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Very Expensive MapsAuthor: 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 Language: en Genres: Arts, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Reynold Mackey: “When you pick up the globe, you feel time.”
Episode 48
Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
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 Art Castings of Colorado Vincenzo Coronelli Manitou Art Center Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 10% off woven cotton map blankets with code 10OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF












