Marc Johnson Skateboard Mag Interview

[yungthug]

The stuff he said about filming for Fully Flared was fascinating - it's interesting to get a glimpse into the making of one of the most heavy skate parts ever. Damn, I can't even imagine pushing myself that hard for a video part. The last five or so minutes of that video were painful though. Yeah we get it, fashion trends are a thing.

[Rumpleforeskin]

"I wrote a pretty well-known book"  - Oscar Wilde

[A.J.K.]

Weird how he sees the first few generations of skateboarders completely biting surfing or punk as acceptable, but thinks it's stupid how more recent generations did exactly the same thing just with different sources.

[shark tits]

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Marc Johnson should shut up and skate. Nothing he said was insightful or revelatory. Others have said what he said more eloquently.

'Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.' - Oscar Wilde.

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were you being ironic using a quotation about people using quotations?

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Were you being ironic by asking?

nah i was being curious cause i couldn't tell if you were being clever. that shit cracked me up but i wasn't 100 that it was intentional.

[botefdunn]

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Marc Johnson should shut up and skate. Nothing he said was insightful or revelatory. Others have said what he said more eloquently.

'Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.' - Oscar Wilde.

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were you being ironic using a quotation about people using quotations?

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Were you being ironic by asking?

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nah i was being curious cause i couldn't tell if you were being clever. that shit cracked me up but i wasn't 100 that it was intentional.

post-meta posting

[Canuck]

i'm glad someones thinking in skateboarding. 

Yeah. This.

I like everything he said. But, I don't know how accurate what he said about skaters in the early 90s is? Then again, I wasn't around to witness it. I don't have any special education related to cultural studies or whatever, but I think all cultures borrow and re-purpose stuff all the time. Skateboarders aren't special in that way. That's something that creative humans do.

Come to think of it, it's kinda weird how we always think we're better than the rest of society for being into stuff before other people catch on. That's pretty wack mentality. Why should this matter?

[pizzafliptofakie]

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I just really, really, really don't care about other dude's clothing. And I'm not sure why others actively do.

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Well.. When you watch someone skateboarding, which is something most skateboarders do a lot, you're looking at how they look when they're on their skateboard, and what they are wearing can affect this?

I can't think of a single example where somebody's clothing has affected how I view their skating. I'm not that shallow.

[wiggitywiggity]

going against the grain is the new mainstream, duh.

btw, I'm calling it right now, within the next 2 years, people will skate in coveralls. mark my words

Maybe not the whole 9 yards, but Dolan did rock some overalls in 'Meet The Lurkers'.

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I just really, really, really don't care about other dude's clothing. And I'm not sure why others actively do.

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Well.. When you watch someone skateboarding, which is something most skateboarders do a lot, you're looking at how they look when they're on their skateboard, and what they are wearing can affect this?

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I can't think of a single example where somebody's clothing has affected how I view their skating. I'm not that shallow.

"i don't see a man in funny clothes, i just see a man." --- michael scott

[Nigga]

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going against the grain is the new mainstream, duh.

btw, I'm calling it right now, within the next 2 years, people will skate in coveralls. mark my words

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Maybe not the whole 9 yards, but Dolan did rock some overalls in 'Meet The Lurkers'.

[sharkbarf]

I'm all about MJ's skateboarding but when he opens his mouth up I cringe. Dude is old now so I guess the "peppridge farms remembers" attitude is just part of it. We all know FullyFlared fucked him up and now its just time to move on. He's doing really good these days by just skating. I'm sure thebackforty will do fine if they just stop talking about it.

[idealhandmades]

I know I've seen Maldonado skating in coveralls at somepoint too.
s'probably why I do it sometimes...

[Iceman]

you guys know that you don't have to watch or read interviews with marc or anyone else you find disagreeable, right?

[idealhandmades]

you guys know that you don't have to watch or read interviews with marc or anyone else you find disagreeable, right?

And YOU realize that by only ever taking in media that you know you agree with, you become a narrow minded shit head, right?


that being said
I still haven't even bothered to watch it hahaha  
watched it now. Still don't get what everybodys all twisted up about, even though I don't agree with all of the opinions he expressed about re-appropriation as "stealing"...

[jacktharipper]

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I just really, really, really don't care about other dude's clothing. And I'm not sure why others actively do.

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Well.. When you watch someone skateboarding, which is something most skateboarders do a lot, you're looking at how they look when they're on their skateboard, and what they are wearing can affect this?

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I can't think of a single example where somebody's clothing has affected how I view their skating. I'm not that shallow.

I find this hard to believe... Did someone tell you your gear was wack as a child?

[Alan]

I feel like he lacks some academic training... I bet if he had gone to college he'd make a way more coherent and better formulated argument.

