v0rtex, Trend Hunter

Alien-Themed Architecture - Giger Bar
Incredible. Geiger is one of the world's greatest living artists - wonder if this bar is built well enough to survive the centuries or if it'll get torn down in the next wave of redevelopment...

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Bathroom Blood Dispensers - Clue Guerrilla Campaign
"I personally would much prefer to be caught with my hands up this sexy camera soap dispenser than Clue’s bloody one!" Could always combine the two and have a rather effective campaign for Maxi Pads...

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Pushing Limits of Emotional Advertising - When Are Ads Too Shocking?
All advertising is essentially superflous garbage, even the most creative image has at it's core no message other than "Buy this product". To divide advertising into pulp garbage and supposedly high art is a false dichotomy - an advert becomes a bad advert when it fails to sell product. If an advert violates the standards of taste and decency in the community in which it is shown then it will fail to sell product and thus be a bad advert.

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Mosaics With a Message - 4,000 Americans Dead
Perhaps it's becoming a trend because it's becoming easier to do - it's easy to find software online to take a folder of images and create a mosaic of another image from it. No skill involved. I can see this trend blowing up for a short duration then quickly becoming passe - like pop art, slogan t-shirts or blue LEDs - all trends which were innovative at their inception but, requiring little skill to replicate, died out quickly.

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Heath Ledger's Final Portrait - Vincent Fantauzzo's Painting
What an awful painting. Looks like the kind of montage you see airbrushed onto t-shirts at the local flea market except with Heath Ledger instead of Tupac or Scarface, and minus the diamante dollar signs. I'm sure the artist will be laughing all the way to the bank, though.

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