Great story in The Scotsman a while back. Auction house Lyon & Turnbull were left red faced after a prankster added a tin of beans to the photograph of a painting in its sale catalogue. It has now launched an investigation with the printers to establish how the beans found their way into the glossy booklet. Arts specialist, Elena Ratcheva was quoted as saying ”It might seem quite an amusing story, but it was not funny for us. We have got rid of a lot of copies with the printer’s mistake, but quite a few were sent out.”

Don’t you just love it when a billboard reveals a previous life. The girl in this 48-sheet near Easter Road stadium looks mighty apprehensive about Barrat’s latest luxury apartment development/tiny little boxes. Surely a sign that the credit crunch is taking effect.

Saw this great special build billboard in Meadowbank last week for Honda for their Problem Playground campaign pastiching those moveable tile games that kids loved (pre PS3 of course). Slowly building up from a jumbled mess to the finished article over the last few weeks. What a great idea and with a fun execution.Wish we’d done that we thought at mightysmall. Hold on a minute we did. As part of a pitch (at an agency we used to work at) to a very well known Edinburgh estate agents we presented exactly the same idea with various views of Edinburgh with the line "Edinburgh moves with client x” the posters were special build 6 sheets and the pieces would actually have been able to be moved around by the general public.
Sadly the client went elsewhere. The final bodyblow came when he queried the idea by saying “No-one's done that before. Why on earth should we do it?”
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

Now that the building work for our desperately needed (sic) tram system is now well underway doon our street it seems that the council have taken an imaginative step towards the new and glorious nanny state of the future. A pedestrian crossing for the inebriated and well-oiled. Handily located at the top of Haddington Place, right outside the International Youth Hostel and within crawling distance of our local the Windsor Buffet, Pearces Bar and the newsagent that sells ciggies to under 16's.

We await with bated breath the urinating man and vomiting student icons that must surely follow.