Justin Johnson

Justin Johnson was born on a typical May morning in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 80 degrees below zero, with 20 foot high drifts of snow threatening to break through the fragile walls of Sacred Heart Hospital. Several years later, when the snow thawed in a rare above-freezing day, he attended a small Lutheran K-8 known, creatively as Eau Claire
Lutheran School.

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Justin Johnson was born on a typical May morning in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 80 degrees below zero, with 20 foot high drifts of snow threatening to break through the fragile walls of Sacred Heart Hospital. Several years later, when the snow thawed in a rare above-freezing day, he attended a small Lutheran K-8 known, creatively as Eau Claire
Lutheran School.

Justin jumped between both a private and a public education in high school, finally graduating a semester early. This lead time gave him the perfect opportunity to prepare for college by studiously sleeping in until at least noon every day.

Finally higher education called, and he was accepted as one of 30 in the fledgling Multimedia Design program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. So fledgling, in fact, that there weren't any actual qualified teachers. Following a year and a half of mismanagement and confusion, fed up with academia, Justin decided to leave Wisconsin for sunnier pastures in California.

Videoblogging his way across the country and pulling the odd freelance job to placate his rumbling tummy, the months of adventure helped him become a better editor, more dedicated videographer, and (arguably) a better human being.

After living in San Francisco, San Diego, Toronto, and Orlando, Justin and his beautiful girlfriend Marissa finally settled back in Northern California ... until he was dragged away to his dream job in the bustling metropolis of New York City.

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