James G has just sent me this track; beardy mutton-chopped Dan Le Sac and the Scroobious Pip (probably an English student) take apart modern culture in a Gill Scott Heron meets Arthur Hugh Clough kind of way. “Thou shalt not express thy shock that Sharon got off with Brad at the club last night by [...]
Entries from March 2007
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobious Pip
March 23rd, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 5 Comments
In Social media · Stories
Unexpected, this was…
March 22nd, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 3 Comments
In Brand innovation · Stories
Whilst we are no slouches in the dapper clothes department (I, for one, have modelled with some of Ipswich’s top menswear discount warehouses), it will have escaped no-one’s notice that Ryan Morrison & MacMillan is not a fashion agency. We’re digital communications planners. However, that does not stop us begging the question of LA Fashion [...]
ICA Club lecture; The Democratisation of Advertising (sort of)
March 17th, 2007 by Leo Ryan · No Comments
In Sharing · Stories · Tool development
Last week’s Club lecture at the ICA was slightly misleadingly titled ‘The Democratisation of Advertising’. I went along expecting a session of user generated, subverted and perverted adverts and instead I was treated to an evening of user-distributed adverts. What would you call it? “The democratisation of distribution?”
The speakers included Joel Veitch (he of dancing [...]
Creative Commons: 7 things you should know
March 14th, 2007 by Leo Ryan · No Comments
In New technologies · Sharing · Stories
We’re doing research into how to encourage the distribution and use by consumers of a client’s marketing materials. One way to do this would seem to be to provide permission to take and use these assets within a legal framework; Creative Commons. Looking around for more information I was directed from the CC site to [...]
Lovely little music app
March 8th, 2007 by Iain MacMillan · 1 Comment
In Networking · New technologies · Social media · Stories · Tool development
My esteemed friend, music muse and part-time lawn bowls partner, Dylan Jones, forwarded me details of something called Iconcertcal earlier this week. The app looks at what’s in my itunes library and then creates a calendar of gigs over the forthcoming months in the near vicinity. Changing location, and how far afield I want to [...]