Podcast appearances and mentions of Howard Berger

The next sequel we will be discussing is "Wes Craven's New Nightmare". For it, I chatted with SFX Make-Up Artist Bill Hunt. Bill talked about growing up outside of Nashville and how going to the movies like Jaws and King Kong at a young age with his parents, reading Fangoria Magazine at the newsstand, Howard Berger, Dick Smith's Advice, Jason Goes to Hell, New Zealand, and more. Tom Parsons was a local make-up artist in Nashville who helped out Bill at the age of 13 and was an important part of Bill's journey.  I loved Bill's journey and his passion for life. Listen/Watch at sequelsonly.com/billhunt or by searching "The Good, The Bad, and The Sequel" in your favorite podcast app.   Bill's Website https://www.billhuntstudio.com/ Bill's IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402352/ Your homework is to watch "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" which is on AMC Plus. Follow us on all social media @sequelsonly and our website is sequelsonly.com Review, rate, and share us with your friends, enemies, neighbors, exes, and even that annoying supermarket clerk!

This week we are talking about the craziest sequel I've ever seen "Evil Dead 2". This sequel gave us a lot to discuss like the epic SFX, decapitation at minute 7, the same script as the 1st one, Bruce crushing it when acting all alone, fighting yourself, and more. Watch the unedited video at sequelsonly.com/EvilDead2 or on our youtube channel. The next sequel we are discussing is "Wes Craven's New Nightmare." For it, I chatted with another SFX Makeup Artist Bill Hunt. I am a huge fan of SFX and to have Bill stop by to chat was a lot of fun. Bill talked about his from outside Nashville to Hollywood, Howard Berger, being on the cover of Fangoria Magazine, New Zealand, and more. Follow us on all social media @sequelsonly and our website is sequelsonly.com Review, rate, and share us with your friends, enemies, neighbors, exes, and even that annoying supermarket clerk!

The next sequel we will be discussing is "Evil Dead 2". For it, I chatted with SFX Legend and Oscar Winner Howard Berger. Howard talked about growing up in LA, using the Yellow Pages to contact his heroes, High School Drama, Dick Smith, puppeteering Chucky, KNB FX, Tarantino, Rick Baker, and more. Watch the unedited video interview at sequelsonly.com/HowardBerger Howard's Website https://www.knbefx.com/ Howard's IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074205/ Your homework is to watch "Evil Dead 2" which is free on Plex. Follow us on all social media @sequelsonly and our website is sequelsonly.com Review, rate, and share us with your friends, enemies, neighbors, exes, and even that annoying supermarket clerk!

Frankenstein's Podcast presents: KAIJUBILEE! - a celebration of cinema's favorite giant monster, Godzilla, Just in time for the King of Monsters' 70th birthday! This episode, Kalid and Joe chat with legendary VFX artist, Howard Berger, about the 1968 monster rumble flick, Destroy All Monsters, directed by Ishirō Honda. ​​*Thank you to Jim Hall for the music! Check out more of his music⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and if you like what you hear, please consider donating to support his work⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! *Thank you to Jim Tandberg/Grant Leitbrouck for the Frankenstein's Podcast artwork! *Shoutout to our Patreon Producer(s), Luke Johnson! ⁠⁠⁠Support us on Patreon!⁠ Featured Guest: Howard Berger is a special make-up effects creator & co-founder of KNB EFX. He has worked on over 400 film and television projects. He won an Academy Award for best makeup for his work on the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and an Emmy for his work on The Walking Dead. Look for his new book, Making Monsters, co-authored with Marshall Julius and set to release September 2025! References: Masters of Makeup Effects Couples Therapy on Showtime Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi MaXXXine  American Primeval

We are joined by two of our favorite former guests, Howard Berger and Tami Lane, legendary makeup and practical effects artists.  Howard and Tami are two of the friendliest, down to earth people, who have accomplished so much in the world of film and television.  In this interview, you'll hear stories about cold calling your idol, hand modeling for Lord of the Rings, increasing the amount of blood in Kill Bill to make Tarantino laugh, winning an Oscar, the evolution of the special effect world, and much more. Make sure to check out all of Howard and Tami's past and upcoming work.  Also, make sure to get yourself a copy of Howard's book, Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic  today!   We also go off the rails this week as we talk about something called the Nut Angel, discuss the special effects in an independent Robocop film, and go through how some of the most well known effects were done.  Have a listen!

Howard Berger & Greg Nicotero, the 'N' and 'B' of the legendary KNB EFX Group, return to the Post Mortem slab! Their work includes 'Frank Herbert's Dune', 'Wes Craven's New Nightmare', 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe', to name only a few! They reflect on the past, present and future as one of the most respected SFX duos in cinema.POST MORTEM WITH MICK GARRISNICE GUY PRODUCTIONS 2023See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're back with an all new episode in our "A Conversation With..." series!! On this edition, Ed sits down to have a conversation with Academy Award Winning Makeup Artist Howard Berger from KNB FX, making his return to the podcast!! Ed & Howard chat it up about everything from the ongoing strike to the makeup effects industry today and to Howard becoming Mark Wahlberg's personal makeup assistant...and everything in between!! Check Out Howard Online: *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoops511/ *Official Website: https://www.knbefx.com/howard-berger Visit The Film Effect's Website: www.thefilmeffectpodcast.com Follow Us On Social Media!!! FB: facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter/X: twitter.com/filmeffectpod TikTok: tiktok.com/@filmeffectpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcesT7GVaHoSzaRXI-INIYg Email: filmeffectpod@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

This week, Kalid & Joe welcome Marshall Julius & Howard Berger on the pod to lend their expertise to a discussion on the classic 1954 film, 'Creature from the Black Lagoon!' We also talk about Marshall & Howard's new book, Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic⁠, and take several, enlightening conversational detours down many different monster movie rabbit holes. *Thank you to Jim Hall for the music! Check out more of his music⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and if you like what you hear, please consider donating to support his work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! *Thank you to Jim Tandberg/Grant Hasbrouck for the Frankenstein's Podcast artwork! Featured Guests: Marshall Julius is a writer, broadcaster, quizmaster and professional Geek who wrote the Vintage Geek ultimate quiz book for geeks! Howard Berger is a special make-up effects creator & co-founder of KNB EFX. He has worked on over 400 film and television projects. He won an Academy Award for best makeup for his work on the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and an Emmy for his work on The Walking Dead. Marshall and Howard's new collaborative book, Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic, is available now! References: 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters Ben Chapman Interview - Chaos Control The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara Bottoms Claymore by Norihiro Yagi Meg 2: The Trench Cinema Speculation By Quentin Tarantino The Wild Bunch

We're talking with Rebekah Scott.  Get this.  She sews purses and accessories from her home in rural South Dakota!  She got her start as a poor newlywed and she needed Christmas gifts for her friends and family so she decided to make some purses out of her living room curtains.  Then she started getting phonecalls with people wanting her designs!  15 years later… she has four kids and the business has grown to a team of over 20 women who all work from home so they can spend time with their families!  They make hand sewn bags that are designed by YOU so you can express your own unique personality and style!  And her company… Rebekah Scott Designs is on it's way to becoming the biggest hand-made business in the country.  How freeeegin' cool is that!!!??? Plus… with all that Rebekah had going on… she had a wake up call a few years ago that made her realize she needed systems in her life so she could take care of her family AND take care of her business. As she started to create and use these systems… people started to take notice and ask her about them.  That led to Rebekah launching The Encourager Podcast and Encourager Academy training so she could bring tools to women who want to go from overworked, overwhelmed and unsuccessful to confident, clear and decisive. As you can already tell… this is an awesome conversation!  So let's get to it! MORE ABOUT REBEKAH SCOTT: Rebekah Scott's Podcast: Encouragerpodcast.com Encourager Academy: encouragerpodcast.com/academy Rebekah's Luxury Leather Brand: 1948leather.com Rebekah Scott Designs: designyourownpurse.com Check out Mitch's NEW Daily PODCAST:  ENCOURAGING THE ENCOURAGERS You can now check out Mitch's new DAILY podcast called “ENCOURAGING THE ENCOURAGERS” anywhere you listen to podcasts.   It's specifically designed for coaches, speakers and content creators and provides quick doses of inspiration, strategy AND… of course… encouragement! Check out: www.encouragingtheencouragers.com!  Find it on Apple Podcasts:  Click here Find it on Spotify: Click here Find it on Anchor: Click here Find it on Google: Click here RELATED DREAM THINK DO EPISODES: We've gotten to work with clothing and apparel designers before on DTD.  One of my favorite conversations was with the creator of the “WIN EVERYDAY” clothing line… Jake Thompson. We dig into his specific time management strategies for managing work and life. Click here: mitchmatthews.com/357/  I also loved my conversation with Britton Murdock Nunn.  She's the entrepreneur behind “The Biggest Little Fashion Truck” based in Reno, Nevada. My team and I got to meet Britton when we hosted a Big Dream Gathering at the University of Nevada.I will let her tell her story, but the very short version is she was on a career track that wasn't a good fit. But she decided to make some changes, and that led her to launch an innovative, crazy-cool business involving fashion, fun and a big pink truck!  Click here to check out the episode. Speaking of creativity… let's not forget my conversations with Oscar-winning special effects artist Howard Berger.  I've interviewed him THREE times and we've had so much fun each time… talking movies… creativity… and holding it all together. Option 1: Don't blow up the house! Option 2: Starting small & Dreaming BIG Option 3: The Masters of Make Up Effects  LET'S HEAR FROM YOU! I loved this conversation!  Rebekah shared some great stories and some powerful insights! She's soooo living a DREAM THINK DO life!  Love it! So… now it's YOUR turn.  What's something that resonated with you?  What stood out to you?   I want to hear from YOU!   Leave a comment and let me know. And hey… keep bringing YOUR awesome!!! Mitch Episode Minute By Minute:  0:02 What's inside today's episode! 1:40 Get to know Rebekah Scott 7:30 Mitch's honest review of Rebekah's handbags 8:58 The power of building with your customers  14:51 The wake-up call that changed it all 17:57 How Rebekah transformed her life and business with systems  24:02 Creating your own “me” time every week 31:48 There is way to have total wholeness and joy  33:15 Mitch's Minute and biggest takeaways! 

Join us over the next two episodes, as we take a look at the work of KNB Effects, a special effects studio founded by Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger, and Robert Kurtzman! This week, we're kicking things off with Wes Craven's hilarious dark horror-comedy, THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (1991)!Follow us on Instagram!Subscribe to our YouTube page!Another Miserable Podcast: Horror Decomposed Official WebsiteCheck us out on Letterboxd!Casey on LetterboxdKris on LetterboxdZak on LetterboxdFollow us on Twitter!Another Miserable Podcast Official TwitterZak on TwitterKris Pistole on TwitterSubscribe to Kris' YouTube Channel here!Another Miserable Podcast is a bi-monthly podcast, meaning you can expect two kick-ass episodes a month!  It's available on every major streaming platform, including Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and YouTube!Thanks for listening!

This is the DOD45 show, drawing over discussions 45 minutes with a special guest and now that we're over 50 episodes deep, you should have at least seen one of our episodes. Resident artist, Tai of ArtByTai with his co-host Adrienne Taeoalii, engages in discussions with people they admire & are inspired by. On each episode Tai sets a 45 minute timer, put his pen to the paper & we all get to learn about their guest through an interview style discussion. With the added bonuses of announcements by Awol One, atypical questions from Mr. Dibbs & social media lurks from Sage Francis, there really is no legitimate reason for ya to not tune in. New visual episodes premiere every Wednesday night at 8pm Eastern time on YouTube & Spotify and all other podcast streaming platforms broadcast new episodes each week. With the support of companies like Strange Famous Records, Hab Sauce, Brim of the World, Aliens Built Earth, Speackerface, Ol' Blue art Gallery, Sk8 Liborius, HandsMade & others, it's time for you to start watching our show regularly. The DOD45 Show has had guests who've reached the highest levels of success, like Howard Berger winning an Oscar for Chronicles of Narnia, Atmosphere's 20+ year of music making, H-Street legend Ron Allen still competing well into his 60s, Greg Lutzka winning X-game gold, Carlos Condit holding the Interim UFC Welterweight Championship title, Illogic eand #SageFrancis recently getting mentions on the 2023 Grammys, Teresa Sharpe winning the grand prize of $100k on season 2 of “Best Ink” and Mr. Dibbs' communications with the other side… With guests in that stratosphere, ya really never know what you could learn. By the end of each episode, you'll have watched Tai create mind-bending drawings from first pen stroke to the last & from the questions that Tai asks of each guest, while he's drawing, it's highly likely that you'll be an inkling wiser than you were prior. That's our spiel, ‘Nuff said. It's your move. It's the DOD45 Show with #ArtByTai. DOD45.com ArtByTai.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artbytai/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artbytai/support

If you're into the XFL, you definitely want to listen this episode (and then email us to explain it to us). Will has a new volunteer gig, an in-depth look at the new MLB rules & Spring Training, and a deep dive into the Leafs trade deadline acquisitions, along with an impassioned Howard Berger blog reading by Conway Twitter. Listen/Rate/Review. Cheers!

Brian Yuzna, Jeffrey Combs, Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman, Tom Rainone, Mike Deak, Screaming Mad George, John Buechler

Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius pick the brains of a panel of film and television's greatest Masters of Make-Up Effects. We'll hear stories the history behind some of the most iconic creatures, appliances, and make-up effects on the big screen. This audio was recorded live from a panel presented by Nostalgic Nebula. In it, Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius pick the brains of a panel of film and television's greatest Masters of Make-Up Effects. This was recorded LIVE on September 23rd, 2022, at The Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood. Subscribe: https://linktr.ee/hauntedattractionnetwork

“I remember being told ‘It's not WHO's on the air, it's WHAT's on the air' — when I heard that, I knew that my days were numbered. ”— Howard BergerWhile losing your job can be stressful at any age, for those over 50 it can be a life-changing crisis. Entering the job market over the age of 50 often brings with it a host of psychological issues, including anxiety, insecurity, depression, and emotional paralysis.An analysis of employment data spanning the years 1990-2016 has shown that over 50% of workers who entered their 50s with stable, full-time employment were laid off or forced out at least once by their 65th birthdays. 9 out of 10 never again found work that matched their previous salary — and most never recovered financially from this loss.This episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of Crossing The Sea, a podcast about Judaism and mental health. Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Howard Berger, a former sports journalist who spent many years covering professional athletes for radio and print publications. The involuntary loss of his journalism career in 2011 led to years of emotional struggle — until his professional path took an unexpected turn in his late 50s and brought new meaning into his life.“Every funeral service is the most important of all time — and that's the only way to do it.”— Howard BergerThis‌ ‌episode discusses:‌ ‌The athlete/journalist relationship and how it has changed over the decadesThe emotions that Howard dealt with in the aftermath of being let go — and the trend in his industry that led to his firing The meaningful nature of Howard's new career and the reverence he brings to his work ‌  Highlights:‌ ‌00:50  Intro02:51  Dealing with professional athletes05:06  The athlete/journalist relationship06:52  Post-9/11 travel & other job-related stresses09:01  Being let go11:51  Immediate aftermath13:40  Between the Posts & growing debt16:14  Transitioning to funeral industry20:38  Compassion & reverence25:01  Covid-era funeral services29:31  Jewish burial practices32:28  ConclusionLinks:‌ ‌ Between the Postshttps://betweentheposts.ca To get in contact or learn more about Living Jewishly:  Visit‌ ‌our ‌website: https://livingjewishly.org  Follow us on Instagram: @living.jewishly  Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2YEegjapKpQeXG6zh6tzw   or send us an email at hello@livingjewishly.org.    Shalom!

Sam Clements speaks to Masters of Make-Up Effects authors, Oscar-winning MUFX legend Howard Berger and veteran journalist Marshall Julius, about their new book - available now from all good book shops!  Howard and Marshall will also join us in person at the Fulham Road Picturehouse, on 16 November. Tickets here.  They'll be screening From Dusk Till Dawn, and joining the audience for a Q&A and book signing.  The Gecko brothers, outlaws on a wild crime spree, kidnap a father and his kids and head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out. But soon they realise they're not in a typical bar: the entire place is teeming with vicious, blood-sucking vampires.   In an on-stage Q&A the pair talk movies and monsters,  sharing stories and pictures from behind the scenes of From Dusk Till Dawn, then you'll have the opportunity to buy a copy of Masters of Make-Up Effects – which the authors will be happy to sign.   With a foreword from visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and an afterword by Seth MacFarlane, Masters of Make-up Effects is a revealing celebration of a century of iconic make-up magic: a lively, affectionate and candid oral history of iconic make-up effects, from the artists who create and apply them to the actors who bring them to life If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Proudly supported by Kia. Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.  

Just in time for Halloween Branan sits down with author Marshall Julius and legendary makeup FX maestro Howard Berger to discuss their new book, and Branan gets nostalgic and wistful thinking back upon his own almost makeup career.

