Some incredible landscape photography from Japanese photographer Satoshi Minakawa.

I came across these images in the latest issue of Monster Children. They're part of a photo essay by French artists Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre on the 'ruins of Detroit'.

Ricardo Bofill is a Spanish architect with some very stately looking structures in his portfolio.

Andrew Zuckerman takes immaculate pictures of birds.

Sometimes you have to let the beauty of a place wear off before you can appreciate your own attempt at redproducing it.

From the archives of the New South Wales police department- some beautiful mugshots from an era before fluorescent lighting.

This video by Spanish director Alex Roman has been making waves at the moment in all sorts of technology and design fields by introducing hyper-realism to the field of 3D animation.

Found this great little interview many moons ago of a little-known graphic designer that now works for Shepard Fairy at his studio in New York. It's amazing where you end up when you've got a really good personal anecdote to break the ice at job interviews.

Carlton Draught's take on Nessun Dorma taught us all that everything looks good in slow motion.

A friend of mine recently describe the iPad as not being a very pointy device.

Loving this stop-motion piece for Levi's by American director Sam Griffith.

The 'Dulux Walls' film (part of their latest advertising campaign) has to be one of the most beautiful commercials of the last few years.

If you've got a spare 20 minutes watch David McCandless' talk about data visualisation at the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference.

I was lucky enough to be invited along to the opening of a couple of exhibitions at Craft Victoria including the work of Melbourne installation artist Aimee Fairman.

Wonderful rolling time-lapse video of Japan by American Director Brad Kemer using the Canon 5D MarkII.

Caught a wicked set from Dan Kelly at the Corner Hotel here in Melbourne on Friday night for the release of his new album 'Dan Kelly's Dream'.

K-Swiss recently hired Keith Schofield to put together a fairly awesome commercial with the tag line 'Have an Awesome Day. Which is timely, because 2010 has turned out to be the year of the word Awesome. Personally I'm hoping the word 'splendid' makes a revival in 2011.

After months of deliberation the Royal Commission report into the 2009 bushfires has been released and its findings have been made public.