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Popular This Week1. 40 Guerrilla Ads, Art and Activism (CLUSTER)  Guerrilla ad campaigns, art and activism are edgy, eye-opening and attention-grabbing. In the vast symposium that fosters human creativity, guerrilla advertising is the guy on stilts who crashes the academic…2. Real-Life Cartoon Violence - 'Splatter' Sparks Controversy in London (GALLERY)  British artist James Cauty is about to open his new exhibition “Splatter.” It is the first time the London’s Aquarium Gallery will have to put up a parental advisory warning sign. This is because the pictures…3. Decorating With Stationary - Post-It-Note Obsession (GALLERY)  Post-It Notes are not just office supplies; they've become pop cultural icons. From Sod using them in the Office to Post-it notes becoming a new decorating and art trend, the sticky paper seems to be taking…4. Disfigured Street Art - Morbid Portraits of Pop Icons (GALLERY)  D*Face is a British street graffiti artist who also does rather morbid, incongruous and distorted portraits of famous icons, often using images that have been exhibited indoors in galleries and other venues.…5. Political Doodle Interpretation - Sarah Palin’s Daydream Sketches Found (VIDEO)  Sarah Palin. Damien Hirst, Picasso, me, you. What do we all have in common with people like Sarah Palin? Well, for one, we all doodle when bored. Doodles from Sarah Palin’s days as Mayor of Wasilla have…6. Branded Big Cat Bikes - The Panther Motorcycle (GALLERY)  Artist, cat lover and custom chopper designer Byron Hemmes has made an awesome black panther bike. Yep, he put a giant fiberglass puma on top of a motorcycle frame, painted it black and wants just $567,000…7. Skeletal Street Art - Anatomically Correct Graffiti (GALLERY)  People are too quick to dismiss street artists as rebellious, out of hand vandalists, but this collection of biology-inspired images shows they really know their stuff when it comes to anatomically correct…8. Personalized Pet Illustrations - Whimsical Animal Portraits by J Penry (GALLERY)  So you think any form of pet portrait is naff right? A brilliant illustrator called J. Penry is now offering his services as a pet portraitist. These really are works of art in their own right and pieces…9. Skyrocketing Cartoon Values - Comic Book Collectibles (GALLERY)  Comic book art for sci-fi fans continually gains strength in the art world as computer generated graphics dominate the current on-screen genre. Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator and…10. Typewritten Portraits - OpenOffice Marilyn Monroe (VIDEO)  Martin Missfeldt created this Marilyn Monroe portrait with a word processing application named openOffice.org, which is very similar to Microsoft Word.
The video shows in step-by-step detail how Missfeldt…11. Cassette Tape Canvases - Sami Havi's Eco Art (GALLERY)  In today's age of all things digital, some might say cassette tapes are out. Sami Havia, a Finnish artist, might make you think twice about that. Havia puts visually stunning pictures onto cassette tapes,… |
Popular This Month1. 56 Shocking Tattoos - From Megan Fox Sidettoos to Tattooed Eyes (CLUSTER)  Megan Fox has over 12 tattoos and counting, and she’s darn proud of them too.
“This is 2008 not 1950,” Megan Fox was quoted. “Tattoos aren’t limited to sailors."
While she’s been hassled about her…2. Superimposed Politicians - Viral Sarah Palin Cartoons (GALLERY)  Sarah Palin stormed from the North slope of Alaska like Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Hannah, and Hurricane Ike stormed the southern U.S.
Sarah Palin is a force that has injected new life into politics,…3. Screaming Photography - Scream by Ashkan Sahihi (GALLERY)  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,…4. Horror Cosmetics - Extreme Facial Bodypainting (GALLERY)  This is some extreme body painting! These horror faces must be part of some type of body painting festival; I know there were two held recently in Austria and Korea.
In any event, the first horror face…5. Peace Through Art - Seattle-Tehran Poster Show Unites Iran and USA (GALLERY)  Art has brought Iran and the United States closer together in The Seattle-Tehran Poster Show which opened last month at the Bumbershoot music and arts festival in Seattle, USA.
Who knew that posters…6. 40 Guerrilla Ads, Art and Activism (CLUSTER) Guerrilla ad campaigns, art and activism are edgy, eye-opening and attention-grabbing. In the vast symposium that fosters human creativity, guerrilla advertising is the guy on stilts who crashes the academic…7. Superimposed Naughtiness - ‘Guise’ Portraits by Deborah Oropallo (GALLERY)  Deborah Oropallo is a contemporary artist whose installation involves the layering of images of contemporary women in provocative guises and revealing poses and famous 17th and 18th century portraits of…8. Humanizing Famous Portraits - Untooneds by Mataleone (GALLERY)  Trendhunter has found some awfully good untooning trends. Here is the work of Mataleone, a Brazilian whiz at Photoshop. His unique work is in the humanizing of drawings and cartoon characters. By far,…9. Real-Life Cartoon Violence - 'Splatter' Sparks Controversy in London (GALLERY) British artist James Cauty is about to open his new exhibition “Splatter.” It is the first time the London’s Aquarium Gallery will have to put up a parental advisory warning sign. This is because the pictures…10. Organic Beach Portraits - The Stoned Face (GALLERY)  There really isn’t too much to be said of this creative artwork, as it is quite simple in principle as a “collage” of stones.