Episode 32, a special Halloween-like episode where Tai and Adrienne have a great conversation with Oscar & Emmy award winner, of the KNB EFX group, Howard Berger, to talk about his debut book Masters of Make-up Effects. While Tai draws Howard a rendition of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, they discuss working on Quentin Tarantino's movies and coming up with with his very own low-light blood which they call Tarantino Blood. Howard talks about what an honor it was to get roasted by Don Rickles in a movie trailer on the set of Casino. They also discuss what effects winning an Oscar can have on your career if any, and how Hi-Definition digital movie-making has ruined movies. All that and a whole lot more. DOD45.com ArtByTai.com Theme music by Mr Dibbs Links: https://www.mastersofmakeupeffects.net/ https://www.knbefx.com/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074205/ https://skullshoppe.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artbytai/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artbytai/support

Howard Berger started working in the movie industry at the young age of 13. Today, he has over 100 films to his credit as a professional makeup artist. He's worked on movies like The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, From Dusk Till Dawn, and the blood-filled Kill Bill movies. But things on set don't always go as planned.Click here to learn more about Howard and purchase his new book, Masters of Make-Up Effects.A Quick RequestIf you enjoy Curious State, would you mind sharing your favorite episode with a friend? It's a great way to help the show grow and start fun conversations along the way.There are so many incredible podcasts out there, and you've chosen to be here. That means the world to me. Thank you.CreditsCurious State is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast hosted and produced by Doug Fraser.Find Curious State on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or subscribe to our newsletter for the latest updates.Podcast Manager - Adam Cecil Podcast and Advertising Operations Specialist - Morgan ChristiansonDigital Operations Specialist - Holly HutchingsMarketing and Publicity Assistant - Davina TomlinIntern - Kamryn LacyThe Quick and Dirty Tips network is a division of Macmillan Publishers in partnership with Mignon Fogarty, Inc.Have a question? Or a topic you'd like covered on the show? Maybe you just love sending emails? Whichever shoe fits, tie it on and send me a message at curious@quickanddirtytips.com.

Welcome back to yet another fantastic episode of the CHC podcast, I'm your host as always Aran. On this show, I am joined by Academy award-winning special make-up effects artist Howard Berger who has worked on movies/shows such as The Walking Dead, Drag Me To Hell, Hostel, 13 Ghosts and so much more.His co-author Marshall Julius is a film critic, blogger, broadcaster, and author of books such as Vintage Geek and Action! The Action Movie A-Z.Their new book Masters of Make-up Effects is a deep-dove into the fascinating world of SFX make-up in a stunning illustrated oral history of the art form.Who better than Howard, who has over 800 feature film credits, and Marshall who devoted his life to the film/tv industry to tell the untold stories from cult classics like 'An American Werewolf In London & 'The Thing'. The book features hundreds of never before seen, behind-the-scenes photos of some of the most iconic make-up effects of all time.Keep an eye out for names such as Del Toro, McFarlane, Robert Englund, James McAvoy, and Doug Bradley to name just a few.Join me as I dive inside the mind of these two incredible individuals. https://www.mastersofmakeupeffects.net/MJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marshall.juliusHB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/howard.h.bergerMJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarshallJuliusHB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoops511/MJ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vintagegeekcentral/#MastersOfMakeUpEffectsYou can purchase the book most easily on Amazon worldwide. Follow more of my content here - https://linktr.ee/FirstClassHorror

NEW bonus content! FUN SIZE Post Mortem: Ask Mick Anything — On this very SPECIAL episode of AMA, Producer Joe Russo fields your fan-submitted questions to the slab keeper himself, Mick Garris! This episode they discuss Howard Berger and Marshall Julius's new book entitled 'Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic', who of the masters of horror is best to grab a beer with, the female Cenobite in the new HELLRAISER film, and much more! POST MORTEM WITH MICK GARRIS NICE GUY PRODUCTIONS 2022See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott and Dave have a fascinating conversation with special make-up effects artist Howard Berger and author/journalist Marshall Julius, who have just published their amazing book, "Masters of Make-up Effects: A Century of Practical magic".You can watch the video version of this interview on our YouTube channel right here:https://youtu.be/XHBK0FrPc6oYou can purchase their book through Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Make-Up-Effects-Practical-Frankenstein/dp/1802790012You can visit their website and online store:https://www.mastersofmakeupeffects.net/Marshall can be found EVERYWHERE on social media:Twitter:  https://twitter.com/MarshallJuliusFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/VintageGeekCentralInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/vintagegeekcentralHoward can be found on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/hoops511Visit our website:http://www.monstermoviehappyhour.com/Chat with us on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/monstersndri...Our Twitter:https://twitter.com/monstersndrinksMusic created by Kevin MacLeod.You can hear more of his work at:https://incompetech.com/wordpress/author/kevin/

We welcome back to the Front Row Network Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governor, Howard Berger. Also, joining us for the first time is film critic and editor Marshall Julius. These two have partnered to bring us an amazing book. Masters of Make-up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic is available TODAY at independent bookstores and online. This book is pure movie magic, less a how-to and more built on the conversations that Howard and Marshall had with over 70 artists, actors, directors and others involved in the film industry. We chat all about the book, and really already start to make plans for volume two! Be sure to check it out. If you're in the LA area, we also discuss some amazing signings happening over the next few weeks. Find the Book: https://www.mastersofmakeupeffects.net FEATURING: Craig McFarland

Pair Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Howard Berger with veteran film journalist Marshall Julius, and what's the result? A globe-spanning selection of makeup artists sharing the secrets of their craft. Both Howard and Marshall are here this week to discuss “Masters of Make-Up Effects”, a new compendium that will soon be on the shelf of every film buff you know. Learn more about the book and upcoming signings at mastersofmakeupeffects.net. 

Bonus Episode: Ok so a little bonus episode for everyone because on September 13th an incredible book is due to be born into our world,  Howard Berger and Marshall Julius are introducing us to Masters of Makeup Effects - A century of practical magic! So often when I chat to artists about their start in the industry and we talk about when they were a kid or a teenager, so many of them will mention a book or a magazine that they managed to beg their parent to get for them and it ends up being so cherished and loved, read over and over again from start to finish…. I am so excited that there is a book now that some of those artists are actually not only in but it will be a first book that some young movie making, makeup effects loving kids will be begging their parents to get them and so the cycle continues…  It really is such a beautiful book, so so well thought out with so much love for the work and the community within its pages…   This Episode is brought to you by: Luxe Skin FX

Howard Berger and Marshal Julius are with us!  You probably remember Howard from episodes 74 and 284. He's the co-founder of the KNB EFX Group AND he's an academy award and emmy award winning special effects artist.  It's hard to do this guy justice… because he's been involved with over 800 feature films and television shows. He's worked with some of the biggest names in show business. He and his business partner Greg Nicotero are responsible for allllll of the zombies in the Walking Dead. He's done All of Quentin Tarantino's movies.  He's Mark Wahlberg's go-to guy for special effects.  He and his team did the Chronicles of Narnia… for which they won the Academy Award for Best Make Up. He got another academy nomination for his work on HITCHCOCK.  And just about every horror movie that's scared the crap out of you over the past 20 to 30 years… there's a VERY good chance Howard had something to do with it.  And just try to wrap your mind around this… for ONE tv show… The Orville… they have created over 1000 designs…  that's just ONE show!!! Now… let's talk about Marshall Julius.  I'd classify him as a modern day renaissance man!  He's an author… he's an artist.  By the way… his art has been purchased and shared around the world. He kills it on the Twitters and most importantly… he's made an impressive career and business out of being a professional fan and self-proclaimed nerd.  Now THAT's the best… when you can make a career out of something you love! Okay… so we're talking today… because these two long-time friends have teamed up to write one of the most anticipated and fascinating books written for film fans and geeks… called, Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic.  It's already a #1 new release and it doesn't come out until next month!!! We're going to be talking about the book… and some of the great stories that they remembered and uncovered as they wrote it.  I can't wait for this… so let's get to it! MORE ABOUT HOWARD BERGER AND MARSHALL JULIUS: Their new book: Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic Click here to find it on Amazon!   Want to be blown away? Visit Howard's IMDB Page: Click here Be sure to follow Howard on Insta: hoops511  Find out more about Howard's Company: KNBE ​​www.knbefx.com/howard-berger  Find Marshall on Twitter: twitter.com/MarshallJulius   Find Marshall on the Instas: instagram.com/vintagegeekcentral  Find Marshall's other books on Amazon: Click here RELATED DREAM THINK DO EPISODES: “Don't Blow Up the House - And other great stories about Zombies, Aliens and Following Your Dreams!” My FIRST interview with Howard Berger: www.mitchmatthews.com/074 “Starting Small, Dreaming Big and Making Movie Magic!” My SECOND interview with Howard Berger: www.mitchmatthews.com/184  Starting your OWN PODCAST: 5 Keys to Make it Work!: www.mitchmatthews.com/350  WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! How about YOU!?  What stood out to you from this conversation with Howard and Marshall?   More importantly… what's something that stuck with you? What's one of YOUR favorite movies?  What's a movie set YOU would have loved to be on when they were making it? Also… what's a goal YOU want to pursue?  What if you went after it with a friend like Howard and Marshall did?   Lastly… what questions do YOU still have?  Comment and let me know! Let's keep this convo going! And PLEASE share this special episode with someone who YOU think would appreciate it and/or might be needing it… right now!  They'll thank you! Know I'm rooting for you! Mitch Quick Recap: 0:02 What to expect from episode 365 2:27 Get to know our TWO amazing guest 5:00 A little back story behind Howard Berger and Marshal Julius' project 13:25 Howard's favorite story from the journey 26:00 The thankless profession of journalism 28:35 The importance of having fun along the way 34:44 How to work better with a team 40:40 What movie Howard and Marshall wish they were apart of 49:37 The hardest part of starting something new 51:54 Mitch's minute! What do you think?

We are joined by Oscar-winning Special Effects Make-Up Artist Howard Berger & his co-author Marshall Julius to discuss their upcoming book 'Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic'. Pre-Order 'Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic': https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Make-Up-Effects-Definitive-Hollywood-ebook/dp/B09C2MT83Y Follow Howard Berger: https://www.instagram.com/hoops511/ Follow Marshall Julius: https://twitter.com/MarshallJulius #Sponsored Use Promo Code WRONGREEL at manscaped.com Follow James Hancock on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrongReel Wrong Reel Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/wrong-reel

“You have to listen to people tell their story.” Howard Berger is an Oscar winner and an Emmy winner for his work in make-up over a forty year career in Hollywood. One of his first projects was Aliensand since then had has become a fixture in special effects make-up especially in the area of creatures and monsters. Howard won his Academy Award for The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Craig gets a chance to ask him about his prolific career as well as some inside stories into his work with Quentin Tarantino and Sam Raimi. They also talk about the role of mentorships in Hollywood. Howard gives Craig his thoughts behind serving as one of the make-up and hair stylists to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. FEATURING: Craig McFarland __________________________________________ 

“You have to listen to people tell their story.” Howard Berger is an Oscar winner and an Emmy winner for his work in make-up over a forty year career in Hollywood. One of his first projects was Aliens and since then had has become a fixture in special effects make-up especially in the area of […]

“You have to listen to people tell their story.” Howard Berger is an Oscar winner and an Emmy winner for his work in make-up over a forty year career in Hollywood. One of his first projects was Aliens and since then had has become a fixture in special effects make-up especially in the area of […]

This week, Realcomm partners Jim Young, Howard Berger and Lisa Woods take a deep dive into what will be covered at the conference. The event includes some of the world's most recognized real estate and technology thought leaders who will discuss and debate the complex, comprehensive and ever-changing issues currently facing the industry. Tune in for a sneak peek at what's on the agenda.

PUBLIC VERSION. In THE MOVIE CRYPT's special 9th anniversary episode Adam, Joe, and Arwen are joined by make-up FX master and filmmaker Robert Kurtzman (EVIL DEAD 2, WISHMASTER, FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, SCREAM, BOOGIE NIGHTS, and SO many more)! Covering everything from Kurtzman's childhood love of monsters and having his FANGORIA magazines taken away from him by the nuns in Catholic School… through his early days working for John Buechler and getting to travel the world making movies… through co-founding the legendary K.N.B. FX group with fellow artists Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger where the company would literally conquer the world of Hollywood special make-up FX… through stepping into the director's chair with 1995's THE DEMOLISIONIST, 1997's WISHMASTER, 2007's THE RAGE, 2007's BURIED ALIVE, and 2010's DEADLY IMPACT… through starting his own make-up FX company ROBERT KURTZMAN MUFX… the guys leave no life cast, silicone head, or foam latex body suit unturned in this candid conversation! Dr. Arwen provides “Hollywood Therapy” for a filmmaker who is struggling to reclaim the motivation he had before the pandemic seemingly erased all of his progress and the boys enjoy a monster-sized geek out over make-up FX in this milestone episode that celebrates 9 years of THE MOVIE CRYPT. *THE MOVIE CRYPT premiered on May 6, 2013 and is one of the only podcasts on the internet that has never taken a week off. Even as two working filmmakers who are consistently directing new films and TV shows, Adam Green and Joe Lynch have released a new episode of this podcast every single Monday (some years even on Christmas Day!) ever since the day the first episode was released.

Join us for an exclusive first interview with the authors of Masters of Make-Up Effects, Marshall Julius and Howard Berger!Creature effects legend Howard Berger and author Marshall Julius have teamed up to create the quintessential movie creature behind the scenes book called Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic (link below). Berger has worked on over 800 films and TV projects, has won an Oscar for his work on the Chronicles of Narnia and an Emmy for The Walking Dead. His IMDB is basically a list of every genre property you've ever seen. Marshall and Howard join us to talk about the book and the influence Star Wars had on them throughout their lives. Order it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1802790012/www.ATGcast.comPatreon.com/ATGcast@ATGcastMasters of Make-Up Effects is a celebration of make-up artists and acclaimed make-up effects from the world of film and television. Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius have gleaned untold stories from the sets of cult classics (Planet of the Apes, An American Werewolf in London, The Thing), fan-favorite film and TV franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter and the MCU) and modern blockbusters like Dune to chart the fascinating evolution of an industry.Lavishly illustrationstrated with hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos, many of which have never before been seen in print or on social media, it showcases some of the most iconic make-up effects of all time, while revealing how they came to be in the artists' own words.Featuring a foreword by Guillermo del Toro, an afterword by Seth MacFarlane, and contributions from more than 50 make-up effects legends, as well as iconic actors including Doug Jones, Robert Englund, James McAvoy and Doug Bradley, and directors Mick Garris and John Landis, Masters of Make-up Effects is the most complete book on movie make-up history ever assembled, and a must read for cinema fans everywhere.

Listen as Howard and I discuss how KNB EFX Group came together, working with Directing Legends like Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as much more on this week's episode! Look out on September 1st for Howard Berger's upcoming book titled "Masters of Make-Up Effects"

Episode 49: We chat with Howard Berger, Makeup Designer and co-founder of KNB effects group based in Los Angeles. What did we chat about? Well, I think the question is what didn't we chat about? Howard has been on an incredible career journey, one most people only dream of.. So sit back relax, or get those walking shoes on or maybe you're in the car on your way to work, either way be sure to enjoy part 2 of a 2 part chat with Howard Berger.

Episode 48: We chat with Howard Berger, Makeup Designer and co-founder of KNB effects group based in Los Angeles. What did we chat about? Well, I think the question is what didn't we chat about? Howard has been on an incredible career journey, one most people only dream of.. So sit back relax, or get those walking shoes on or maybe you're in the car on your way to work, either way be sure to enjoy part 1 of a 2 part chat with Howard Berger.

Unprecedented government measures to stop the spread of an unstoppable virus have morphed into mortal threats to our liberties and civil rights, not just here in the United States, but worldwide.    First we were told that lockdowns, masks, and social distancing stop the spread of the virus. Do these things and we would be safe. There's no clear correlation between these measures and the spread of the virus. Then the CDC changed the definition of herd immunity on its website. They defined the concept to account for vaccines only, and erased the role of infections themselves. Winston Smith (1984) would understand. Now, it's only vaccines, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports that will do the trick. Natural immunity doesn't matter. Why?   One big casualty of government responses to the coronavirus over the last two years is the loss of trust in our public health establishment.  Joining me to talk about this is James Patrick, documentary filmmaker, whose film Planet Lockdown is coming out January 15th, 2022 and Jay Richards, frequent guest, author of Price of Panic, who is now the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow with the Heritage Foundation.    Our larger concern is the damage being done to our free speech and our freedom to have open debate about what works and what doesn't. There are countless important questions we're not allowed to discuss. We're not allowed to talk about Ivermectin. We're not allowed to talk about whether the vaccines work, let alone whether they qualify as vaccines. We're not allowed to talk about the whether the pharmaceutical companies have an agenda.  This is forbidden speech that's being monitored and chilled by the public health agencies, the corporate media, and social media companies. The censorship is growing more extreme. James interviewed Howard Berger, who's the chief epidemiologist and medical authority of Austria. James posted the interview the social media, which took it down, citing “medical misinformation.” Are we to believe that YouTube censors know better than Austria's chief epidemiologist? Where is this going? How does it end? Vaccine mandates seem eerily to recall why we have the Nuremberg Code. Vaccine passports could easily turn into a Chinese-like social credit system.  Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum has said the pandemic is an opportunity for “the great reset”—a restructuring of global capitalism for the 21st century. We need an open debate about whether this is the future we want. Jay Richards and James Patrick weigh in.    

