Eric 'Randy' Johnsen: The Action Critic

Eric "Randy" Johnsen was the self-proclaimed "Action Critic," who never met a painting he didn't want to destroy. Spray can in hand, he waged a one-man war against "street art," commenting on or eradicating graffiti and other public displays all over downtown Los Angeles.

"I'll be honest with you," he tells filmmaker Stephen Seemayer in "Young Turks," "I've been arrested down here. For assault with a deadly weapon, right? Trying to make my niche down here."

Johnsen derided what he saw as an early wave of gentrification, as wealthy Westside artists started buying up buildings in the hardscrabble streets east of Alameda.

"You think Billy Al's going to get his face a little tainted?" Johnsen asks rhetorically. " 'Oh, I got a pimple, better paint a flower on it.' Fuck that noise!"

After working for photographer William Wegman for a while in the 1980s, Johnsen seemingly fell off the face of the Earth, at least as far as his friends in Los Angeles knew.

At the world premiere of "Young Turks" in February 2013, Johnsen appeared out of nowhere, to the amazement of the filmmakers and other "Young Turks" in attendance.

Turns out he's been traveling the world and surfing.