Joe Rosensteel, VFX Artist, Podcaster and writer

On this episode, we’re joined by Joe Rosensteel. Joe is a VFX artist who’s worked on big-name Hollywood productions as well as smaller commercial projects. He’s a writer on his own blog and for the Six Colors website, and he also has a podcast with Dan Sturm called Defocused.

First, Last, Everything is a podcast exploring people’s personal relationships with technology. In each episode, host Jonathan Reed gets to know a guest through three pieces of tech: their first inspiration, their last obsession, and the one that meant everything to them. From some software or a computer to a weird gadget or a first camera. Pretty much anything goes.

In addition, each episode features the ‘Something’ segment, a small dive into the past to talk about a piece of technology that you may not have heard of. Weird, ahead of its time, an abject failure or success, whatever it was, it was certainly… something.

This episode’s links

Shake it off: Remembering Apple’s Academy Award–winning failure - Six Colors

Stunt Copter game - Nostalgic Mac on YouTube

ClarisWorks on Wikipedia

‘Cast Away’ and the story behind Imageworks’ in-house compositing software - before and afters

Joe on Mastodon

Joe’s blog, ‘Unauthoritative Pronouncements’

Defocused podcast on The Incomparable

Joe’s ‘First’: Macintosh Plus on Wikipedia, Official Apple tech specs page

Joe’s ‘Last’: iPhone 16 Pro on Wikipedia

Joe’s ‘Everything’: Twitter on Wikipedia

‘Something’: Apple Pippin on Wikipedia, 512 Pixels: The Apple Pippin on YouTube

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