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Hi, I'm Michael Baxter from Brampton and I love to write. As generic as that sounds I find writing the best way to get my ideas out and show my personality in a creative way. I do other things I swear, I'm not just a shut in that sits at my computer and writes lists and stuff (well not all the time).

I like to play sports, mainly Volleyball and Basketball as well as Dodgeball but Volleyball is my number one. Aside from that it's mostly music related things. I did some music production and DJing (and still do when called upon) and do various forms of dance including B-Boying and a few different kinds of hip-hop.

I like to think I'm well rounded and hopefully that translates to my work as well.
What is unique that's not in your bio?
I do everything music related. Produce, Dj, Music Journalism and even a few different kinds of dance.
What's your favorite accomplishment?
My favorite accomplishment is the magazine that I created and run with a few of my friends 88magazine.
How do you define cool?
Cool is supposed to be effortless self-expression. Try-hards aren't cool but those that can be comfortable with their style, self and abilities are cool.
What is your secret to uncovering trends?
Keeping my eyes open, always. Anything could be a trend in the making and if you keep your eyes and ears open you could very well be the one to uncover it.
What do you enjoy most about Trend Hunter?
The variety of the content is what I enjoy most about Trend Hunter.
What is your favorite trend?
This is a tough one because there's so many that go up on a daily basis. I'd say anything in the fashion section because the stuff can be so ridiculous or cool but either way it's interesting.
What are your tips for writing a juicy post?
Personality, personality, personality. It's one thing to write the most technically correct post on the site but showing of your personality and why you're interested in that trend makes for great writing.
How do you reset to be creative?
I like to sit down and listen to full albums or go on a new music binge while I surf the internet to reset creativity.
What inspires or excites you?
Innovation, opportunity and fresh ideas in art inspire and excite me.
Predict something awesome for 2020?
People probably won't have to touch their phones anymore, the phones will just know what you want.
Rapping Chef Shows
Rapping Chef Shows
Action Bronson Shows Off his Culinary Skills with This New Series
VICE is known to do some pretty intense and crazy things when it comes to their content, they also love to use Action Bronson because he’s straight tup hilarious. This relationship is coming... MORE
Wooden Pop Culture Panels
Wooden Pop Culture Panels
The WoodcutEmporium Turns Pop Culture into Stained Wood
The WoodcutEmporium Etsy shop is creating some solid and timeless pieces for people that have a soft spot for pop culture. Getting a poster of Batman or a painting of Darth Vader is nice, but having... MORE
Intricate Domino Art
Intricate Domino Art
This Domino Piece Uses Tens of Thousands of Pieces for One Show
Everyone knows about domino art. As one of the easiest types of art to create, just about everyone has tried it, but very few to this extent. Domino artist Hevesh5 has taken over 22,000 dominoes and... MORE
Grassy Picnic Tables
Grassy Picnic Tables
This Grass Picnic Table Brings the Picnic Right to You
This grass picnic table is bringing the joy and excitement of going out to eat in the great outdoors, indoors. The table takes the grass that makes going out for a picnic so fun and enjoyable and... MORE
Detailed Feline Pancakes
Detailed Feline Pancakes
This Tiger Pancake Shows the True Power of Pancake Art
Pancake art is becoming more and more popular these days and this tiger pancake is the epitome of the styled breakfast treat. Making pancake art isn’t particularly difficult because all it... MORE
Transforming Backpack Chairs
Transforming Backpack Chairs
This Backpack Flips Out into a Chair on Command
If you were to have a transforming backpack, what would you want it to turn into? A fully functional lawn chair would probably be a great idea. This chair turns into more than just the average lawn... MORE
Tiki Pool Bars
Tiki Pool Bars
This Inflatable Bar Lets You Serve Drinks from the Middle of the Pool
If you’ve been on a vacation in a tropical location then you’ve probably been privy to the majesty of the pool bar at some point. The idea that you don’t even have to get out of... MORE
