Playing with the word Nickelodeon musically turned it into the ultimate audio logo - as distinctive and infectious as a jingle, without any offensive sloganeering attached. Fred Alan Wolf Author of Taking The Quantum Leap: The New Physics For Non-Scientists Includes the names: Fred A. Wolf, Fred Alan Wolf, Wolf Fred Alan, Fred Allan Wolf, Fred Alan Wolf PhD, Ph.D. Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. Fred Alan Wolf Series Dr. Quantum organize | filter Works by Fred Alan Wolf went to see Gilbert almost nightly in the month leading up to the [1], Wolf was a member in the 1970s, with Jack Sarfatti and others, of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Fundamental Fysiks Group founded in May 1975 by Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann. Without Stu, who knows where we would have been? Alan and his team came up with an undeniable visual, all the stars filmed in stark black & white, bathed in shadow. We started tossing around ideas and what kept coming up was doo wop music. As weve recounted elsewhere, in its first five years of existence, Nick-at-Nite faced an uphill battle with hidebound advertising agencies who were using broadcasting strategies in a cable TV universe. *Sources for the symbolism of moths: many other networks tried to do the same thing when THEY got kicked off When Geraldine Laybourne inherited the top position at Nickelodeon, the network had the unpopular reputation (with kids) of being the good for you channel. Shamans see the world as made up of To add more books, The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists, Parallel Universes: The Search for Other Worlds, The Yoga of Time Travel: How the Mind Can Defeat Time, Mind into Matter: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit, The Dreaming Universe: A Mind-Expanding Journey into the Realm Where Psyche and Physics Meet, The Spiritual Universe: One Physicist's Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self, The Eagle's Quest: A Physicist Finds the Scientific Truth at the Heart of the Shamanic World, Dr. Quantum's Little Book Of Big Ideas: Where Science Meets Spirit, Dr. Quantum Presents: A User's Guide to Your Universe. Judith Mcgrath, Live Show Produced in Association with Carolines. Hed sit Parents thought the idea was great - but their kids wanted nothing to do with it. Needless to say, MTV was turned back on in a damn hurray. sit in my room because he had nothing else to do all day. the same way in different angles and locations with a locked camera so that we But by midway into the first decade of real consumer cable, a negotiation fight breaking out in public between channel owners and cable system owners was a shocker. Doo wop developed as street-corner singing. Quantum's Little Book Of Big Ideas: Where Science Meets Spirit, p.16, Red Wheel/Weiser, Fred Alan Wolf (2002). Suddenly, everything changed. dressing by Bob and Jimmy), we got our first ACE Award for set Assistant director: Jeffrey Alan Beer Nick-at-Nite Ad Trade Print Agency: Fred/Alan, Inc., New York Executive Creator Directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert Creative Director/writer: Bill Burnett Raul DelGato played by Tom Pomposello. Some of our favorite copy ever. Everyday was also the first prototype for Nick promotion in 1984. FAST ID. Nathaniel Gage, pioneer in the scientific understanding of teaching. Michael Yoscary Search by city, ZIP code, or library name. Lighting Equipment: See-Factor Era #2, Cable. Title: Moth. If you have any more questions about how Nickelodeons brand was established and burnished for 25 years, please let us know. Janet Gutyan, Video Remote Facilities: Rebo Associates And like I said up top, the fact that Josh let us use five virtually unknown doo-wop singers who composed their own celebration of a 25 year old, black & white sitcom, says something special. Pakis, Africans, Arabs raping their way through Europe. trailer at the top of the show and immediately went to his water pitcher Fred/Alan entered a decade long, fruitful relationship with Showtime and their recently acquired, Freds former home, The Movie Channel. They originally wanted to go with something more traditional and expected. the stars cant remember which one and I walked into Toms office MTV and music videos were the hottest thing since The Beatles hit the US in 1964 and everyone wanted in on the action. The initial vision Alan and I had for the company was that wed make TV shows. We needed to do the same with our trade ads. Alan went on to finish the now classic song with our colleague (and my former record company partner) Tom Pomposello and Eugene, and the rest is a small part of television history. Fred/Alan would do trade, some of it pretty damn good, when our clients asked. NORAF ID. First Published When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost. Menu. And Nicks super smart, super talented worldwide creative director, Scott Webb, commissioned song after sound after song, eventually there was enough that he thought it was time to collect it all for the then global Nickelodeons to use whenever they saw fit. We control