Gus & Stella are a Belgian photographers duo based in London. They work independently and together, collaborating on fashion shoots and travel projects. Their One-Shot-Wonders project started by selecting favourite holiday pictures.

They say, "The photos are taken with all sorts of cameras, from a great 35 mm to a very cheap underwater camera. The pictures are a gasp of a dream. An evidence of an unaware moment and a small escape from everyday life. Standing on top of a hill, gazing into the fog below. The pleasure of throwing a rock into the unknown. Seawater, sunny clouds, feet in the air, birds and flags. All colourful and playful, searching for shapes, leaving the usual behind. One-Shot-Wonders are just stills, which create a whole story by themselves and hit you right there." 

Greg Allum might work as photographer but that hasn't stopped him from publishing a beautiful illustrated poem called The Sail. Greg's tale is a tender exploration of love and loss. I asked him to give a little background to the story. "The Sail was inspired by a series of relationships I had in my early to late twenties. I use writing as a cathartic tool, to understand my own emotions. A kind of note to oneself. My aim was to try and write a short book that was simplistic in structure, but involved the complex emotions of letting go of someone or something you love."

The Sail is illustrated by Polish artist Taxi Taxi and can be found at the lovely Handmade and City Books in Brighton, or online on Greg's site.

Handmade and Bound, the affordable art-book and zine fair, comes to London this Sunday. If you like comics, books, zines, DIY paper interventions, illustration, newspapers, magazines, screen prints and sunday afternoon fairs, head on down to the St. Aloysius Social Club. Things kick off at midday.

Last night's magazine party hosted by Stack proved to be a cosy escape from the November weather. Perhaps best of all were the variety of independent magazines that were circulating the room. One understated, funny and excellent mag that we discovered was Manzine 'A Publication About the Man Phenomenon'. It's very worth a look. I particularly enjoyed the study of wheely bin typography and their 'Object of Disaffection', the cupcake.

There's a party happening this Wednesday night at The Haggerston, London. The evening is a get-together for the creative writers, designers, illustrators, photographers and dudes behind the indie magazines that Stack distributes. You're invited too, so come along with the Oh Comely folk for an evening of unashamed networking and to meet the people who make Little White Lies, Wire, The Drawbridge and Anorak happen. Add yourself to the list by emailing [email protected].

At oh comely, we've been thinking about creative challenges a lot lately. I've just noticed that we missed the rather awesome National Novel Writing Month. It's a great idea, and they even have a 'back up your novel day' halfway through to save their writers from computer heartbreak. Very wise.

And one of the things we've been getting excited about in Issue Four is 24 hour challenges: plays, films, comics, you name it. I had a chat a few days ago to Nat Gertler, who founded 24 Hour Comics Day quite by accident, and hung up the phone feeling rather buzzing about doing a 24 hour comic myself, even though I can't draw and suck at telling stories.

So here's our challenge to you. It's November: grey, gloomy and still a long way til the holidays. Time's clearly ripe for a creative challenge, even if it's not as demanding as Nat's (bake a cake once a week!).

Write to [email protected], send us your ideas for a November challenge, and we'll share our favourites here this time next week.

(Nothing is as inspiring as a nice set of coloured pencils arranged by hue. Thanks.)

How often do you visit an art exhibition without knowing whose work you're looking at? Whenever I find myself in this situation, I'll often consult the label beside the painting, sculpture or whatever. This old habit was undermined by a small exhibition at the V&A a while ago called Fakes and Forgeries. If you were just passing by, you'd have thought it was a display of Chagall drawings and paintings by Picasso. In actuality, all the works were on loan from the Metrolpolican Police's caverous, and very secret, collection of forged art works. All the pieces on display were forgeries; all their makers were convicted criminals.

For a quite different game of 'spot the artist', head to the Royal College of Art SECRET which opens this Friday.

This annual show is of 2,500 postcards, all of which are for sale priced at £45. Money from the sale goes to fund RCA student bursaries. And the secret? The names of the artists are concealed. But what's not been kept secret, is that Tracey Emin and Peter Blake have contributed postcards as well as other leading artists, Royal College students and graduates. If you know what to look for, you could buy an expensive piece of contemporary art for a cheap-ish price, or just enjoy the large-scale guessing game. Happy hunting.

Second in our series of photographers writing about a photo they've taken is Jonathan Cherry. He graduated from University College Falmouth in 2009 and runs the excellent Mull It Over, a site featuring interviews with contemporary photographers. This is a photo from his series, Blue Watch, which documents the crew of a rural fire station.

Jonathan writes, "In 2009 I spent some time photographing the Falmouth fire brigade. Over the seven-month period I would pop in once or twice a week. One afternoon Steve May pulled up in his car, got out and began chatting to one of the maintenance guys. He put his arms down his trousers as to keep warm. Once I spotted this I knew it was an opportunity and asked him to stay as he was. Setting up the camera I was aware of the difficulties in making images that capture the quick everydayness of the fire fighters whilst aiming to portray a sense of slowness and reflection.   

"Blue Watch is testament to the patience and an attentiveness of these firemen, and their presence is noted through the portraits that interrupt more subtle observations. These photographs don't suggest an idle distraction, nor the lack of need for this invaluable service, simply a memorial to the notion of forgetting to remember."

There's more on Jonathan's website.