Universe Beach House Rooftop Pool

Design Trends

This rooftop swimming pool from Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao is the showpiece of the Universal Beach House in Mexico.

Add the ocean-side rocky landscape to the home and it's a brilliant place to play and enjoy.

As far as the house goes, the design was more minimalist to accentuate and celebrate the rooftop swimming pool, so was made mostly of concrete and included large, open spaces with little decor added.

The pool included beautiful underwater lighting which is extraordinary, especially at night.

A very unique home and rooftop swimming pool.

Design Trends

Bicycle with Surfboard Carrier

Bicycle Trends

This new concept bicycle could be a great match for those weekend surfers who prefer to enjoy a ride to the beach on their way to riding the waves.

With this new idea the bicyicle includes a small console built to hold a full-sized surfboard which still allows you to ride the bike with two hands.

The bicycle concept comes from industrial designers Gegi Primanata and Rinda Setiawan, who have named the idea the 'Wave,' and offer the bike in a number of color, depending on what the customer prefers.

Bicycle Trends

Disney to Offer Their Version of 'The Diary of Anne Frank'

Entertainment Trends

The Diary of Anne Frank continues to be a valuable story to the creative community, and Disney is the latest in the entertainment industry to take a crack at recreating the tragic story of Anne Frank and her family's struggle during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II.

For a little over two years the family hid from potential capture, but finally they were discovered, arrested, and taken to the concentration camps, where they, along with Anne, perished.

Playwright David Mamet has been enlisted by Disney to write and direct the production, who says he'll take parts from the original story, the stage adaptation of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, along with his own interpretation of events to tell his version of the story.

Mamet is already scripting the story at this time, which took producer Andrew Braunsberg a year to acquire the rights to the story from the estate of the Franks, and also from Hackett and Goodrich.

A Disney version of the Diary of Anne Frank should be done very well. I'm looking forward to it.

Entertainment Trends

Tech Trends | Wall Mounted Speakers

Tech Trends

These cool speakers look like they've come from the sea, and they would look great on any wall, although at this time they only come in pink or white.

Included in the speaker design are six speakers and two touch screens, which you can see toward the center.

You can play an MP3 or a CD with it.

The real question to me is how does it sound, as the design will either make you like how it looks immediately, and so make a buying decision based on the sound, which in the end, matters more than anything else.

Tech Trends

Celebrity Trends | Amazing Keira Knightley

Celebrity Trends

Some people may not know this about Keira Knightley, but her first role in a film was as Sabé in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.

Many Star Wars fans will know this answer, and it's the decoy queen that looked so much like the real queen played by Natalie Portman.

While Knightley didn't get a lot of exposure for that role it wasn't going to take long for her, as her breakout film role in 'Bend It Like Beckham' was just around the corner, and Pirates of the Caribbean followed not long after that, and now nothing is stopping the British acting superstar.

One negative aspect of Knightley's relationship with the press is the continuous implication that because she's skinny she's anorexic; which she has denied, but when she was attempted to be connected to the death of a young teenage girl from anorexia, she fought back and won a settlement from the Daily Mail which reported that. From then it's not covered in the way it used to be.

Knightley actually prefers a private life, and while loving acting, really doesn't like the fame connected it to. She has state that if and when she has children, she has no desire to expose her child to the industry.

Calling herself a workaholic, Knightley has said she would like to take some time off so she doesn't start to hate acting, but that doesn't seem to be any time soon on the horizon, as five projects are set to be released in 2010, and that doesn't hint at slowing down any time soon.

For Keira Knightley fans this will be great, but for Keira Knightley, it remains to be seen if she has the discipline to slow down and take a breather to enjoy her life.


Celebrity Trends

Tattoo of Grim Reaper

Tattoo Grim Reaper


This tattoo of the grim reaper is awesome, and when you look at it, makes you think here's someone that likes their job a little too much!

Looking at the shadowing and detail of this tattoo shows that the artist was very talented, and he definitely caught the way we imagine, or probably fear, the grim reaper coming to get us when it's our time to go.

Either way, this is a really good tattoo, and the grim reaper gets a surprising amount of body canvass to market himself on.



Tattoo Grim Reaper

Auto Trends | Metro Cell Vehicle

Auto Trends

I couldn't call this Metro Cell Vehicle an auto, but because it defies description at this time, we'll just use that for identification purposes.

This unique transportation device, offered as a 'human delivery system,' is designed specifically for the Los Angeles metro area, but could have potential in other regions as well.

At this time it's being called a PDD (pickup-drive-drop), and can be called upon by people and you can use it to get to where you want. When you're finished with that, you just get out and the Metro Cell Vehicle will return to a unique hub stack built for it.

Of course this is a Concept and is not certain to be used at this time, but it sure would give an interesting, futuristic look to those using them, and the LA area.

I wonder if it will include air conditioning? It looks like it would be extremely hot to drive in if it didn't.

Auto Trends

Celebrity Trends | Noureen DeWulf - New Breakout Star

Celebrity Trends

Noureen DeWulf is an up and coming young actress who recently got her big film break starring in 'Ghost of Girlfriend's Past' with Matthew McConaughey.

She is also fortunate in having another film out this summer with Jeremy Piven and Will Ferrell called 'The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard.' She is also currently shooting The Back Up Plan with Jennifer Lopez, scheduled for a January 2010 release.

For some reason she says one of her dreams is to work with Quentin Tarantino, although his success has been spotty at best. Maybe it's a personal thing.

