Gweek 049: "I'm the son of Tinkerbell"

[Click here to play episode] Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. My co-hosts for episode 49 are Michael Pusateri, a lifelong tinkerer and former television tech executive for Disney who blogs at cruftbox.com, and Kevin Mack, an artist and visual effects supervisor.

In this episode:

Mark's Wired profile of Kevin Mack, written in 1999.

Kevin Mack's mother posing as Tinkerbell.

Kevin Mack's art site.

Michael's book pick: Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

Mark's book pick: Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson

Michael's comic pick: The Manhattan Projects

Michael's comic pick: Resident Alien

Kevin discusses the origin of the phrase “Squa Tront! Spa Fon!" "I believe it is from the story 'The Aliens' in Weird Fantasy #17 January 1953. I have the original issue."

Mark's music pick: Do Be Do - 10 Songs About Being and Doing, by The Sinatra Test.

Michael's video pick: My Name is Lizzie Bennet, a transmedia version of Pride and Prejudice done by videoblog.

Kevin: "Smithsonian Museum of American Art has an exhibit on the art of video games. I saw it when I was in DC last week."

Mark's app picks: Hotel Tonight and Got Cow?

Kevins' website picks: The Blu, now that's what I call bullshit, Weebly.

On Kevin's wish list: A transcranial direct current stimulation machine, brain wave entrainment.

• [Pickleschlitz]

  Margaret Kerry was the live action model for Tinkerbell… http://www.tinkerbelltalks.com/tink.htm

• [Noctilucent Studios]

  Is there a larger version anywhere of that cover with the jet flying over the dinos?

• [Rider]

  Is this autoplaying for everyone?

  • [TheMightyMona]

    It did for me.

  • [twianto]

    Yeah, autoplay in Chrome. Not cool.

  • [Melted Crayons]

    Yes, in chrome. Came here just to post about that.  Do not like unexpected autoplays.

  • [George Tomorrow]

    Came to say the same thing. Not cricket.

• [Mark_Frauenfelder]

  Sorry! I use Chrome and it didn’t autoplay for me. I just removed the embed code. It had AUTOSTART=”false” in the embed code so I’m not sure why it was autoplaying!

  • [twianto]

    So not some evil plot to get the play count up? How anticlimactic! ;-)

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Even odder that it didn’t autoplay for the first 19 hours that it was up.

• [theophrastvs]

  ah nevermind… i’m up for moderation. it isn’t worth it. elide away.

• [rcshore]

  Video games as transcendentalism? Mayhaps…

  http://thedeathofirony.com/2012/04/30/transcendigitalism/

• [B1adeRunner]

  In one of your recent podcast you were discussing a Galactus story from the old Marvel adult mag Epic Illustrated…this would be “Silver Surfer: Parable” by Stan Lee and the great recently deceased French artist Jean Henri Giraud under the pseudonym Moebius.