Episode 425: Jokton Strealy
The man who gave us PinShades and now PinSteps has a lot more to offer. Need a mohawk model? A fire breather? A pinball travel buddy? Jokton's your man as you'll hear on this episode.
Highlights
- Jockton Straley has had his mohawk for nearly 20 years, starting around 2006 at Burning Man
- Straley was hired by Disney in 2013-2014 to design the first Star Wars app after Disney acquired the franchise
- Straley holds a Guinness World Record for fire breathing set at Burning Man 2006 with 86 people breathing fire simultaneously, called 'Ocean of Fire'
- Pinshades were developed to solve the problem of LED light glare in dark pinball locations affecting visibility and reaction time
- Pinsteps are adjustable leveling wedges that can change machine incline in half-degree increments from 0.5 to 2 degrees
Notable quotes
“Yeah, I've had this for nearly 20 years. Now, what made you decide to do that? And I don't believe it's the natural color either.”
“And it just somehow, it transformed me into kind of a new person. And I'd always kind of hated my hair before that. It was kind of just hard to deal with and too curly and too frizzy. And it's been my favorite hairstyle ever since.”
“I can't see the ball. It's just impossible. If I just had a little bit more, it could give me a little bit more reaction time if I could get a little bit more information coming in.”
“So back in about 2014, 2013 actually, I was approached by Disney, and they wanted to hire me to design their app once they had just bought the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas.”
“And one of the things that we did was a couple of years later at, at Burning Man again, we got 86 people together that were fire breathers and we all breathed fire at the same time. And that broke a world record.”
Entities
- Disney· company
- Burning Man· event
- Freeplay Florida· event
- Indisc· event
- Pinball at the Beach· event
- Pinball Expo· event
- Pinberg· event
- Pinsonati· event
- SFGE· event
- UK Open· event
- Star Wars· game/ip
- Pinball Profile· media
- Gene Simmons· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jockton Straley· person
- Pinshades· product
- Pinsteps· product
- Pinball Lounge· venue
- The Lab· venue
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