The 21st Century has seen three film adaptations of C.S. Lewis's Narnia books: “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (2005), “Prince Caspian” (2008) and “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (2010). Howard Berger, my guest today, supervised the prosthetic makeup for all three films, and he won an Oscar for his work on the first. In addition to discussing this effort, our conversation places Howard's work within the context of his storied career.

In this week's episode of the Future Construct Podcast (37 min interview), we are excited to feature Howard Berger (@bergerhl), Managing Partner, SVP Programs at RealComm (@RealComm). He is responsible for all programming for the Realcomm, IBcon, CoreTech conferences and the CIO Forums globally. Howard has a combined 30 years experience in both the technology as well as real estate industries.Highlights of Howard's interview with host Amy Peck (@AmyPeckXR) include:- RealComm was one of the first organizations to hold a hybrid conference in response to the pandemic- Howard's journey from IT to real estate, to digital transformation in commercial real estate- The necessity to have someone in an organization with a vision, ultimately driving change- The gross underutilization of most major office spaces in buildings, whether it's a classic, urban, or even a suburban office- Howard's vision to have a device that doesn't just translate words but translates what the speaker is really thinking, what's in their heartSHOW NOTES00:37  - Amy Peck introduces Howard Berger, Managing Partner, SVP Programs at RealComm.01:06  - Can you tell us a little bit about your journey to this industry and how you became involved with RealComm?18:41  - One of the things that I think is remarkable in this industry is that you have those who are out there kind of forging a path but then you have others that are clinging to these arcane systems because it's what they know. And it's going to be very difficult for them to compel their workforce to embrace the new technology. So, the companies that are getting it right – what is the secret?22:12  - The way space is going to be utilized is changing because people are home and not necessarily going back to work. How do you think this will impact the use of space and how will technology kind of help us redefine workspaces? What do you see as some of the technologies that are emerging to support this kind of fractious workforce?34:44  - If you can project yourself 20, 25 years in the future, and you could have a service or a gadget, or just something that makes your personal life better, what would it be and what would it do?

We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of Wes Craven's Scream on this episode of the Halloween Horrorthon by discussing the film and talking to special guest, Academy Award-winning makeup artist Howard Berger of KNB EFX (who did all the makeup & effects work on the film)!! In 'Scream', a year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer - who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.. Episode Directory: *Intro (0:56) *Shoutouts (13:21) *Current Events (13:55) *Weekly Recommends (20:39) *Movie Introduction/Trailer (26:01) *First Time Viewings (28:06) *Story Time (36:29) *Live Top Five (38:57) *Plot Breakdown (50:12) *Howard Berger Conversation (1:54:25) *How Did We Get Here? (2:45:07) *Box Office Receipts (2:50:55) *Biggest Takeaways (2:52:08) *Mulligan Moment (2:56:54) *Finger-Lickin' Good (3:01:00) *Final Thoughts (3:04:11) *Wrap-Up (3:11:34) New episodes of “The Film Effect Podcast” premiere every Monday morning!! Website: https://www.podpage.com/the-film-effect-podcast/ Find us on social media! Facebook: https://facebook.com/thefilmeffectpodcast IG: https://instagram.com/thefilmeffectpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/filmeffectpod Email: thefilmeffectpodcast@gmail.com ‘Film Effect' Merch: http://tee.pub/lic/dedK-C4Iep0 _____________________________________________ ‘Film Effect' Theme Song: “Get Well Soon” by Reggie & the Full Effect •Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/69yTI0Sc7hlLgUadXzzPF0?si=jZ1jDls-TjOtCluE4Av10Q •Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kGW1ceFeNfE •Download on iTunes: https://music.apple.com/ng/music-video/get-well-soon/1174127315 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thefilmeffectpodcast/support

This week, Realcomm partners Jim Young, Howard Berger and Lisa Woods take a deep dive into what will be covered at the conference. The event includes some of the world's most recognized real estate and technology thought leaders who will discuss and debate the complex, comprehensive and ever-changing issues currently facing the industry. Tune in for a sneak peek at what's on the agenda!

Episode 160- Ted Haines! Ted does special effects for movies and has worked on over 300 films, as well as TV shows and commercials. In this episode we'll discuss his work on Pulp Fiction, Scream, The Mandolorian, From Dusk Til Dawn and others. We also talk about the differences between real gore and movie gore, how the industry has changed, working with big movie stars and more! If you love movies you won't want to miss this episode. 0:00:00 - Intro0:01:15 - Foam Fabricator 0:02:58 - Inspiration for a Movie Career0:04:24 - Following a Dream 0:05:30 - School for Movie Makeup 0:06:31 - Working at the Costume Shop 0:09:30 - First Professional Gig 0:11:02 - Early Days of Working 0:13:52 - Working with Howard Berger 0:15:00 - "Pulp Fiction" 0:18:35 - "From Dusk Til Dawn"0:20:30 - "Frankenstein & Me" 0:22:50 - What Happens to Movie Props 0:25:15 - "Scream" & Gore & Editing 0:34:00 - Working with Big Stars 0:37:30 - Working on the "Iron Man" Suit for "End Game"0:40:47 - Big Movies & Indie Movies & Contracts0:43:03 - "The Mandalorian"0:44:25 - Work That Stands Out 0:46:45 - Cosplay Vs Hollywood 0:48:17 - How the Industry is Changed 0:50:36 - CGI vs Real Special Effects 0:52:30 - Film Reviews & Jurassic Park 40:54:25 - Mental Makeup of Movie Effects Guys 0:55:15 - Persistence & Keep On Working 0:57:08 - Magic Wheelchair 0:59:20 - Wrap Up Ted Haines instagram:https://www.instagram.com/foamfabber/Magic Wheelchair website:https://www.magicwheelchair.orgChuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.comSupport the show (https://venmo.com/Chuck-Shute)

Howard Berger is an award-winning makeup artist. He began working at Stan Winston Studios on PREDATOR, ALIENS, PUMPKINHEAD and then moved on to work for Rick Baker on the Oscar-winning HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS. Howard ended up meeting fellow monster makers Greg Nicotero and Robert Kurtzman and the 3 became fast friends, roommates and eventually co-owners of KNB EFX GROUP, which was founded in 1988. In the decades to come, Howard and Greg would gather a cache of great directors, actors and films to work with and in 2006, Howard won an Oscar for the makeup work in THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. Howard would then be nominated again for his work on Sir Anthony Hopkins for the film HITCHCOCK. Howard continues to be a guiding force at KNB, along with Greg Nicotero, and has added being a Makeup Dept. Head to his list of achievements, starting with Peter Berg's film LONE SURVIVOR. In the past decade, he has Dept. Headed over a dozen films and TV series. Time Codes: 00:00:31- Intro 00:04:31- Howard Interview 00:53:53 For more shows and bonus content follow us at www.patreon.com/thehorrificnetwork  

Episode 34: We speak with Makeup and spfx artist Tami Lane, Tami started her career with one heck of a BANG, having been in the industry only a handful of years, with a few films under her belt, Tami went on to win an Oscar for her work with Howard Berger for Narnia – The lion the witch and the wardrobe. Tami shares with us her career journey, how taking risks throughout her career has been rewarding and how she ended up in Middle earth for way longer than planned ..

Say what you will about Steve Beck's Thirteen Ghosts remake, it was a fun popcorn horror movie! With amazing special make-up effects by Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero, along with a production design that is still unparalleled to this day, Thirteen Ghosts remains on Halloween playlists twenty years later. The executive team behind the successful HBO series Tales from the Crypt leant their weight to this big budget supernatural opus that starred Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Lillard, a young Shannon Elizabeth and F. Murray Abraham. So join Al Omega, Joe Flynn, and Anthony DeRouen as they discuss what made Thirteen Ghosts a stand out movie among a slate of commercially successful titles under Dark Castle Entertainment's belt, aspects that could have lifted its narrative further, and why Steve Beck's follow up effort Ghost Ship was equally as enjoyable. Premiering tonight on Al Omega's The Original Creature Features: Death Car on the Freeway! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/V9IBlAUZnbY . If you haven't seen The Original Creature Features Al Omega does a marvelous job of setting up the night's film with razor sharp wit and historical retelling. For more visit http://www.thecreaturefeatureshow.com/ . Enjoy horror! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/grimandbloody/support

Jonah ventures into the woods to watch 2009's Friday The 13th with actor Derek Mears!Despite his imposing stature, Derek actually came up in improv comedy, but it was a theme park job that opened the door to his dual career in acting and stuntwork. His intense preparation and dependability have earned him a number of iconic roles, including Jason Voorhees.Derek chats with Jonah about the responsibility of playing a beloved character, terrifying the crew with his strength, the extremes his co-stars were willing to go to, on-set injuries, and the dream projects he's now pursuing.LinksFind out where you can watch Friday The 13thStream DC's Swamp Thing for freeDerek's Hollywood Undead Rockin' Roundtable part one and part twoThe Resistance, Derek’s improvised action comedy live showFollow Derek on Twitter and InstagramThank you to Allie Goertz for our theme song and Perry Shall for our artwork.

Could chat with this man forever with having over 800 feature film & television credits to his name (with his company) that include Kill Bill 1 & 2, The Green Mile. In 2006 he won the Academy Award for Best Make-up for “The Chronicles of Narinia: The Lion, The Which and The Wardrobe, as well as winning a British Academy Award for Best Achievement in Make-up for the film. Also with his team at KNB Fx has won an Emmy Award for Best Prosthetic Makeup for the AMC hit television series “The Walking Dead” and was Emmy nominated for his work on the Bryan Cranston’s prosthetic age makeup for the final season of “Breaking Bad” Founder of KNB EFX Group: Howard Berger! To Follow Crazy Train Radio Facebook: www.facebook.com/realctradio Twitter: @realctradio Instagram: @crazytrainradio YouTube: www.youtube.com/crazytrainradio

“Filmmaking is supposed to be fun. Yes, it is a challenge. It can be difficult. But at the end of the day, it's the director's vision. And you work as a team under one umbrella to facilitate that director's vision.” — Howard Berger Howard Berger traces the seeds of his special make-up effects career all the way back to a childhood obsession with monsters. His fascination with scary characters started after he was introduced to the film “Godzilla” around age four.  As a prolific special effects artist and the co-founder of KNB EFX Group, Howard has worked on iconic films such as “Kill Bill,” “Django Unchained” and “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” In this episode of Outliers, Howard details the twists and turns of his award-winning career, his artistic process (starting with script reading), what he’s learned about teamwork, what it’s like working with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and much more.  Full show notes with selected links, quotes, and the big ideas in this episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/howard-berger-outliers-show-notes The full transcript can also be found here: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/howard-berger-outliers-transcript For show notes, complete transcripts, past guests, and more visit DanielScrivner.com. If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a short review in Apple Podcasts. This episode is brought to you by Flow! Every single day, hundreds of thousands of teams in more than 140 countries use Flow to save time, hit deadlines, and work brilliantly. Flow combines powerful features with world-class design, to create a productivity app that you and your team will actually love using. And for the last 18 months they've been working on something big. It's a brand-new version of Flow, that they call Flow X. And it's the embodiment of everything they've learned helping teams achieve more over the last 10 years. Take your team's work to the next level with Flow X. To get exclusive early access, visit GetFlow.com/Flow-X.

Don Kollins has spent his entire life in radio from Saskatchewan, to Ottawa and back, then to Kitchener and Toronto and then to San Fransisco.As Program Director for the Fan 590, Toronto's original all sports radio station he led the programming changes that saw some of the biggest names in Canadian broadcasting come and go, leading the station to some of the largest ratings the station ever had.Don brought Greg Brady, Andrew Walker, Andrew Krystal, Dean Blundell, Jeff Blair, Jim Lang and others into the station that had been the home to Mike Hogan, Gord Stellick, Don Landry, Mike Toth, Howard Berger, Norm Rumack (and more) prior to his arrival. In this episode Don shares his story, what life at Rogers and the Fan 590 was like and why Bob McCown remains number one. Who does Don listen to on Toronto sports radio from San Fransisco? Listen here to Don Kollins - unplugged

  We are joined by make up and special effects legend, Howard Berger.  Howard's resume is undeniably amazing.  Whether it's the Walking Dead,  Breaking Bad,  the Chronicles of Narnia, Kill Bill, countless legendary horror movies, or even the upcoming Space Jam 2, Howard's fingerprints are all over these films.  Howard was funny, smart, and had endless amazing bits of conversation ranging from his origins, advice to young kids trying to break into the SFX world, to opening KNB EFX Group with Greg Nicotero.  Truly, this is one of the best interviews we have done.  Check it out.   We also talk about how we are holding up during the quarantine, Georgia's ignorance towards the virus, and Scott's attempt to prepare for a virtual comedy show.  

We sat down with 2x Emmy Award Winning Beauty & FX Makeup Artist Todd McIntosh (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pushing Daises, Memoirs of a Geisha, Legion) to talk Joss Whedon and his time working on Buffy, Star Trek: Enterprise, Pushing Daises and Orville. He also opens up about working alongside special make-up effects creator Howard Berger and his heroes Ken Chase and Michael Westmore. We also discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected his industry and him personally. This episode is sponsored by Dead Good Tees; aficionado's of the sci-fi and horror genre and creators of premium heavyweight t-shirts and hoodies. Please rate, review and subscribe to The Nevers Podcast. Your support goes a long way in helping us to grow our community and reach more listeners. For even more content on The Nevers, visit our website at hbothenevers.com and consider becoming a supporter of The Nevers Podcast by joining us on Patreon. Remember to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube @hbothenevers. Your feedback is always appreciated. Send comments, questions and topic suggestions to: theneverspodcast@gmail.com Music by: Guilherme Moraes Produced and edited by Matthew at Culture Inject Studios.

Nacido en el infierno. Comprometido con la justicia. ¡Se trata de la versión cinematográfica del engendro armado hasta los dientes conocido como Spawn (1997)! Un filme dirigido por Mark A. Dippé, protagonizado por Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen y John Leguizamo.

Truly one of the best of the best in the world of special effects wizardry, Howard Berger graces this episode of POST MORTEM with MICK GARRIS. Howard's done it all, from THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA to KILL BILL VOL. 1 to about 200 others and he's on the slab to share stories about his humble beginnings, cinema journey and more!

My guest is Orville's J Lee.  Orville's J Lee is an actor, writer, director, and musician. He's been a part of numerous shows like The Family Guy and American Dad. He also helped to write and produce and do voices for The Cleveland Show. Most recently though he has been rocking it as Lieutenant Commander John LaMarr on Fox's hit show The Orville. You probably know it but if you don't, check it out, you'll love it. Plus he just wrapped up production on his own film, one that he wrote, directed, and produced, it's called Wednesdays, we're going to be talking about that as well. Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Instagram: @jleefilm Twitter: @jleefilm The Orville on Fox TRANSCRIPT:  J's got this awesome story you're going to love. He moved to LA with about 200 bucks in his pocket, worked his butt off to make it happen. He's also proud of his St. Louis roots and if you follow him on Instagram, as you should, you will know that his battle cries are #dobetter and #dothework, so it just seemed right to finally get him on DREAM THINK DO. J. Lee, welcome to the show man. J Lee: Hey. Yeah, what's happening? Thanks for having me, I appreciate it. Mitch Matthews: Absolutely. J Lee: Yeah. Mitch Matthews: I can tell you... DREAM THINK DO family, I got to meet J last year when two-time DREAM THINK DO guest Howard Berger and a good friend took my family and me around the set of The Orville and we got to meet J, which was so cool. I was a huge fan already, but man… when we got to meet you... you loved on my family.  I so appreciated that, man. J Lee: Yeah, for sure. Mitch Matthews: Then I got to dig into your story and wow.  You're one inspiring dude. J Lee: Yeah. You know, listen, I try to just ... You know we only get to go around this thing once as far as we know so I try to just be happy and try to keep a positive attitude whenever I can because life is already hard enough, you might as well try to be happy. Mitch Matthews: Yeah, absolutely. J Lee: But it was great meeting you and your family. You guys are so sweet, your family was nice and they were kind to me, so yeah that was nice. Mitch Matthews: I loved it, man. You hung out with us, you guys were in the midst of running around, the production's going on, but you stopped and hung out with us so it was just awesome. Mitch Matthews: Let's dive into your history because I know DREAM THINK DOers are just going to love your story, man. You grew up playing the piano. J Lee: Sure. Mitch Matthews: You played Carnegie Hall as a teenager, right? J Lee: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah. Mitch Matthews: You're an athlete, too. If I understand it correctly, your record still stands in your high school for the 300 hurdles. J Lee: I go back every year just to make sure nobody breaks it and if they do I told them, I'll lace my spikes back up and get back out there. I need to stand for a while. Mitch Matthews: That's right, let's do this. I love it. So then you go to Indiana University and the school of music there, Jacobs School of Music. You leave St. Louis after you graduate there, you move to LA with, if I'm understanding it, about two hundred bucks in your pocket. J Lee: Before I came to LA what happened was I had gone to school for classical piano and then I actually broke my thumb freshman year. I was on a scholarship and I break my thumb. Mitch Matthews: Holy cow. J Lee: That was the first time I had to look at my life and say, "Hey, what do I want to do?" Because I'd been playing piano my whole life. Mitch Matthews: Right. J Lee: I just didn't know if I wanted to continue down that path, being a concert pianist and everything. I had broken my thumb and that was the first time I had taken an acting class, so I kind of had that semester off. I remember my professor, Edmund Battersby. He has since passed away, he was a lovely, lovely man, an incredible teacher, and musician.