[idealhandmades]

I feel like he lacks some academic training... I bet if he had gone to college he'd make a way more coherent and better formulated argument.

Well he was talking on camera, not writing a paper.
Go ahead and tripod a camera on yourself and see if you can coherent and iron clad of an argument you can make on the fly that also doesn't take hours to get just right and get your full point across...shits tough.

and besides, College doesn't mean shit,
education is where you find it,
and it seems like more and more college is becoming an antiquated and irrelevant path for more and more people.
 Marc seems to me like the kind of guy that doesn't mind picking up a book or two on his own time and stays open minded to a lot of differing concepts.

[Iceman]

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you guys know that you don't have to watch or read interviews with marc or anyone else you find disagreeable, right?

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And YOU realize that by only ever taking in media that you know you agree with, you become a narrow minded shit head, right?


that being said
I still haven't even bothered to watch it hahaha  
watched it now. Still don't get what everybodys all twisted up about, even though I don't agree with all of the opinions he expressed about re-appropriation as "stealing"...

you seem to imply that if one takes in media that they don't find to be agreeable, that it somehow makes them open-minded. that is flawed for obvious reasons. anyway, i think your interpretation of my point may have been off. in other words i was saying "if you don't like it, then why bother watching it if it's just going to make you rant on the internet?" A.K.A. "Shut the fuck up, Slap!"

[Monkey_Mcpott]

I guess ranting about Marc is as bad as Marc actually talking. just let it be.

[Alan]

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I feel like he lacks some academic training... I bet if he had gone to college he'd make a way more coherent and better formulated argument.

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Well he was talking on camera, not writing a paper.
Go ahead and tripod a camera on yourself and see if you can coherent and iron clad of an argument you can make on the fly that also doesn't take hours to get just right and get your full point across...shits tough.

Marc seems to me like the kind of guy that doesn't mind picking up a book or two on his own time and stays open minded to a lot of differing concepts.

I'm sure he was already thinking about all these things long before this interview was even conceived, and it still seemed all over the place. My point was that tertiary education teaches you to present your ideas and arguments in an organised fashion that won't leave people scratching their heads. And I suggested it precisely because I think he has more to say than most pros. I'm not knocking him. Bottom line, he would have made more sense had he gone to college. Besides, it was just an observation.

and it seems like more and more college is becoming an antiquated and irrelevant path for more and more people.

Now that's just silly. You still need a degree for most intellectually demanding jobs, just like you did 25/50/100 years ago. Nobody's going to hire a self taught engineer, teacher or whatever. Which doesn't mean you have to get a degree.

[idealhandmades]

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you guys know that you don't have to watch or read interviews with marc or anyone else you find disagreeable, right?

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And YOU realize that by only ever taking in media that you know you agree with, you become a narrow minded shit head, right?

[close]

you seem to imply that if one takes in media that they don't find to be agreeable, that it somehow makes them open-minded. that is flawed for obvious reasons.

anyway, i think your interpretation of my point may have been off. in other words i was saying "if you don't like it, then why bother watching it if it's just going to make you rant on the internet?" A.K.A. "Shut the fuck up, Slap!"

I'm just missing out on how going out of your way to NOT watching things that maybe dont already line up with your opinions don't make you closed-minded. I mean, thats what some of my older right winged relatives do. They just watch FOX news.

and how are you to know you do or dont like a video by not watching it? after all, I didn't have an opinion about what Marc said before I had watched it. Now that I have, I know whats in it and can take part in discussing it, whatever my opinion.

but I guess if you dont have anything nice to say, then dont say anything, right?...
bullshit.
Analysis and comprehension aren't fueled by rainbow farts and unicorn kisses anymore than it is rageful ALLCAPS freakouts online or blowing up buildings.

If you really want Slap to "shut the fuck up", then take your own medicine and stop coming on here.
& Congrats by the way, now you and I are the two WORST kinda of people online. The guy that tells people to shut up, and the guy that tells THAT guy to shut up.

[idealhandmades]

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and it seems like more and more college is becoming an antiquated and irrelevant path for more and more people.

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Now that's just silly. You still need a degree for most intellectually demanding jobs, just like you did 25/50/100 years ago. Nobody's going to hire a self taught engineer, teacher or whatever. Which doesn't mean you have to get a degree.

You're confusing the ability to get a job with the ability to teach yourself things.
Education is SUPER important, I agree
but the system of "schooling" with which we have it set up in seems to me to be an increasingly dated one.

[Alan]

Sure, you can teach yourself stuff and gain knowledge and it's great if anyone decides to do that. It's obviously better than shitting on learning or going to college because you think you have to and hating it.
Having said that, I think that college offers a better environment for learning (for most people).

[Iceman]

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you guys know that you don't have to watch or read interviews with marc or anyone else you find disagreeable, right?

