Welcome back to OWC RADiO with your host, Cirina Catania! Today we share the story of an incredibly brave, courageous, and kind person, Wes Plate, who enjoyed major success in the tech world, overcame his personal demons - alcoholism and depression, and now runs ultramarathons! He is a winner on all counts! He not only survived, he became an elite athlete who runs ultramarathons such as the Moab 240 and the Cocodona 250.  Wes is someone who is well-known in the tech world, and he hasn’t shared the details of his personal story until recently.  He remains a dear friend to us and we are proud of him.  How did all this happen and how did he win this difficult personal battle? For many years, he and his father developed translation products that made post-production easier for all of us.   Their company Automatic Duck, was a staple at all major tech industry events. By 2011, Wes and his Dad had gone to work with Adobe. Wes eventually moved to Apple as one of the key members of the ProApps team and recently left Apple to pursue new adventures. Cirina Catania talked with him about his tech career and his races. Here's a link to his latest documentary filmed during the Cocodona 250 race. It is fascinating! Find Wes on Instagram @midpackelite

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Wes Plate, Technologist, Conquering Alcohol Addiction and Running Ultramarthons

OWC Founder and CEO, Larry O'Connor, talks with OWC RADiO host, Cirina Catania, about his business life and his perspectives on the world, his love for space exploration (yes, he's already purchased his ticket!), what it's like running a major international corporation, his corporate president, Jen Soule, and how on earth he still manages to find time for the myriad of charities, films and creatives he passionately supports. Larry O'Connor is definitely a man who is living a generous, intelligent and joyful life. This episode of OWC RADiO was recorded with our audience of Larry's fellow CEO's in mind as well as anyone who wants some tips to help generate success in business and in life. It is a candid and insightful conversation with one of the world's most influential technologists. For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas.

CEO Larry O’Connor on OWC RADiO’s 100th Episode, OWC’s Multinational Corporation, Outer Space, and the Environment

Larry Jordan is an award-winning producer, director, editor, teacher and trainer who’s been involved in the media industry for 50 years. He’s produced, directed or edited at local broadcast TV stations, network television in the US, and created more corporate and training videos than he can count. His new book, "Techniques of Visual Persuasion," is an invaluable resource to anyone working in media, for film, television or the web. He has a lively discussion with our host, Cirina Catania, who also produced his popular podcast, "Digital Production BuZZ," for many years! OWC RADiO's producer, Debbie Price, took over as BuZZ producer after Cirina left to further her filmmaking career. So, if you haven't guessed, we're big fans of Larry Jordan here at OWC RADiO. Larry believes that technology is inherently confusing for many people. So his goal, in his writing and video training, is to reassure people that they can actually learn this new stuff. His training is based on explaining the underlying fundamentals of a technology, then providing clear explanations illustrated with stories on how it’s used. Larry is based in Los Angeles, a member of both the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America, and the author of nine books and thousands of technical articles on all facets of production and post-production. He’s the host of the Digital Production Buzz podcast and also writes a free weekly newsletter on post-production that publishes every Monday. For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

Tech Guru Larry Jordan released a new book (and you need to read it!)

Danielle Engen is the Studio Manager and a Content Creator at Electric Feel Entertainment, one of the world's most successful music studios.

Electric Feel’s DANIELLE ENGEN – Studio Manager and Content Creator

There's a new game in Techtown, and it is becoming the industry standard for remote collaboration over the cloud. Frame.io recently launched Camera-to-Cloud and it shook our workflow foundations.  Michael Cioni, Global SVP of Innovation, joins our host, Cirina Catania to explain in a deep dive under the hood how this will enable collaborators to transmit footage from camera/audio to their remote teams anywhere in the world, faster, easier and more secure than ever before.  For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

Michael Cioni, Frame.io Camera to Cloud Deep Dive

Tim Standing, who leads Mac software development at OWC, talks with host, Cirina Catania about the latest SoftRAID version 6

All Drives Fail! Tim Standing talks Softraid6 and Pizza!

Bob Caniglia, Director of Sales Ops North America at Blackmagic Design interviews with OWC RADiO's Cirina Catania about remote collaboration.

