 Mixed Media Taxidermy - Sequined Dead Animals::These mixed media taxidermy pieces from Angela Singer are nothing short of brilliant.
At first they're slightly repelling as it looks like their blood and guts are spilling out, but if you are brave enough… [MORE] |
 Offbeat Luxury Auctions - Sotheby’s Hirst Art Tops $125 Million With A Pickled Shark, Embalmed::In London, a sale of pieces by provocative British artist Damien Hirst has raised more than US $125 million. According to Sotheby's, the sale smashed the $20 million record for an auction of works by a… [MORE] |
 Giant Guerrilla Toilet Paper Rolls - Dulcolax Laxative Ad::Toilet paper rolls have fascinated the TrendHunter community season after season. We can't get enough of Custom Toilet Paper or Toilet Paper in-A-Tube trends, even if we tried.
Some artists have taken… [MORE] |
 Perfect Angle Photography - Mighty Optical Illusions::Mighty Optical Illusions has a great collection of photos which were taken at the right moment for unexpected results. Some of the highlights include perfect moments when the man with the cell phone passes… [MORE] |
 Awkward Situation Photography - 5 Car Mishaps::If you thought freeways and motorways were dangerous places to drive, spare a thought for these motorists who found themselves in extremely precarious positions.
These stickiest of situations include… [MORE] |
 Schadenfreude on the Green - 9 Golf Cart Crashes::Normally, the threat of being attacked from above by nesting magpies, or being hit in the head by a rogue golf ball are the greatest risks to golfers. Thus golf is often criticized for being a fairly boring… [MORE] |
 Tea Time With a Lambo Part 2 - William Ashley Adds a New Car to the Dinner Table::For the second time, Canadian china store, William Ashley, recently displayed an exciting demonstration. In an effort to tout the strength of their china tea cups, the store propped up an orange Lamborghini… [MORE] |
 Size Matters - 'Great Big Stuff' Makes Everything Supersized::Super-sized food, household items, clothes, toys, stationery, and even viagra. All of these items are ridiculously oversized and extremely impractical, except as a gag gift...but if there’s someone willing… [MORE] |
 Extreme Tardiness Prevention - Japanese Commuters Shoved Into Trains::The commuter culture in Japan adds a whole new dimension to the phrase work ethic. For the unfortunate masses that must take public transportation during rush hour to get to work, dutiful commuters and… [MORE] |
 Amputtoos - Unique Amputee Tattoos::This tattoo is one of the most innovative we’ve seen on Trend Hunter. The tattoo is ridiculous, funny and awesome all at the same time. With the para-Olympics just finished, what better time than ever… [MORE] |
 Real Life Cartoon Pets - $925 Million Living Pokemon Pikachu::Pikachu, the main character from the popular anime cartoon Pokemon, has been discovered to be real.
OK, he is not real, but a man claims to have discovered a Pikachu forest (what, inside his photoshop… [MORE] |
 Screaming Photography - Scream by Ashkan Sahihi::Trend Hunter previously featured the unique photography of Ashkan Sahihi from Iran, which captured him kissing strangers.
But in addition to making out with strangers, Sahihi, who was born in Tehran,… [MORE] |
 Bizarre Eco-Friendly Buildings - The Glass House Reuses Embalming Fluid Bottles::Before the emphasis on sustainable architecture made it fashionable to use odd materials to build homes, people did it just to be different. Like the Glass House, for example, which is made from 500,000… [MORE] |
 20 Unique Eating Utensils::Fun with Forks, Crazy for Spoons! What is it about these everyday items that just drives designers nuts to think they have to improve on them? Whatever drives them, you will just love looking at twenty… [MORE] |
 Obsessive Brand Fans - The Disney Guy::George Reiger is also known as The Disney Guy and has had over 1900 Disney tattoos. Due to the hardcore approach of Disney towards copyright, he has had to have them done by a private artist rather than… [MORE] |
 Decaying Death Toys - Autopsy Baby Dolls::These autopsy dolls are made from old toy dolls found in second hand and junk shops by the two creators Jeremi and Nicole and are horrifying.
The dolls express their interest in pathology and autopsies… [MORE] |
 Mesmerizing Performance-Based Hobbies - Contact Juggling::The mesmerizing hobby of contact juggling simply must be seen to be believed; it bears almost no resemblance to the standard sideshow novelty jugglers we're used to seeing.
