Yarmiah Leaf Johnson, author and editor of several gaming and tech websites, including IGN, Voice Mother Board, Mac World, and PC Gamers, died suddenly on May 17 due to a cardiovascular event. He was 46 years old in June.
Leaf started writing about professional sports in his 30s, on the occasion he had already lived at least two different, interesting lives. In his youth in Texas he worked on the field and he was not just a shepherd, but a shepherd Poet. Leaf attended the annual National Cowboy Poetry gathering And traveled to the United States, offering poetry readings and songs at Guitar and Mandolin.
He later studied English and history at the University of Texas in Austin and completed a master’s degree in the history and philosophy of science and technology at Chicago University. In Chicago, where he lived for many years, Leaf worked in an art gallery, with contemporary artists like Shepard Ferry, as well as promotions and gallery arrangements for the works of Vintage Film Lathography.
I didn’t know Leaf in this period of his life, which you can read more in pursuit of it. But later he shared stories about his time in the world of art, which forced me to think that his greatest power in this role was not about his seemingly unlimited knowledge of art and history, but his friendship and warmth – when he was given the opportunity to interact with someone and to talk to any subject.
Leaf was my good friend. When he returned to Texas’ Goliad in 2014 to take care of his family’s field, he began writing as a freelance for PC gamers and several other posts. Helping the flow of words, he often wrote a long hand with a fountain pen before typing his work. After that, Leaf and I occasionally corresponded to the email, but it was regular in the PC gamer, which reviewed the RPG and strategy sports, and the snowstorms covered the World of Warraf and other MMOs, which they played wholeheartedly. He wrote a version of the PC Gamer’s Best RPG list, which we have been working since.
As the editor of the Lef, I especially remember working with him on this feature, “How Unreal Tournament Moods created a wave of successful Indi Studios”, which achieved an important moment in the history of PC gaming. It was a story I wanted to see well, so I turned to Leaf. I am convinced that he waived his deadline, but the final result was worth it. Accidentally I was just restoring it with the PC gamer team and praising my work on Friday, a day before it died. I wish I could text it about it too.
Leaf and I became friends a year after writing his story in 2018. He moved to San Francisco where I stayed in Mac World, where he had mostly covered Apple’s tech – though he couldn’t stop Writing about sports Whenever he could squeeze them. Leaf started A video series In the Mac World, Apple nominated Apple Arcade more than a year ago.
Leaf San Francisco loved. During the height of Kovide 19 pandemic diseases, when we were all isolated in small social “bubbles”, it was my part. We will go to the nearby hills and some parts of the city that we never visited. Until then he had already gone on the history of San Francisco and could identify the signs and his backpacks to Street By Street. He was the best companion of walking: always play to keep going, and never more than a minute or two, with another big part of the trivia falling, I wish I remember.
Even if you didn’t know Leaf, it is a good opportunity that its sports fondness and detail have touched your life in a small way. While Leaf was a great writer, but he considered himself a better editor, and after leaving the Mac World during the economic turmoil of Covid, he finished working as Apple’s copy editor, which helped improve the kind of documents when we are all good and when we are well -known.
This was a step -by -step stone that I think is safe to say that Leaf’s dream was a job: the Games Couring Editor for the Apple App Store. He selected what sports he has featured on the store and write down the recommendations of the Short Editor’s choice for them, somehow find a character that allows him to connect and connect the curse that he did with sports hobbies in the art gallery. I would like to think that while participating in the PC Gamer magazine helped to put his thoughts in just one or two sentences, but that’s getting a lot of credit for us – before writing for us, he was a poet, finally.
A few years ago I came out to write a book and asked Leaf if he would be my editor. He immediately accepted the burden, because he was a deep gentle person and even more wide friend. I am not sure that if he was memorized from Chicago’s manual style core, but if there is a coma or capital letter in a wrong place in this whole prescription, I probably had already damaged it. 2024 was full of entertainment texts from Leaf a year, such as:
“So
A word on the elliptical… “
This is a ridiculous reversal of the starting style of our relationship, but my memories of these early emails have been replaced by adding them in which we move forward, we used to watch movies together, and Leaf spent playing board games with other friends in my apartment. His time restriction became a mocking joke: he always showed first, even when he tried his best to stay late.
When San Francisco’s annual Nair City Film Festival came in January every January, he was a friend on which I could count to work in the maximum screening for which we could wake up. And Leaf was a great film partner: he was absorbed so much that he could not help but could vibrate with nerve energy or when matters worsen, he reacts with a little “oh noo”. Our record was 11 in last year’s movie Fest.
It is an honor to call my friend Leaf Johnson, and I am one of many people who will miss him a lot.
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