I’m not a big fan of cars and definitely not of those tasteless car-porn pictures, aimed at satisfying drooling petrolheads. But when Japanese photographer Satoshi Minakawa takes a picture of some kind of vehicle, it becomes interesting.

Have a look at the Conceptual 2 section on his website for some beautiful shots. And subscribers to Creative Review can get a monograph with his shots of some strange Japanese ‘Dekatori’ trucks with the January issue. 
BTW: his pictures in the ‘landscape’ section of his webite remind me of our recent trip to Japan. Lots of concrete ‘landscape’, but beautiful stuff. 

I never mentioned it here and I didn’t manage to vote, but Volvo, Vice Magazine, The Independent and Yahoo ran this competition called Creative 30, to find the leading creative think-ers and do-ers in the UK. The winners have just been announced and the jury chose artist Katie Paterson, while the public vote went to milliner (isn’t that a beautiful word for hat-maker) Will Chambers. Paterson’s pieces are particularly intriguing. She makes various sound sculptures, influenced by science and nature and general cookie-ness. Charming stuff. 

But have a look at the other 28 nominated creative talents and check out their profile films. I particularly liked the work of photographer Jonnie Craig (see picture above), illustrator Mimi Leung, the beach chairs from furniture designer Max Lamb and ‘possible sculptor’ Daniel Mort.  
Nice initiative and interesting to see that a brand like Volvo wants to spend some money on this (Paterson wins £10,000 – Chambers a Volvo).

I like things that are just beautiful. But things that are beautiful ánd tell a story are just a little bit more interesting. These amazing pictures from French photographer Denis Darzacq are an example of the latter.