The next video from prolific self promoter and part time rapper Kanye West has just hit the intertubes, and it’s a goodun’. Taken from his multi Grammy winning album Graduation, the clip is co-directed by oddball director Spike Jonze and Mr. West himself. Featuring the, er, talents of former playboy model Rita G, “Flashing Lights” sees ‘Ye delve into darker, more sinister territory than the likes of previous hit vids such as Gold Digger or Stronger. Take a look for yourself and be the judge.

It's Tropfest night! Always a highlight of the Sydney cultural calendar, this years event will feature guest-judge; Naomi Watts, as well as a performance from Van She -  plus, like, a whole bunch of really, really good little films. And it's free! Grab some friends, pack  a picnic and head down to the domain from 3.30.

Clark and Michael is a CBS funded Internet show created by Juno star (and “unlikely heart-throb”) Michael Cera and his former neighbour Clark Duke. The series follows the two, mockumentary-style, as they attempt to write T.V pilot and shop it around a to various networks in La La Land. Taking cues from shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office and, Cera’s former television home; Arrested Development, the humour in Clarke and Michael is bone-dry and addictive in its subtlety. Fans of the aforementioned (and criminally short-lived) Arrested Development will also appreciate cameos from various cast members such as Tony Hale and David Cross. The show features 10 short episodes in a growing trend amongst the television industry which sees networks vying for your office lunch view-time by offering free, quick tasters packaged in delicious tiny morsels.

Today of course will forever mark a turning point for Australia; the day that Prime Minister Rudd - on behalf of all Australians - apologised to and for the Aborigianal people's Stolen generation. I went down to the Redfern community centre this morning to watch the speech with four hundred or so other locals. What a beautiful start to the day (and hopefully the start of big changes in Australia too). Many people were emotional - including Mayor Clover Moore, who gave her own lovely, teary-eyed speech after the official one. She concluded her speech with a poem by Michael Thwaites that had almost everyone in tears:

You, last of all that knew your tribal tongue,
Sleep now with them in this ancestral ground.
Above your grave the towering, ancient wrong
Speaks in a silence pregnant and profound.

Beside your grave I stand, among your folk
Who loved this land before the white man came,
Burned by the burning words you never spoke,
I ask for forgiveness for my people's shame.

For named and nameless ills your people bore
From us, who killed by bullet, axe and pride.
For our stone blindness; for the day we tore
In kindness' name your children from your side.

What could we answer if your ghost should rise
To curse our children's children from the grave?
You rise - but with redemption in your eyes
Before we knew to ask it, you forgave.

Consider yourself lucky. Akin to some sort of Haley-like comet, the live experience of Cult NZ band The Renderers is dark, searing and alot bigger than you or I. It's also something that (on this side of the Tasman anyway) you don't bear witness to very often. That's why if you 're in Melbourne this week you must catch the "uncommonly dark and frazzled version of alt-something" that is The Renderers, when they play at The Northcote Social Club tomorrow. And then you must catch them again at The Tote on Saturday. Formed by Brian and Maryrose Crook in 1989, the Christchurch band's sound was an antecedent to the alt-country genre and, despite their underground status, The Renderers have fans in musical bower-birdslike Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy) and ol' Thurston Moore. Not only will the shows offer the best of what has been almost two decades of work, but the band will also be testing their 5th album, tentatively titled "Monsters and Miasmas", on fresh ears. Not Sydney ears though. Just Melbourne ones.

It would seem that Miss Uffie is quite the fashion favourite at the moment; not only is she the face of the latest collection from Australian label, The Family, but the pint-sized rapper is also reppin’ New York’s Married To The Mob. The glock-popping one has teamed up with “The Most Official Bitches” of women’s wear for their Autumn '08 campaign. Uffie isn’t the only new member of the MOB though; the campaign was shot by the omnipresent Mark Hunter, aka, The Cobrasnake. The pouting, Chanel pump-clad creations of YEN’s favourite artist, Fafi, also feature on special collaborative tees.

Melbourne Art Rooms are holding a special exhibition for all you lovers out there (cue cheesy late night radio voice). Take your Cuddly Wuddly/Pumpkin/ Sweetie  Pie etc along and immerse yourselves in beautiful work from 13 local artists - perhaps you'll even walk away with a present?