Either way, this young beauty who has roots in India looks like she's ready to explode on the national scene, and has had a great 2009 as a base to do just that.

Celebrity Trends

Norio Fujikawa Jetscooter Design

Design Trends

This is an interesting design from Norio Fujikawa which combines a retro and futuristic look for this jetscooter.

What's particularly exciting about this is the wing-like fins that reminds you of cars from the 60s.

Looking at it as a work or art is probably more realistic the concept ever becoming a reality, as it seems it would be back heavy, making it difficult to really take off without turning over.

But who knows if extra weight would be added up front to counter that and make it a reality. Pretty neat either way, with room to adapt and change it while keeping the basic look.

Design Trends

Trends Self-propelled Printer

Tech Trends

The Mini Giant, a newly developed inkless printer has been developed by designer Paula Adina Sumalan for the 'Futures' category of the Zero Boundaries Zink Product Design Competition, for which she won first price.

This nifty little printer has no need of ribbons or ink cartridges, rather it uses crystals which are heated onto a special paper.

All you have to do is place it on the top left corner of the ZINK paper and it self-propels itself to create the print.

You can fit the Mini Giant into the palm of your hand.

Tech Trends

Celebrity Trends | Orlando Bloom

Celebrity Trends

Orlando Bloom is one of the more well known actors in the world, and has been fortunate enough to star in two of the most popular film series of all time: Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Carribbean.

It may not have been all luck though, as he may just know how to pick the right roles and films to work in.

Bloom got his first breakout role in Lord of the Rings, where he was cast as Legolas the Elf, a key part in the overall story.

Some films Bloom is currently involved in are New York, I Love You, which is waiting to be released; Sympathy for Delicious, which is in post-production; Main Street, also in post-production; and The Cross, which is in pre-production.

Rumors are Orlando Bloom is also in pre-production for The Cross, and also The Red Circle.

At this time it seems his relationship with Miranda Kerr is still on.

I like Orlando Bloom, and think he's a highly underrated actor. While he has had some success as a leading man, I think a breakthrough role there will propel him to the recognition he deserves.

Celebrity Trends

Boyd Morrison Lands Deal with Simon and Schuster After Kindle Success

Tech Trends

The deal from Simon & Schuster with Boyd Morrison shows that you can indeed have success on digital and traditional print platforms, as Morrison's book The Ark did so well on Kindle at got the attention of Simon & Schuster which resulted in the paper print deal.

Now Morrison has the opportunity to write two books for Simon & Schuster in the deal, specifically for the traditional book market.

Some people seem surprised by this, but there's no doubt concerning traditional books that they aren't going the way of the dodo bird yet, and there's still a lot of people who want to curl up and hold a paper-based book.

Tech Trends

Gaming Trends| Batman: Arkham Asylum?

Gaming Trends

Batman: Arkham Asylum? is about to release on the Xbox and Playstation 3, and if you can judge be the environment and green and yellow coloring, it's going to be a decent gaming experience.

While it's a typical gothic feel and look with the iron fences and overgrown shrubbery, it does set the mood well for a potential compelling and rich gaming environment and experience.

Let's hope the environment is a good measure of what the game will be like, as it will be a good play if it is.

As far as the Batman, his look was pretty conventional, and didn't offer much new there.


Gaming Trends

Tech Trends | Floral Pen Drive

Tech Trends

One fun thing that's been happening concerning USB drives is the move from just a utilitarian object to one of art, function and design.

That's part of the latest USB offering the Floral Pen Drive, which along with its dual functionality also comes in the colors red, black and white.

The floral motif represents the Polish mountains, the country of origin for the Floral Pen Drive which includes a USB 2.0 interface and is made by Hornowski Design.

Tech Trends

Fashion Trends | Valentino and Gaultier

Fashion Trends

In the Fall fashion couture week recently, Valentino and Jean Paul Gaultier had a number of fantastic designs, and some that seemed to stand out and compete with one another where those that looked like superheroes and villains.

You've got to look a little closer at fashion collections these days, as larger themes have pretty much been abandoned for each individual outfit for the most part standing on its own.

So you've got to search more for those subtle mini-themes within the overall collection. These photos from Valentino and Gaultier show just that in the hero and villain look.

Fashion Trends

Art Trends | Illustrated Photography

Art Trends

I love this illustrated photography from photographer Kelly Thompson. The mixture of the two art forms is fantastic, to say the least.

Combine the awesome photographs and awesome illustrative work and you've got something bigger and better than the individual art forms alone.

This is something that could be used in a number marketing, film, comics, or whatever. There's a lot of potential to cross pollinate a number of these art forms and categories into something more.

Art Trends

Sega Toy's Robot Cat 'Dream Cat Venus'

Robot Trends

A new robotic pet toy from Sega Toys is now on the market, called 'Dream Cat Venus,' the second in what looks like a an emerging robot pet toy line.

The robot cat is able to respond to outward stimuli or lack of human stimuli like a real cat does; purring when you pet it, and protesting with noises if you don't. Of course you don't have to worry about feeding, water or changing cat litter either.

While this is a toy cat robot, researchers at Tohoku University's Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer in Japan are behind the inner workings of the robot pet, and that's understandable, as they've been working on robots to use with the elderly and terminally ill patients for some time.

Sego Toys has released a dog robot named 'Dream Dog DX' in the past, and it makes you wonder if there will be further animal robots in the future.




Robot Trends

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