Double-Paged Drawings
Double-Paged Drawings
Nagai Hideyuki Creates Pop Out Images with Ordinary Equipment
If you’re looking for somebody who knows how to create illusionary drawings then you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody who is better than Nagai Hideyuki. Using a sketchbook usually,... MORE
Miniature Space Taxis
Miniature Space Taxis
The SpaceX Dragon V2 Will Easily Carry 7 Astronauts Through Space
The SpaceX Dragon helped to revolutionize what it means to travel through space, something that SpaceX has been doing with each iteration of their spaceships. The team over at SpaceX knows a little... MORE
Urban Insect Snacks
Urban Insect Snacks
This Cricket Farm is Bringing Insects to the Table
Cricket farms are very real things, cultivating the insect to be made into foods and snacks later on. It’s not commonplace to eat insects in North America, but in other countries it’s... MORE
Pocket-Sized Projectors
Pocket-Sized Projectors
The Odin Projector Replaces the Average Television Screen
The Odin Projector works like many different projectors, but has the added bonus of being incredibly small, light and portable. It also holds the distinction of being the first big time Android... MORE
Juxtaposed Puppet Movie Posters
Juxtaposed Puppet Movie Posters
These Kermit Photos Place the Puppet in Iconic Movie Posters
Kermit the frog has always been a journeyman and these Kermit photos show the leader of the muppets in a variety of extremely famous movie posters. If you’re the type who likes to see remade... MORE
Fluorescent curved Paintings
Fluorescent curved Paintings
John Poppleton Uses UV Painting to Make Surreal Night Scenes
Utah’s John Poppleton came up with an inventive idea back in 2010—use blacklight in his paintings to create fluorescent imagery. That in itself wasn’t the inventive idea, it was... MORE
Realistic Rodent Hairstyles
Realistic Rodent Hairstyles
This Man's Rat Tail Takes the Term to a New Disturbing Level
The rat tail may be the most heinous hairstyle a man can possibly have, that is unless you treat it well—then it’s only kind of nasty. Artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright has taken it upon... MORE
Carved Concrete Clocks
Carved Concrete Clocks
This Clock Gives the Illusion of Weight with Its Concrete Frame
Having a concrete clock makes a big statement in the home. Having anything that is solid like concrete holds a certain amount of weight and when it’s your timepiece it holds even more... MORE
Weapon-Shaped Knives
Weapon-Shaped Knives
This Gun Knife Personifies Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight
If you’re looking to score major cool points, it wouldn’t hurt your rep to buy a gun knife. You don’t even need a permit to carry around this firearm because as it turns out, it... MORE
Fake Sunlight Lighting
Fake Sunlight Lighting
The CoeLux Indoor Light Gives Sunlight in Any Home
The CoeLux indoor light is a different kind of lamp. Rather than being a picturesque piece or a beautiful chandelier, it gives the room a skylight-looking light source. Imagine walking into your... MORE
Wallet-Sized Tripods
Wallet-Sized Tripods
The WalletM8 Tripod is Small Enough to Fit in Your Wallet
The WalletM8 tripod is what happens when you get rid of all the frills and make something with function in mind. The WalletM8 is versatile in the way it does things, being able to hold onto phones,... MORE
Superhero-Worthy Homes
Superhero-Worthy Homes
This Desert House Looks More Like a Superhero Lair
If you’ve never been to a superhero lair then you may just get your chance now. Superheroes like to put their lairs in secluded places, places where they can think, places where they won’... MORE
Fantasy Disney Mashups
Fantasy Disney Mashups
This Frozen Game of Thrones Mashup Freezes the Iron Throne
This Frozen Game of Thrones mashup probably has enough power to temporarily break the Internet. The only way it could be more powerful is if it was a series, which unfortunately it isn’t, but... MORE
Urban Pothole Art
Urban Pothole Art
These Mini-Mosaics Fill the Void Left by Potholes
These mini-mosaics are clearing up one of the most annoying parts of driving—potholes. Rather than just filling the potholes with concrete or something else though, they’re filling the... MORE
Multicoloured LED Sunglasses
Multicoloured LED Sunglasses
These RGB Sunglasses Will Make You the Life of Any Party
There have been LED sunglasses before; chances are if you’ve been to a club, a rave or anything else where it’s dark and the lights bounce around you’ve seen at least one person... MORE
Disaster Getaway Doors
Disaster Getaway Doors
The X-Gate Helps Users Get Out of a Tough Jam
The X-gate door is going to help people out in a particularly difficult situation. There are a lot of things that can and will go wrong in an earthquake—one of those things is entrapment.... MORE
Symbolic Pearl Necklaces
Symbolic Pearl Necklaces
These Pearl Necklaces Show That the World is Your Oyster
There’s something that is inherently classy about wearing pearl necklaces. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that so many influential women wear them, or because pearls are so precious.... MORE
Colossal Horseshoe Murals
Colossal Horseshoe Murals
Horn of Plenty Will Be the Largest Piece of Art in the Netherlands
Horn of Plenty in the Netherlands is taking art in Europe to as large a scale as we’ve ever seen. The mural will be set up around a market that is set to open in October. The market will be... MORE
Hand-Cut Bamboo Speakers
Hand-Cut Bamboo Speakers
The Loudbasstard Speakers Give Powerful Pump to Your Sound System
The Loudbasstard speaker isn’t just your average bass-boosted piece of machinery. The speaker is made of hand-cut bamboo and doesn’t require the use of any electricity whatsoever. All it... MORE
Interactive Dance Floors
Interactive Dance Floors
This Interactive Dance Floor Lights Up with Each Step
MINI has created an interactive dance floor that lights up with the steps of the dancers on it. The illuminating dance floor is based off of the new LED dashboard that will be present in the MINI... MORE
Curved Painting Easels
Curved Painting Easels
This Curved Easel Brings a New Perspective to the Process of Painting
Unless you’re a true artist or an avid painter you probably won’t appreciate the innovation behind a curved easel. It creates a completely new perspective with which to create art, a... MORE
Teamwork Bottle Caps
Teamwork Bottle Caps
The Coca-Cola Friendly Twist Campaign Makes a Bottle That Takes Two
The Coca-Cola Friendly Twist campaign is a campaign that is going to help alleviate (or create) a lot of awkward conversations. The campaign works by making caps that can’t be opened the... MORE
Infinity Mirror Mazes
Infinity Mirror Mazes
This Labyrinth Forces the User to Think About Perspective
This infinity mirror maze by Lee Bul is a different kind of maze than any we’ve ever seen. This maze doesn’t try to confuse the people who walk through it with multiple exits or fake... MORE
Timed Water Bottle Caps
Timed Water Bottle Caps
This Water Bottle Reminds You of When to Get More H2O
The Refresh Cap is a timed water bottle that reminds you to get your water as much as possible. It’s rare these days that people get the recommended amount of water. It’s not necessarily... MORE
Vortex Book Art
Vortex Book Art
This Book Sculpture Was Made with Absolutely No Photoshopping
This vortex book art is made all the more amazing because there’s no Photoshop involved. Using only some chopsticks and a really thick book, Deviantartist schaduwlichtje created a vortex that... MORE
Galactic Dinosaur Designs
Galactic Dinosaur Designs
This Image Shows Cult Classic Star Trek Characters as Dinos
There are a lot of things you can do when it comes to making a joke out of Star Trek characters. With their demeanour that ends up being much more like the aliens they’re interacting with than... MORE
Recycled Fabric Pouches
Recycled Fabric Pouches
TRMTAB Uses Recycled Material to Make Leather Pouches for Tech Devices
TRMTAB makes leather pouches for tech. If the narrative ended there, we wouldn’t be talking about anything innovative at all, but the way that TRMTAB goes about making its leather pouches is... MORE
Tear Gas Grenade Gardens
Tear Gas Grenade Gardens
This Palestinian Garden is Making Beauty Out of Chaos
This grenade garden is trying to create something timeless, beautiful and full of hope out of something that at first glance, looks hopeless. The middle east, like many other countries, has been... MORE
Mixed Modular Toolkits
Mixed Modular Toolkits
The Little Architect Toolset Reworks What It Means to Be an Architect
The Little Architect toolset came about as a part of a school project, but with the idea being so good and functional in so many ways it has grown way past its original intention. Carlos Ng... MORE

