gmtPlus9 has returned to Japan and is back posting great arts-related content again. His pointer to the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania reminded me that Roberto, an Italian photographer living in Tokyo, directed me to this same website recently after we were discussing my upcoming trip to Eastern Europe. Many travellers have made a pilgrimage to the site, 12km north of Siauliai, containing hundreds of thousands of crosses of all shapes and sizes. The hill was continually bulldozed and destroyed during the Soviet era up until even 1985, but the crosses kept returning and now serve as a memorial to Lithuanian national identity. I'll be visiting there myself late next month while on the road between Riga in Latvia and Vilnius in Lithuania.

A silver award winner in last year's Canon Digital Creators Contest, Tcheupel Garager's ACTE3 photography site features a new selection of work. In addition to the repackaged Tokyo series (with some wonderful images of Tokyo's subway), most notable is the Scene 3/August VDO series which has thirty 10-second long video clips; each subsequent clip is linked to the last in a surprisingly interesting way. Check it out for yourself.

The Morning News has posted a striking photo feature about New York's tattoo convention by J Geoffrey Badner, whose own site features strong reportage photography complemented by a lovely minimal muted colour palette.

For the photo project, Chance Encounters, Douglas McCulloh spent six years wandering across urban Los Angeles, randomly photographing the people and places he encountered. Each day, he would draw a slip of paper that selected a coordinate on a 5,151 grid map of LA, then drive there and spend all day photographing (Thanks, Kurt).