On Wednesday July 28, the Roger Smith hosted its first Round Table discussion surrounding “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead” with featured guest David Meerman Scott.

Be sure to pick up “Marketing Lesson from the Grateful Dead” and become part of the discussion.

Roger Smith Round Table; Converstations at the Roger Smith Hotel
At a round table there are no corners. Conversations occur, ideas are explored, and relationships are built around a round table. The Roger Smith Round Table series brings together 6-8 people to discuss current topics in a purely conversational format. The show takes place in the Penthouse of the Roger Smith Hotel where ideas are shared and relationships are built.

As we head into the fall we look to create a series of round table discussions on a range of topics.  The Production and broadcasts will be brought to you by Panman Productions and the Roger Smith Hotel. Be sure to share this with your friends, follow our efforts on facebook and other Social Media platforms. We invite you to engage with us and become part of our culture.

Father and Son, James and John Knowles, talk about the Urban Crystals and what it means to be Live on the internet. A highlight of our first Roger Smith Live Broadcast, shot outside of 125 East 47th Street.  We have come a long way but have maintained our stride and interest in the arts. Creating original content and building relationships like arching bridges, we press on regardless.

What kind of artists medium would you like to see us profile in our future art investigations? Please Leave a comment below with your feedback and present us with your ideas. Thanks for watching.  Till next time, stay tuned for the Live event.

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The Art Interactive experience with Mark Wiener and Etienne Charles in the Penthouse of the Roger Smith Hotel was an exploration into Art, Jazz and Video Experimentation.

Etienne and Mark played off each other to create a unique live experience. The event, which was broadcasting live from New York, was also projected in real time at at the Decorazon Gallery in Texas.

Crossing Narratives!

Marc Schiller, along with is wife Sara, are The Wooster Collective. Celebrating street art, their mission is to discover and document authentic art experiences via salons, books, gallery shows and, of course, their renowned website. Having documented street art from around the world for the past seven years, they have covered over 2 000 artists. The Schillers were behind the legendary 11 Spring Street exhibition in 2006, chosen as one of the top art shows of the year by the New York Times. In addition to Wooster, Marc is also the CEO and founder of New York-based marketing agency, Electric Artists and co-founder of Meet at the Apartment, a creative meeting space in SoHo, NYC.

The Video and the Web panel at #SMartCAMP (Social Media Art Camp) at the Roger Smith Hotel was a highlight of the weekend.  If you are interested in conquering web video distribution this panel hosts good insight into the world of video online.

We are creating an #ARTboom at the Roger Smith Hotel with Panman Productions. Please comment, share and engage with us with your questions and interests.

MONI PINEDA

Multi-media artist Moni Pineda and filmmaker Mike Vargas co-founded Friends We Love, a boutique production company and web TV station with a mission to create, educate & celebrate through the arts. FWL consists of short-documentary series, educational initiatives and public art events to bridge the online & offline communities.  With combined production experience of 18 years, the team’s client list includes Nike, Overbrook Entertainment, Diesel & Absolut while their work has been nationally broadcast on PBS and Discovery’s Travel Channel and screened at various international film festivals.

ERIC MORTENSEN

Building on prior experience in art, technology and digital media, Eric Mortensen joined blip.tv in 2006 as the Director of Content, where he oversees discovery of and interaction with new media content creators. As a founder of the pioneering social bookmarking site, linkfilter.net, a prolific blogger and the co-founder of Digital Dissonance — a digital music collaboration created in 1994 and pre-dating the commercial Internet — Mortensen has spent more than fourteen years as a new media innovator and expert. After studying Music Synthesis at Berklee College of Music, Mortensen held various positions in both old and new media as musician, web designer, data analyst and technology consultant.

JONATHAN MUNAR
Jonathan Munar is the Web Manager at Art21—a non-profit contemporary arts organization and producer of a Peabody Award-winning PBS series—where he manages the Art21 Web presence, initiatives, and strategies, as well as the organization’s social media activities. Jonathan is the editor the “Art 2.1? column on the Art21 blog, which explores the uses of social and Web-based technologies by artists, museums, and other relevant arts organizations and individuals. Before joining Art21 in 2008, Jonathan was the Website Technology Manager at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

RYAN LAWLER

Ryan has spent the last 5 years covering business, technology, and telecom-related subjects for a variety of publications based in New York. He’s the newest staff writer for GigaOm and NewTeeVee, but spent the previous two years following online video and digital media trends at Contentinople. Prior to that, Ryan covered telecom infrastructure for Light Reading.

John Christopher Alexander Michael Birdsong is a Producer Director Editor (aka Preditor) and Technical Director for Panman Productions in NYC. John has an Associates Degree from SUNY Suffolk in Photographic Imaging. It was during this time that he interned and was hired as a Producer for Plum TV. John stayed at Plum TV in the Hamptons and Nantucket for three years directing LIVE TV and creating original content and advertising. He then worked as a Preditor for HairdesignerTV.com; spearheading their LIVE web series and installing and using Darwin (open source broadcasting software) on their servers before USTREAM existed. John spends endless amounts of time on the internet and is a devout insomniac; somtimes mixing dreamtime with what appears to him to be reality. John lives with his Girlfriend Morgan-Jo Teller and their cat Fanny Fae McNamara in Hipsterville, Brooklyn.

Danika Druttman of the Roger Smith Hotel wrote an amazing recap article on SMartCAMP for the Huffington Post. In the article SMartCAMP, Social Media in the Arts: A Recap, she describes John Birdsong’s presentation.

“Another highlight from Saturday’s speakers was John Birdsong, a producer, director, editor, and technical director for Panman Productions. He focused on the methods of producing and sharing video content, the goal being, to concentrate on video making basics. Birdsong shared his video toolkit recommendations for the beginner videographers amongst us: the Flip or the Kodak Zi8, a Camcorder Access Bracket, a LED Light, a Monopod, and ‘Final Cut for Dummies’ would have us on our way to producing pre-recorded video content to make available through the online distribution channels available.

Typically behind the camera, Birdsong also has an easy public speaking manner that allowed him to translate his knowledge and wisdom into an engaging dialogue with his audience, and lead a hilariously awkward and perfectly timed dialogue with several unsuspecting characters on Chat Roulette. Birdsong predicts that this is the next big thing in Social Media — live video, thus, the one-on-one interaction with your audience that is such a critical component in the process of building relationships. Using Chat Roulette as a prime example, he led us through an entertaining cycle of brief conversations with a variety of randomly chosen people; it was engaging, fun, and personal. On a more serious note, it proves that this kind of application is a valuable channel to share your story.

Birdsong’s most resonating message was, effectively, “start telling your story and share your process as an artist,” a point also emphasized by the first keynote speaker, Marc Schiller, Founder of The Wooster Collective. He explained why he thinks video is such a vital component to a social media success for artists: “you can tell an amazing story, and we can see things that most of us don’t get to see, which is artist at work….it is interesting to see an artist take a camera with them as they are putting work up and have it go directly to the web.”

The activities of SMartCAMP would not be possible without the effort and dedication of several key parties. It is important to recognize the executive producer of the event Matt Semler and Julia Kaganskiy who put together such an interesting program. It is also important to thank all of the people involved from the events department at the Roger Smith Hotel to all of the volunteers who made the weekend so smooth. In looking at the social impact that we have made online in the last 2 months, I must thank Ustream for their support in featuring our content as it is happening Live.

I am proud the work done and would like to give a huge shout out to the Panman Productions crew and the Roger Smith Hotel for taking things to the next level. Till next time, I am John Knowles. Welcome to @Pancity. Where all of your dreams come true.