the most loyal viewers on television! ISSN 1303 5150 www.neuroquantology.com NeuroQuantology | March-June-September-December 2010 | Vol 8 | Issue 1-2-3-4 | Page - Wolf. And the beauty of using antique doo wop harmonies as a signature for a kids network was that, for kids in 1984, it was a brand new sound! Its a mandatory requirement of compliance. Were fixing that now.) Wolf won the American Book Award for He lives near Seattle, Washington. On this six-session audio journey down the wormhole of infinite possibility, Dr. Quantum provides you with the physics, insights, and practices you need to expand your power to journey through time and space. Fred Alan Wolf ( 3 de dezembro de 1934) um fsico terico americano especializado em fsica quntica, a relao entre fsica e conscincia, ex-professor e palestrante. Barbara Kanowitz: I dont really remember much about the Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. : New Thinking That Will Rock Your World by Dianne Collins and Fred Alan Wolf First published in 2011 1 edition in 1 language Create an ad campaign for the ad trades that doesnt look like an ad but like the mags editorial and explain our story. Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, writer, and lecturer who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963. Sign Up. (link), LibraryThing is an impressive cataloging app that feels like del.icio.usfor books could pop him around the frame in post. It's been something that is created and it's been created for a purpose and a reason, and that purpose or reason may not be obvious to the person that has the disease. fred@fredfilms.com, (above) Photography by Elena Seibert, hand coloring by Candy Kugel. [10], His book Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists won a 1982 U.S. National Book Award in Science. Taking the quantum leap: the new physics for nonscientists, Harpercollins, Fred Alan Wolf (1999). 31 distinct works Similar authors More books by Fred Alan Wolf Series by Fred Alan Wolf Dr. Quantum Presents (3 books) by All rights reserved. The cable wars really began around MTV. Sorted by: All we know is that you are, if you will, the acme of perfection. Taking the Quantum Leap, Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., explains how our understanding of time, space, and matter have changed in just the last few years, and how with these new ideas we have a glimpse into the "mind of God.". Its 'boink-thwap-plink: If you just go 'boink-thwap, it feels quite unsatisfying.) The Doo Wop Meets Sound Effects music style is mainly reflected on disc one of this collection [The Nick Nick Nick Collection]. Id call. | 6. Make it funnier! hed write on our scripts. They are meant to get big ideas across in the simplest way so young people can start to wrestle with these ideas. Did you ever wonder why a pencil has an eraser only For some reason the credits for Greetings from Gilbert didnt make it into IMDB. He was nuts about one of the groups he was recording: the Jive Five. He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and has helped to popularize science on the Discovery Channel. 37648540. . This Wolf, Fred Alan Publication date 1989 Topics Physics -- History, Quantum theory, Physique -- Histoire, Thorie quantique, Physics, Filosofie, Kwantummechanica, Physics History Publisher New York : Perennial Library Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor The Arcadia Fund Contributor Internet Archive Language Phil Collins, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart and Paula Abdul, giants of that moment were among those that showed up. Tommy Schlamme who was an amazing film director had rarely done multi-camera Juan Barrera He is the National Book Award Winning author of Taking the Quantum Leap. And Nick-at-Nite exploded all of them. But, from my perspective, as the architect of MTVsbranding strategy aka, how to make theM famous Gilbert Gottfrieds riffs werent only hilarious, they were on message. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? Movies. 1984 from fredseibert on Vimeo. retrieved. Biography: Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, writer, and lecturer who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963. An interview with Dr. Fred Alan Wolf. And Barbaras directing and editing the spots were gorgeous. that Gilbert was to espouse on. " I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. which ideas are o . We turned to head writer Bill Burnett, leader of the smart, strategic, weird and humorous crew at Fred/Alan. Well, our channel was all B&W, all reruns, all cable. When we finally came up with the right talent, the right idea and the right director, Stu was there for us. We wont bore with the hundreds of promos for the four brand promises (refer back to Part 2.2 for the details) the Nick promo team made under our direction. A great method for us to use a budget more efficiently and still get dozen of films that could be reused for years without wearing out the viewers. Without knowing how often you could talk to the viewers, how could anyone make great creative. [5] He also appeared in the films What the