R.I.P. Marc Johnson

[Atiba Applebum]

If @moonordie  can't receive the sticker I vote @skot5  gets it, he's already hooking people up with free MJ stickers so it seems right the he gets one himself!

They can have mine.   A bigger Dylan fan should have it. 

[GnarAlarm]

Just for fun...

[fur lined sea]

Matix was up there with Fourstar for me. I’ve never seen this, but I remember the fs heel sw manny was in his Memory Screen.

[let’s go home]

Your post reminded me of Matix’s Grateful Shred tour videos which have some MJ demofootage. Sorry, the quality is crap.
Also: RIP Van Wastell.

[fur lined sea]

So good. Matix had three of my all time favourite skaters on the one team at the same time: Marc, Van and Dgar. Those guys are all in my top 5.

[fur lined sea]

I think this is Marc’s most underrated part. I remember seeing this through Slap long after it came out and it still blew me away. Who was starting 5 trick lines with nollie flip crooks in 1996?

The other line he does there later in the part with the kickflip bs tail never gets old. I don’t know if it’s just the song, but it seems so aggressive yet smooth.

Also starting another line with the most perfect nollie bs flip tail.

Lots of big rails for the time, too. Love the bs 50 downtown somewhere. The line starting with fs flip over the rail gives me goosebumps. The song & edit rules.

Stereolab is playing a show near me in a week but it’s sold out. Would love to see them live. I was also introduced to them through MJ’s other 411 part.

[JamesFardy]

It must have been weird to be as good as he was and se most of the love go to skaters like muska and jt at the time. Some of the stuff he was doing seems SO far ahead. I do overall think everyone by and large caught on. But there seems like almost a decade or so that people were not realizing how advanced he was (I consider myself included in this).

[Atiba Applebum]

Matix was up there with Fourstar for me. I’ve never seen this, but I remember the fs heel sw manny was in his Memory Screen.

I was super into Matix back when their logo was a take off of the Val Surf logo (and it might have taken my 8th grade ass a little too long to realize it wasn’t Matrix).   When it shifted to the M with an eagle head I had kinda moved on.   

I was recently at Valsurf and tried to ask the owner guy about the similarities in the logos and got a non-answer about it.  I had thought previously matix came first, but nope.   I guess it was a loving homage or something

[skot5]

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Just for fun...

I’m gonna make some stickers of this one, if that’s okay. If there are no objections, I’ll post here when I have them in hand and mail them out to whoever requests some.

[JM]

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Just for fun...

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I’m gonna make some stickers of this one, if that’s okay. If there are no objections, I’ll post here when I have them in hand and mail them out to whoever requests some.

<3

It’s heartbreaking to know that such a loving person is gone (i have a feeling he was)

I hope he knew how loved he was.

[skot5]

Here are some pictures of the Business and Co boxes Marc would mail boards in. I love all the drawings and and the stickers he included on the outside. Also included here are some stickers I have left over that Marc threw into one of the boxes I got with an order.

Bonus is a page from a skate zine one of my 6th grade student's made about his favorite brands. Notice the MJ tribute on the Chocolate page. Notice also how much he hates Birdhouse...

Enjoy everyone. Marc Johnson forever.

[Benicio El Toro]

Hahaha really hates birdhouse.

My box looked slightly different. Post some pics tomorrow.

Thanks for being so generous skot5

[funeral_tuxedo]

Here are some pictures of the Business and Co boxes Marc would mail boards in. I love all the drawings and and the stickers he included on the outside. Also included here are some stickers I have left over that Marc threw into one of the boxes I got with an order.

Bonus is a page from a skate zine one of my 6th grade student's made about his favorite brands. Notice the MJ tribute on the Chocolate page. Notice also how much he hates Birdhouse...

Enjoy everyone. Marc Johnson forever.

These are so cool.
That good things are inside drawing is extra nice.

[Benicio El Toro]

MJ sent me a couple decks after we talked about the print situation, numerology (my address started off the convo) and coming to america (cold soup was my ig handle). Said he was into boxing at the moment. We never talked about skateboarding. Didn't want to kook it lol.

It really says a lot, after we squared up with the decks, that he still insisted that the print was on the way.

That's paseo the super senior

[Marv]

[blurst_of_times]

A Marc Johnson reading list from the October 2006 issue of The Skateboard Mag that a follower on Instagram inspired me to dig up. Anyone ever read any of these?

[Budo]

A Marc Johnson reading list from the October 2006 issue of The Skateboard Mag that a follower on Instagram inspired me to dig up. Anyone ever read any of these?

Yeah, I read 1, 2, 3, 4, and a little of 7.  This reading list actually sent me down a huge rabbit hole of reading that was pretty inspiring for me spiritually, and I ended up getting a philosophy/religions scholarship in college and I'd say this reading list played a part in that.  I know I have it saved somewhere but I haven't found it yet, this was what I wanted to share to contribute to this thread, so thank you for posting.

Beyond inspiring me to skate, Marc inspired me to read with this list more than anyone else, and I ended up becoming a Librarian, so that was one of the things I thought about after hearing about Marc.  I was at work when I found out and tears just immediately started flowing.

Love and gratitude.