Writhing Wraparound Shoes – The ‘Mojito’ Shoe by Julian Hakes Has No Foot Plate (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Why are there foot plates on shoes? As Julian Hakes’ wraparound shoes—or the ‘Mojito’—suggest, there’s really no need for them.

The wraparound shoes were the product of what the designer discovered when…

Humiliation Cakes – Say What You Really Feel with these Embarrassing Cakes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Phone calls can be too direct, emails too cold but embarrassing cakes—those will get the job done! In other words, if you don’t know how to say it, bake a cake—and write your disagreeable message on it.…

Multihued Winged Sneakers – Jeremy Scott Does Technicolor Athletic Gear for Adidas (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hot off the heels of his Spring 2010 show, Jeremy Scott introduced a pair of multi-colored winged sneakers that will be part of his Spring 2010 collaboration line for Adidas.

Jeremy Scott’s fall 09 collection…

Animal-Headed Women – Avant Car Guard Question the Art World With Bizarre Results (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Avant Car Guard are a Johannesburg-based visual art collective who exhibit as a singular artist. Avant Car Guard is made up of Zander Blom, Jan-Henri Booyens and Michael MacGarry. If three guys exhibiting…

Priceless Pedestrian Reactions – Mark Jenkins Records Odd Art Shocking the Public (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Last year, TrendHunter.com featured the Mark Jenkins Outsider exhibition, but now he has something even sweeter to share with us: passersby reactions caught on tape. You know you wanna watch it!

Some…

Gut Flopping Fantasies – People Getting Off on Obese Belly Smacking (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In the wide, weird world that we live in today, almost nothing surprises me anymore. From the bizarre to the grotesque, gut flopping fetishes pretty much cover the range of all that is eccentric.

Gut…

Chauvinist-Minded Television – Wrestlicious is a Sexy Sketch Comedy Wrestling Show (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Fulfilling his lifelong dream of creating a reality television show described as “MAD TV + the WWE + Baywatch + Dave Chappelle,” the youngest ever Powerball lottery winner, 19-year-old Jay Vargas, has…

Scarytale Photography – Miwa Yanagi’s ‘Fairytales’ Series Will Keep You Up At Night (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Miwa Yanagi creates very unsettling yet intriguing photos by displaying disturbingly fightening images juxstaposed against familiar fairytale scenes. His ‘Fairytales’ series is his take on classic Western…

Questionable Procreation – Whythef*ckdoyouhaveakid.com Asks Why (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Whythef*ckdoyouhaveakid.com asks why, and attempts to explore, exactly why some of the more colorful members of our society have (or, better yet, are allowed to have) children, with the aid of captioned…

Optical Illusion Promotions – McDonald’s Coffee Heats Up the Advertising World (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) When I think of McDonald’s (which, sadly, I often do), I don’t think about their coffee. No, I think about their Big Macs, definitely their fries, maybe the McNuggets, and occasionally their Sausage McMuffin.…

Hilarious Halloween Duds – These Costumes Let You Be the Life, Laugh or Death of a Party (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As the month of October draws ever near, jack-o-lanterns and pint-sized candy bars can be spotted all around you. With this festive month comes the celebration of all that is ghoulish, and with these hilarious…

Horror Photoshoptography – Digitally Edited Spooky Photography by Danielle_T (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Photographer Danielle_T creates some freaky portraits using a combination of art photoshop and photography. Although she also creates beautiful portraits of her friends, family, and pets, and herself,…

Goth Digital Graphics – Morbidly Feminine Computer Illustrations by Raphael Vicenzi (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The illustrations and computer-created graphic arts of Raphael Vicenzi of Belgium are strikingly morbid and uniquely feminine. Each spews a mixed message of lost hope and cynicism complimented by warm,…

Dead Celebrity Tats – From a Patrick Swayze Tattoo to Badass Bob Barker Ink (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Celebrity deaths are hard on all us; sometimes the only way to memorialize our most favorite of the famously passed on is to get their image permanently inked on our body—like a Patrick Swayze tattoo or…

Viral Fake Sleeping – The Lying Down Game Involves Sprawling Out Face Down in Public (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) There is a new phenomenon sweeping the world. It is the “Lying Down Game” where an individual or group of people lay down in random places with their noses to the ground (or object they’re laying on)…

Adjustable T-Shirts – Simple White Shirt Customized to be Form-Fitting for All Sizes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Film and television costumers and fashion designers have known for decades that some simple modification is necessary to make regular clothing sexy and form-fitting. Resourceful fashionistas may have previously…

Museum Nudetography – Juergen Teller’s Clothes-Free ‘Paradis’ Photos at the Louvre (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In reality, you will probably never see a naked person at the Louvre. With Juergen Teller’s newest collection of photos called ‘Paradis,’ however, you get to see exactly that–and not just one person,…

Ghostly Graphics – Kazuki Takamatsu’s Art is Animazing (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I honestly don’t know much about graphic art, so when an artist like Kazuki Takamatsu comes around and elicits a “How does he do that?” response from someone who does, I’m instantly intrigued. So naturally,…

Airless Army Tires – Resilient Technologies Develops Non-Pneumatic Gadgets (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Resilient Technologies, a Wisconsin-based company, has developed the non-pneumatic or airless tire (NPT) as part of a four-year, $18 million project with the U.S. Department of Defense and the University…

Club-Hopping Photography – Andrey Yakovlev Lili Aleeva’s ‘Nightlife’ Celebrates Glorious Excess (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Andrey Yakovlev and Lili Aleeva’s ‘Nightlife’ photo shoot celebrates glorious excess by capturing glitzed-up models as they head out on the town. With an arsenal of fun lenses, trippy effects and other…