[close]

And YOU realize that by only ever taking in media that you know you agree with, you become a narrow minded shit head, right?

[close]

you seem to imply that if one takes in media that they don't find to be agreeable, that it somehow makes them open-minded. that is flawed for obvious reasons.

anyway, i think your interpretation of my point may have been off. in other words i was saying "if you don't like it, then why bother watching it if it's just going to make you rant on the internet?" A.K.A. "Shut the fuck up, Slap!"

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I'm just missing out on how going out of your way to NOT watching things that maybe dont already line up with your opinions don't make you closed-minded. I mean, thats what some of my older right winged relatives do. They just watch FOX news.

and how are you to know you do or dont like a video by not watching it? after all, I didn't have an opinion about what Marc said before I had watched it. Now that I have, I know whats in it and can take part in discussing it, whatever my opinion.

but I guess if you dont have anything nice to say, then dont say anything, right?...
bullshit.
Analysis and comprehension aren't fueled by rainbow farts and unicorn kisses anymore than it is rageful ALLCAPS freakouts online or blowing up buildings.

If you really want Slap to "shut the fuck up", then take your own medicine and stop coming on here.
& Congrats by the way, now you and I are the two WORST kinda of people online. The guy that tells people to shut up, and the guy that tells THAT guy to shut up.

lol i think you're looking too far into my words. of course one needs to expose oneself to all sorts of ideas and opinions if one wants to open their mind. but we are talking about the skateboard world here. hardly the first place to go if one wants to stimulate their brain.

anyway, since you threw in politics, do YOU watch fox news? if not, then by your logic you would be close-minded. or do you actually watch fox and then go rant about it? what does that achieve?
i guess the point i'm trying to make is that it's quite a leap to say that because someone avoids something that they find disagreeable that it doesn't make them close-minded. UNLESS they have never honestly opened their mind to the contrary opinions first (and continue to occasionally open up to them again in the future).

[idealhandmades]

I wouldn't have brought up FOX news if I didnt watch it occasionally ^
and I choose not to rant about it because there's enough people on both sides of that argument already.
where as the "world of skateboarding" is actually a much MUCH smaller subject as you pointed out, but one that I care deeply for (even though I'm caring less and less as the years go by about the industry).
So I actually bother to "rant" here and there about it.

[pepperpotts]

1.) sitting in front of a fire place - youre a skateboarder you pretentious prick and you live in california, grow a pair
2.) dancing around the fact that you own and operate a company by calling it a "project" while showing your shitty shirts for the cost of 26 dollars is fucking hilarious. you see a niche in the market and know your minions will buy your stupid bullshit tshirts .. just own it
3.) saying how everyone is copying everyone and no one is original yet you blatantly stole half of the tricks you filmed in fully flared and are somehow passing them off as your own by saying you were paying respect or it was a tribute to the skaters who did them first is exactly what everyone who copies someones style is doing no better no worse.. get a grip and just shut up and skate

[Greg Road]

"This one time, I was an alcoholic. Now everyone is an alcoholic."

[able]

I was curious about Marc's company "The Back Forty" so I checked out their website and turns out they have a fake FORUM there.

I think they are poking fun at SLAP, because the last post in their fake forum is by TRACER

http://www.theback40.com/forum.html

[pizzafliptofakie]

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I just really, really, really don't care about other dude's clothing. And I'm not sure why others actively do.

[close]

Well.. When you watch someone skateboarding, which is something most skateboarders do a lot, you're looking at how they look when they're on their skateboard, and what they are wearing can affect this?

[close]

I can't think of a single example where somebody's clothing has affected how I view their skating. I'm not that shallow.

[close]

I find this hard to believe... Did someone tell you your gear was wack as a child?

I got tons of shit from people when I started wearing tight pants in like 2006. Then two years later half the kids that made fun of me starting wearing them. It's okay to not like certain clothing, but actually caring beyond that is just pointless.

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anytime MJ opens his mouth in the past few years there's a ready chorus of "he thinks he's smarter than he is"- the first time Watson made that observation it was at least somewhat original (though still petty and false imo), but now it's just predictable and reactionary. I prefer Marc's fictional rants about being abducted as a child, but hopefully I'll never be jaded enough to fault someone for that there "smart talk"

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he prolly is smarter than most of us. i'd put him as above average and people on here run the gamut. i liked his old weirdo talk better too but a 40 yr old telling tall tales would prolly be annoying too. speaking of, did anyone figure out sweet lou's age? he's looked 27-30 his whole career.

He's about the same age as me, in other words he's not that fucking old. But old enough to not use the word Prolly. Ok we are prolly really old in skateboarding. Regardless bitching about skateboarding now is stupid because its never been better.