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Very Expensive Maps
Very Expensive Maps
48 episodes
1 week ago
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
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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
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Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.”
Very Expensive Maps
49 minutes 32 seconds
2 years ago
Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.”

Atlanta visual artist, sculptor and “topophiliac” Gregor Turk on walking 250 miles of the U.S./Canada border, creating landscapes with clay, wood and recycled inner tubes, turning Landsat imagery into hundreds of hand-painted ceramic tiles, making 1:1 scale maps, chasing phantom streets, fighting real estate developers’ efforts to erase Blandtown, confusing Beltline tourists with “misinformation” wayfinding maps, and “pushing the idea of what a map can be.” See his work at gregorturk.com

  • “Latitudes + Legends”: 86 feet wide and 18" tall, ~200x handmade ceramic tiles 
  • “49th Parallel”: traveling the rule-straight part of the U.S./Canada border 
  • “Monumap: West Poplar (Saskatchewan)” 
  • “Misinformation”: Atlanta toponymy atop Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans topography 
  • Rubber maps 
  • Blandtown
  • “Choke II” 
  • Peirce quincuncial projection, rendered in clay 
  • “Phalanx”
  • Andrew Lynch’s “Unbuilt Highways” maps
  • The Bellman's Map from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark 
  • Lordy Rodriguez 
  • Maya Lin
  • The Center for Land Use Interpretation 
  • You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination  
  • The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography 
  • Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies
  • The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

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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