Bob Caniglia, Blackmagic Design, on Remote Collaboration

OWC RADiO continues its coverage on Remote Collaboration with this interview with Michael Kammes, VP Technology at BeBop

Michael Kammes – Virtualize Post-Production in the Cloud with Bebop Technology

For over forty years, Henry Diltz has befriended and photographed almost every music legend you can imagine. OWC Host Cirina Catania talks with him about it in part two of their conversation for OWC RADiO.

Henry Diltz, Rock Legends’ Friend & Photographer – Pt2

It’s Time to Dance!!!! When a smile can light up an entire theater.  When your friends are successful and loving life.  When hard work brings incredible success, and when positivity and joy permeate everything you do, then the Universe will surely be kind to you. And we couldn’t be happier for Tony Succar! He burst onto the stage at the Latin Grammys in 2018 and 2019,  winning for Best Tropical Album for “Mas de Mi,” and Producer of the Year! Tony is the youngest person ever to be awarded in both categories! Host Cirina Catania talks with the vibrant and fun Tony Succar, whose talents stem from a passion for music gifted to him early in life and a lot of non-stop hard work. He was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated with his family at the age of three to Miami, Florida. His mom and dad were musicians and remain a big influence in his life. Tony began his formal musical education on piano and then moved to percussion and producing where he has become a beacon to others in the world of salsa, jazz, pop and afro-latino inspired music. For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. f you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

Tony Succar’s Latin Music Will Brighten Your Day!

Woodstock, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchel, Mama Cass, Crosby Stills & Nash, Neil Young, the Eagles, Brian Williams...Name a famous musician from the last 40 years, and there is a distinct possibility that Henry Diltz has photographed them!

Woodstock, Famous Rock Stars and Musician/Photographer Henry Diltz

Michael Kammes, V.P of Marketing and Business Development for BeBop Technology, joins us this week to round off our series on remote editing. OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania chats with Michael about the tips and tricks in his book entitled, "How to REALLY improve your Remote Creative Experience." Our work and personal worlds have shifted, and Michael has all the answers on how to survive the new landscape. For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and you'll make us very happy. And please tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have thoughts about future segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

Michael Kammes Wrote the Book on Remote Collaboration – PT 1

Beeple (aka Mike Winkleman) broke worldwide digital art records when his collage entitled, “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” sold to NFT Buyer Vingnesh Sundaresan aka @Metakovan for $69.9 million on March 11, 2021. The following week, in a down to the wire bidding war, Beeple sold another piece of his artwork, this time to Justin Sun, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency platform Tron, for $6 million. (By the way, 100% of the profits are being donated to help offset NFT's carbon footprint.) Our host, Cirina Catania, has been a Beeple fan for years and was very pleased when he agreed, at NAB 2019, to take a break from his presentations in the Cinema 4D booth to speak with her. They had an interesting and very candid conversation about his life as a creator, family man, and … well… a bit of a rebel behind his prolific Cinema4D art. For those of you not familiar with the “Everydays,” here’s the scoop. Every single day without fail for the last 14 years, Mike has created new work and uploaded it for the world to see. He’s now behind some of the world’s most admired digital works.  Many of you have been asking to hear the interview again.  We are re-posting it here for you.  For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

Beeple Breaks Worldwide Records for Digital Art

OWC RADiO host Cirina Catania talks with Paul Matthijs, CEO of Hedge. Their solutions, Hedge (for multiple, check-sum backups), and Postlab (remote editors dream solution), are chugging away every day on our end to help us manage multiple copies of our data and communicate edits with our crew. Whether you are producing media for distribution to networks such as Netflix, managing media files for independent projects, or even just keeping your hard drives protected with organized backups, you'll want to know more about this. (For more about Postlab, see our previous interview with Isaac Terronez). For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

Paul Matthijs, CEO, Hedge, on Data management and Remote Editing

In the second interview for our series on remote collaboration, OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania , talks with Isaac Terronez (Isaac T), the US Workflow Architect for Postlab, a robust solution that allows teams to work remotely using proxy files. Postlab via its parent company, Hedge, is one of the prominent solutions to the ever-elusive search for a seamless remote collaboration platform, eliminating the need for XML transfers and allaying our fears concerning versions. Isaac has worked in and around post-production environments for over 20 years and was a principal Contributor to Frame.io's Workflow Guide, and a Featured Speaker at the 2020 FCPX Global Virtual Summit. For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time. For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to OWCRadio@catania.us. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

Isaac T. On Postlab’s Solutions for Remote Collaboration

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