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Acne-Banishing Oil Remedies
Acne-Banishing Oil Remedies
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Oil pulling has been around for a long time but it has become much more popular recently. With the popularity of DIY healthcare becoming so much more prominent it’s no wonder a remedy that&#... MORE
Eco-Friendly Sky Villages
Eco-Friendly Sky Villages
Ziwei Song's Skyvillage Will Let LA Residents Live in a Green Metropolis
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Coat-Hanging Lamp Fixtures
Coat-Hanging Lamp Fixtures
This Multi-Purpose Lamp Also Lets You Hang Up Your Belongings
In today’s every evolving world, efficiency is key and a multi-purpose lamp no longer sounds like a strange idea. This lamp is not only a light fixture but it also doubles as a coat rack and... MORE
Helium Beer Pranks
Helium Beer Pranks
Samuel Adams Played a Practical Joke on Customers with Helium Beer
With April Fool’s day in the rearview mirror, we can take a look back at some of the best practical jokes the world over. One of the best jokes came from famous brewer Samuel Adams. The brewer... MORE
Sleek Glass Milk Flasks
Sleek Glass Milk Flasks
The Flasso Milk Flask Makes Cutting Plastic Milk Bags a Thing of the Past
The Flasso milk flask is a lesson on how to be more efficient and how to do it with undeniable style. The Flasso milk flask is not only a shortcut to using plastic milk bags but also a do-it-all... MORE
Extravagant Social Media Takeovers
Extravagant Social Media Takeovers
The Facebook WhatsApp Merger Will Be Extremely Costly
With the news of the Facebook WhatsApp takeover, the social media pot is boiling. Facebook will be handing over the biggest check in its entire existence to acquire this messaging competition. In... MORE
Exploding Musical Food Ads
Exploding Musical Food Ads
Schwartz and Grey London Get Wild with Its Sound of Taste Ad
The Sound of Taste is an intense and crazy take on the everyday food ad. Bags of herbs and spices are set to blow up at the press of a note from producer and DJ MJ Cole. Food ads, for the most part,... MORE
Interactive Robot Street Signs
Interactive Robot Street Signs
This Cool Street Signal Reacts to Pedestrians
This super cool street signal reacts to everything that pedestrians around it do. The street light, entitled Pop Pop, has a face and apparently feelings as well and he feels strongly about keeping... MORE
American Stereotype Animal Art
American Stereotype Animal Art
These Anthropomorphic Animal Drawings Mirror American Institutions
These animal drawings feature various creatures posed in human-like poses. These illustrations take animals and turn them into well-known and very widely accepted American stereotypes. Kim Nguyen... MORE
Conveyor Belt Chopping Boards
Conveyor Belt Chopping Boards
The Conveyor Chopping Board Keeps Your Cooking Space Clean
The Conveyor Chopping Board is a strange, but incredibly functional invention for the kitchen. The chopping board works by weighing out the portions of the food as they are cut and keeps the board... MORE
Wondrous Watercolor Cityscapes
Wondrous Watercolor Cityscapes
These Watercolor Paintings Paint a Brighter Picture of the Big City
Watercolor painting is a time-honored tradition and many people’s first foray into the world of fine arts. Often, watercolor painting is forgotten however, in favor of oil and other mediums.... MORE
Blimp-Inspired Seating
Blimp-Inspired Seating
This Comfortable Sofa Takes Air Travel Elements into its Design
Everybody needs a comfortable sofa and since the sofa is often so important to the feel of a room, it’s important to know you got the right one. This zeppelin-inspired sofa has a contemporary... MORE
Adjustable Rotating Tablet Stands
Adjustable Rotating Tablet Stands
The Bee Tower Adjusts to Hold Your Tablet in Every Way Possible
The Bee Tower is taking the work out of your hands, literally. All the user has to do is put the tablet into the Bee Tower and adjust it to the height and angle that they want and the tower does the... MORE
Personal Data Monetizing Services
Personal Data Monetizing Services
Datacoup is Putting a Price Tag on One's Personal Data
If someone had to put a price tag on one’s personal data, what would that price tag be? Datacoup is here to figure that out as it is now giving customers the incentive to hand over their... MORE