Very Expensive Maps

You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com

Very Expensive Maps is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 48 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Very Expensive Maps, a arts show with 48 episodes published.

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  Episode #48

  Reynold Mackey: “When you pick up the globe, you feel time.”

  Feb 5, 202544 minS0

  <p>Colorado Springs artist and arborist Reynold Mackey on his decade of hand-carving accurate physiographic globes out of solid wood, how to translate a 2D topobathymetric map onto a sphere, art as family business, casting globes in bronze, chainsaw-carving to Hendrix and dental pick-carving to Debussy, why hard work is an ally to meaning, learning welding, leatherwork and paper lacquering to make globe enclosures, the acrobatic stillness of trees, and how, unsurprisingly, he “could never take any shortcuts.” See his work at globesculptor.com and @globesculptor on IG</p> Art Castings of Colorado Vincenzo Coronelli Manitou Art Center <p><br></p> <...

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  Episode #47

  Neil Allen: “Making a map in isolation is never a good idea.”

  Oct 24, 202454 minS0

  <p>Oregon lead cartographer and product manager Neil Allen talks atlas production with East View Geospatial’s Benchmark Maps, the years of mapmaking and months of ground-truthing required to create a Texas atlas, adventures in custom cartography (clients include the U.S. Coast Guard, The Cascadia Institute and an eccentric millionaire’s treasure hunt), the importance of asking the locals, using declassified naval data to map Monterey Canyon, and why sales and marketing is essential to a map business. See his work at benchmarkmaps.com</p> ⁠East View Geospatial⁠ Baja California Road & Recreation Atlas Texas Road & Recreation Atlas Raven Maps Butler M...

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  Episode #46

  Hap Wilson: “If there’s no risk then there’s no adventure, right?”

  May 13, 202446 minS0

  <p>Ontario explorer, mapmaker, and conservationist Hap Wilson on drawing 400 guide maps across 50 years, traveling more than 40,000 miles of Canadian wilderness by canoe, the one digital tool he likes (it’s Google Earth), saving lives by creating a map that, unlike the one it replaced, did not send tourists over a waterfall, retracing thousand-year-old trails to prevent their effacement by dams and clearcuts, what you discover after 200 trips down the same river, learning from the mapmakers of 1700 and the indigenous of 700, and why if a portage on his map doesn’t match the territory it’s likely a force majeure situat...

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  Episode #45

  Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.”

  Apr 30, 202430 minS0

  <p>Colorado painter, illustrator and mapmaker Erick Ingraham on solving art directors’ problems, making it interesting for himself (“I’m known to make things more complicated than they might need to be”), spending eight years painting the Rockies’ western slope, working from his own photographs, taking inspiration from the past, getting into the culture of what he’s mapping, drawing coastlines, and some advice for developing artists: “Be a good draftsman.” See Erick’s work at erickingraham.com</p> Landscape paintings Children’s books Maps Vermont’s Kingdom Heritage Lands Winter 1888: Record Snowfall Where Do Forest Birds Go in Winter? Green Witnesses West...

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  Episode #44

  Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.”

  Feb 19, 202443 minS0

  <p>London artist and mapmaker Stephen Walter on two decades of drawing and painting “the semiotic residues of humankind,” an invitation to map an Ivorian national park (and why you should wait for the dry season before attempting this), approaching six years of work on an NYC map, interpreting Michael Drayton’s 17th c. topographical poem Poly-Olbion into a 6x5 ft. folkloric tour of England and Wales, walking the territory, the origins of “north up,” the souls of places, a half-day's research to place a single label, and his vision of Utopia. See his work at stephenwalter.org</p> In-progress map of Man...

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