Kevin Roden: Think Denton

Kevin Roden | Day Panel | 35 Conferette from 35 Conferette on Vimeo.

Kevin Roden discusses 'What is the soul of the city?' with the panelists:

• Mark Burroughs: Mayor, City of Denton

• Brian Daskam: Owner, Bookish Coffee Roasters; Public Intellectual

• Howard Draper: Commissioner, Denton Traffic Safety; Founder, “Bike Denton” blog; Advocate, Cycling and Livability in Denton; Bassist, Tre Orsi

• Patrice Phelan Lyke, Ph.D.: Commissioner, Denton Planning and Zoning; Chair, Denton Neighborhood Alliance; Lecturer of English at the University of North Texas

• Eric Pulido: Guitarist, Midlake; Denton Historic Landmark Commissioner; Lover of Denton

• Michael Seman: Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. Student; 35 Conferette Daytime Coordinator, Adjunct Professor of Applied Economics at the University of North Texas; Guitarist, Shiny Around the Edges 

From this intimate Drink and Think with some of Denton's finest we get down and dirty with what makes up a city. I loved our mayor's definition on what the purpose of a city is

...to accomplish more than any individual could accomplish on their own. It's the synergy of and the dynamics that are formed by groups of people; and groups of people are what move the world. It's what binds us together, and ... groups come together to accomplish something more than anyone would be able to...

I'd like to think that this quote alone parallels the 35 Conferette festival. As an individual entity, 35 would not of made it past day one. With the help of hundreds it was able to survive and touch the lives of thousands. With out a doubt, Kevin and the other six on that panel care for this town and for the betterment of it. I was just able to catalog a small event in the small time-line of this town.

New Photo's courtesy Charlotte Golden!

Charlotte's pictures sum up the raw energy that was 35 Conferette, below is just an example...

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35 Complete

Well that's a wrap. This past weekend Charlotte and I shot hours of video and snapped hundreds of photos. In honor of the event we went ahead and posted the original edit of our line-up video.



When we first thought of creating this video we opted to create a proper introduction that laid down why there were hundreds of cards being help by the people of Denton. It came out pretty cool, but in the end we opted to just cut it out. In the mean time check it out and stay tuned for lots and lots of videos and pictures.

35 Conferette Promotional Lineup

It's time to get excited! There's a festival coming to town, 35 Conferette to be exact...
We approached the staff of the festival about shooting a quick video to promote their final line-up. This past Sunday our wish was granted and they awarded us a list of over 200 artists from all parts of the world. We quickly went to work creating a series of over 900 notecards that included each of these artists. Following this rather lengthy endeavor, we went to the streets of Denton, with cards in hand, and went about shooting thousands of photographs that we animated into the following video...

35 Conferette Lineup 2011 from 35 Conferette on Vimeo.

With the help of one of Denton's best DJ's, YeahDef, we created a video that really plays to what this years festival will be. In it we find the faces of Denton, a home grown festival with large aspirations and a bunch of musicians coming together to form, for the first time, 35 Conferette. Can't wait for March to come!


Here's some stills from the production:

Episode 3

This was a fun episode. Definitely went deep into the roots of what makes Denton great. Rock, Funk and Fun all in one evening...

Andrew Tinker, Backside Pick and the great Paul Slavens. Check out the show below and let us know what you think.