Rather than thin pins, rubber… [MORE] |
 Travel Hot Spots - The Door to Hell in Turkmenistan::In the middle of the desert near Darvaz, Turkmenistan, there is a giant hole in the ground that locals refer to as The Door To Hell. One look at this hot spot justifies this distinction.
As the story… [MORE] |
 Edible Video Game Art - Super Mario Wedding Cake::I imagine that this Super Mario Kart wedding cake was heartbreaking to cut despite the happiness of the occasion for which it was made.
The wedding cake itself is black chocolate cake filled with bittersweet… [MORE] |
 64 Crazy Races, Competitions and Contests::Humans are a competitive bunch. We innately rally against each other in constant battles for supremacy, as you'll see in this cluster.
From the inspiring disabled Bodies in Motion modeling contest, to… [MORE] |
 Near Death Encounters Online - Base Jumper Survives Cliffhanger::With the advent of extreme sports photography and the ubiquity of videocameras worldwide, near death experiences are being captured on film like never before. In this video, Matt Lauer is interviewing… [MORE] |
 Flat-Pack Funerals - DIY IKEA Coffins::It was only a matter of time before IKEA ventured into coffins. Artist Joe Scanlan has created simple coffins for $15,000--or a book for $27.50 that tells you how to make your own coffin from IKEA parts… [MORE] |
 Spiderman Style Hitchhiking - Robert Nightingale's Solution to Gas Prices::Designer Robert Nightingale combats skyrocketing gas prices and turns hitchhiking into an adventurous and thrilling ride with his Hitch concept design in the 2008 Fiat Design Competition “Smiles From A… [MORE] |
 Wasting 280,951 Office Post-Its - The Sticky Note Experiments::What do you get when you combine 280,951 Post-It notes, a 30’ by 40’ room and two EepyLabs videographers? One viral video entitled The Sticky Note Experiments.
EepyLabs mad scientists Fritz and Stephen… [MORE] |
 Personalized Movie Cameos - FaceDub Makes You A Star::I’ve seen a lot of sites that put your face on a magazine cover, but this site FaceDub.com lets you put your face onto ANYTHING since it can take in any photo. It’s totally fun because you can put yourself… [MORE] |
 Sleeping With Ghosts - 10 Haunted Bed and Breakfasts::Hysterical or historical, sleeping in buildings rumored to house ghosts is fun, but so is simply hanging around at stately old Bed and Breakfasts.
Here are 10 B&Bs;that can provide ghost-seekers with the… [MORE] |
 Trading Faces - John Schnall’s Weird Feature Flip::John Schnall is a man of many faces. Just watch the video as he puts his mouth where his forehead is/was and flips his face--and all on video, not animation.
Making goofy stuff is Schnall's life's work,… [MORE] |
 Creepy Candy - Human Skull-Cast Chocolates::These incredible chocolate skulls are made from a cast of a genuine human skull. Fascinating, yet macabre.
You can order them in a variety of chocolates from Dark to White. The absolute best choice is… [MORE] |
 Star Wars Tattoo Primers - The Force In The Flesh::The Force in the Flesh is a super glossy coffee table book with 400 photos, telling the individual stories of 45 different Star Wars tattoo collectors and artists from all over the world. The sample pages… [MORE] |
 77 Pro-Geek Innovations::Not so long ago, being dubbed a geek or nerd was one of the most socially painful nicknames one could get. No so anymore.
As this wide range of pro-geek designs shows, people are now embracing their… [MORE] |
 Extreme High Diving - The World-Record Belly Flop::Many of us experienced the pleasure and pain of a good belly flop during childhood; few of us wish to relive that pain in adulthood--especially from the heights of a high dive board. But Darren Taylor… [MORE] |
 Edible Album Covers (UPDATE) - Bento Box Art::A traditional bento box is art in its own right; this Japanese blogger has taken this food art one step further by recreating famous album covers.