Needless to say, any number of pictures can be assembled using a variety of…11. Decorating With Stationary - Post-It-Note Obsession (GALLERY) Post-It Notes are not just office supplies; they've become pop cultural icons. From Sod using them in the Office to Post-it notes becoming a new decorating and art trend, the sticky paper seems to be taking…12. Extreme Typography - 10 Funky Alphabets (VIDEO)  Helvetica, the typeface seen everywhere, has a movie. These ten alphabets won't ever see the light of day as a typeface. They are just a fun collection of the odd and clever and weird alphabets that are…13. 15 Reasons to Love Banksy (CLUSTER)  Banksy is one of the most popular street artists in the world, with a body of work that has spanned the world. His pieces sell for six figures, and they’ve inspired artists to honor his designs by imitating…14. Road Graffiti - Roadsworth Makes Zebra Crossings More Fun (VIDEO)  Imagine coming across zebra crossings that are the shape of a bootprint, lined with painted barbwire, a V.I.P crossing with a roped barrier or even a lit firecracker. Various creatures sit on the shadows…15. Post-It Notes Masterpieces - Mona Lisa from 12,000 Sticky Sheets (VIDEO)  This entrant used an astounding number (12,000) of Post-It notes in different colors to create this version of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' - the video shows the build-up. It is arguably one of the… |
Popular Last Month1. Extreme Body Modification - When Rebellion Goes WAY Too Far (GALLERY)  Bod mod can be a bit urgh (shiver down spine), except the elf ears which I would considering having done. Just a heads up, this is a very gory image gallery, so don't say I did not warn you!
These suspects…2. Inspirational Spoof Posters - Funny London Paper Galleries Ads (GALLERY)  Remember those series of “affirmation” posters with beautiful stock pictures on black backgrounds featuring words like “Success” or “Teamwork” which were meant to motivate and inspire? They are often found…3. 21 Creepy Body Modifications (CLUSTER)  From Navy tattoos to plastic surgery, extreme body modification has come a long way. For body mod enthusiasts, their unadorned body is merely a blank canvas to cover with piercings, tattoos and surgical…4. Digital Creationsim - Oilcorner’s DeviantART (GALLERY)  Photoshopping has become almost impossible to detect thanks to spectacular software and amazing creativity. A fine example of this can be seen on oilcorner’s deviantART page - a self-proclaimed photo manipulator.…5. 43 Pieces of Outlandish Street Art (CLUSTER)  Whether it's via graffiti or creative outdoor sculptures, street art has taken cities and towns all over the world by storm. Most TrendHunter regular readers are familiar with street artist Banksy, who…6. Skeletons of Cartoon Characters - 'Animatus' Pop Palaeontology by Hyungkoo Lee (GALLERY)  Animatus is the brilliant work of Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee. He produced a science style exhibition of his skeletons of cartoons, as if they were truly real animal species! His work has been described…7. Comic Book Tattoos - Superhero Body Art (GALLERY)  If tattoos reveal anything about a person, then this collection of comic book art tattoos speak volumes of the people whose bodies they adorn.
Comic geeks are giving hard core bikers a run for their…8. Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Street Art - Banksy Paints New Orleans (GALLERY)  As Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Hanna raise concern, stencil-happy street artist Banksy commemorated the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by producing some of his painted social commentary…9. Kaleidoscopic Photography - Kim Joon’s Body Art (GALLERY)  Body Art is a Trendhunter favourite. Here, the art form has been stepped up considerably with not just a single body being painted but several bodies. They have been grouped together in different ways…10. Street Art Body Ink - Banksy Tattoos (GALLERY)  When I started researching Banksy Tattos, I thought it would be a bit of a struggle - but I was SO wrong.
It appears having tattoos inspired by Banksy's graffiti is actually very common. If you got one…11. Peculiar Divides - 10 of the World’s Strangest Fences (GALLERY)  It’s not often that you see groundbreaking design or exceptional creativity in a fence. Fences are largely installed for functional purposes, and even the most attractive are usually viewed as second-class…12. Mechanical Angel Wings - Cybertek Wings (GALLERY)  Wouldn’t it be cool to have 6-foot wide, pneumatic-powered wings that light up? I don’t think so, either. But if you do find yourself needing a pair of carbon fiber, superhero-wannabe wings, you can order…13. Film Noir Parodies - Disney Princesses as Sin City Characters (VIDEO)  Fans of the successful 2005 cult film noir “Sin City” will love the artwork of graphic artist, Curt Rapala. He was particularly drawn to the distinctive black and white imagery of the film with selective…14. Insects From Found Objects - Insect Art by Chris Goodwin (GALLERY)  Chris Goodwin made these little insect sculptures out of found objects - anything from screws to razor blades. One of these bugs could take him about four hours to figure out how to fit the pieces together…15. Natural Smoke Art - Smoke Photography by Irene Muller (GALLERY)  Irene Muller is a Scot living in Germany who takes sublime photographs of natural smoke just as it is with no Photoshop assistance.. Her work is fascinating as she shoots the swirls of smoke as they curl… |
