Monthly Archives: September 2012

Victorian Homicide Squad Missing Persons Unit detectives have arrested a man in relation to the disappearance of ABC worker Jill Meagher.

A 41-year-old Coburg man was arrested this afternoon and is currently in custody assisting police with their enquiries.

Earlier today a man captured on CCTV footage which also shows the last-known images of Ms Meagher urged others in the vision to come forward.

Dan Gregson is one of six people visible in the security camera footage, which shows Ms Meagher walking down Sydney Road in Melbourne, after leaving a bar in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Police are particularly interested in talking to a man in a blue hoodie who can be seen talking to Ms Meagher.

Just a minute or so earlier, Brunswick local Mr Gregson can be seen walking down the street.

Mr Gregson has told police he does not recall seeing Ms Meagher or the man in the blue hoodie, but he is urging others shown in the footage to come forward.

“I guess I’m a bit surprised that others haven’t [come forward]. I don’t know whether they’re of the same opinion as I was, where they don’t think they saw or heard anything, it’s not worth coming forward, but if you’re in the footage call Crime Stoppers,” he told the ABC.

“One of the things I said to the detectives yesterday was that the guy, you can see in the footage he walks past me at some point, I don’t remember his face,” he said.

“Generally I seem to clock anyone who looks a little bit unusual but I certainly don’t remember the guy’s face and vaguely remember walking past.”

Man Arrested in Relation To Meagher Disappearance (ABC)

Thanks Mark Geary

What you may need to know:

1. Acclaimed Asian director Park Chan-wook did the classic Oldboy (2003), soon due an ill-advised remake from Spike Lee. Now Park is making his belated US film-making debut.

2. Nicole Kidman’s been associated with more turkeys over the past than Bernard Matthews; now she appears to be going through her Joan Crawford phase.

3. Name that face, Part One: Kidman’s daughter is fellow Aussie Mia Wasikowska, from Alice In Wonderland (2010) and Albert Nobbs.

4. Name that face, Part Two: Wasikowska’s creepy uncle with the excellent eyebrows  is Matthew Goode, from Watchmen (2009). Tom Cruise would have been a better choice.

5. The movie was written by Wentworth Miller, star of choice TV guilty pleasure Prison Break.

6. Forecast: promising, with the likeliness of scenery chewing.

Release Date: March 2013

These extraordinary images by Andre Ermolaev are aerial phogrpahs of rivers flowing through the beds of volcanic ash that cover much of Iceland. Sez he:

Iceland is a wonderful country; I would even say that it is a true paradise for all the photo shooting-lovers. But what has become a real discovery for me is the bird’s eye view of the rivers flowing along the black volcanic sand. It is an inexpressible combination of colors, lines, and patterns. The photo represents the mouth of the river falling into the ocean. […] A little bit upstream there is a yellow-colored brook flowing into the river, but yellow currents fail to mix with the main water flow. One can estimate the scale judging by the car tracks that are clearly seen on the black sand. This is just a river, just a volcano, just our planet.

More of Andre’s work here.

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