Disastrous Uber Editing – Famous Photoshop Bloopers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Everybody knows that Photoshop is the miracle recipe for great looking stars. But what happens when the art director is over using the Photoshop wonders? It ruins everything! Stars get incredibly slimmer, they get 3 hands or they look like plastic toys. They’re humans after all!

Funny Movie About Fonts – Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) You see fonts everywhere, from graffiti in the street to advertising press inserts or choco pack you were holding in your hand earlier. They are everywhere. Creating them is not that easy as you need to build up their own personality..
Job Wouters is a font artist and along with his 4 year old nephe…

U-Turner Fashion – Where is the Truth Collection by Yasui (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Japan fashion week comes to a close, one of the seven shows on the catwalk was from Hidenobu Yasui, a so-called U-turner. Yasui spend time in London learning fashion and returned for his first show in Japan. The collection is “Where is The Truth?” The fashions were crossing the line between skirts, …

Chocolate Pencils – Dessert Comes with “Pencil Sharpeners”

(TrendHunter.com) If you are a chocolate addict, this is the ultimate dessert to crave for. The chocolate pencils come in different cocoa blends with variable intensity and you can create the right chocolate dose for the addict in you. This innovative product is the result of the collaboration between Japanese archit…

PayPerPost Dupes Adrants Into Beatboxing ‘Endorsement’ at SXSW

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I was tricked! Duped! Misled! Mis-informed! Arrgg!

Easter Egg Pimping – Egg Tuning (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) My friend Alex posted these three great examples of egg tuning on his blog.

What was the insight for this project? For Easter in Romania, everybody embellishes boiled Easter eggs. In some regions, the eggs are true pieces of art as they are painted manually in tens of shades and forms (and sometime…

135 Celeb Photos at Christie’s – Gisele & Kate Moss Bare All (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) (Warning: post contains bare bodies)

How much would you pay to own photographs of some of the world’s most famous beauties… without their clothes on? New York auction house, Christie’s bets people are willing to shell out a few thousand dollars to own sexy photographs of the most attractive fema…

Growing Stem Cells with a Plastic Toy – Shrinky Dinks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Michelle Khine, a professor at the University of California, Merced, has built microfluidic devices with Shrinky Dinks. She developed complicated 3-D chips by stacking layers of polymer film. Shrinky Dinks, which shrink when exposed to oven heat, are ideal to make tiny breeding grounds for stem cell…

Pregnant Ballerinas – “MaEternal” (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Twelve pregnant women auditioning for “MaEternal”, will have a chance to dance in the newest production by Balletlorent.

Artistic Director Liv Lorent, who happens to be pregnant, believes mothers in waiting are fascinating, beautiful and serene, qualities which can only enrich her ballet productio…

Bordellos Losing Business to Internet – Hotel Luxor Shut Down (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Whoa! The legendary sex flagship the Hotel Luxor, Hamburg’s oldest bordello, is closing up shop.

The German city is known for its infamous Reeperbahn, the red light district which has been around since 1948.

“You can’t make good money in this area anymore with real sex,” Waltraud Mehrer, the est…

Data Extractor SIM Card Readers – Cell Phone Spy

(TrendHunter.com) Now here’s something for all the suspicious types out there. Or the plain nosy.

Want to spy on someone? Just pop out the SIM card of their cell phone, place the SIM into the Cell Phone Spy gadget, and then plug it into any USB port. This device taps into all the files on a SIM card allowing for ed…

Surprisingly Innocent Underwear Ads – Wonderbra

I love these funny and somewhat refreshingly innocent ads for Wonderbra because they are unexpected from such an erotic brand. The ads feature three scenarios of a dad/son combo where the son puts his hand over his dad’s eyes to block his vision of the tempting site of the girl with the wonderbra (w…

Flying Saucer House – Out of This World Homes

(TrendHunter.com) Are you looking to buy a “different” kind of house? If you love outer space stuff and don’t mind gawkers, this flying saucer home can be yours for a mere $100,000.00. Set in Chattanooga’s Signal Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the house goes up for auction March 15th.

Built by the late Curtis …

Surprisingly Innocent Underwear Ads – Wonderbra (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I love these funny and somewhat refreshingly innocent ads for Wonderbra because they are unexpected from such an erotic brand. The ads feature three scenarios of a dad/son combo where the son puts his hand over his dad’s eyes to block his vision of the tempting site of the girl with the wonderbra (w…

Creative Cover Art – Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Paul Buckley

These beautiful, unique and quirky book covers were designed under creative direction by Paul Buckley, but credit for The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition has to be given to various designers whose works have been clustered together to create the commemorative art book.

The Penguin Classics Deluxe …

Creative Cover Art – Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Paul Buckley (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These beautiful, unique and quirky book covers were designed under creative direction by Paul Buckley, but credit for The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition has to be given to various designers whose works have been clustered together to create the commemorative art book.

The Penguin Classics Deluxe …

Micrography – Scripted Scarface Poster (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you look real, real close at this poster of bad-ass Tony Montana, the main character of the movie classic Scarface, you may notice that the poster was created entirely with letters. The unique technique used is called micrography and the poster was created using the film’s entire script from the …

That travelocity gnome sure gets around…..

The SUN has a video of the side-stepping gnome that’s reportedly scaring the bejesus out of the residents in General Guemes in Argentina.

The midget – which wears a pointy hat and has a distinctive sideways walk – was caught on video last week by a terrified group of youngsters.

How cynical am I who first thought “It’s a viral for something, fer sure”. Should I seek help?
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Reinventing Great Products – Skittles Rolls Out New Flavours

Mars knows they have a good product on their hands with Skittles, but that doesn’t stop them from innovating. They’re continually coming up with new flavours to offer creative, often bizarre alternatives.

Their latest flavors includes Chocolate Mix. Other unique tastes include Ice Cream Skittles w…

Alien Love Dolls – Area 51 Love Doll

(TrendHunter.com) If you fantasize about doing it with an alien and the idea of three breasts, “kitty-kat” shaped mouth, blue skin, ass-shaped ears and suction cup fingers (!?) is what floats your boat, then we have the perfect companion for you.

The “classified” Area 51 Love Doll with “3 out of this world love ho…