tidypics on index

I can get broken image icons to display in place of the actual image. It's looking for the general.gif This tells me I'm missing some $vars, I have tried " 'size' => 'small' " and a few others without success. Could someone point me in the righter direction. please?

<?php 

if(isset($vars['area7'])) {

//display member avatars

foreach($vars['area7'] as $album){

echo "<div class=\"member_icon\">";

echo elgg_view ("tidypics/icon",array('entity' => $album));

echo "</div>";

}

}

?>