The MFF podcast is back, and this week we're talking about the incredibly obscure 1993 horror film Ticks. If you are a fan of squishy sound effects, deadly arachnids and practical special effects you will love this episode. In this episode, you will hear us talk about evil marijuana dealers, giant bugs, and the effects of steroids on ticks. We had a great time talking about this movie because it's an unknown gem that is light on story, but heavy on juicy practical monsters created by legends Greg Nicotero, Robert Kurtzman and Howard Berger. 

CTN 308: ControlTalk NOW -- Smart Buildings VideoCast and PodCast for week ending Mar 24, 2019 features Young Gun Brent Burrows, a Systems Integrator with ENTEK, who explains Alarm Fatigue, and much more,  ENTEK provides HVAC, Building Automation and Energy Services  in the Atlanta, GA, area and throughout the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii and Guam. Are You ready? Is Your AI Device Smarter than a six year old? Our transcription service, as you will see is not! I tried to correct as many errors as possible in the transcript of Episode 308, but could not get them all, so be kind as you read this: Episode 308 ControlTalk Now The HVAC and Smart Buildings Podcast Eric Stromquist: Do you suffer from alarm fatigue? Well four out of five facilities managers iand HVAC controls professionals do. So what exactly is this insidious disease and how can you cure it? Hi, I'm Eric Stromquist from controltrends.com and stromquist.com. And on this week's episode we're going to dive deep and into alarm fatigue and how you can solve it. Our guest this week is a young integrator out of Atlanta, Brent Burrows, he's a young gun. So Brent is going to be with us. The whole show is going to be fantastic. We get Brent's perspectives which are just absolutely stellar. So the other thing you need to know is that controlledtrends on our youtube channel, controlltrends smart buildings, youtube channel. We've started a new video series called HVAC tech school and it's designed specifically for the HVAC technician and we get into everything from how to size a valve to how to troubleshoot a gasregulator and topics specifically for the HVAC technician. So take a minute, subscribe to the Youtube Channel. All right, relax. Enjoy the show. Eric Stromquist: Alright here we go. One, two, three. Welcome to ControlTalk Now, the Smart Buildings podcast for the week ending March 24 2019 this is episode this is the show where we talk about all things smart controls, HVAC controls and pretty much anything else we want to. And I tell you what, I've got two legends today. One is the one, you know, Ken Smyers, the man, the myth, the legend, the control man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And joining us today is a legend in his own right is ControlTrends Young Gun Brent Burrows, from Atlanta, Georgia. Brent is with Entek.. He's one of the rising stars in the controls industry. And if you were at the 2018 CONTROLTRENDS AWARDSawards, you know that Brent was inducted into The Young Guns class of 2019. So fellas, welcome to the show. Eric Stromquist: Well thank you Eric. Yeah, you took away all my firepower I suppose to get some of that introduction on Brent Burrows. But uh, yeah, we got a real live young Gun here and uh, it, it, it's so good to see the right, it looks like the type of guy who's going to be taking our place one day. So he's, he's learning, he's got some great background. He's a true integrator, does everything from the programming side of it. And it was all about analytics, but he could do, you could do the terminations to make stuff work. So that's a welcome to the show Brent. Brent Burrows: It's good to have it. And that's what they're talking about on the show every once in a while. I really appreciate it guys. And uh, yeah, actually the only real thing I have in my office, the Home Office here, uh, you know, I may have to make up some more awards for myself or some certifications. Eric Stromquist: No, no young guns. Pretty much all you need man. And now you're 60 and a young gun or 65. I can send Claire and a young gun then you're doing really, really good. Okay. Brent man would move. You know, we're talking about young guns and may one of the wraps that the young guns, the millennials get his man, they just can't be on time. I know this year here, but tell us about our other guest where is he? Brent Burrows: who else was supposed to be on the show with us. Uh, I, that's going to be my new cohost, Aaron Gorka. Ah, I'm not exactly sure where Aaron is now. Maybe they don't do daylight savings time in Canada or different things. He didn't, he didn't change his clock around. Eric Stromquist: Right. Well, in fairness they are, and man, he has been traveled a lot here and Gorka from ANT technologies, one of the hardest young working guys in the industry. Uh, he is, uh, does the podcast, next generation innovation and brand. I guess the big news is you're going to be joined and Aaron as his cohost. Brent Burrows: Yeah. Um, so, um, I had been reading some stuff lately and you know, I listened to you guys on a control talk now on iTunes and I'd always wanted to get into pocket casting and uh, and it just so happened I was featured on a, on an episode, um, a few months back and just really enjoyed it. I've worked with Aaron, we actually use aunt technologies, um, to do a track or project side. And uh, so me and him get along and you know, we vibe well. So I reached out to reach out to you and was like, Hey, what do you think this idea? And uh, and you were all for it gave Aaron a call. He was excited to have a cohost. So that's what we're going to be doing. Eric Stromquist: Well, I can't wait for you guys to take to work together. Aarons just doing a fantastic job so far and it's kind of fun with the cohost, you know, so the, but if you're going to get good at this, you have to practice saying this right off the bat. The man, the myth, the legend, let me hear you say it because if something ever happens to me, you know, it's going to be between you and Aaron to step in. But Kenny is very picky about who gets to be his is to introduce them. So one time, Brent, you're on, here's your audition, Brent Burrows: here's the audition, alright, we're on control. Taught now, you know, and in memory of the late, great. Eric, strong quick. No, he's in a better place now. But I am your new cohost and I am going to introduce the man, the myth, the legend Ken Smyers: Ken Smyres take it over again. Right. That was awesome man. He passed it. He might, he might not even wait for me to die, man. He might just nice. Did you guys read the second brand? You just put no, he might. He might give me the boot right after the show did. That was a little too good bread, but well listen dude, before we get into more of the show, talks about what you do and, and in tech, I've known your dad for years and a, you guys have a fabulous company, but, but talk about about Entek and what you guys do. Brent Burrows: Uh, so in tech where our ar can about a local, regional, regional and a national company, uh, have handled, you know, many national accounts over the years. Uh, so we have that side of the business and then we have more of our, uh, what I'd call our local and core business here in Atlanta. Um, we specialize in commercial office space. Um, but you know, also do, you know, hospitals, industrial work, really anything you need, um, we can provide the service and the expertise to work in those areas. So we do anything ranging from, you know, mechanical service, installation retrofits and then, you know, hopping into the controls, the building automation, you know, H Vac, lighting, integration, all of that stuff. And we even do system access controls everywhere. So in tech really is a great one stop shop to fill all your building needs. Ken Smyers: Yeah. One of the things that I saw on the site and we'd talked offline, there is analytics and the impact we have one of our posts we'll be talking about here as we review the posts. So you're actually a delving into analytics now. Tell us about some of your experiences so far. What do you think? Is that, is that the next great a goldmine to dig into? Brent Burrows: Well analytics, no, it's, it's been around, um, in, in the HVAC industry for, for a little while now. And it's kind of, you know, it's interesting, you'll go to these conferences or you know, you'll read stuff and you've got, you know, you got kinda these bud buzzwords or one of the big ones that are, and you know, when I kind of look at buzzwords, there are a lot of terms that people throw around, but then they'll just kind of throw it around and they don't know the meaning of it and they're just like, oh yeah, Iot and analytics and, uh, and you'll just see them, they pop up a lot of conferences, but, uh, but you know, really, uh, been seeing analytics get hammered for the last couple of years now. And basically, you know, one of the great things that you can kind of, they're doing in the industry now, you know, what, you know, everything being more standardized, like, you know, backnet lawn, um, you know, different protocols come then normalizing the data. And then a, you know, a huge one that I know you guys have talked a lot about and they got the big accounts coming up is haystack. Um, you know, basically being able to take all the data in your building, you know, sensor information, uh, whether it's, you know, discharge temps, she knows zone temps, uh, you know, all those things and you're building lighting levels, all this stuff and take it in and get that data. So you kind of get to that point with an integration and it's like, okay, well let's just say, you know, I got a 10 story building, uh, so, you know, got 10 air handlers, chiller plant, and then, you know, depending on the level of integration, let's say I've got 20,000 data points in my building, you know, what are you really doing with that? They're there are, they're acting out there and they're just doing their thing. But you know, unless you can hire somebody 24, seven to watch those sites and be like, oh, this is doing this, this is doing this. Um, it's, it's, it's hard to keep track of it. You kind of get into this, uh, you know, very responsive state. Um, you know, trying to manage the building. It's not forward thinking. It's not really effective. So analytics comes in and does, is it basically, it's like, you know, it is, it's, it's a 24, it's 24, seven program that looks at your building, looks at your data and can alert you to the issues going on. And then also in some cases make responsive writes back to correct issues. Eric Stromquist: Well, that's well said. Well said. And then I think one of the things that Kenny has sort of picked up early on in, and you were talking about sky spark a little bit because that's what you're working with. But, uh, you know, for years back, even when your dad and I were doing this stuff, you know, those old guys, I mean you could always alarm, right? But it got to the point that he had so many alarms, just like my emails, you just become null and void to me just don't pay attention to anymore. So it seems like one of the things analytics allows you to do is to write rules, for example. So if something goes out of temperature for a while, you could give an expert at a time before it sends out an email or an alarm. You could also maybe we'd send a command to say, hey, try to reset it or whatever before you do that. And so are you finding that that's driving some of your customers interest into it or her? What sorts of things when, when they say analytics, like I said, it's a buzz word, but when they come to you or do they actually know what they want her, it's just, hey, I want an analytics package and you shouldn't have to talk him through it. Brent Burrows: Uh, so it, it's interesting you were talking about, uh, my dad, uh, uh, actually met with him this week and he brought up some of the alarming going on from the 90s, and he was, uh, so, uh, I won't name them, but you know, big retail client, um, and they, you know, obviously they have sites all around the country and, uh, they had like a fax machine that sat on the side of this room and this thing continually like it reports and the, I think they actually set up a system where it just like fed into like a dumpster or shredded all it did for 24 hours a day. And they were like, he was like, what is that? There was like, oh, that's the, uh, that's the alarm matrix. Yeah, I remember those things. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but you don't know the, to Eric's point, uh, I think, um, we've seen several, uh, programs now coming out like controls, condoms, coming up with Detroit with the Cochrane supply, Scott Cochran and his team put together this thing. Raven, where you could really, you could eliminate anything. You didn't want to hear all the chief, you know, and just, just get to the nuggets that you needed to know. And then they teamed that down so much that it would be in a proximity presentation. So top chef, chef get that right. We don't want people to think, okay, go ahead. I'm sorry, but God, we got that quick. I'm sorry I couldn't, I'm spit balling here too, but no, go ahead. Saving, saving, saving. Um, so the, the thing that Scott Cochran believed in is it Derek's point that we're so overwhelmed with this is data being pushed at us that we ignore it. Now again, we've always self defense mechanisms. We turn off our phones, we don't have to hear the pagan, you know, and then, but then you really could miss that one really important alarm because you're so, you know, unconditioned to respond to it. The uh, that stuff became packing. They had say, generate so much. I. Dot. Matrix printing stuff that no, he didn't shred but then that shredding to him went back, got recycled back in the, in the shipping department. But I'm so yeah, so a, the raven thing was a real clever a response. So that not only did you restrict the amount of alarms you got, but they were, they were sent specifically to who needed it and it reduced all that additional traffic. Eric Stromquist: So yeah, Brent is a cool app if you haven't seen it. It actually works like with you know, notifications on your iPhone and stuff like that. So you can just set up just the notifications you want to see. So, uh, Scott Cochran's one clever dude and controls con's going to be a great conference and uh, we get, we actually have a discount code for that, don't we county. So we should do, if you put any controlled trends when you registered and put it in a controlled trends, you get a 10% discount and that you'll get 15 but I know it's just a matter of time for you blonder and it's going to cost you an alternate code, a code word. You get 20% off if you mentioned chafing cause that's right. So you are going to be a great cohosts. He's good. He's picking right up on this. Uh, but uh, but so what else? So the analytics, are these primarily the facilities managers asking for this or should it go on up higher? Cause I know you, you know, Dana and the rest of year or down to the rest of your sales staff deals at the c level suite a lot. Is it mainly being pushed down from the c level suite or consulting engineers asking for it? Or how is this even coming into consciousness? Well, it's a, it's interesting. So I'm going to go back real quick to the original question that you asked and mentioned something that, uh, you know, it Kinda all goes along with, uh, with the APP. You're talking about the raven, the alarms, and you mentioned that, you know, just kind of getting, you know, hounded with all this data. And it really does, you know, whether it's, you know, cause I'll, I'll copy myself on the emails most of the time for the alarms. And you know, sometimes it'll just, I think I went through this morning, there was a point that went in and out of alarm, I didn't delete like 600 emails. Brent Burrows: You get into the point of getting alarm fatigue. So yeah. So in the process, let's just say that you have something that does, does alarm and you get, you know, over the course of three or four months, 600 emails, you're going to be like, oh no, just delete all those. Don't worry about that. And sandwiched in there and one or two of those. Yeah. What was important data. So that's why it's important, you know, when you're doing the integration is the freestyle. Yeah. Make sure you set up, you know, your alarms and your, so there are going to be alarms that happened, but you know, maybe just only send out, you know, prioritize with your alarm classes. Um, but, but then to get back to a, to what you're mentioning about what level do you kind of see the requests from analytics coming? Um, I think it really depends. Uh, so a lot of what we, uh, we deal with customers we deal with in the Atlanta market. Um, you know, we'll go into existing buildings and whether, you know, we're upgrading them from, you know, DDC from the 90s or just straight pneumatics and everything, uh, you just hit it. There are different levels of involvement from, you know, different companies and, you know, different positions. So, all right know, I've got to figure out what's going on and I cannot, I don't have the time to pour through this site and I don't want to, you know, pay a monitoring company, you know, just every, every month. Because you know what, that's great. You know, the, there were a few people that we followed around in Atlanta or would go to and there was like, oh yeah, we paid this company $2,000 a month. Just watch this. It's like, but it takes you six hours to get him on the phone. And then sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't. But they'll always let you know when that checks in the mail. The, um, the analytic thing, one of the big impulse or impacts was when Niagara JACE started coming with 25 free analytic points to get you a taste of it, you know, and then we started to see people dabble at it, but we really didn't have a whole lot of, uh, you know, takers. And then once they got into it, uh, so it all became, you know, a basically about templating it. But, uh, the Phil fearless fills Zito had a really nice, uh, extract on when he did a synopsis on end for about what he said that what they added to inform and to analytics too. Dot. Oh, was that make capabilities where the preexisting analytic data model it was in, it was inherent embedded a base algor algorithm library and then a realtime on premise analytic control. So one of the things that we saw now was that people, if they wanted to start to dabble, they got a good free tastes that, or a complimentary tastes of analytic points that they could take a couple of points and do exactly what you're saying. Pick out the top, maybe ones that you're getting those multiple alarms, you know, and then have it so that you could control the amount of alarms that you got from that point. So, uh, again it's, it's still, it's just touching the, uh, the, you know, the top of the iceberg because a sky founding of course was the, the industry leader. I mean they basically defined analytics to us. Well, no, it's cool. We can, I've got a question where I think we might have a new vocab word here and I wonder if you've heard of this before. No, no, no, no, no, no. Alarm fatigue has the first time I heard that if you heard the term alarm fatigue before, actually I have this, but I heard it said in that perspective, that context. But you're right, I mean, so I think Brent is coach and he's got his first new phrase, alarm fatigue. Okay. We're, we're going to give you a nickname or get you a tee shirt. It'd be Brent Burroughs alarm fatigue. So I did write that down though. So that's a great one brand. I like that a lot. So bread for our integrators out there who may be, have not gotten into analytics or you know, Skype specifically sky foundry, um, kind of walk them through. I mean, how difficult is it? Is it to get started with it because know there are a lot of integrators, outdated, heard of analytics and maybe you know, think they can do it or don't think they can do it, but what do they need to know? If you're just starting to scratch your ears, assistant center grader and you haven't worked with analytics, sort of walk them through it. Uh, so obviously, you know, um, like the sky spark, um, sky spark software, you know, like anything else, uh, to be able to sell it, you know, you have to get signed up with a distributor, all that. Um, so, you know, first need to find somebody that can not distribute it. And it's really important, you know, when you're kind of going into a new software, I believe this with anything, is to make sure that you've got a good support channel. Um, you know, like in between you and then, you know, and sky foundry, which I'll say for sky foundry, their online database of like help, documentation, everything. It's phenomenal. Um, I have used that a ton. It'll actually basically walk you through setting up site, uh, comes with a great demo site so you can look at how everything's set up and then, you know, reverse engineer. Cause you know, as a, as a systems integrator or you know, anything else, it's, it's similar. You know, it's, it's just like physically, you know, kinda like building an engine or something. How do you really figure out how an engine works? Well, take one apart and put it back together and you're going to have a good idea of what those components do, where they go and everything. Same thing applies to the software. So, uh, getting started there. Go ahead. Eric Stromquist: No, that's a good analogy. And you know, and I think that's where you're talking about the division of labor and, and the, and the support structure, you know, some of the, some of the great products. And so the great applications that have failed, uh, did so not because it wasn't a great application is because people didn't take to it well, they didn't have a support structure, he didn't have that engaging support that you're talking about. And some of these new people, new products and solutions we see coming in, especially in North America, you know, the, the contracting mentality as they wanted so they can understand it and they want to be able to do that physically create an analogy. So this is how you put it together and it's how you take apart and by the time you do that, you know, the steps are all procedural and the methodologies very consistent and then you get really good at it. I think the, the commitment, this guy foundry is significant, but once you get there, you've got it's money well spent and you just, it's a gold mine, right? Can, it will listen and Brent, this is a, that a, you're going to probably have to do with Aaron Gorka called stable datum, right? Because we, as we're assuming that our entire audience listening to the show right now understand what Skype boundary disguised park is. So Kenny, if you don't mind, would you just give our audience just a quick overview of what it is because I think people have heard of analytics, they've heard of data, but they may or may not have heard of skies park. Uh, if they don't listen on a regular basis. Kenny, let's give our audience a little stable datum on exactly what guys foundry isn't what sky's parks are. Ken Smyers: All right. Well, you know, I would recommend everybody to Google or not Google, but to come to our website control to trends. And then just to take a look at John Patsy or look at sky found in there because we have multiple videos of John explaining it, what it is through interviews or whatever. But essentially the synopsis, The Sky Spark is an open analytic platform from sky foundry that automatically analyzes building data from sensors, automation systems, meters and other smart devices to provide useful building insights, sky spark insights, help facility managers, building owners and business managers identify trends, issues, faults, correlations. And opportunities for cost reductions and building improvements. Uh, and then also the, the, the growth of it. You know, so we were asking about, you know, who wants it and how is it implemented? And it comes from all different dimensions. It doesn't come from consistently the COO or the CTO or you know, a smart building owner. It comes from people that have problems that need them fix. So just give me an idea. There's more than 10,000 facilities around the globe that are using sky spark right now. They analyze buildings, data over 650 million square feet of buildings. Imagine that. Then they went over a billion. And by the way, that's further on, but commercial buildings, apartment buildings, apartment complexes, hotels, resorts, data centers, industrial facilities, educational campuses, government buildings, large multi-use retail spaces and other large complex facilities. But if you remember the one crazy thing about it is we start small with one building using the sky, spark and sky foundry or analytics, you know, because there'll be other versions of analytics. But in order to get to the smart cities, you've got to start small. It's a modular thing. So you'd go from one building building. Exactly. But this whole thing crescendos into a smart city where you're, everybody is getting that data there knowing that usages and aren't in and we're occupancies are they knowing when they have about, you know? Right, right. And I think, you know, again, John Petze used to be president of tritium, one of the brightest guys on the planet. Great Drummer too. Buddy rich has nothing on John Petze. But uh, you know, we only all went sky spark first came out or sky founder first came out. It was kind of cost prohibitive almost just simply because to connect the data points together really required somebody to go in and link this to this, to this, to this, to this. But that's all changed now. It's gotten super formed. Super, Super Price Competitive Kenny because of drum roll. HAYSTACK CONNECT. I tried to download, try new vocab words. I need another cup of coffee. That's a good one buddy. I know you want to do that. And Yeah, because again, we're trying to promote project haystack to the best of her abilities and really get the community excited about it. But I think we're getting other people excited about it. I think there's people that are learning outside of the HVC, bas industry that understand that haystack tagging. For instance, we had Samsung, uh, from, uh, the smart car. Don't trick me again here. Most of name again, can we need first and last name for try again? Go, go, go, go, go, go to the Control Trent website, highlight her name and then have Google pronounced that JMC futurist, right when, anyhow, she took the, the haystack tagging to heart and talk. It was an, you know, it's, it's just absolutely vital to eliminate all the friction and bring down to two. We're belongs as quickly as possible. There should be cooperative. You ready for an analogy? Haystack tagging is to sky foundry every other analytics or control system as gasoline is to a car. What do you, what do you think about how, how bad is like, you know, uh, I mean, you know, and not another analogy. I think one of the great things about having haystack, it's, it's basically this organization that says, yes, you know, hey guys, instead of re reinventing the wheel, here you go, we're going to give you the tools or instead of making all your own custom stuff, here's the tools to do it. You know, it'd be kind of like every kind of like, you know, I guess it's, you know, not using haystack tagging. I feel like doing your analytics to standardize it. It's kind of like going back to the, you know, Dark Ages or the prehistoric times of, you know, where you just have different tribes and they have like all their own forms of communication. Like, you know, I don't, most marriages, well, you know what I do, I think that's going to, that's going to work there because if you hear John pets he talking about, he actually gets mad, he'll, he'll start out real calm and mellow and hills. He'll start saying, but, uh, his patients in the industry I think is waning because it's a choice. And you know, again, a lot of people have, you know, big legacy investments and they've got, you know, look at corporations are run and, and they, they really truly have to control the rate of adoption and, and, and is it his money comes it. I mean we had the guy from Sweden tell us, you know, all these things could have been fixed many, many, many years ago if there wasn't a, you know, an economic reason not to do it. So brand have an economic reason to get them right. Now where I am, Brent needs to know this, cause I know your listener brown button it Kenny. This is the part of the show where we come up with are conspiracy theories. Okay. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. And I want to do something right now too. It's certain, Huh? Jam Fee. So that's not sued. Sud h a JMT j a m t h e. Dot. The Jaffe. Right. This Suda Hey, you know what I practice, come on. Say it. And you know what? I'm going to sit on this one because I, I haven't had a chance to write it down and sanded it out. But I think this is like a good idea for like a new bit. Eric Stromquist: You should do Kenny Kenny's words a week and put a word down and then have them like phonetically sounded. I know Kenny. No, no, we got one of this when Kenny's word of the week. Shaef Chase, rub your face with a scarf or something and you scraped, I think he's in a different context today, which is like the data was shaved off of the sound. No, it was to do with the wheat and, and the other stuff. Boys in the shaft, not the shape. You're not going here. Let's get back to those two words are a little too close. Well, you know what I think so. I have a lot of those. So look at that. That's a good sign. That means that your brain's working. Okay, so let's get back to Brent. Meanwhile, back to Brent. So Brent, again speaking to integrators out there that maybe haven't taken the punch to do an analytics and his specific way sky founder, you sort of walk them through the steps, you know, they can call Ken or Eric, that should be your distributor., STROMQUIST.COM And after you get with your distributor, what happens next? So after you get with your distributor, uh, hopefully they can set you up on SKY FOUNDRY Um, so you can get into the resources you can access. Um, it's pretty cool once you get everything set up. Um, sky spark actually has a demo and all you have to do is just pretty much upload the demo and then you can go through all the steps, all the steps they give you online. Brent Burrows: They give you like a five part, um, kind of do it yourself. Um, you know, set up the data points and you know, add the equipment, add the points, add the tags, go, go view the data and do everything. So you get practice, like kind of like we talked about putting something together. So you get practice doing that and then you start going, all right, I can see this, I can see how this will work. Uh, and then after you do that, you're going to want to go to one of the sky's spark, uh, analytics, uh, classes. Typically I think it's like a two or a three day class. Um, they get you all set up on there. After that you are going to be able to, uh, to sell the product and uh, and really do it. Um, and one of the cool things is, is basically, you know, if I had to like look at it and you know, just look at, you know, your customer set and figure out 10 rules, figure out 10 things that you want to look for. You know, the last thing you want to do is be like, oh, I got to come out with, you know, 500 something rules or I've got to figure out how much, you know, k w port per square foot. You know, when people, uh, you know, have a Dell computer or laptop in there, it's like, okay, just, just kind of back it off. Keep it simple to start, like one of the biggest ones, uh, that, that I see and you know, I see it around Atlanta a lot. You've got these, um, these old [inaudible] use that still have to use pneumatic a pneumatic actuators. So, and you'll see that and you'll see, you know, you'll use a DDC controller, goes to a, uh, goes to a transducer and then that sends the air pressure pneumatic actuator and you know, it, they've, they have it that way because the cost to retrofit one of those, as you know, it's like four hours and you know, maybe like a $340 part, you guys posted something a long time ago and I think strong Quist offered a retrofit part. It's for those, uh, to basically take that internal damper and then change it over to, you know, have an external, yeah, it was, it was trying, I wasn't sure if we were mentioning manufacturers or anything. So I remember that then. And we'll, you know, we saw a lot of that too. Yeah, that was a, that was an excellent demo and I'm very successful to do, to kind of move things on. I don't know. Hang on real quick. I can't, if you don't mind. There's one other thing I wanted to sort of bring around because Brent, I think it was brilliant. You know all the rules come up with 10 you can, you can come up with, so for example, for our property management people out there, you got building a and it is using 50,000 kw per month. You've got building B, it's using 25,000 kw month and you've got building c, which is just in 150,000 kw a month. Which one is most energy efficient? One uses the most energy. Well and you do that, that's easy. But you know, basically it, you can Kinda, you can organize the data because you know, what if one is a single story building, how many square foot, how many people are occupied. So you, and part of the reason I brought that up was you used the term earlier, which for our owners out there who might not think this was, I didn't think this way, it was explained to me part of what Brent's companies able to normalize your data because oddly enough, the small, the one with the least amount you spend the amount of money on might be the most energy efficient, the one that you're spending the most on because this maybe 10 times bigger might be your most energy efficient. So unless you can normalize it. Eric Stromquist: And what I mean by normalizes taking random data points or data points, bringing them together and setting their criteria like square foot footage, occupancy times a number of people and that, so that's a big part of us gotta be one of the first ones that you guys would go for. I would take if you have multiple facilities. Right. So, um, so I'll go, I'll go back. It was just kind of that the brief example with the damper, and I know I was kind of explained some technical stuff on it, but it's, you know, like a real real simple rule is like, you know, and you can compare it, you know, how many VAVs PKI use, things like that. Kind of like you're talking about. But you know, the big ones that you can see, you know, a Vav is it open at 100% not satisfying the CFM. Brent Burrows: So either we've got mechanical problem, we've got a design problem, you know, somewhere in the chain. And also the biggest thing, one of the things I see the most money wasted on, like with that particular style of box is this thing has electric heat strips in it. So electric heat, huge energy user. I mean just unbelievable. So it's got the heat going, right? Trying to satisfy the space and you've got a bad damper bladder and there that's not in 600 800 cfm through. So I'm simultaneously heating and cooling space. I'm basically dehumidifying your space when you get to pay for it. As long as this thing has occupied and you know, put that over a 15 story building and let that happen, you know, uh, on a cup on each floor. And just remember that the first real calm I become, and you've met right? You know, Smith and he said that, uh, their biggest, um, why I got this one. Can I do this one? Okay. You just cause I don't, I normally don't know much about, I do know this. So Brandon, Darryl Smith, random Microsoft campus back when Kenny and I first met him, and this is the best example of alarm first as rules base did I ever heard. And what Daryl was saying was a, this huge campus, huge, huge energy bills. They never got an alarm because the Microsoft campus was the most comfortable campus. You could be anywhere. All those buildings were comfortable. They put in a program similar to sky's bar and they realize the reason their energy was so high and the reason nobody complained about the temperature was that their heating and cooling ran at the same time to maintain temperature. They had no idea that was happening until they put the analytics package. And so then what happened, consequently, after that was, uh, you know, they fixed that problem. They started getting a lot of alarms and Bill Gates got mad at Darryl Smith. So there you have it. You have anything you want to add to that, Kenny? I'm sorry. No, no, no. It was, it was the whole thing we said to you, you know, some of the things that they were saying is the valve of the heating valve was clogged, blocked, open, you know, it wasn't Seton properties. So then it was leaving too much heat into the space and an air conditioning or the, you know, Viv is letting, calling in. So the bottom line was that you could have no, uh, alarms are no complaints that nobody's complained about the temperature of being too hot, too cold, but that's not necessarily a good thing. So what they started to analyze, uh, was if the state changes doesn't change over a certain period of time, that there's reason for concern, something that should be going up and down based on different, uh, the different, uh, aspects of the building, different times of day, different whatever. But nothing should stay the same. No temperatures and stayed 72 for longer than maybe like 60 minutes. And if it does, that'd be one of the rules we'd say somebody needs to look at it probably got, you know, something's going on there that you said requires some investigation. But um, I am, I'm a little bit concerned that we're, we're going to get the time, uh, isn't slip away so we should throw in some of these posts so that they get more friends. Comments on your bread. Eric Stromquist: This is part of the audition here. Now we're going to go through some post of the week and you got to make it yet like really astute comments about them. Okay. I don't want to suppress them cause you know, you're, you're a systems integrator and you bring like a different perspective. Absolutely. Is this relevant to your world or not? You know, what's one posts you want to talk about? For now, we'll just go kind of lighthearted cause uh, you know, again, the two and you know, nuggets to take away into some of this has kind of superficial stuff with like the next post you want to talk about and get Brent's comments on is the, the new facility manager might be a robot. Uh, and how will artificial intelligence affect your building? We know from Ken Sinclair that artificial intelligence is common. It's a real thing, how quickly they adoption rate's going to be and whatever. Or is it happening with or without our knowledge? Uh, and he calls it automated, intelligent, not intelligence, artificial intelligence. So the question would ask you there is that you, do you think that artificial intelligence has a foothold already? Uh, w what's the adoption rate with your end of the world or your from your perspective? Um, Brent Burrows: so, uh, in, in terms of, of running buildings right now where we're at and you know, Atlanta, Georgia, um, I haven't seen a whole lot of artificial intelligence in a, and the particulars particular areas where at, um, obviously that's the way am, I mean every, everything's moving that way, you know, whether we still really haven't seen a whole ton of, you know, a voice stuff come in to, you know, the building automation world. So I feel like you're going to see that come in and then you're going to see AI. But that's kind of the analytics thing too, is, you know, and we were talking about earlier, you know, it used to be you'd pay somebody to monitor this and they would watch it and now you have a computer that's doing it, you know, a, a program that that just looks at. It looks at rules, it compares the data, and then it gives you an outcome. So go ahead. So based on how you define artificial intelligence, in many cases, some of it's already there, it's just not called artificial intelligence. God was charging two grand a month to technical data. I mean he's already been replaced by a robot. Right. Which is a shame. That'd be a sweet deal. So Eric, uh, so I got it said Jan, Jan. Okay. Now, so the next, the Kenny, he's like, it's not jam. J A M is Shanthi. It's a softer version. Okay. So if we're doing artificial intelligence, let's take this thing to the next level. And we had this very intelligent futurist and she is the real McCoy. She is internationally, globally recognized for her, her understanding and divisions that are coming. You know what our world is going to look like in five 10 15 years. But she did this thing on smart buildings and powering smart buildings, smart cars and the whole idea of sustainable building, sustainable energy cars that are driving and they're basically collect the energy, putting in a battery. The car gets to the building that it works, it's parked at and plugs in and instead of the building powering the car up again, cars powering the building up in an emergency situation that you could really exploit this cause it's just moving energy. You know, cars are literally collect the energy and then moving them to where they needed nick actually plug into a building. Um, not, not that we're going to see this anytime soon, but what do you think that, uh, the Atlanta metropolitan area is that, is that kind of technology receptive? You see that? I know that a, with Eric, with your smart car, you're a customer, your test, the, one of your biggest issues at first was the charging stations. They could be busy, it might not be available, but you know, it was, it was trying that new technology. Does it fit, do you see us moving a year end of the world there, uh, Brent taking, adopting that kind of technology or is it kind of an out there kind of like, I dunno, I'm sure had you asked the question, you know, 20 or 30 years I had like, had you asked when maybe Eric and my dad were working together a little bit, like, you know, hey, where are you thinking we're going to be in 30 years with us in buildings? It's like snack. I'd be met that it's not going to matter. All our cars going to be flying around anyway. It's kind of local conceptions out there. Oh, we'll get to your point. I mean, I look at this thing every day and I'm all, I marvel over the iPhone every day because I just, I can't get over it. Cause my wife's German, she talks to her sister's like we're talking, you know, across the street. And it doesn't cost a dime. They used to be my third biggest expense. You know, we had mortgage, car and then phone. Right. Well, you know, Kenny, I had been on my, I'm like, rephrase the question a little bit because you know, I think the car was just sort of an example of the fact that you could use a battery to power building and Nissan actually did with their corporate headquarter and a suit. The JMT talks a lot about, uh, about the fact that you can now contribute to the grid and said you're just drawing off the grid. And I think a more Germane sort of, uh, uh, question might be do see a day where maybe Ken Smyers: the batteries are powering the buildings. Um, yeah, I mean, you know, tech technology continues to evolve and to just things that you just never thought were possible. Kind of like, you know, like the analogy there of a, you know, thinking about a battery charging and building. I mean, you know, absolutely. It's possible. What, you know, what Ken just talked about, you know, with that right there, I'm sure you guys saw him back in the, uh, you know, maybe even the 80s, the early nineties. Like what are the first cell phones look like? Where did the first computers, they'll quite white mainframes hold clinic rooms and now this is more powerful than the first computer mainframe huge rooms that were created. I'm really glad you cleaned that up for me cause I'm not, hang on, hang on. I'm not done yet. I've got a Mike, my conspiracy theory and then you can come back to you Ken. So I have a conspiracy theory cat because Brent, you know, you guys hard Johnson controls is wanting the lines you handles was Honeywell on this tech Johnson controls is one of the largest car battery or manufacturers in the world. Okay. So you start thinking about that and then you put into the fact that Tesla developed something called the power wall, right in California. What that because you know, you could have the solar energy coming in but you pretty much had to use it or lose it. What the power wall, you were able to store it. Okay. So I think Johnson and Tesla are getting together right now. I think what's going to happen is you're going to have solar panels on the building. There's going to come down to some sort of a power wall that will hold the charge, that will charge the battery and then the battery will charge the building. Well Eric, to your point, I think, uh, I'm glad you did it cause I was thinking the same thing. We know that Johnson controls made a major investment and batteries. And one of the scenarios we saw Brent was really cool was that, you know, uh, with a DC AC wars mobile. Derek and I used to cover the Westinghouse versus Tesla and how, uh, it was a power station thing who could transmit the power of the further Stacy one but DC. Now it's coming back in. And many people were saying, why are we taking power, making it a scene and converting it back to DC inside of a building since every something inside of the buildings operating on DC. What about we put a big battery in the basement in, you know, some mechanical room or whatever and we power it up. And from there we power the entire building with 24 volts DC. Ken Smyers: And then you have power over ethernet and we have all these really incredible ideas. But so to your point, and I agree with you 100%, it's not, it's just a matter of when we get the opportunity to deploy these technologies are here. It's just, it's in the economic constriction. It says the economic, you know, friction, you gotta, you gotta make money and people have to transition from one technology to the other. But it doesn't mean it's not going to have, it's just the question of when. Right. So I, you know, it's really interesting to about, um, you know, buildings doing that. Obviously it'd be much easier, you know, as with anything, um, you know, if you're building a brand new building to be able to Spec that stuff and then absorb it into the cost of, you know, of doing the building as opposed to looking at a building that has everything that has ac powered, whether, you know, lighting, HPAC equipment, you know, literally everything and being like, all right, we're going to rip all this stuff out and then we're going to put all of this and, and it's going to cost you, you know, x and whoever owns the building or she come managers of the building, it's like, no, we're not. It's a great point, Brent and know that my father in law lives in New Mexico, right? And they used to subsidize solar panels, but then the electric company, conspiracy theory started, you know, not making as much money so they don't subsidize any more. So now it's cost prohibitive to do it. But I tell you what, I think, uh, I want to get back to Ed Tech and your dad a little bit because your dad is when I got to be kidding me, your dad is one of the brightest businessmen know. And when your dad would say is, if you want to have heard him say this over the years, you want to paint it blue, I'll paint it blue. You want to back you on a battery power building, not give you a battery painted battery power building. Right. So, uh, uh, and I, and I think at the end of the day, it's, this is, you know, a lot of conjecture on our part. It's fun to talk about, but at the end of the day, uh, what's going to make the most sense for the owners is what they're going to do. Yeah. My favorite ones are listen to the Paul Oswald and listen to, uh, George Thomas from contemporary controls. The, these guys are the more senior faculty in our, in our industry and they say, you know, we keep talking about this absolutely wowed off the wall technology when we still don't fix belts and we still don't do it. Most primordial maintenance you need, uh, you know, and keeping the motors running and stuff like that. So I think what you have to do is you have to keep one foot on its tectonics. It's moving and shifting when it applied. Yeah. Plate tectonics. There we go. Brent and we still have a vocabulary from you yet. What have we done? We got it. Tig. Hold on. Protect. Yes. Right. I'm sorry I got circled them when you said that. I will give you credit when I like something that somebody says something cool, I write it down and at the end of it when we have to write the show notes up or whatever, I can run through all these little circles, nuggets there and alarm fatigue is circled. We're going to, we're going to take this thing into a macro level again, and we're going to shift gears and just security, cybersecurity. We're going to go into your version of cybersecurity. How often you bump into it, what does it, what does it scare you to death or you got to, you got a handle on it. What's, what's going on from your perspective? Brent Burrows: Um, you know, cyber security, obviously you now have extremely important, I would say as important as, uh, eh, as anything you're, you're really doing in a building, you know, as long as you know you're not, when you're putting in controls, you're not just absolutely wrecking the equipment. What's the, the other thing, keeping, you know, unauthorized people from entering your site? Um, if you can isolate it. That, and that's the biggest thing was cybersecurity, uh, that I'm kind of saying, um, from our end is things need to be isolated. Um, so like you really do, you need to have like, you know, for your h Vac, building automation, security access, all that stuff. Um, like to isolate it if you can on, on separate networks. I mean, you know, you don't have to look far, uh, with different, you know, cybersecurity issues and large retailers, whether it's through, you know, the credit card scanners or you know, however these hackers get in to access, you know, a bunch of people's personal data at places. Like it's just kinda like, holy crap. I thought that was a very unimportant, this thing just turns the lights on, turns the lights off and now they've got access to, you know, social security numbers of all the data that we're keeping over here. So, um, there's some really cool products out there. I'm like, you know, one that y'all rep, uh, that, uh, yeah, that, that's it. I really liked that. Um, you want to talk about security like that is that, that is the deal. Um, the, the ease access is, you know, not as much like, you know, you can't just start grabbing a bunch of random devices and, and doing it. There's got to be a little bit more prep work, but you want to talk about secure and a and manage like dad is awesome. So it's not that expensive dye tee people. Cause I guess a part of the question would be are you running it up when you put a system or the it people now more concerned or they come, do you say you're going to try to what to my network or I know you guys work on a different sort of size building and stuff like that, but uh, yeah, uh, I actually had a meeting with a, with a 19 manager, um, just just recently within the last couple of weeks. And he was wanting to know like a, you know, what are you going to do or how does this need to be set up and everything like that. And uh, it's, it, it's a good conversation to be able to have with them in person. Like don't try and pass it off to someone else that isn't going to be working on the technical side because it's just that then things get misinterpreted and people get defensive. You're not putting this on my network and all this, you know, it turns into like a little peon contest when you don't need it. It's just, you know, a good conversation to have. And that's one of the things Tridium does a good job with is, you know, they have a, they've got it out there. I'm not sure what the most updated version is, but it's called the hardening guide, which, uh, um, basically goes through and it'll tell you how to most securely set up your system. And if you can go through that with an eye with, you know, manager or, or whoever, then everybody can be comfortable. All the data can all be out there. And then, you know, you make sure that you're putting in the most secure option. You know, so ironic you said that because I sent that to somebody this morning. Um, the issues were on the audit trails and about, you know, uh, who gets into the system and then when I have as the Niagara for hardening, it's from six 28, 2018. So I'm sure there's one, uh, more recent than that, but you're exactly right. It's, uh, I think it's a 48 page document. Let's see. Yeah. And it really goes deep dives into a 42 pages. So, um, but what we have, uh, for, for the controlled trans community is we have a responsibility to keep, keep cybersecurity as a concurrent trend is the top trend. We post the NIST released in ist and they give us, you know, the checklists and take people on an individual level and organizational level, uh, you know, a corporate level and then a city level. Ken Smyers: So we have two posts that I just want to bring them up real quick. One is the, a Schneider electric has a cybersecurity, a Webinar you can sign up for and it has a, a lot of great information. And then two, for the people that are really in the business dot have deep, we have a smart and secure city, the community challenge expo and Washington DC July 10th and 12th. And it's about security. Cybersecurity on a, on a macro level. So, and ist the US Department of Homeland Security and sciences, the technology, are they basically the sponsors of it? It's a free registration is free, but you have to preregister it's required for attendance. You can't just walk in there online and we have a hot button to it. But so cybersecurity is, you're right. So Brent, Brent, you just hit three correct answers in a row. So we're going to over and cybersecurity is one. It's as important as anything else. We're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're working with now if we have to have a responsibility, we have to own that responsibility and learn about it. We don't necessarily have the solution for it, but we can be part of the solution or part of the problem. Well said. Well said. Well, listen, dude, uh, let's, let's talk about a couple more things. A couple of other vets and then we're probably going to need to hop off here. But, uh, where Brent, you gotta talk to your dad about this cause you want to go to this conference? Edi. Oh, easy. Easy. I know they call it easy time. What are the dates on these? Okay, you want to go to Amsterdam with this bra? Yes. Sounds great. Yes we do. It's, it's May 17th through the 19th, and it's going to be in Amsterdam and it's going to be an extraordinary event. We're taking the lid off this thing now because, uh, there's, um, the importance of it is growing. Uh, what ECI is doing is they're going to really walk us through the roadmap and they'd been the innovators. It'd probably been the strongest leading innovator company of all the recent companies for just the, the ability to get things done quickly. Put an FSL server size to controller inside of a regular, you know, fit the build of a, of a know basically a controller that it's core for core processors, quad core processors and, and, and it just sort of new paradigm as shaking all the other vendors in there. You're doing something incredible now. They're kind of, they were going to reduce it. They're going to get fs 20. So it's going to use smaller compact is you had the same from inability. It's just cost less money. And so they do the wireless thing. So they've got the FTO for coming out and all those things. Clever and amazing thing. Lim who in charge came up with some very, very interesting things. Eric Stromquist: No, Kenny, you're, you're, you're so right about the technology. But listen, let's focus on the event itself because these guys know how to throw a party where up go to Europe. Okay. And write it off on your taxes. These guys, you'll learn stuff. But man, we've been to all the major soccer stadiums. I made these guys know how to throw a party. It is the best time you'll have. You'll learn a lot. You meet integrators from all around the world now Kenny, Brett and I are going to be there. Maybe Aaron Gorka even show up if he gets out of bed long enough to see what's going on here. But uh, but so that's going on. We've got that. We got real calm. Be Con coming up Kenny in Nashville, Tennessee and then we've got the Afore mentioned a HAYSTAK CONNECT. Hey look, get started. We got to start at the beginning here. We got national [inaudible] you got, what do you mean? We have to start at the beginning to see that much 26 this week we got a major event down in Baltimore. And anybody close to that, you go to it. It's one of the best, uh, you know, uh, in, in our, each department of the country and is great to network and get great training. Uh, it's start, just wait, we have controls con coming up May 2nd through the fourth up there in Detroit. And I'll tell you why that's another one. We have a discount code putting in control trends when you registered. Then we go to project haystack. Okay. May 17th and 18th. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. May I have, we just had the post up so, uh, that's on the side. You can go to the site and check it out, but I'm just with my, my, my emphasis is on bang, Bang, Bang. But the, uh, it's gonna be uh, uh, a resort area too. That's extraordinary. Anyhow, you're right, it's at the Paradise Island, Paradise Island. And uh, it's May 13th through the 15th. I ride right before we go to go to Holland. But it last but not least, June 11th through the 14th real calm. I be con that's going to be in Nashville, Tennessee. And we also have a controls trans code coming from Jim Young and the, excuse me, Howard Berger and Lisa, which too. So we're excited about it because we're starting as a pivot point for this, this incredible information. Obviously people can't make it to all of them, but that's where you need to do your homework. If you're an integrator and you're learning about this stuff, uh, you know, you might want to go to a haystack because you can start using that template. If you're, you're into the integration and you want to work with the latest and greatest set of tools, do you need to get the easy Ios Global World Conference? You get the additional benefit of some travel and they do have a spectacular today program. Uh, and then if you're in the real estate business and you're servicing people that make the need to know how they can make a smarter, more intelligent, more connected building, then you need to go to real calm. So hang on. There's one more county. Hmm. Very well done. That was nicely done. Okay. Very succinct to the point. I love it. Now, if you need an integrator to put all this great technology and we know a pretty good one in Atlanta on name Entech Brett, tell us how people get hold of Edtech and, and some of the things you guys do, Brent Burrows: uh, to get ahold of Entek.com. Uh, you know, go to our website, all the contact information, um, or call Eric and he'll get you over to us. Um, but, uh, but what we do is we try to offer, you know, an an all in one solution. You know, we'd like to thank you. Now we'll do a little bit of everything. What we'll do. Anything that you let us do, you know, Kinda like you said before, you want me to paint it green, I'll paint it green. Yeah. Um, so, uh, so, you know, we do a, the HPAC controls, uh, cardax card access, integrating those systems together. Uh, and then the mechanical HPAC, uh, you know, do all that systems analytics. Um, you know, we try and be, you know, either an all in one solution or if, you know, take one. No, extremely happy with your mechanical company. We'd love to do your controls, vice versa. Eric Stromquist: Well, the other thing too, Brent and I want to bring up your dad and your company has and more national account work. So if you're a big box or even a little box retailer that has multiple locations across the United States, your dad's been doing that for the last 40 years with major accounts. So, you know, a lot of times people that they like assist and they want something put in and uh, uh, I'm going to tell us about your dad before we go. You'll like this canning, uh, all across the country. So you guys do national accounts as well and do a great job with that. So here's the story. How many of you know who doctor Laura is? I don't. Oh Gosh. He had to talk to her. She was like a battle ax. It's like, you know, you've got to be tough. You've got to do this and you, you know kind of like a doctor Phil on steroids, although Dr Phils Kinda cuter and she is but uh anyway your dad is doing a borders bookstore and doctor Laura is, they're doing a book signing and your dad's up on a ladder working, not working on the Vav box and all of a sudden he hears this voice, hey come over here and move these books and he kind of looks down and goes, who's doctor Laura or she's asking me to go do some stuff. So I just waved at her and went right back up and just anyone you ever get a chance to talk to branch dad had worlds, one of the funniest guys and then she wanted the best story tellers rent. Man, thank you so much for being on the show this week. Very excited about what you and Erin, you're going to come up with a herons. Episode seven is up on control, a controlled product. I'm going to see control controlled fence.com was a great episode and I guess starting at episode eight will probably be you and him working together. So excited about that and they controlled trans community is lucky to have you on board, so thank you for doing this. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me looking forward. All right, so now, now I know you normally listen to the podcast so we got to practice this outro, Ken Smyers: two more things real quick. I'm sorry this is part of the show. Okay, go ahead. Well anyhow, uh, we do have a shout out. We want to shout out to Bill Schafer. He commented on the Scott Cochrane, um, article that we posted in Scott's comments and the, you know, just to give you an idea of the flavor and the interesting inputs we get controlled transits that I've read Scott Cochrane's article on automated buildings. I've been involved in a couple of projects with temporary networks were necessary. So I found Stanford solution. Interesting. Your article left me with a couple of questions and thoughts about using Ip controllers versus MSTP controllers and how vendors in it departments handle them. And so we have, uh, an opportunity for we forward that to Scott for a response, but we invite all our control trans community to please, these are the kinds of conversations and dialogues we'd love to have because everybody benefits from it. You might get your own little answer. Uh, you know, you might get your own private answer or young interest answer, uh, responded to, but we all benefit from it. And then last but not least, I want to compliment Eric Strom quest, who's the most hardest working creative, innovative social media guy out there? Eric, he put up four youtube videos. Tell us, tell us about each one real quick. One minute or less on each one of them. Eric Stromquist: Why? Can't really remember all. But as we said on the show last week, we get content up quicker on the youtube channel. So Brent, I don't know about you, but you know how long, a lot from youtube. So we get a lot of questions. Like, for example, we have one on, what's the difference between two way and three way valves, which a ghuy like you knows , but we created a video for that. Uh, and so we are going to be putting more and more HVAC TECH TRAING VIDEOS on our YOUTUBE CHANNEL. Youtube content up here. So please subscribe to the channel. New Speaker: stromquist.com dmsconytrols.com ent https://kit.com/ControlTrends/gear-we-use-to-shoot-the-show https://kit.com/ControlTrends/books-we-recommened

