Last week was a busy one for Frederator founder Fred Seibert. Well, to be honest, to know Fred is to know that every week is a busy week!
Sugar Peas!!! The RallyFlix team hosted a Bravest Warriors Season Three Preview Party in New York City on Monday, June 1, 2015. Fred spoke at the event, which featured favorite episodes of Bravest Warriors, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the animated series and the premiere of Season Three! A splendid time was had by all. (Artwork above by Tyson Hesse)
RallyFlix will hold another Bravest Warriors screening in London on June 24. If you haven’t checked out RallyFlix - you should. Rallyflix invites you, the fans, to take control of your local cinemas. Rally with other fans and bring your favorite content or Youtubers to a big screen.
Fred was the subject of the Children’s Media Association’s most recent installment of The Red Chair Series on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Fordham Law School in New York City.
With Fred in one red chair and Amy Friedman--a CMA Board member, President of Redhead Consulting, and Senior Advisor at Scratch, Viacom’s in-house creative S.W.A.T. team--in the other, they discussed Fred’s life and career in music, advertising, TV and the internet. Amy and Fred have known each other for about 30 years and have worked together several times.
Among the topics that Fred and Amy touched on were how much opportunity people who want to be in animation have today versus when he began in the industry. Today, according to Fred, animators can go ahead and make their work and post it on the Internet, specifically on sites like Tumblr, which is a great way for artists to showcase their work to be seen by all sorts of people. Not so many years ago, a creator went to an animation studio or a TV network to pitch, and if they said no, that was that.
The Red Chair Series features one-on-one conversations with well-known and successful individuals of the children’s media business. The two red chairs sat in Amy’s office at Nickelodeon for many years where she had many creative conversations with all sorts of people.
Fred then hopped on a plane for LA, and on Thursday, he was a panelist on USA Today’s Talking Tech roundtable podcast, live from Tunein Studios, hosted/produced by Jefferson Graham.
The topic of discussion on Talking Tech ranged from music to what will be featured at tomorrow’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, where Apple offers a peek at new products/software, to authenticating your online identity on various sites with Karma, a new LA-based start-up, and last but not least, online cartoons.
In addition to Fred, other panelists included investor/advisors Peter Csathy, CEO of Manatt Digital Media and Mike Vorhaus, President of Magid Advisors, as well as Crystal Rose, Co-Founder of Sensay, which offers on-demand help via chat and Zach Schiff-Abrams, Co-Founder of Karma, a new start-up that designed to help you manage your online reputation. (Black and white photos of Fred from Jefferson Graham’s Facebook page).
Check out this edition of the podcast here.
Whew!
Gwen