John Boyack

John still vividly remembers what he insistently describes as his “first major accomplishment”: touching a 10’ foot basketball rim with his own hand for the very first time, and without the help of a chair, a ladder, a friend’s back, or a roof. It’s what he continues to recall as being “transitional,” to say the least. Being the dream of every suburban white kid who loved hip hop and basketball, John was in a constant status of preparing for his first dunk during his development years. That obviously remarkable event happened within the walls of Issaquah High School’s gymnasium in Washington State, and only as a Sophomore, and only while measuring 5’0” tall in stature.* The event happened on weary legs even, after his Physical Education class period’s badminton tournament had ended (which he also won, with period badminton partner, Kevin Brown, but that’s another story altogether).

It was monumental, momentous. He’d been training in hallways all through Middle School, and home, and at school and church alike, each day reaching a fraction of an inch higher until he was finally able to high step into that gymnasium that very particular morning, whilst his peers looked on before returning to their respective locker rooms, and with every muscle in his body aptly leapt up up up, just enough to slap his fingers against that remarkably sensational iron rim as never done before.**

So, then, it is not without total surprise that John has used this exact same kind of upward mobility and mental toughness to leap from Development to Marketing & Events. And with the same type of celebratory enthusiasm demonstrated in that High School gymnasium as a Freshman boy after his “first major accomplishment”, so too might you find him running through the hallways here at Spy Hop Productions, hands raised high above his head, yelling something like, “(We) did it!! (We) did it!!” after every, in his mind, minor or major accomplishment…

*Might have been taller
** It took another two years before John was able to get high enough to dunk an actual basketball.