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“The actor was even an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.”

As a longtime After Effects user this blew my mind. Very cool, thanks for sharing this!

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Recalls Dick Van Dyke (still alive, by the way) being a VFX and 3D modeling hobbyist in the Video Toaster/LightWave Amiga days.

Dick's only on number two on this year's list https://deathlist.net/

This site is morbid and weird, would judge anyone contributing or viewing this pretty harshly

The list was created before the web by a bunch of English students. Who else? https://deathlist.net/lists/1987

I didn't realize how old Roberta Flack and Sonny Rollins are and that they might be close to dying. They both made important contributions to our culture. I wonder how easy it is to contact them and share my appreciation for everything they've done musically...?

Is that weird or morbid?

I wouldn’t mention the death list.

One would assume you viewed it

One would assume that one would understand one's context of one's link and that one meant taking one's link seriously instead of one looking at one's link to see what one's link was.

Wow...that list can be pretty harsh. They included Yoko Ono last year and her description was "Mrs Lennon".

That's the title of her first single from her second album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Lennon

And?

Well, considering it's a title of one of her songs, it's like saying "Shake It Off" for Taylor Swift, or "Single Ladies" for Beyoncé.

Working at an interactive museum design firm in the mid 90's we had freelancer named Claudio who insisted we buy Company of Science and Art's After Effects.

I believe the only payment terms we could work out was a Money Order or Cashier's check. The software was very expensive and he required a loaded Mac probably had Daystar Cards in it...

Interesting. Claudio definitely sounds like an identity Brando would choose. Any other details on this? Can you divulge roughly where the design firm was based?

He was not Brando but every bit as out of his mind as I had met as young and eager person trying to be useful with computers and a design background.

The design firm was Edwin Schlossberg Inc. based in NYC. We were revamping a public space in the AT&T building.

https://apops.mas.org/pops/m050018/

ESI was the best job I ever had but since it was also my first job I had no idea:)

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