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Episode 300: ControlTalk NOW — The Smart Building and HVAC controls Videocast and PodCast for week ending Jan 27, 2019 celebrates the 300th episode of ControlTalk NOW with our guests: Lynxspring’s Marc Petock, Jackson Control’s Roger Rebennack, and EasyIO’s Mike Marston, and Lim Hoon Chiat. A very special thanks to all the members of the ControlTrends Community that joined in on our celebration, particularly, the team at Jackson Control; Ken Sinclair, Automated Buildings; Howard Berger, Realcomm; Jim Hayman, CGNA; Aaron Gorka, ANT Technologies; and Stephen Johnson, McKenney’s. Eric and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts, as we make ready for the next 300 episodes. Standing Room Only Session –> Next Generation HVAC Controls: Open Hardware – Open Software. The panel of Brad White, Nicolas Waern, Calvin Slater, and Zach Nestov laid out their concepts of next generation of Open Hardware and Open Software to a standing room only crowd at their session at the 2019 AHR EXPO. The opinions from the attendees was remarkably candid and often contrary to the panel’s as the transformative changes disrupting the BAS industry naturally set many of the old-school traditionalist’s viewpoints at odds with the extraordinary economic implications of espousing open (free) hardware and software. Tridium University: Don’t Miss These Training Courses offered Throughout 2019. Tridium University is offering a wide variety of training courses across the world in the coming months. Our award-winning instructors and certified training partners stand ready to help the global Niagara Community innovate with Niagara solutions. The Smart Building Automation Evolution: From Ethernet to Emotion. Join Ken Sinclair, Therese Sullivan and Brad White as they discuss Smart Building controls evolution over the last twenty years. The smart building controls evolution is closely coupled with the internet. What has changed in the 20 years of the Internet? Cost is down; speed is up, everything has an IP address, the Internet has become clouded with powerful microcomputers that are out on the edge, self-learning and sharing their intelligence with everyone – and everyone is continuously connected. The post Celebrating Our 300th Episode of ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast appeared first on ControlTrends.

