Markus Rothkranz Data East pinball artist

[pinsanity]

Flipper fan to flipped out?

Certainly an "interesting" career path from this guy.

Started at Data East as a pinball art designer for some of DE's best known titles as seen here:
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?ppl=Markus+Rothkranz&sortby=date&searchtype=advanced

Now he has transformed himself into some kind of quasi motivational speaker (e.g. Anthony Robbins) extolling the virtues of a raw food (including eating the weeds in your backyard) diet and colonic irrigation. 

A short vid below from the man himself on his background pertaining to pinball. Take note of the humility - World's Number One Pinball Artist, single handedly raised the bar for 1990's pinball artwork et al. 

If you have some time to kill and need a laugh you can watch some of his other "motivational" vids but a word of caution that the underlying messages that he is promoting may cause cerebral collapse. 

[Crashramp]

 Very interesting, I didn't know there was a Michael Jordan pinball or a Arnon Milchan Pin. Who the hell is Arnon Milchan anyway?!
Really enjoyed his video also, first thing that hits you is just how incredibly humble this guy is.  I never realise how bad the art on pinball machines were prior to Markus hitting the scene in 1992. Thank god Markus was good enough to tell us. 

Nice find Pinsanity, I needed the laugh. 

[pinnies4me]

Classic! My new pin-hero for sure! Even lays claim to sculpting the worst part of JP - the T-Rex that looks more like a vegetarian. ....

[andypinboy]

Hilarious. The humility of this guy is something we should all strive for. What a role model. I like the "huge" spread that was 1 page & the Lethal Weapon backglass painted in 2 days. And like the Hoff he's bigger in Germany than the States. Oh yeah, & Slash asked him personally to do a GnR pin. We owe this guy a huge debt for saving pinball & making all the collectible machines! Holy mother...

[spacejam0]

Sounds like a classic case of fig jam.

Give me old school art work any day