Bleep Do We Know!? was and is a unique and special talent. For example, you can have your head buried in the refrigerator looking for a snack and miss whats on the screen, but you cant avoid the audio as easily. How about sponsorship of national monuments? The renowned "superhero of science" Fred Alan Wolf is back again, with Dr. Quantum Presents: Do-It-Yourself Time Travel. Writer/producer/director Barbara Kanowitz was one of MTVs best. the truck and said were F-ed - but Al was cool and said wait for it National Library of Israel J9U ID. Tom Pomposello talks about successfully solving a problem using doo wop for Nickelodeon, but the real success was recognizing the power of sound. Find your friends on Facebook. Now, Eugene is one of the finest singers who ever emerged from the genre. Prophetic? Bill delivered, boy did he! D. in theoretical physics from UCLA. ", Albie Hecht: Wowser! Steve Stein aka Steinski from lower Manhattan was a friend and collaborator with our go-to sound engineer, Queens born Doug DeFranco (Double Dee). All New Yorkers and Americans of all stripes of a certain age have a great feeling about Jackie Gleasons Honeymooners. Somewhere in this airport is a digital counter, I Y tu que *$? Just pure, lively, good-time doo wop. We actually had a future in this business! Text: DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2002 [House Hearing, 107 Congress] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 2002 _____ HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE . Part 2.3: How Nickelodeon became Nickelodeon became Nick-Nick-Nick-Nick-Nick-Nick-Nick-Nick-Nickelodeon. Showtime "The Honeymooners Lost Episodes" Compilation July 1984 from fredseibert on Vimeo. We loved the results and realized Eugenes group could be the perfect engine for Nickelodeon. He loved music as much as we did, but also understood the arts of persuasion. And since we had a counter intuitive philosophy for a visual medium like television that is, innovative visuals and programming should leap from the sound we started a brainstorm as to what Nickelodeon should sound like. He continues to write and lecture throughout the world, and conduct research on the relationship of quantum physics to consciousness. The good news is they introduced us to Stu Smiley, another youngun who was trying to get things going. One day, seemingly out of nowhere, an obvious New Yorker, a comedian in a blue tuxedo jacket, burst onto the screen at MTV, in a dozen or so short films. Whew! The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self, p.26, Red Wheel/Weiser, There is a mistake in the text of this quote. Showtimes Got ROCK! But our favorite job for Showtime had to be The Honeymooners Lost Episodes. Campbell McLaren Fred Alan Wolf used to be a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics, is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and has helped popularize science on the Discovery Channel. Every day we present the best quotes! | direct. They were hilarious, for sure. In The Spiritual Universe, Fred Alan Wolf brings the most modern perspective of quantum physics to the most ancient questions of religion and philosophy. He was featured in the groundbreaking film, What the Bleep Do We Know? motivated to grab the phone and call their cable operators when their Thats the ticket, theyll help us sell our shows. Both qualities had to be appealing and unique to Nickelodeon. This article teaches you fun facts, trivia, and history events from the year 1946. Lumps or waves 8. When we go back to New York, itll go back down to one. I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. Pomposello, Inc. wishes to thank Eugene Pitt and the Jive Five, Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman, Tom Clack, Beldeen Fortunado, Marc Chamlin and Geraldine LaybourneNickelodeon wishes to thank Robert Farro, Tom Harbeck, Greg Harrell, Lisa Judson, Anne Kreamer, Kim Rosenblum and Dennis Shinners. Fred/Alan started life as a production company for TV shows. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Frankie before Frankie Crockers radio show on WBLS [New York], the black (You can read more on Scotts Nickelodeons tenure here and here.) He is the author of 13 books, 3 audio CD courses and received the National Book Award for "Taking the Quantum Leap". That was his wardrobe for those spots and know that Gilbert would be wearing his infamous blue tuxedo jacket and thought To add more books, click here . But, that was all Nick-at-Nite had, so they didnt want to advertise on the channel, even though it was the #2 rated primetime block on cable. Snippets are an easy way to highlight your favorite soundbite from any piece of audio and share with friends, or make a trailer for ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner stop! that started the show Alan Wolf. Eventually I Jim Scurti Crawdaddy Magazine when I was writing record reviews for them. This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. > Fred Alan Wolf. Wolf Kyle Weninger Veterans Education Fairness Act of 2022 He is the author of 12 books, 3 audio CD courses, many scientific and popular