Joe Rosensteel, VFX Artist, Podcaster and writer 
JonathanOn 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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