o…
(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 …
(TrendHunter.com) These ads, featuring US president George Bush, Kim Jong II, the leader of North Korea, and Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s dictator, are for an upcoming Amnesty International concert in Hungary.
Millions of people have complained to these leaders about their human rights records, but these political figu…
(TrendHunter.com) The Japanese love narcissistic products just as much as we do in the west, but they put their own unique spin on it… like Yosimiya’s custom rice bags for babies! Hey, it’s never too soon to start!
Instead of a standard bag of rice, with maybe some text or basic logo on it, people can now get thei…
(TrendHunter.com) The big building competition in the Arabian Peninsula is really heating up with a really ginormous tower just announced for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Although we revealed this project would be under construction, we didn’t know where it would be built.
The plans show it will be twice as big as the alre…
(TrendHunter.com) There are several vertical farms proposed from major cities around the world. We’ve already told you about the one being built in Las Vegas, now here’s one that’s been proposed for Toronto.
SKYFarm, is being developed by architect Gordon Graff. It will be a 58 floor skyscraper that will blend into…
(TrendHunter.com) Not everyone is lucky enough to get to telecommute; most of the world has to endure the 9-5 work week which includes dealing with rush hour.
All around the world, piled up traffic is a reality, but in each city, it looks different. A really neat gallery called Commuter’s Rhapsody was featured in a…
(TrendHunter.com) Tokyo is recognized as an international fashion capital, but the Japanese are also known for an affinity for all things cute. A combination of the two was evident at Tokyo Fashion Week earlier this month when models walked the runway wearing gigantic rabbit heads.
In Japan even adults are fascinat…
(TrendHunter.com) When you see this illuminated dome you probably don’t think, “Ooh, that’s the most eco-friendly looking piece of architecture I’ve ever seen,” but I’ll have to remind you that looks can be very deceiving. Take another look, because in the future, those could be your very thoughts.
This German parli…
(TrendHunter.com) All around the world today, voluntary black outs will be experienced, or have already occured, as people flick off their lights and power down their electronics. The global movement stems from inspiration by last year’s event in Sydney, Australia in which 2.2 million people participated.
After gath…
(TrendHunter.com) Earth Hour has already happened in Sydney, Australia, 12 months after they started the first event which has now become a global movement.
Anyone into the global campaign is curious to know the results. How many people participated? Will it make a difference if everyone shuts out their lights for …
(TrendHunter.com) All over the world people are participating in Earth Hour, committing to turning off their lights from 8 pm to 9 pm.
Although no cities in Germany have agreed to take public initiatives to join “Stunde der Erde”, after talking to relatives in Hamburg, I know the anticipation for the 60 minutes of d…
(TrendHunter.com) Graffiti usually brings up images of young punks vandalizing public property, but these peace murals evoke none such thoughts.
The Yo! What Happened to Peace? art installation in Los Angeles is for LA vs. War and features paintings like a gigantic image of Mahatma Gandhi. The project is meant to a…
(TrendHunter.com) In my neck of the woods, we will be attending Earth Hour in Harmony, Florida. It’s such a blast!
With millions turning their lights off in Osceola county at 8:00 p.m., in Harmony, folks are encouraged to attend a community movie or candlelit dinner at Greensides’ restaurant. Earth Hour also kicks …
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