Another extremely useful blog to follow...

Swirls and flourishes tutorial

(... just did the blog header after reading this.)

Bittbox heaven

This guy is an GEM.
His Blog: www.bittbox.com is packed with interesting articles, tips, high quality freebies for photoshop, fonts etc...
Also loads of high res textures on his flickr page.

How to build a Flash Actionscript 3.0 Videoplayer

Tutorial here

Inspiration: Boissonnard

Inspiration: Aurelie Rhumeur

10 Photo Based Illustrator Tutorials (thanks Lisa)

Sarah Blasko brand new song

... just loving this song: "All I want"

iStock Coupon

Enter this code: STOCKLAYOUTS to get 20% purchase over 38$ on istockphoto.com

Inspiration: Anne Julie Aubry

"Anne Julie Aubry est née en 1980 dans une petite ville dans l’Est de la France. Elle a obtenu son diplôme de Beaux-Arts en 2001, l’Ecole de l’image d’Epinal avec un diplôme en Illustration."

Her website: www.annejulie-art.com
Her blog: www.annejulie-art.com/blog/

Patrick Bizier, artist / illustrator

Martina Strobel

She's a German artist, most of her stuff looks made in illustrator and is just awesome. Her website gallery looks great too, made with Flash, simple, user friendly, fast and smooth.