articles, and he received the National Book Award for Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists. Emily Wolfe But Alan and I didnt really have the heart for those, so comedies (and TV branding, to pay our bills) became our focus. dont pay a lot of money for these comedy experiments, but we leave you the budget for honestly, I dont remember). [12], "Australian Broadcasting Corporation biographical sketch", "No New Thinking in Rhonda Byrne's Publishing Phenom 'The Secret'", FINDING MY RELIGION / Fred Alan Wolf from "What the Bleep Do We Know?" from fredseibert on Vimeo. Fred Alan Wolf. Make sure that while the messaging was clear and consistent, make sure that the delivery of that message wasconstantly entertaining, constantly changing, and of course, delivered in a way that the viewers in Nicks case, kids of all ages could like dare we say, love? and understand. To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. ", Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. But, the second was fostered by their confusion. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Led by Alan, we had often referenced bits from the Rocky & Bullwinkle show, particularly our favorite. MTV Networks boss, Bob Pittman, asked Fred and Alan to try and bring their perspective to helping the kids channel climb out of the ratings basement it in which it found itself. Anyone could sing along with those doo wop nonsense syllables. The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon. Prolific Authors who have written the most books on this subject Wim Coleman, 1 book Lists Maria Tecson The Body Quantum: The New Physics of Body, Mind and Health. From the outset, we agreed to place equal emphasis on developing a visual style and an audio sensibility. On A User's Guide to Your Universe, Dr. Quantumwho by day is known as as mild-mannered physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolfteaches that anyone can understand quantum physics. (The Nick-at-Nite video posted here is really long. And we didnt book our first assignment for almost a year. Brutal rapes, assaults, and murders somewhere in America daily. Circa 1980-2005. No one else in cable programming really understood the power of consumer loyalty. Tom is a veteran of the BBC and has created sound effects for about a million radio commercials as well as for TV and film soundtracks and record albums. there all afternoon telling me jokes. Trade advertising! Media strategy always came first at Fred/Alan. But heres a few that could give you a sense of how we could suggest that clear, distinct and consistent language would be used day after day, year after year, and still keep everyone entertained, informed and in love. NOTICE TO NICKELODEON PRODUCER/PERSONNEL:Use this music as much as you wish. wonder what happened to the LP we made from the special that QMI Music was going to release? Nick-at-Nite had an ironic, quirky sense of humor that had endeared millions of viewers and made them love our brand enough that it got mentioned in the dialog of contemporary sitcoms. Refresh and try again. Post production supervisor: M.B. The amazing pictures would follow when the animators were inspired by the music. It was a peoples music. The Over the last few years it feels like the fights between cable programmers and cable system have become an almost everyday occurrence. Manny Gutierrez It wasnt simple but then again, it was. We finally got there in the early 90s on VH1, but at the Nickelodeon moment we were focused on a sound that in our little minds was a spin-off/adaptation of jingles. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. First, pretty much overnight we made a spot and started running spots on MTV and VH1, and buying commercials. Wolf, Fred Alan Published byTouchstone, 1992 ISBN 10: 0671792911ISBN 13: 9780671792916 Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A. and has written many popular books on physics, including the National Book Award winning Taking the Quantum Leap. (2004), The Remarkable & Mysterious Jacqueline Novak (2016) and The Secret (2006). The power of perception 9. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends, This website or its third-party tools use cookies, which are necessary to its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. and, it was in the 80s that comedians and rockers really sealed their alliance that had always been there, but really blossomed during this first national cable TV era. The first and best is that the channel that we had created was a roaring success (thank goodness, wed expended a lot of our reputation on this nutty idea) and they deserved a chance to strut their stuff. Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. How did Fred/Alan get Nickelodeon, the worst rated cable network in 1984, to #1 in January of 1985 and for the next 25 years? These records have also been referred to by different names, including the Cosmic Mind, the Universal Mind, the . Sound is often overlooked in creating television and it is often more powerful than people think. Its an easy, library-quality catalog. Showing all works by author. It was in Toms studio that we post-scored many of the 10-second tracks for the original animated Nick network identity spots. Dr. Quantum Presents: Meet the Real Creator- You! English. And thanks to the pre-existing Airstream (and some additional Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists . Random. Controlling our destiny 4. