Cookbook Conference Re-Broadcast. Winthrop Room Day 1
Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by OskVifilsdottir in Community, Events, Hotel
Broadcasting February 22 2012
Winthrop Room
Day 1
Behind the Numbers: Looking at Cookbook Data
Ted Hill and Kelly Gallagher
Ebook reading adoption is on the rise, and across many sections of the book industry, readers are putting down print books in favor of their digital counterparts. But what’s really going on out there? And how does that translate to ecookbook adoption over the next few years? In this presentation, Bowker will talk about what they see in their deep dive studies on reading habits, how reading is evolving between print and electronic and what that means for the world of cookbooks. They’ll also share details about a cookbook study that will answer questions on consumer demand for electronic products, pricing around specific platforms, and functionality needs.
Historical Cookbooks
Ken Albala, Cynthia Bertelsen, Nora Rubel, Francine Segan
How are historic cookbooks relevant for today? Can we cook the past and learn directly from the process or are such sources merely tools for dry historical research? Is there a deeper reason to attempt to understand the taste preferences of our forebears and is it even possible to truly comprehend what they liked to eat without living in the same time and place and without the same contextual setting and mental framework?
Tick-Tock: Cooking Against the Clock
Cathy Kaufman Linda Civitello, Steve Schmidt, Laura Shapiro
Efficiency in the kitchen has been a theme for cookbook and lifestyle writers since the eighteenth century, but minimizing time spent in cooking has become a key goal for many mid-late twentieth century cookbooks. What was once the rapid-fire “60 Minute Gourmet” now seems like scratch haute cuisine. Time-saving strategies run the gamut and tell us about our changing technologies and values.
A New York Food State of Mind in Food Writing and Cookbooks
Annie Hauck-Lawson, Jonathan Deutsch, Cindy R. Lobel, Peter Rose
New York’s history of extraordinary capitol in its land, skies and waters, its people, their communities and foodways provides a similarly rich context for expressions through food. Cookbooks and food writing—both contemporary and historic—will be discussed for the New York people- and placed-based pictures they paint through words and recipes.
Feast for the Eye? Food Styling, Photography, and Cookbook Design
John F. Carafoli, Roy Finamore, Melissa Hamilton, Christopher Hirsheimer, Maricel Presilla
The look and feel of cookbooks has changed dramatically over the centuries, from the authoritarian Black Letter of early English works to the gastro-pornography of lavishly illustrated modern cookbooks. This panel examines the ways in which cookbooks visually communicate our culinary concepts, from photography and art work to typography to layout and design. We will examine what has sold, what sells now, and what the future may hold.
RS POP & Life Preservers Collective Join Forces to Save Lives
Posted on 15. Mar, 2011 by melissagonzalez in Events, fashion, Hotel, RS Pop
RSPOP is excited to announce its POP UP for March 16-26, 2011 with Life Preservers Inc., a New York State non-profit arts organization dedicated to creating consciousness and resources for the victims of human trafficking.
This collective will be featuring emerging local artists who produce photography, paintings, jewelry, textiles and even unique guitars. “At RS POP we strongly believe in building a community with the artists and designers that we represent and through charity we all build deeper bonds,” says Gonzalez. Portions of all the proceeds sold at RS POP Shop will be donated to organizations such as RestoreNY, GEMS-Girls, and Polaris Project, which aid victims of human trafficking.
“Participating artists are asked to create unique works of art utilizing any and all mediums,” says Shana Pederson, President of Life Preservers Inc. “We like ‘Life Preservers’ to be kept in mind during creation or in some manner be represented in the final product either literally or figuratively.”
Life Preservers Inc. was created in the hopes that through increased awareness, the millions of women and children brought into the country for the purpose of human slavery will be able to reclaim their lives and a safe place in society. The Life Preservers Project gives artists the rare opportunity to create pieces that will both educate through the power of content and concurrently raise funds for these organizations. ”As artists it’s great to know that we can use our design skills and creativity to give back to the greater good,” says Bonnie Kaye Whitfield, Co- Owner and artist, Kaye Rachelle Designs.
Please join us March 16th-27th at RS POP Shop with Life Preservers Inc.
RSPOP is located at 501 Lexington Avenue at the Roger Smith Hotel
VIP Reception held March 16th from 6-8pm
For more details contact Melissa Gonzalez at mg@lionesqueproductions.com
For more Life Preservers Inc. details contact Shana Pederson at shana@lifepreserversproject.org
It is going to feel good to give back in March!
Pedro Sousa Photography Exhibit in the Roger Smith Lobby Gallery
Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by aleksdegtyarev in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel
The Exhibit is Open: January 4 – March 12, 2010 Roger Smith Hotel Lobby Gallery 501 Lexington Ave. The Opening Party: 2.26.10 Time: 7:30pm @ Roger Smith Solarium Gallery
Last Studio Visit by Marlo Brown
Pedro Sousa and I have an enduring relationship; for a long time he wanted to kill me. His rage towards me wasn’t unwarranted. If you know anything about me, Marlo, you wouldn’t suspect otherwise.
In 2000 we were both attending Stony Brook University. Pedro had a sweet studio on the fourth floor of Staller Art Center. He was sharing the space with several artists and it was no-holds-barred-art-making-central.
Pedro is a photographer, so naturally he kept his tools at his studio space. Why wouldn’t he? It’s not like anyone went back home in those days or took days off from making art-stuff. While other artists prized their brushes and oil paints, Pedro’s payload was about eight cameras and loads of lenses.
