(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) Some things have to be seen to be believed. This 38 story tower in Dubai is named the Du Tower and will function as a symbol of the young, high-tech telecommunications company, Du.
“This 115-metre tower consists of open plan offices with high-tech provisions allowing flexible usage either by Du or…
(TrendHunter.com) The Vatican has updated the list of sins to include modern day evils like environmental disregard. Today’s soul’s need to take bioethics into consideration if they want to live in purity and land themselves a spot in heaven.
“(Within bioethics) there are areas where we absolutely must denounce som…
(TrendHunter.com) Bogota, Columbia has seen a trend progress in the nightlife, cultural, art and alternative scenes. The electro-kitsch subculture has been irrigating around the country, and more events spring up daily to feed this unique sub-culture. The universal and the “local” have combined to add a surface to a …
(TrendHunter.com) Jung von Matt, one of Germany’s top ad agencies, has released a great campaign to help evoke positive feelings of patriotism in the country’s citizens.
The Du bist Deutschland (you are Germany) campaign is a series of 18 photographs of famous Germans who have had historical impact and are known gl…
(TrendHunter.com) A new pageant is looking for a real life Rapunzel, and she’s got to be young.
The Miss Longest Hair competition in Lithuania seeks to find the girl with the longest hair in the country, with girls as young as seven competing for the title. Some show off hair that cascades down to the floor, while …
(TrendHunter.com) Winters are long and bone chillingly brutal in Minnesota, which is the only reason I can think of that the FantaSuite Hotel ended up in Burnsville, Minnesota.
Some of the fantasy room themes include outer space, caves, forest, Rome, Greece, Egypt, undersea and wild west.
I guess sometime during …
(TrendHunter.com) Imagine seeing yourself on a billboard in Times Square, lit up on one of the most famous streets of the world. You don’t have to be a model or a celebrity for it to be possible anymore!
Thanks to “I in the Sky,” a new public art project, anyone can step inside a designated photo booth to have their…
(TrendHunter.com) In 2001, a Canadian named Don Arney used his technical skill and his imagination aided, I’m guessing by some dangerous combination of beer, weed, boredom and fearlessness, to invent the HangBoard.
Basically the rider is suspended by trapeze from a small crane that is attached to a snowboard; the…
(TrendHunter.com) Clinical psychologists Jaap Hollander and Jeffrey Wijnberg from Holland have created the MindMentor the first fully-functional on-line psychologist that will be help people with their emotional problems. Admitting you need help and then going through the process of getting it is usually a big step f…
(TrendHunter.com) Agreed not a new type of event, as New York has its very own National Underwear Day dating back to 2003, but this similar event in Brazil (in its second year) is more of a fashion show, as it represents 13 international, national marks and shops of Brasilia and hands out advertising and marketing ma…
(TrendHunter.com) I stumbled across this book store come coffee house whilst in Paris.
It was evening (around 8) and dark and cold out. The streets were very quiet, however, their was a warm light and a lot of movement coming from a shop window so I peeped in to check it out.
This book store come coffee house was…
(TrendHunter.com) The Metal Shutter Houses created by the Japanese Architect Shigaru Ban (in partnership with Dean Maltz Architects) stands 11 floors tall in the heart of West Chelsea, New York, and has brought Japanese simplicity and modern architectual lines to a sweeter big apple. Ban, known as the ‘poet’ architec…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen knock off Gucci bags, Prada wallets, Rolex watches and Dior sunglasses. China sells loads of fake iPods and iPhones. And, while we’ve seen people try to fake luxury but adding big brand emblems to their beaters, this is the first time we’ve seen entire cars knocked off.
Now in Sicily, c…
(TrendHunter.com) Beyond being stunning and environmentally friendly the Pininfarina Sintesi concept aims to fulfill the ultimate Italian driving dream, getting rid of traffic lights. Technology named Clancast system communicates with other cars on the road to exchange traffic pattern info, eliminating the need for t…
(TrendHunter.com) Italy has passed a law that says that men cannot touch their private parts in public. Yes dudes! When you travel to Italy remember to keep your hands from wandering into your genitalia or you’ll face criminal charges for excessive crotch grabbing.
The ban was extended to apply in cases the Eternal…
(TrendHunter.com) How romantic would it be to stroll the streets of France an instead of streetlamps, had your evening stroll illuminated by the cascading glow from chandeliers?
It must have been vraiment enchanting to see these glowing in the night in the small town bordering Germany. They are hung as part of the …
(TrendHunter.com) Given the choice of posting another amazing white apartment (which was truly lush) and this one was indeed a hard choice but in the end it was the Quetzacoatl Nest with its playful appeal, child-like innocence and supreme textured design that one the battle. Dark forces may have had some influence i…
(TrendHunter.com) Cai-Guo-Qiang the Chinese artist will display his gunpowder works of art at a unique solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His gunpowder works carry many accolades and have recently sold for over US $9 million that is sure to add to his growing list of admirers and awards.
Cai works…
(TrendHunter.com) Around the streets of Portugal, the inside lids of garbage cans have been adorned with stickers bearing images of a tired looking, older homeless man. Accompanying the image is a tag line that reads, “Help. So that no one has to come here for food.”
This guerrilla marketing campaign for Vitae Shelt…
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