Episode 7: Joe Rosensteel

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.

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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

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• 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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Music: Will LaPorte

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