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Popular This Week1. Beach Art - 10 Incredible Sand Sculptures (GALLERY)  Most of us head to the beach to relax, sunbathe, swim, or catch a few waves. Some people, however, choose to spend their day at the beach painstakingly creating these incredible sand sculptures.
These…2. Macromazing Photography - Incredible Insect Closeups (GALLERY)  Who knew the world of insects could be so intriguing?
Getting close-up with spiders and other crawly creatures usually sends shivers down my spine, but with the screen in between, coming face to face…3. Fauxrotic Photography - Invisible Images of the Female Form (GALLERY)  These images of naked women in nature are quite clever. I say naked women, but as you can see, everything is invisible but their hair, and you have to use your imagination to conjure up the rest.
If you…4. Freaky Photo Manipulations - Surreal Photography by Federico Bebber (GALLERY)  This amazing surrealist photo manipulation work from Italian photographer Federico Bebber is certainly not going to be everybody's cup of tea.
These striking, seamlessly done artistic digital manipulations…5. 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…6. Iconic Art Makeovers - 10 'The Last Supper' Remakes (GALLERY)  Art historians now think that Jesus and friends were eating eels and oranges at the famous last supper, not bread and wine. In honor of that revelation, I've compiled some of the remakes that have been…7. Holy Hip Hop - Alexander Melamid's Rap Portraits (VIDEO)  Russian-born painter Alexander Melamid took 12 Hip Hop movers and shakers (rappers, producers, designers) as his subject. These muses included Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Common, Kanye West, Reverend Run, Duke,…8. Recycled Books as Art - 10 Innovative Creations (GALLERY)  If you'd rather get creative with your unwanted books instead of donating them to charity, this collection of used book creations should provide you with some inspiration.
I'm guessing most people don't…9. Illumination As Paint - Light Art Performance Photography (GALLERY)  Light Art Performance Photography (LAPP), by definition, is a one-shot form of long time bulb exposure photography coupled with the movement of light. These photos were not put on a computer and tampered…10. Unique Movie Theaters - The Light House Cinema (GALLERY)  The Light House Cinema at Smithfield, Dublin is a four-screen, 600-seat cinema that provides theater-goers a cultural viewing experience. The cinema presents a diverse and individual program that features…11. Swimming Naked With 500 Watermelons - Sigalit Landau's DeadSee (VIDEO)  Israeli artist Sigalit Landau has a wall-spanning film on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
In the brilliantly random and totally creative work, Landau emerges from a coil of watermelons…12. Art from Farm Feed - 10 Haystack Sculptures (GALLERY)  It can get pretty boring for folks living on farms, so what can men and women of the land to do amuse themselves? Create quirky works of art out of hay bales, of course!
This collection of 10 pieces of…13. Carved Books - Novel Art Recycling (GALLERY)  Recycling books you are finished with is a noble thing to do. Most people bundle up their unwanted books and donate them to a charity organization for re-sale so that someone else can enjoy the storytelling…14. Illuminated Landscapes - Field of Light Sculptures (GALLERY)  British lighting designer Bruce Munro takes the humble garden lighting idea to a whole new level of artistry with his Field of Light sculptures. His latest installation will be at the Eden Project in Cornwall,…15. Industrial Parts as Home Art - Stig Recycled Furniture (GALLERY)  Bob Campbell aka 'Stig' taught himself how to construct studly furniture from cast-off industrial parts. Stig makes his home in a region of England that was once home to heavy engineering and steel manufacturing.… |
Popular This Month1. Gadgets Made of Meat - Art for Carnivores  Mothers are always telling their children not to play with their food. In this case, that message clearly fell upon deaf ears.
These meat-made gadgets gives a whole new meaning to having fun with your…2. Children's Nightmare Photography (UPDATE) - Scary Work by Joshua Hoffen (GALLERY)  Joshua Hoffine's horror photography collection is absolutely, draw-droppingly brilliant. –We've featured his work before, but we're fleshing out his work with five additional images, in time for Halloween.…3. Beach Art - 10 Incredible Sand Sculptures (GALLERY) Most of us head to the beach to relax, sunbathe, swim, or catch a few waves. Some people, however, choose to spend their day at the beach painstakingly creating these incredible sand sculptures.
These…4. 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…5. 10 Optical Illusion Wall Decals (GALLERY)  Whatever your furniture and decor situation at home is, trompe l’oeil furniture stickers could be used in nearly every room.
