There they sat, three people of about the same age who grew up within streets of each other in the same small town, looking for all the world like prizewinners on speech day: the cleverest boy, the girl who's best at writing and the bad boy who happens to be brilliant at drawing. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, best selling crime writer Val McDermid and Britain's most successful artist Jack Vettriano we ...

A new Dunkeld Archive Museum has been established in the town's historic square thanks to a hugely successful appeal by the trustees of the town's Chapter House Museum. The aim was to establish a new home for a unique community archive which was previouslly unsuitably and inaccessibly housed in Dunkeld Cathedral. The archive is a remarkable resource comprising photographs, minutes of local societies and rec ...

Advanced digital editing techniques by graphic artist Luca Agnani bring the paintings of Van Gogh magically to life. Music is by Ludovico Einaudi. [video width="600" id="O6EfuhX_3Dw" type="youtube"] ...

Two designers are celebrating the first birthday of their businesses with a joint pop up shop at Whitespace in Edinburgh. From 25 to 29 May 2013 designs by Fiona Purves (left) of Paper Aeroplane and Amy Dolan of Ziggy Sawdust will be for sale. Fiona is the owner of stationery business Paper Aeroplane. She uses her colourful and playful hand-drawn illustrations and lettering to create cards and prints. Throu ...

Tiny Confessions, the fantastically successful series of prints by Christopher Rozzi, has just been released in book form. Like a Post Secret for animals and monsters, the book 'reveals' the funny, odd and touching inner thoughts of your pets. The book is available from Amazon for £9.50. Prints can be ordered from Tiny Confessions with prices starting at £8.   ...

Talking in advance of his charity gig at the Carnegie Hall on 7 June, popular Dunfermline musician George Murray (above) says, ‘To move a mountain you start with the stones’. With tickets for the gig selling well and an album ready for release, George is delighted about just how far his Eastwood project has come. Tragically, George and his friend and fellow musician Stuart Henderson (below) both lost their ...

Here's some photographs from behind the scenes of movies. Doesn't look like R2D2 will be able to eat too many more sandwiches. Check out the Titanic shots below. From Bored Panda and So Bad So Good. The Matrix Django Unchained Titanic Lord of the Rings The Terminator The Gate Ghostbusters The Godfather Back to the Future Inception ...

Perhaps it's the compelling gaze of the older models that retain the dignity in these photographs taken for a series called 'Eyes as Big as Plates'. Not sure a younger person could carry off the twig hat with the same aplomb. Or perhaps the photography is just really good. Shot by Finnish photographer Riitta Ikonen and Norwegian photographer Karoline Hjorth, the series began as 'a play on characters and pro ...

Probably not one for the camping purists but pop up tents could be coming to a city roof top near you. This May & June is Brooklyn - New York, August is London and October is Boston. You just sign up for a night in a city and the location will be texted to you the day before. According to the founder, artist and builder, Thomas Stevenson,  'the tent takes only 2 people, a rubber mallet and 20 minutes to ...

For the second year in a row, Falkirk has produced a contender for the Scottish Album of the Year. Last year the prize was taken home by Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells. This year, jazz pianist Euan Stevenson and Glaswegian saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski's genre bending jazz album New Focus is on the longlist for the prize alongside stellar names such as Emelie Sande, Calvin Harris, Admiral Fallow and Django Dj ...