Andres Colmenares, Trend Hunter

Business for the masses - Colombian broker dealer opens office in wholesale market

Global Securities Group, a colombian broker dealer based in Miami with presence around the globe, will start selling stocks in Corabastos, a popular wholesale market in Bogota, Colombia. Very soon farmers who buy and sell potatoes, oranges, meat or lettuce will also trade stocks in their place of work. The reason of this strategic move by GSG is the recent stock boom generated by ECOPETROL, the largest company in the country and the principal petroleum company in Colombia. The 20% of its stock… [More]

Collective Human Joysticks - AudienceGames (VIDEO)

Imagine a crowd sitting in a cinema moving their bodies from side to side to control a car projected in the screen. Just like a gigantic maneuver or a "collective human joystick". This is AudienceGames created by Brand Experience Lab, last summer. After two completely successful pilots with Volvo a… [More]

Extreme Advertising - Coke Zero's Tongue-Piercing in Brazil (VIDEO)

Coke Zero has launched in Brazil an extreme guerrilla marketing campaign using people's tongues. Several shops in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Salvador give free piercings with the brand logo, with the only condition of taking pictures to publish on the website which redirects to a G… [More]

extreme climate inventions: nubrella, the ultimate weather protector (GALLERY)

With these crazy weather days, like the apocalypsis is upon us, this new product comes from heaven. And in a shape of a bubble. The nubrella is the ultimate reinvention of the classic umbrella. It protects you against rain, wind, sleet, snow and even a pigeon poop. Who knows? Their creators say it … [More]

Real Sex stories in college- Boink magazine now publishes book (VIDEO)

Boink is a porn magazine, somewhere between Playboy and Hustler that features real college students from the Boston area. Started in 2004 by Alecia Oleyourryk, a magazine journalism major at Boston University, and photographer Christopher Anderson this magazine includes nude photographs, columns on … [More]

Facebook for Humanitarianism - A Million Voices Against FARC (GALLERY)

A worldwide rally against the terrorist group FARC has been organized by a common Colombian citizen with no experience in politics through Facebook. Early this year, Oscar Morales decided to create a group in Facebook to protest against the lies, cruelty and madness of the terrorist group that has … [More]

Online Community for the Disabled - Disaboom.com (VIDEO)

Launched in autumn'07, Disaboom.com is the first interactive online community dedicated to helping people with disabilities or functional limitations to improve their lives. It also works as an online resource for families, friends and coworkers of the more than 100 million adults worldwide living w… [More]

Coachella Festival 2008 lineup announced-east version in august

One of the most expected news for music fans around America has been released yesterday in Mexico, where the Coachella Festival lineup was announced. The line-up includes the comeback of The Verve and Portishead, the awesome Dark Side of the Moon by Roger Waters, former Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and se… [More]

Music on the Road - Singing Streets Tested in Japan (UPDATE) (VIDEO)

In the land of Harajuku girls and sushi now the streets can sing. Well, kind of. The members of the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute, which work with cryogenic science and research under microgravity environment amongst others, scraped markings along three roads in central and northern Japan … [More]

Cactus Food - Colombian Students Create Cactus Burgers and Wine

A group of students from Siapana in Guajira, Colombia are producing a series of food products from cactus. Yes, cactus. With the help of Rafael Márquez, the only cactus expert in Colombia, they have been able to produce candies, jam, wine, salads and even burgers. These young wayuus (the tribe th… [More]