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Our year end list

Ok. ? It’s list time. We know it’s not very original but we do like to share our picks with our esteemed readers and please do share with us your own thoughts. In no particular order then… Album of 2011 Our contenders are… Tom Waits, Bad as Me King Creosote and John Hopkins, Diamond Mine [...]

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Eye eye

Make a cup of tea, sit down, click on the image above and relax for a few minutes. It’s amazing – we guarantee you won’t regret it.

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What’s Gosling on?

Ryan Gosling has attracted the attention of the 60 Watters big style in the past year. He first came to our attention whilst getting it on, intimately, with Michelle Williams (soon to star in 5 nights with Marilyn) in Blue Valentine, for which she was Oscar nominated – Gosling went one better winning Best Actor [...]

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Dance Marathon

We went to Bluemouth inc’s incredible Dance Marathon production on Sunday night at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre. It’s described as? a new duration-based performance event which has been taking the world by storm. An integration of theatre, dance, video and live music all inspired by the physically gruelling spectator sport from the 1930′s Depression-Era North America. [...]

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Get your motor running. Get it on the Highway.

Cool art from LA. In LA. Wish we were in LA.

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And so the noughties is/are over

An interesting and, at times, tricky year that saw us pick up some great new clients, but bid adieu to a few others.? This was the year that saw the arrival of three fabulous ladies in our lives; Sue Bourne (of Cottages and Castles), Jane Innes (of Springfield Properties) and Sarah Chater (of Johnston Press).? [...]

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG

? Spring has most definitely sprung.? Oh, yus! Witness this impressive photo of spring blossoms taken by our senior designer, Helene. Eschewing the latest digital technology (she gets enough of that at work) Helene favours an old Polaroid 210 Land Camera she bought on Ebay last year for twenty quid.? Here’s a picture of the [...]

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Best of 2008.

? As is customary in these parts we like to share with you our annual picks of all things cultural.? So here’s our take on 2008. Firstly, our favourite books featured two by Cormac McCarthy with Mark choosing The Road and Pete, No Country For Old Men, Iain plumped for one of the Wallander series [...]

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A bygone view of Edinburgh

We like this photograph. Taken in the 1920′s by a mad photographer called Alfred G Buckham.? It is owned by The National Galleries of Scotland. Buckham had crashed nine times before he was discharged from the Royal Air Force as a hundred per cent disabled. Continuing to indulge his passion for aerial photography, he wrote [...]

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The Spanish archer triumph at The Mercury Awards

Us middle-aged men love Elbow (the Spanish Archer…El Bow?? Gettit?). Probably because they sing about middle-aged man things. At one point on The Seldom Seen Kid Guy Grieve, in declaring his perhaps unrequited love, in Starlings sings “You are the only thing in any room you’re ever in I’m stubborn, selfish and too old.” and [...]

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