Count Me In
Tom and Richard,
I remember getting very excited about this idea when I first talked to Tom about it about 4 months ago. As someone who works in a creative field, the type of set up discussed in your proposal sounds amazing! The more walks of life and people I can pull from, feed off of, or get inspired by, the better my work will be. In additional, having a more free form work environment allows me to work in a manner or time that produces the best concepts. It helps too, that bean bags, foosball, and ping pong tables were mentioned since they are a staple of any advertising agency.
This project matches so well with my personal ambitions. I hope to freelance full time, so that I can work on many different clients for many different agencies. However, it will take a lot of work to get my name respected and common enough to make freelance a stable living. I suppose my only concerns with the project are the practical ones. At this stage in my career it would be very difficult for me to move my freelance work to Rotterdam, with most of my connections in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. In the future however, I may be enough of a self sufficient entity to work with businesses distant from Rotterdam or with agencies near and around Rotterdam and the Netherlands. As my career begins to progress, I hope this opportunity because a very possible reality as it would be an amazing project to be a part of. In short, count me in.
Matthew Talbot