Photography, make-up, fashion, music and toilets:

Those familiar with St�phane Marais' cutting edge make-up artistry will be pleased to know that he recently opened a boutique / studio in Paris, as featured by FRAME Magazine. Also check out his book of Polaroids, Beauty Flash.

Andy Salzer, one half of the team behind the Yoko Devereaux clothing line, is also a founder of the Brooklyn-based new wave band The Hungry Wives. Check out the Wives' site for audio samples. I'm quite fond of the tracks "There's Something Wrong With Tim" and "The Splits".

Betty Cobb photographs some of my favorite 'alternative' icons, including Peter Murphy, Nivek Ogre, Nicole Blackman, and our friend and supporter Jared of Chemlab. Her superb portrait work can be seen regularly in the industrial/goth/electronica zine Outburn, who have finally gotten on the wagon with an in-depth article on Fischerspooner this month. Outburn has become an essential institution in its own right through a history of outstanding interviews with the likes of Blixa Bargeld of Einst�rzende Neubauten and Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode and Recoil, not to mention those listed above.

Speaking of Herr Bargeld [who apparently had some witty critique of our own Liz Copeland's German language skills recently], check out his ongoing "Serialbathroomdummyrun" photography project at Blixa-Bargeld.com. Blixa has been meticulously documenting the bathrooms of every hotel room he has stayed in since 1990.