On one particular day I remember visiting the collective studio space. A girlfriend of mine hung out with that crew and she probably wanted to see her ex-boyfriend who shared the studio with Pedro. To say I knew these art-folk would be an over statement. I maybe had met some of them once or twice. It’s a good bet I didn’t know anyones’ name. And if Pedro was telling this story, I’m pretty certain he would stress the exclusive nature of those studios. This was a tight knit community to which I wasn’t even worth spitting on. I was a freshman, but i certainly did not regard myself as such.
Back in those days I wasn’t easily impressed. Everything and everyone, that is, besides me, was “pretentious.” Being in a room of older more “established” males was not doing anything positive for my ego. Clearly these were a bunch of pretentious dicks! With a judgment of that caliber I took out a cigarette and lit it.
I almost remember smoking it out the window…
That was it. The rest was related by Pedro in a death threat back to my girlfriend of that time. He accused me of burning down the studio, but in more visceral words than that. To this day no one really knows if the cigarette I was smoking was the cause of the fire. One party believed it was. I believed otherwise.
What’s more, nobody cared for apologies which later morphed into half-excuses. In fact, certain members of that studio still consider me an arsonist and a prick, and I very well maybe a prick. But, I can tell you dear reader, that it was not my intention to create this animosity nor to burn down any studio.
Why am I telling this story here? Well, it’s a testament to Pedro really. He lost the most in that studio and at the same time he was the first to forgive me. After we moved on beyond that mishap, I was able to clearly see that here was a guy that was neither pretentious nor a prick.
Pedro is one of the most driven guys I know. He’s got the skills to rally people for a cause. To get shit done! Straight out of college he opened a gallery in a dead art zone known as Long Island. It is a miracle that his space held out for six years –packing out the house at every opening.
That was almost all Pedro’s work. While others spoke of a vision he executed his. He enabled other artists and himself by having a space to show work. For artists that is a huge deal! Having an art show means that you must produce. If you keep producing your work matures, you build a portfolio worth showing, collectors become interested, etc. Pedro fostered not only this space but its culture as well. He created a community where people could experiment and show those experiments. I was no exception.
Under terms that I would not burn down the gallery Pedro let me into this culture. I felt a belonging and now other people were looking at me as the pretentious dick. It was a great feeling. We were able to pull off all sorts of great events and spectacles: film festivals, experimental video nights, vaudeville art shows and other performances. The space like the people around it were in constant evolution.
When Pedro closed the gallery it was a surprise, but he listed the fact that he was spending too much time doing administrative work and not enough time producing art as a major factor. Sure, now that I am curating both the Solarium Art Gallery and the Lobby Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel, I can relate. That is why I proposed an art show to Pedro as well as a co-curatorial role.
That is the relevance of community, of friendship, of culture. It is the ability of relation. To be able to relate is far beyond understanding. That is the torch that we carry and pass to each other. Back and forth it goes…
Photographs from Roger Smith and Sprouter Meetup on the Terrace
Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by AdamWallace in Community, Events, Henry's Roof Top, Hotel
We were so happy to host this small gathering on the roof terrace with friends of Sprouter and the Roger Smith Hotel. Thank you to Sarah Prevette and all who attended for a great evening.
Photography Show Opening: Dave Prutting
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by AdamWallace in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel
On Tuesday, September 8 photographer Dave Prutting had an opening reception for his photography show “Italy in 8″ in the lobby of the Roger Smith Hotel. The show is on display from July 15- October 15, 2009.
“Italy in 8″
Dave Prutting in the Lobby of the Roger Smith Hotel
Photograph by Julian Mackler
Photographs from opening night, by John Knowles
Mike Holland plays piano in Lily’s after the opening in the lobby
RS Shorts Productions Photographs
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by AdamWallace in Arts, Events, Hotel
A series of production photographs from day 2 of the Roger Smith Shorts by Adam Wallace. The 6 film crews are in the middle of full production and have taken the hotel by storm. Every shot that they take for the film is on property at the hotel. The sets and productions they are creating are amazing. Each director has their own style and is taking a different approach to the task. All have their own crews and their own equipment. The production is quite a sight to see here at the hotel.
Slideshow of Photographs
About Roger Smith Shorts
With support from Ghetto Film School, The Village Voice, Brooklyn Brewery and the Roger Smith Hotel’s patronage to the arts, the Roger Smith Shorts ‘09 (Festival Workshop) was conceived. The concept was envisioned as a collaboration of creativity and ingenuity among visual storytellers and those who form the structure behind it.
During this inaugural workshop, six hand-selected emerging directors will be given the opportunity to interact with panelists, industry professionals, and each other as they live at the Roger Smith Hotel.
Each filmmaker will be given five days, access to actors and assistants, and a maximum of three crewmembers. Throughout the course of the week, workshop filmmakers and Ghetto Film School fellows will participate in daily panels and discussions. Workshop events range in topic from scriptwriting, casting, and all aspects of production to publicity & public relations, business & legal affairs and film finance.
Unique to our program, filmmakers are required to create their short films entirely within the confines of the Roger Smith Hotel.
Portraits of Roger Smith
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by AdamWallace in Arts, Events, Hotel
The Roger Smith Hotel is full of wonderful personalities who personify what it means to be Roger Smith. This is a series of portraits of most (but not all) of the employees of the Roger Smith Hotel. The portraits are taken throughout all areas of the hotel.
Photographs by Adam Wallace