Ellayne Kaplan and Howard Berger have built a beautiful partnership, weaving together their unique life stories and backgrounds as they created a family, and found their way as teachers, activists and Jewish communal leaders.  In this episode they share reflections on family, on the changes […]

This week, we have a returning friend, Howard Berger. You may remember Howard from episode 74 of DREAM THINK DO. He's an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning special effects artist. He and his KNB EFX Group have been involved with over 800 feature films and television shows… including the Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, the Orville, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (which he won an Oscar), Hitchcock, and every Quentin Tarantino movie… just to name a few. The first film that he worked on was Aliens, and he did that the day after he graduated from high school. If you go to his IMDb page, you'll realize that he's touched just about every horror movie that's scared the stuffing out of you the last 20+ years!  I can't wait to talk again, so let's get to this! Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: IMBD Page: https://imdb.to/2z3qVpt INTERVIEW: Howard, welcome back to DREAM THINK DO. Thank you so much. That was a good intro. It was definitely shorter than the last one. I think so.  The last time, I think I went about 10 minutes because the list is so long!  I knew I needed to keep this one under five minutes. I put it out to the DREAM THINK DO community that you were coming back. I said, "Alright, what would you ask Howard this time?" And we got flooded with some great questions, so I can't wait to pepper those in as we go. But what have you been up to lately? I've been busy with KNB, which this is its 30th year in existence. Greg Nicotero and I own it and run it for the last 30 years. I was talking with someone the other day about how we used to do all movie work, rarely TV. Now it's tons of television, be it Netflix, or AMC, or whatever it is. TV has become more of a creative venue for us than feature films to some degree. We love working on movies; it's a whole different animal too. But, it's been great. I started working on Seth McFarland's Sci-Fi drama comedy hit, the Orville. Then I got approached for a TV show called Legion. This was for season two. I signed on to that, then Orville went over. I had planned for two weeks off. I had three days. I had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and I was on set Monday for Legion for the next several months, and then I went onto a film with Mark Wahlberg, a film called Mile 22 that's coming out August third. My wife Miriam and I just got back from Atlanta, where we shot Mile 22. I had four days off, and then started another movie with Mark. Kind of a family comedy called Instant Family that'll be out next year, I think Valentine's Day. We just finished, and I just got home, and I'm just getting acclimated to my house, my bed, my things that I haven't seen in seven months. Well, you know you've been away for a long time when you get to your own bed and go, "This is the best hotel I've been in for a long time." Yeah, you feel like you're on location in LA.   That's amazing. It leads into one of my first questions. So, you love what you're doing, but that's a tough schedule for anybody, whether you love what you're doing or not. How do you stay fresh when you're running a marathon like that? What are some of the things you do for Howard to cultivate creativity, to stay fresh as you're doing this? Well, I'm not getting any younger. I find that what keeps me going is I love everything I do. So, I'm always enthusiastic about the people I work with, and the projects I work on. I always try to have as much fun on everything as I can. But, on my days off, I like to not think about it, and I just need to decompress. I love spending time with my wife. We are big foodies. When we were in Atlanta, I literally would plan Friday, Saturday, Sunday because there are so many great restaurants in Atlanta. Oh, it's amazing, yeah. So, we had seven months of amazing restaurants. I think we ate at one restaurant three times. That was the most. I like just chilling and taking long walks,

In part two of my conversation with Special Makeup Effects legend Howard Berger we discuss how he became involved with The Orville. Howard tells the listeners about the initial makeup testing day with Seth MacFarlane and Jon Favreau. He also highlights how he earns production's trust which enables him to continuously think outside the box with his creations. We also discuss his work on Legion and how they came up with the designs and final makeups for the Minotaur and Vermillion.  Lastly, Howard answers fan questions to close the show.

This week special makeup effects legend, Howard Berger joins me on the show. In the episode (Part One), Howard discusses how he got his start in the industry at an incredibly young age, and how his parents helped and encouraged him along the way. Howard shares with the listeners how his company KNB EFX Group came about and tells a variety of incredibly entertaining film stories involving him and other group members of KNB EFX. Lastly, we discuss his Academy Award for Best Achievement in Makeup, and how it may or may not have changed his career. Please check out this episode as Howard is by far one of the best storytellers I know, and is sure to entertain you this week with his two-part series on the Film Revered Podcast.

Planetary Union Network: The Orville Fan Podcast (episode 020) is pleased to welcome Oscar and Emmy winning Howard Berger of KNB EFX Group (The Orville Special Make-Up Effects & Make-Up Department Head), who leads the team responsible for the many aliens that you see on each episode of The Orville. Co-hosts Dan, Joe, and Michael chat with Howard about his long distinquished (and not so distinquished?) career in special effects make-up and how his contribution to "enhance" Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights lead to him joining the crew on The Orville. Be sure to follow Planetary Union Network: The Orville Fan Podcast on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr.

Episode 228: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for week ending June 19, 2017 was recorded in San Diego, CA, at the RealComm|IBcon 2017 event. Join guest host Marc Petock and three special interviews, muRata’s Tom Takesian, Memoori’s Jim McHale, and Intelligent Buildings’ Rob Murchinson as we discuss some of the most prominent take-aways from the show. Congratulations to Lynxspring’s JENEsys IoT Edge Controller for winning the 2017 RealComm Digie Award BEST TECH INNOVATION INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS. CTN 228 ControlTalk Now Live From IBcon Week Ending June 18, 2017 from Eric Stromquist on Vimeo. RealComm|IBcon Pre-Conference Event Opens with CRE Cybersecurity Forum in San Diego. ControlTrends is joined by Ken Sinclair, owner and editor of AutomatedBuildings.com and Therese Sullivan, editor of BuildingContrext.me, as we review some of the highlights of RealComm|IBcon’s Day 1, starting with the CRE Cybersecurity Forum, which brought the best cybersecurity minds in the business together — to address the most impactful cyber threats, share their wealth of industry experience and knowledge, and help attendees set cybersecurity benchmarks and strategies for their organizations. RealComm|IBcon 2017 General Session Conference Kickoff: Technology – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – The Pace Increases! Keynote speaker Larry Smarr gave a humorous and mind-blowing summary of technology’s past, present, and future. Larry is the founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego and UC Irvine Partnership. He began his research career nearly 50 years ago in relativistic astrophysics and in 1985 became the founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC, birthplace of NCSA Mosaic which drove the Web. RealComm|IBcon 2017 Sets New Industry Precedents — DAY 3, Smart Buildings Best Practices Showcase, Vendor Show, & Educational Breakouts. Jim Young, Howard Berger, Lisa Woods, and team RealComm continue to set the new and significant standards in the Professional Trade Show, Networking, and Educational environment. It was all there, teed up for your ease of attenance: Cyber – IT and Real Estate Information, Real Estate Investment Management, The Changing Workforce, Innovation Tech Tours, and so much more! Stay tuned for more ControlTrends video coverage of this amazing event. ControlTalk NOW first interview is muRata’s Tom Takesian. Murata is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of advanced electronic materials, leading edge electronic components, and multi-functional, high-density modules. Murata innovations can be found in a wide range of applications from mobile phones to home appliances, and automotive applications to energy management systems and healthcare devices. ControlTalk NOW second interview is with Memoori’s Jim McHale, the Managing Director, Owner & Founder. Memoori is a consultancy company based in Stockholm providing independent market research, business intelligence and advice on Smart Building technologies. Memoori presents a brand new report, building on our portfolio of building technology related research. This independent study makes an objective assessment of the Prospects for the Internet of Things market in Smart Buildings from 2016 to 2021. ControlTalk NOW’s third interview is Rob Murchinson of Intelligent Buildings, LLC. Intelligent Buildings, LLC is a Smart Real Estate professional services company. About Intelligent Buildings, LLC: We provide planning and implementation management of next generation strategy for new building projects, existing portfolio optimization and smart community development. Additionally, we consult with future-minded solution providers who seek to be more attuned to owner’s next generation strategy, including product development and go-to market strategy. The post Episode 228: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending June 19, 2017 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Not everyone can say they made a college from scratch, but Dr. Anthony Paustian did. A former air force pilot and marketing VP, he created the West campus of DMACC which hosted ciWeek featuring speakers like Grant Imahara, Thomas Dolby, Steve Wozniak, LeVar Burton, Dr. Hugh Herr, Howard Berger, Daymond John, Kari Byron, who endorsed his new book A Quarter Million Steps. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info

Mayor's Townhall – LRT EditionFred Eisenberger, Mayor for the City of Hamilton.Tom Galloway, Councillor in Kitchener-Waterloo.Ken Seiling, Regional Chair in Kitchener-Waterloo. Iconic and fun musical MAMMA MIA returns to Theatre Aquarius tomorrow.Ron Ullrich, Artistic Director of Theatre Aquarius.Cailin Stadnyk & Sophie, actresses, Mamma Mia The Maple Leafs are leading their series right now, after a OT win for Game 3.Howard Berger. Long-time Leafs reporter/Blogger, Between the Posts

The Maple Leafs are leading their series right now, after a OT win for Game 3.Howard Berger. Long-time Leafs reporter/Blogger, Between the Posts

The Maple Leafs are leading their series right now, after a OT win for Game 3.Howard Berger. Long-time Leafs reporter/Blogger, Between the Posts

Mike chats with Howard Berger about his 23 years at The Fan 590, the blog he started the day he was fired, and whether he'll ever work in the MSM again.

Leafs fans rejoiced this weekend as the team clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs. What challenges does the team face going forward? Howard Berger. Long-time Leafs reporter/Blogger, Between the Posts

Episode 218: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for week ending Mar 12, 2017 features our interview with one of the most knowledgeable experts in the HVAC Industry, Scott Cochrane, CEO of Cochrane Supply & Engineering out of Detroit, MI., who welcomes the ControlTrends Community to join Cochrane Supply in celebrating their 50th anniversary in grand style this June, at the Controls-Con. Register now for the EasyIO Global Partners May Event in Manchester, UK and 2017 Haystack Connect, in Tamp, FL; CGNA and Schneider Electric present Building Insights; Tridium’s Software Maintenance Agreement update; and more 2016 ControlTrends Awards video highlights. CGNA Web Institute’s Presentation of Schneider Electric’s Building Insights – Control and Management – A Game Changer for Small Buildings. CGNA’s Jim Hayman and Peter Phan host David Moody, Schneider Electric’s North American Sales Support Manager, who rolls out a new Schneider Electric solution — to be made available from a CGNA Member Distributor near you. Introducing Schneider Electric’s Building Insights — a cloud-based Solution for Multi-site Energy Management that is a game-changer for small buildings. Tridium Announces Important Changes to Niagara 4 Software Maintenance Agreements. Dear VYKON Partner, The best way to reduce risk and stay current is to pair Niagara with a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA). This is especially true with Niagara 4 because of all that’s new about this next-generation software release. Please note that effective April 1, 2017, Niagara 4 SMAs will change in the following ways: * Restriction from stocking extended maintenance: Due to the nature of the extended maintenance model, Tridium will restrict the stocking of extended maintenance parts. * Removal from WEB Channel: Those with the ability to access and purchase through WEB Channel will not have the option to purchase extended maintenance parts via WEB Channel. * Maximum maintenance period: Maintenance cannot be purchased for any period beyond December 31, 2025 (i.e. 10 years from the release of Niagara 4). Please contact us if you have questions. As always, we appreciate your business. ControlTrends is the source for HVAC and Smart Building News IFSEC Global — Nominate Your Pick for the Most Influential People in Security and Fire 2017. Nominate your pick for the most influential people in security and fire 2017! We’re giving away £100 Amazon vouchers for the 5 most well-argued nominations. This year we’re revamping the process: nominations only count if accompanied by explanations and we’re breaking the list down into categories to make it more representative of the industry as a whole. Results will be announced in the IFSEC Security Briefing on 11 April 2017. AWE USA 2017: Auggie Award Nominations Now Open — Augmented and Virtual World SuperStars. AWE USA 2017 is shaping up to be our biggest event yet. We’ve just added Google Tango, Oculus, Sketchfab and Unity to our line up which already included the likes of ODG, Samsung, Meta, Intel, Microsoft, Huawei, Wayfair, NASA and more. Check out all of the participating organizations on our website. Santa Clara, California May 31-June 2, 2017. Register here. ControlTalk NOW Interview with one of the most knowledgeable experts in the HVAC Industry, Scott Cochrane, CEO of Cochrane Supply & Engineering out of Detroit, MI., who welcomes the ControlTrends Community to join Cochrane Supply in celebrating their 50th anniversary in grand style this June, at the Controls-Con 2017, proudly hosted by Cochrane Supply & Engineering. CONTROLS-CON will take place June 8th and 9th, 2017 at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit, Michigan. This fast-paced, education-packed event will bring together hundreds of integrators and end users from throughout the United States and Canada to explore the latest technologies and possibilities of Building Controls and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Meet the 2016 ControlTrends Awards Executives of The Year. One of the evening’s most exciting highlights is the Executive of the Year Award. Special Congratulations to the 2016 ControlTrends Executive of the Year — Small Manufacturer: Terry Swope, Lynxspring and Troy Schwenn, ACI and the 2016 ControlTrends Executive of the Year — Large Manufacturer: Jenny Stentz, Johnson Controls and Martin Villeneuve, Distech Controls! EasyIO Global Partner Event will unveil and officially release awesome new products and features to further enhance building and energy solutions for all types of buildings. ndor/easy-io/03/easyio-world-conference-manchester-united-uk-22-may-2017-early-bird-tickets-for-easyio-global-conference-now-available/”>EasyIO World Conference, Manchester United, UK – 22 May 2017 — Early Bird Tickets for EasyIO Global Conference now available! The 2016 ControlTrends Awards Building Automation Controls System of The Year. Watch all the excitement as Johnson Controls wins one of the most prestigious awards of the evening, the 2016 ControlTrends Awards Building Automation Control System of the Year Award. Special thanks to our guest presenters — Realcomm|IBcon’s Howard Berger and Lisa Woods. Haystack Connect 2017 Promo Video — May 8th-10th at Saddlebrook Resort, Tampa, FL. A Unique Conference: The building automation, energy efficiency, and IoT markets have a variety of events. Some are under the control of a single manufacturer. Some are large conferences where the needs of systems integrators, technology vendors and their customers are lost in a sea of unrelated products and content that are not relevant. Haystack Connect directly serves the needs of the community that is on the leading edge of applying smart data, smart devices, smart equipment and smart building technologies to create a more efficient and sustainable world. Register here. The post Episode 218: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending Mar 12, 2017 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Jose Bautista has agreed to a one year deal with the Blue Jays with an option of two mutual option years. Is this a good thing for the team? Howard Berger. Long-time Leafs reporter/Blogger, Between the Posts

Canada suffered a loss after losing to the United States in a shootout. Where did Canada go wrong in the game? Howard Berger. Long-time Leafs reporter/Blogger, Between the Posts

ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending Jan 1, 2017 recaps the year’s major event coverage, highlights many of the 2016 Most Impactful Videos, and gives a preview of the upcoming 2016 ControlTrends Awards in Las Vegas. As always, we thank you, the global ControlTrends Community, for your continued patronage and support. 2016 was an amazing year for our industry — full of disruption, acquisitions, and growth, and from the early news and activity, and the events on the near horizon, 2017 portends to be even better. Please help us recognize the best products, solutions, and people in our industry. Cast your VOTE for 2016 ControlTrends Awards today! 2016 ControlTrends Most Impactful Video of the Year: Welcome to Alerton — An introduction to Alerton and an Alerton Building. Alerton is totally committed to helping you get the best performance from your buildings. We are a pioneer and an industry leader in providing building management solutions for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning equipment for all types and sizes of buildings. We also help simplify building management by integrating fire, life safety, lighting, access management and other building systems. 2016 Energy Savings Solution Product of the Year Finalist: JCI VSD Active Energy. The patented active energy control Generation 2 Variable Speed Drives from Johnson Controls provides energy savings, quick easier connections, and a fast payback. These globally compliant, innovative and intuitive VSD’s allow seamless integration and can be used with Facility Explorer and other Building Automation Systems. 2016 ControlTrends Most Impactful Video of the Year: DG LOGIK’s Project Assist 2.0 for Facilities. DGLogik introduces Project Assist 2.0 for facilities, a step by step wizard that allows users to create an HTML5 interface to manage and monitor facility data. It delivers a faster, simpler and more intuitive user experience, offering full flexibility and customization without diving into the full design and development environment of DGLux5. 2016 Best Technical Support Company — Small Manufacturer Finalist: Contemporary Controls. Talk about customer support, take a look at this exciting offer from Contemporary Controls: December 2016 release – We keep reading about “easy” Modbus to BACnet gateways, but our competitors still require the user to make their own device profiles on a point-by-point basis, which can take hours of development time when you are trying to integrate a Modbus device into a BACnet inter-network. We have a much better solution for our customers – have Joe do the work! 2016 ControlTrends Highlight: On the Red Carpet at the 2015 ControlTrends Awards. 2015 ControlTrends Awards Red Carpet Interviews (Caution: Superstars and Super Heroes Entering Stage Right). Great ControlTrends Awards interviews with Ken Sinclair, Automated Buildings and Brad White, SES Engineering, discuss the Young Guns Awards (Climate Superheroes), the AHR EXPO Industry Service Award, the global growth of ControlTrends Community and Hans Kranz’s Hall of Fame induction; along with interviews with Johan Schakenraad, CEO, EasyIO Europe; Allison and Scott Cochrane, Cochrane Supply; Alerton’s Amy Doran and Kevin Callahan; and BASSG’s Alper Uzmezler. How to protect your building automation controls systems from hackers ControlTalk Now Rewind: Fearless Phil Zito. Check out what our friend and Smart Buildings Controls Expert, “Fearless Phil Zito”, had to say about his new book and the current state of Building Automation Controls and how hackers are getting into your building automation controls system and what you can do to stop them. Check out Phil’s list of his 10 top 2016 articles and podcasts on his Building Automation Monthly website. Phil’s mission is to provide the best online Building Automation training to prepare 20,000 people to enter the building automation space by 2025. Building Automation and Smart Buildings best of 2016 ControlTrends Highlights: A Final Look at the 2016 ControlTrends Awards. The 2015 ControlTrends Awards were held yesterday evening at Orlando’s Hard Rock Live, located at the door step to the amazing Universal Studios. Hard Rock Live was a most befitting venue to celebrate the heroes and superstars of our HVAC and the Building Automation industries. Marc Petock and Kimberly Brown co-hosted the awards ceremony that recognized the 2015 ControlTrends heroes and superstars of the HVAC and Building Automation industry. The 2015 seven Top Gun Awards recipients were recognized (separate post to follow) as was Ed Merwin, who received the coveted Petock Award. Smart Buildings and Building Automation Controls 2016 ControlTrends Highlights: Opening Day The Niagara Summit. ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast and Podcast for week ending May 15, 2016 is all about DAY 1 @ 2016 Niagara Summit in New Orleans — and another apex moment in the Building Renaissance movement, where over 1300 of the world’s top developers, programmers, building owners, engineers and executives have joined Nino DiCosmo and the Tridium staff to participate in forums, presentations and breakout sessions that will set the precedence and pace in the realm of smart, intelligent, and connected buildings. Over 300 developer partners participated in the future of Niagara 4 at the Boot Camp session. The evening Welcome Reception was kicked off in true Mardi Gras fashion with a police-escort led parade ending at the fabulous Champions Square. ControlTrends Talks to Honeywell’s Larry Weber about smart building control 2016 ControlTrends Highlights: Larry Weber at CGNA. Honeywell’s Larry Weber on Light Commercial Smart Controls — Sustain and Maintain Small to Medium Size Buildings. At the 2016 CGNA Synergy Conference, ControlTrends caught up with Honeywell’s Larry Weber, General Manager Building Control Systems (BCS) Honeywell Environmental Control and Combustion. It is quite apparent that Larry and Honeywell have their hands directly on the pulse of the Smart Buildings controls renaissance. 2016 ControlTrends HighLights: The Roger Rebennack Experience. The Roger Rebennack Experience — was held over the Memorial Holiday weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — where over 80 Honeywell customers from all parts of North America joined Roger, Honeywell, and 350,000 racing fans for the spectacular 100th Anniversary Run of the Indy 500. This 3-day extravaganza is unrivaled, mixing the thrill of the greatest race of the year with two concerts, the Indy 500 museum, celebrities, and life-long memories. Contact your Honeywell distributor or representative today and get your engines started for next year’s Roger Rebennack Experience. 2016 ControlTrends Most Impactful Video of the Year: EasyIO Europe – The Rules Have Changed. The goal of EasyIO Europe is to deliver Energy Management Systems that improve the well-being of people, by optimizing the interaction between humans, buildings, and work. We are committed to provide strategy to energy savings driven by strategic partnerships with technology leader EasyIO and complementary solutions. Our unique Energy Analyzing Dashboard Solution and FG Controllers make us an ideal value-added partner for System Integrators, OEM’s. and National Accounts. ControlTrends covers Smart Buildings and Building Automation Controls Solutions 2016 ControlTrends Highlights: Day One Recap Realcomm|IBcon. Ken Sinclair, Automated Buildings and Therese Sullivan, Building Context joined Rob Allen and ControlTrends at the end of DAY 1 outside the San Jose Convention Center, where the Jim Young, Howard Berger, and Lisa Woods and the Realcomm team successfully launched the start of IBcon 2016. Pre-conference events that brought together some of the top visionary experts from around the globe to discuss the latest trends and technologies — and present the world’s most advanced, next-gen smart building case studies. IBcon break-out sessions included the Information Systems & Smart Buildings CYBERSECURITY Forum; Intelligent Buildings Boot Camp; and Smart Building Integrator Summit. ControlTrends covers the 2016 Real Comm Ibcon Smart Buildings conference 2016 ControlTrends Highlights: IBcon Recap. This ControlTrends Highlight takes a deeper dive into Realcomm/IBcon 2016 with Marc Petock joining us as co-host. Our first special guest was Intelligent Buildings’ Co-founder, Intelligent Buildings, Tom Shircliff, who shares his insight into some of the new technologies displayed at the show — soon to impact the industry, and the increased emphasis on water. Cyber security must be elevated to an organization’s highest priority, and physical measures, often overlooked, are of extreme importance to an effective cyber security program. ControlTalk Now is the Weekly news source for smart building and building automation controls 2016 ControlTrends HighLights: Episode 200 of ControlTalk Now at JBC 2016. ControlTrends was delighted to bring you our 200th episode of ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for week ending October 9th, 2016, while covering DAY 2 of the Johnson Controls’ CBC16! Providence would have us at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland, which was an ideal venue — full of special people to help us celebrate our momentous occasion. Special thanks to Roger Rebennack, Jenny Stentz, Chris Eichmann, Rick Van Buren, Russ Carfagna, John Donahue, Dave Gottfried, Jeff Hurwitz, Joe Chandler, Jim Hayman, Pete Walsh, Paul Burke, and the too numerous to name well-wishers and supporters of ControlTrends, that helped make this milestone happen! Control Trends cover smart buildings controls company KMC 2016 ControlTrends Highlights: KMC Genius Conference. From Nashville to Chicago, and from JCI to KMC, this has been the week of Smart Buildings Controls meetings. KMC’s Genius Conference theme was “Command Your future”. KMC rolled out all the stops with a great location, great speakers, innovative ideas, and training on KMC’s new light commercial system,the Commander. KMC Commander is the most advanced Internet of Things (IoT) platform for enterprise-level building automation and control. Commander offers cutting-edge integration, analytics, and visualization technology in real-time delivered on your mobile device. Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings January, 2017 Theme: “Our Assets are People, not Technology.” We might suppose that it was the relentless rays of disruptive IoT light recently shone on our industry, that inspired Ken Sinclair, owner and editor of Automated Buildings, to rewrite his Automated Buildings’ mission statement, entitled: “Be the Catalysis/Harbinger of the IoT Future of Building Automation.” Yet, the real focus of the AB’s January, 2017 edition is the concept that people are still our greatest asset, not technology. As Ken reminds us, “We need to focus instead on our only assets, our people who have all been through several technology shifts in their life. They have seen hardware evaporate into software and become data in the IoT cloud or processes acted on at the edge.” 2016 ControlTrends Highlights: Coverage of the Siemens CPS October Business National Sales Meeting in Chicago. ControlTrends coverage of the Siemens CPS Business National Sales Meeting in Chicago features interviews with John Katzmarszyk, VP Americas, Commercial Products and Solutions, who explains Siemens’ effort to be more open, honest, and engaging to their partners, make more products and solutions available, and be more effective business partners. ControlTrends’ next interview is with Siemens Territory Manager and ControlTrends Woman of the Year nominee, Ruth Hershey. The post Episode 210: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending Jan 1, 2017 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Newest Episode of Bank On It. George and Joey break down the Stanley Cup Finals with Howard Berger, have a spelling bee re-match, and have exclusive audio of Joc Pederson getting dissed by Barry Bonds. Enjoy!

Newest Episode of Bank On It. George and Joey break down the Raptors Game 7, talk NHL Draft Lottery with Howard Berger, and recap what happened in the NFL Draft with Josh Liskiewitz. Enjoy!

Mike chats with Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons about his years at the Sun, his relationships with Damien Cox, David Shoalts and James Mirtle, his thoughts on analytics in hockey, his Phil Kessel story about hot dogs, how he got Howard Berger fired and what it was like being a day oner at The Fan 590, The Team 1050 and The Score.

In this episode of the DREAM.THINK.DO. podcast, let's enter the world of special effects with my guest, Emmy- and Oscar-winning special effects artist, Howard Berger. Listen To The Podcast:        Get ready to hear from a true master of his craft! My guest today, Emmy-and Oscar-winning special effects artist Howard Berger, has been playing in the world of film and TV for 35 years. I'd say “working” but that doesn't do justice to the nature of Howard's incredible career. Encouraged by amazing parents, he took a childhood passion for monster movies and turned it into a profession—basically starting the day after graduating high school. In 1988, he and fellow artist Greg Nicotero founded the KNB EFX Group. Since then… they've set the gold standard for special effects make-up in Hollywood. The company has brought its seemingly inexhaustible creativity to everything from "Dances with Wolves" and "Pulp Fiction" to "The Chronicles of Narnia" films and the wildly successful AMC series "The Walking Dead." I can say… without a shadow of a doubt… there's something for you in this interview whether you're a creative, an entrepreneur, a sci-fi geek (like me) or… a parent looking to foster their kids' creativity! In this episode, you will . . . • Get Howard's take on good business fundamentals and his no-excuses approach to failure • Understand how working with others is an opportunity to both educate and to be educated • Learn how even Howard pushes himself beyond the comfort zone • Hear cool behind-the-scenes stories from Howard's prolific career [Tweet "“No one cares more about your business than you.” – Howard Berger"] EPISODE RESOURCES The KNB EFX Group The KNB EFX Group | Facebook  

ControlTalk NOW for the week ending June 14, 2015, features 2015 Realcomm|IBcon and Conference Live video highlights and interviews with Delta Controls’ Una de Boer, SkyFoundry’s John Petze, Lynxspring’s Marc Petock, Hepta Controls’ Ted and Jason Houck, Intelligent Buildings’ Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison. ControlTrends thanks its global community that helped ControlTrends surpass 1,000,000 views! Fred Gordy’s Cyber Security Terms and Definition – Part 1. Just like in the controls industry, cybersecurity has its share of acronyms, terms, etc. Wading through these can be overwhelming. The list below is some of the terms you may have heard or probably will hear sometime in the near future. Rather than cram a bunch of terms/definitions into one post, I will post terms periodically in my blog. IBCON Day 1 Highlights. Eric Stromquist and Young Gun, Rob Allen review the events of Day 1 and Pro-Con, where the Real Estate industry meets the Smart Buildings and the people who provide the equipment, devices, and solutions that are pushing the improvements around the globe. Congratulations to Jim Young and Howard Berger for another incredible and successful event. Stay tuned for more video coverage. Jonathan Schultz at IBcon 2015. You meet the the coolest people at RealComm/IBcon. Case in point, I was sitting behind the fascinating Jonathan Schultz at the Cyber Security break out session. Jonathan,co-founder of Onyx Equities shares his thoughts on cyber threats to commercial real estate, and how he using data analytics to create a more profitable portfolio of properties. Be sure to check out Jonathan’s blog. Catching Up with Paul Oswald CBRE/ESI. Paul Oswald and ESI develop innovative solutions that enable commercial property occupiers and owners to efficiently manage their building systems and remotely monitor and analyze energy usage in real time to identify and achieve potential savings. ESI is providing analytics-driven managed services on over 180 million sq. ft. of facilities at over 2,800 sites throughout the U.S. ESI was acquired April 14, 2015 by CBRE Group, Inc. Conference Live: Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison on Keeping Buildings Secure. Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchinson, from Intelligent Buildings, a smart buildings Consulting Company out of Charlotte, NC, share their vast industry experience consulting building owners in over 85 cities around the world. One of the big takeaways is for building owners to take the small steps first whether they are dealing with energy and operational efficiencies or cyber security. Rob Allen Breaks Down ClockWorks. Rob Allen caught up with Nicholas Gayeski, from KGS Buildings. Nick showed Rob a very cool analtyics package called Clock Works. KGS Buildings offers market leading automated diagnostics and building performance management software and services to facility managers, engineers, and service providers. RealComm/IBcon Day 2 Highlights from San Antonio, TX. Day 2’s General Session featured Bran Ferren. Few people understand more about nurturing ideas and waiting for the world to understand them than Bran Ferren. Bran is an American technologist, engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, and inventor. 7.5 billion people and 7 billion cell phones in use. Ted and Jason Houck at Conference Live, 2015 Realcomm/IBcon. I got to catch up with two of most the prolific integrators in the business, Ted and Jason Houck from Hepta Systems. Hepta Control Systems is an award-winning leader in integrated building automation and security controls. They provide single driver seat solutions for energy efficiency, security, and tenant comfort systems. Catching Up With Marc Petock at 2015 Realcomm/IBcon — Conference Live. Marc Petock, VP Marketing, Lynxspring, shares his thoughts on Cyber Security IoT at the 2015 Realcomm/IBcon Conference Live Show. Marc summarized the situation, “Cyber Security has grown from a little side conversation to something first and foremost on everybody’s mind.” Catching Up With Delta Controls’ Una de Boer. One of the great things about the Realcomm/IBcon conference is getting to spend time with cool people. Una de Boer of Delta Controls is one of the brightest marketing professionals in building automation controls. Una fills us in on what is going on at Delta Controls and gets Keith La Rose to give us a product demo on the latest features in their CopperTree Analytics platform, which include Haystack tagging. KMC Commander Awarded Best Intelligent Building Technology Innovation at Realcomm IBCon. San Antonio, Texas – June 11, 2015 KMC Controls, a leader in building automation systems, was awarded the Best Intelligent Building Technology Innovation Award at the 2015 Realcomm IBCon conference in San Antonio, Texas. The post ControlTalk NOW Week Ending June 14, 2015 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Mike chats with Elliotte Friedman about his years at The Fan, Headline Sports / The Score, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and Rogers Hockey. We talk Howard Berger, Damian Goddard, Bobcat, Corsi, Glenn Healy and more.

The Fame Fatale comes of age today with its 21st podcast. Woot. Jello shots for everybody. And here's a prezzie for all you, a Hobbit birthday gift, if you will: Three more of your questions about the inner machinations of Hollywood, answered! “Such as?” you query. Very well:Is your favorite TV star looking particularly shellacky this season—or just extremely zit-tastic like the poor vampires on True Blood? If the wonders of high-def have been distracting for you, just imagine what it's like for top Hollywood makeup artists, who deal with it every flippin' day. Actually, don't imagine. Just listen to the dish from Howard Berger, whose work spans everything from Breaking Bad to Oz the Great and Powerful, and who does battle with high-def using nothing but brushes and wit.The death of The Bachelor's Gia Allemand has one of my listeners wondering whether reality TV producers screen potential contestants for psychological disorders. I tracked down a psychotherapist who actually administers those tests, and got the deets.If "Blurred Lines" isn't stuck in your head right now, there's a good chance that Anna Kendrick's cup song is. Can someone get paid just for introducing cup stylings into a ditty from the Depression Era? One of you asked. And I found out.Plus! American royal highness Kelly Lynch of Celebuzz and the Spin Media empire joins me in the co-host chair this week. Go ahead and start listening.

Project JL, Wendy Starland, TWiG - The Music, Howard Berger, Liane "Little Eye"

JVonD Radio welcomes Bruno a Hollywood producer/musician and Howard Berger a local comedian. Also our super cyber buddy Kat stops in to drink some beer and keep the chat room flowing. Later in the show you'll hear skype call-ins from Tom Shad, Jack B, Oblivion, Danny J Golden, and lynchdavid.