Within the gallery, you’ll see completed bento boxes… [MORE] |
 Super-Sized Appliances - The Jet Plane Freezer::This F-4E Phantom fighter stands in the climatic chamber of a £30,000,000 aerospace test center in Seosan, South Korea. While this may not be appropriate for every household, there are five reasons that… [MORE] |
 Cities Fueled By Human Waste - San Antonio Goes Brown, Not Green::In an age where everyone is going green, San Antonio, Texas stands out as the lone vanguard city going brown. City officials recently announced a new plan to become the first U.S. city to transform methane… [MORE] |
 Bird Dance-Offs - World's First Avian Dance Competition::This time, "shake a tailfeather" actually involves tailfeathers. Anyone who saw the viral video of Snowball the cockatoo dancing to the Backstreet Boys is well aware that some birds can definitely bust… [MORE] |
 Avian Couture - Apparel for Birds::Despite their naturally beautiful plumage, many birds have been stepping out in even greater style recently, thanks to the bird outfitters at Avian Fashions. The outfits they create combine form and function,… [MORE] |
 Bald Head Billboard Ads - Air New Zealand Seeks Shaven Heads for Ad Tattoos::Air New Zealand is looking for 50 frequent-flyers who are willing shave off their hair for two weeks and sport temporary tattoos on their bald heads.
This innovative type of advertising - “cranial billboards”… [MORE] |
 Discovering Forgotten Music - Beethoven Sketchbook Reveals Final Song::A piano piece has surfaced that an expert believes is Beethovan’s last.
Beethoven said, “Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.” For real, Google it! Just when the world… [MORE] |
 Competitive Lunch Box Creations - Star Wars Art in the Bento Challenge::A series of competitions have been launched by LiveJournal called the Bento Challenge who also created a Flickr pool which has themes ranging from Hollywood movies to panda bears.
The two outstanding… [MORE] |
 Viral Mistakes - Chicago Tribune Reports United is Bankrupt, Stock Plummets::The Chicago Tribune ran a nine year old story on their website saying that United Airlines was bankrupt. The stock dropped by 99%, as you might predict.
So, for about ten minutes, billions and billions… [MORE] |
 Being Jailed for Tactless Fashion - "Adorable Outfit" Gets Woman Arrested::“It was an adorable little outfit,” Kirstie Arnold told a reporter. She was describing the outfit that a Kentucky judge called “hot pants” and said was inappropriate for the courtroom.
Warned twice before… [MORE] |
 PMS Warning Alerts - PMSBuddy.com Warns When Your GF Will Get Moody::According to website, PMSBuddy.com, 22 women of the 1,201 already being tracked will start PMS within 5 days. PMSBuddy.com alerts you to “that time of the month” - whether it’s your wife, girlfriend, mother,… [MORE] |
 Tongue Tattoos - More Unusual Areas to Get Inked::All the other issues aside, this must seriously hurt. Tongue tattoos are a new trend that is rapidly spreading across the world of body modification.
Why one would want a tattoo on their tongue is way… [MORE] |
 Anti-Theft Lunch Bags - Fake Mold Sherwood Forlee Plastic Bags::The anti-theft lunch bag is guaranteed to put even the hungriest thief off for it looks like your sandwich has flora. But it’s just a trick - the green stuff is just the pattern on the plastic zip lock!… [MORE] |
 Surface Weaving - Using the Body as a Tapestry Canvas::I actually feel fairly squeamish looking at these photos, and I’ve even removed my own stitches!
“In the surface weaving style of surface piercing, a single piece of jewelry passes in and out of the skin… [MORE] |
 Nominee Name-Sharing - John McCain Supports Obama::He may be the most ironic U.S. citizen of the 2008 Presidential Election.
John McCain (Johnathan B. McCain) is a musician from Brooklyn, New York who shares a name with the Republican candidate, but… [MORE] |
 Fast Food Fashion - Jeremy Scott’s Inedible Wearable Treats::American designer, Jeremy Scott is known for his unusual themes and avant garde designs. This is one of his quirky collections which centers on fast food. So feast your eyes on the burger suit for men,… [MORE] |
 Chic Scuba Gear or Eco-Awareness - ‘High Tide Heels’ Mystery::‘High Tide Heels’ have been making the rounds of the blogosphere causing confusion as to who was the actual inventor of the footwear. Are they real or not? Where can I buy them? The high-heeled flipper… [MORE] |
 Upside-Down Architecture - 'The World Stands on its Head' House::The upside down house called “The World Stands on its Head” was built as a tourist attraction in Trassenheide, a German town on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom.
The Polish born German business man who… [MORE] |
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