Trompe l'oeil is French for 'trick of the eye,' and these stickers are such…6. Vortex Art Homes - The Inversion House (GALLERY)  This artful architecture can look either like a brilliant museum display or a run-down shack depending on your perspective.
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck of Art League Houston created this "Inversion" in 2005,…7. Haunting Teen Photography - 15 Year Old Channels the Supernatural (GALLERY)  Eleanor Hardwick is a fifteen-year-old gifted photographer and entrepreneur born in Oxford, England. Her life’s passion is photography. “I love photography, because you can use the world that you have…8. 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…9. 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,…10. Macromazing Photography - Incredible Insect Closeups (GALLERY) Who knew the world of insects could be so intriguing?
Getting close-up with spiders and other crawly creatures usually sends shivers down my spine, but with the screen in between, coming face to face…11. Fauxrotic Photography - Invisible Images of the Female Form (GALLERY) These images of naked women in nature are quite clever. I say naked women, but as you can see, everything is invisible but their hair, and you have to use your imagination to conjure up the rest.
If you…12. 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…13. Animal Hand Paintings - Hanimals (GALLERY)  These hand paintings from conceptual artist Mario Mariotti (1936-1997) are quirky and creative. His pieces have come to be known as Hanimals.
He is famous for his amazing hand paintings, and I particularly…14. Risque Political Sculptures - Bare-Chested Michelle Obama Bust (GALLERY)  Sculptor Daniel Edwards has created a bare-chested bust of aspiring first lady, Michelle Obama, that has raised some eyebrows.
The bare-shouldered sculpture, called Michelle Obama’s Makeover for America,…15. Animated Anatomy Art - Cartoon Skeleton Sketches (GALLERY)  What would an archaeologist make of the remains of Marvin the Martian, Charlie Brown or Betty Boop? Artist Michael Paulus' collection of cartoon skeleton sketches examines this intriguing issue.
His extensive… |
Popular Last Month1. 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.…2. Japanese Lunch Art - Bizarre Bento Boxes (GALLERY)  In the past, Trend Hunter has featured creative Japanese artworks made of food, housed in bento boxes, and Japanese lunch boxes. Now, we have a new collection of intriguing 'bento art'.
The imagery…3. Extreme Photo Stunts - Peformance Artist Li Wie (GALLERY)  Li Wei loves the odd, witnessed by his latest body of work showing him in a variety of impossible situations.
Born in 1970 in Hubei, China, he now lives and works in Beijing. He is a performance artist…4. Supermodel Pharaohs - $2.7 Million Gold Kate Moss 'Siren' Statue (GALLERY)  Supermodel Kate Moss has been immortalized in a £1.5 million ($2.73 million U.S.) solid gold statue. The artistic exhibit of Moss was unveiled in the British Museum today.
The piece, from Marc Quinn,…5. Competitive People Painting - World Bodypainting Asian Awards (GALLERY)  The World Bodypainting Asian Awards were held in Daegu, South Korea, and the some of the winners are pictured here.
For the competition, bodies are transformed into a living, breathing canvas that artists…6. Camouflague Body Painting - Body Art as a Disguise (GALLERY)  This camouflage body painting is simply amazing. If you look closely, you can barely see the outline of the human body. I don’t actually like the style of the paintings, as they seem a bit like paintings…7. 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…8. Rubber Wedding Gowns - A Dress Made of 1400 Rubber Gloves (GALLERY)  British artist's Susie MacMurray's bridal dress is made from 1,400 inverted rubber gloves - yes, just the common household variety for doing the dishes.
It will be featured in New York's Museum of Art…9. Body Paint Illusions - Emma-Jane Cammack Camouflage Art (GALLERY)  The body paint art of UK-based freelancer Emma-Jane Cammack is extraordinary. The artist extends her creative boundaries into illusionary artwork where the human body melds into the main picture. The subject…10. High-Speed Photography - Exploding Objects Frozen in Time (GALLERY)  Flickr user nebarnix has a fascinating hobby of blowing things up and taking pictures of them during the explosion using high speed photography.
In order to take these amazing photos, nebarnix utilizes…11. 20 Whiplash-Worthy Modern Portraits (CLUSTER)  Since we first etched them into the walls of our caves, portraits have been an element of the human home.
This cluster brings together some of the most fascinating portraits being created by modern artists,…12. Anything-but-Average Art - The World’s Strangest Statues (GALLERY)  Chances are, you've never seen statues like these before. From the upside down man to the guy juggling babies, (shouldn't someone call children and youth?) these crazy pieces of art are sure to catch the…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… |