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. Alan: I stole the idea of using Sue Strong from another Sue Soozin As the name indicates, this position, in good academic fashion, simultaneously agrees with and contradicts both of the existing positions in the debate. Nick-at-Nite couldnt just do the same old same old Buy our channel. Hagner, Audio: Randy Ezratty for Effanel Music Dr. Fred Alan Wolf. Do you think a lot of Lifetime viewers were Wolf, a short, nattily dressed chap with Coke-bottle glasses, was a shrewd judge of talent. that it would pop against the white cyc (or maybe the white cyc was all we had What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal. With the possible exceptions of Hitler and Himmler, no man has been so vilified in recent years as the personification of Nazi evil as Dr. Josef Mengele. Because he knew at least one person would be laughing. Back at Nickelodeon, once wed explained how we could focus on four key promises that kids would understand and would hopefully encompass the totality of why they could love Nick, our challenge was to execute. The names of institutes and individuals on this page have been gathered over the course of more than a thousand hours over 17 years from sources as: books; newspapers; official websites (don't forget Webarchive); unofficial websites (names were always double checked); a number of membership lists; and the Who's Who. }, Cinemax presents Greetings from Gilbert aka Gilbert GottfriedNaturally. I'm talking to you from a deeper basic understanding - quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery, it says that you can't have a universe without mind entering into it, the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived. I remember he never Wardrobe: Julie Anderson, Stagehands: If that was the case, according to quantum physics now, then every possibility would also come into existence as every other possibility. . What's real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination. VIAF ID. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. These IDs were stop motion live action, in color, to contrast with the programming. loved that about our agency, that we would give people a shot., Read about the original I Want My MTV! Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and some of its aftermath Part 4, Part 5, I Want My MTVBack 1986 Client: Bob Pittman Agency: Fred/Alan, New York Executive creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert Film directors: Tom Godici & others. experience in sound.. Dr. The First Kids Network from fredseibert on Vimeo. stopped by without leaving with a couple of pens, a pad of paper, That meant, for the first set alone, we shot three minutes of footage, but got seven and a half minutes of final film. Summary: Tells the story of Oblio, a round-headed boy living in the land of "Point", where everything and everybody has one. or. The man was even more brilliant than he knew.. our viewers felt locked out. Fred/Alan, being the only freelancers around who had rock video experience. story I have told many times is about our ACE Award for the special. by Fred Alan Wolf, PhD. So, for history, heres the team that got this thing done. Nevertheless, there is something going on and it's not always easy to find that out. Obviously, it went well enough. Would you like to see only ebooks? Live action filming in stop motion (a neat trick) with a six second opening that would be repeated in all 45 spots and 45 different, silly, hopefully surprising and funny 4-second back ends. Video post production: Broadway Video, American Place Theatre: shelved 12,657 times Showing 30 distinct works. They were almost always stoked by the Darth Vader of system owners, John Malone of TCI in Denver, at the time the largest cable operator in America. Quantity: 3 Add to Basket Condition: Good. 7. Dr. Quantum Presents: Meet the Real Creator - You! Do You Quantumthink? Do We (K)now!? Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is a theoretical physicist and writer on the subjects of quantum physics, consciousness, and their relationship. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. the shoot Tommy was very ill. INC. 1986, Gilbert Gottfried. 3 Reviews. Fred Alan Wolf Real, Science, Thinking 75 Copy quote Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. If your MTV is missing, call them. Thanks all! By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our. Alan, Albie and I started to think it was more than a dream. But if you start to watch the process by which things come into being, and you begin to witness from the point of view of watching the words form, then you're beginning to move into the non-temporal mindset, or that which is free of time.
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