It’s true. I can’t help myself. Over the last year or so, I seem to have developed an unexplainable love of Matt Damon films. Is it the lack of emotion? Is it the single facial expression? Is it the fact that he gets paid $29M per movie? I mean, The Good Shepherd was really long, [...]
Entries in 'Storytelling'
The art of conversation
August 14th, 2007 by Leo Ryan · No Comments
We’ve been thinking recently about what we do as relating to conversations. Nothing new there really. The ‘interactive’ in interactive media should give us a clue as to the back and forth or dialogue nature of digital. So I was having a shuftie around the Net to see what there was around the idea of [...]
Five PowerPoint Things
April 12th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 3 Comments
At RMM we join Edward Tufte in believing that “power corrupts but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.” Where possible, we’ve done away with it. We’ve managed to reduce our credentials presentation to a short, friendly conversation. Most of our presentations are done using little more than a speaker script, a little rehearsal, and some handouts. However, we [...]
Liveblogging My Martini
March 26th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments
18.14: Electric Bar, Portobello Rd w. two thirds of the directors of RMM.
18.15: Martini v nice.
18.16: Martini still nice. Warmer, though. Should finish it before becomes tepid.
18.18: Nuts arrive, also in martini glass. Calories. Feel less bad about martini. But bad about calories.
18.19: Need another martini.
18.33: Hello Shannon!
Things That London Really Needs
March 8th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments
I have been back in London for about two months now, and it has occured to me that, whilst the city is for the most part quite lovely and not full of stone-cold killers like Moscow, there could be some improvements:
1. A midday free newspaper, so that a luridly-clad distributor can annoy the living bejesus [...]