Photography by Alexander Crispin

For our 2009 Christmas card a 50cm² twelve pointed Moravian star, hand carved from ice was left to melt over 15 hours. We documented this process with Polaroid film and sent the results out as cards to our friends.

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Photographer Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia ~ a twist on twitpic...

"The Olympic flame sits across six seats on a plane as it is separated into six different miners' lanterns before leaving Athens, Greece, bound for Canada, on Friday,"

Christian von Alvensleben, a fantastic photographer. Winner of the ArtDirectorsClub-Price 2009 for his lifework. Enjoy.

Beautiful fashion editorial by young Brazilian photographer Manuel Nogueira.

John Pusateri questions how fine art practice, through visual documentation, specimen collection, and site dissection, may explore and contribute to levels of biological knowledge.

hitApic – ¡the analogue photo gallery!

The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009 - spread in Paste magazine - from emo to present day...

Vincent Fournier's Space Project, shows the loneliness of a man discovering an amazing landscape, alone.

Not your typical landscape photography: slide shows of new work by Eirik Johnson (above), Joel Meyerowitz, and Robert Adams

Philippe STARCK opened his door to the magazine AD and photographer The Selby for a little visit...

ARTINFO gives you a preview of the most interesting works to be seen at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, incuding Perino & Vele's Public invasion.

Dutch photographer Bas Princen also trained as an architect, with a focus on architectural photography. Giant construction sites and apparently absurd human artifacts describe the oddity of human ‘civilizations’

Part of the Colour of Music series of photos by George Benson. The series purely looks at the colour of the record sleeves grouping all records by colour alone. The resulting photos create a rhythm of colour, light and shade through an unseen collection of music.

James Reynolds's series of photographs documenting former Death Row prisoners requests for last meals before execution.

Dark side of Alice in Wonderland on Flickr

24 IT entrepreneurs get together to raise money for Take Heart India in a 'Calendar Girls' style collaboration. Featuring photography by Paul Clarke, Neil Raja and Mike Marcus.

Barry Underwood's amazing imagery merges photography and theater.

vis/res is a new publication produced 6 times a year to showcase emerging talent in graphic design and illustration. Each issue has a central theme and features contributing work from 10 designers & illustrators.

vis/res aims to bring something fresh to the zine market with an emphasis on crisp, clear design & beautiful print finishes. When you add to that a range of talented and exciting image-makers contributing to each issue, vis/res is a compelling new publication.

Remember Paper! Beautiful image filled site reminding you to do just that!

A Northern Ireland storybook, covering areas such as the arts/food & drink/landscapes/heritage and people to be proud of.

Absolutely astounding Crewdson / Liebowitz-esque photography of The Washington Ballet. 'Wonderland' by Design Army + Cade Martin.

Inspiring honest interview from illustrator Stevie Gee. Personal and professional ups and downs of a modern day illustrator, as he says keep on keeping on.

Unprecedented door-opening kinematics on Renault Megane Coupe Concept Car

Deep under the Antarctic ice, a rare, colourful burst of starfish and 3m-long monster worms has been filmed by a BBC camera crew. Incredible footage!

A collective of photographers who call themselves 'DuckDuck Collective'. They seek beauty of collaboration in order to achieve the highest form of art. This is evident in their unique approach to photography & videography.

Red Bird Fly ~ loving the duality and simple photocentric layout of Meredith Peck's blog

Katherine Snelson is a photographer from the UK obviously heavily influenced by photographers like Martin Parr with her heartwarming documentary photography portraying english life.

The french snow,skate and culture Desillusion Mag can compete with design magazines as far as graphic design and photography is concerned. The 20th issue comes with a lenticular image as cover.

Wonderful photos by Chris Edwards of vintage toys. I would love a series of these to hang in my studio!

"Empty Los Angeles" photography book by Matt Logue

An amazing collection of long-exposure photos. So fun to gaze at!

Brand new portfolio site from Onetwentysix, the firm behind such brands as The Brooklyn Circus, Franco Shade, Goliath, Vault, Rich Yung, and tons more. Check em out.

Rusty Ralston's photo essay honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Lots of decaying textures and vibrant colors... very striking.

Absolutely stunning photo site from photographer Gabriel Jeffrey. Make sure to view in "full-screen" for the whole effect!

Mei Tao shot for J. Crew's new holiday catalog. Longtime collaborators, Mei Tao has shot for J. Crew in studio and around the globe. This time, she was in Chile.

No doubt, nature paints the most impressive pictures. Here's a set of amazing photographs of giant icebergs from Antarctica and Greenland by master nature photographer David Burdeny.

An interview with Laurence. She is a 16 year old girl from Montreal who wants to be (or already is) a photographer.

Way cool stop animation on the debate around Film vs. Digital photography, created by ridiculously awesome photographer Lauren Randolph, aka LaurenLemon.

Safety and Style in one awesome film directed by Darkfibre and photographed by Michael Bonvillain (famed for his work with TV series Lost, Fringe and most recently, the film Zombieland.)

These 20 antique wood stoves are a part of American history so its only right that we remember them.

My favorite 'Make Fire' button (it starts the many amazing communal fireplaces) ~ yurts (you must see the geometric gel domes!) ~ bear behind the bar ~ 'THINK' ibm signage and more at the Ace Hotel Palm Springs

Henry Bourne does vivid still-lifes of Mark Hix's take on holiday dinner in the December issue of Wallpaper magazine. The glossy images are worth salivating over.