Best Stephen Mackey Podcasts (2025)

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339. Lawrence Johnson - Building A New Culture Through Adversity 27:14

1d ago27:14

27:14

In this inspiring episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, we hear from Coach Lawrence Johnson, the Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Wichita Falls Legacy High School. Taking on the challenge of merging three schools into one unified program, Coach Johnson shares a raw, powerful account of what it takes to build culture, character, and …

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338. Cale Melton - Family Groups & Building a Foundation of Character and Trust 39:04

9d ago39:04

39:04

In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, we hear from Coach Cale Melton, Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Hico ISD, whose leadership journey is rooted in legacy, authenticity, and building a program with lasting character. From his upbringing under a coaching father to his own transition into a head coaching role, Melton shares ho…

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337. Michelle Dalton - Win with Grace, Lose with Grace - Lessons in Leadership 20:01

16d ago20:01

20:01

In the latest episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, presented by 2Words Character Development, host Colton sits down with Coach Michelle Dalton, the girls athletic coordinator at Pasadena Bondi Intermediate and a seasoned coach and mentor, to discuss the profound impact of mindset in leadership, coaching, and personal development. Through years of…

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In-Depth with Experts: Two-Generational Health During the Perinatal Period 32:03

19d ago32:03

32:03

How do we embrace two-generational health (child and caregiver) during the complete perinatal period — from pregnancy into early childhood? And how does the two-generation approach create better outcomes for families and prepare children for a lifetime of well-being? NYU McSilver partnered with the NYC Perinatal and Early Childhood Mental Health Ne…

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336. Paul Sharr - Sportsmanship and Accountability in Coaching - Elevating Student-Athletes Through Leadership 31:19

23d ago31:19

31:19

Every coach has the opportunity to make a lasting impact, and Coach Paul Sharr, Athletic Director at Community ISD, is a prime example of what it means to lead with integrity and purpose. In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Coach Sharr shares his approach to fostering leadership, instilling sportsmanship, and holding athletes accountable…

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335. Huddle Up With Coach Mackey - How to Prevent Burnout: 4 Keys to Staying in the Game for the Long Haul - Coaching Tips & Lessons 28:50

30d ago28:50

28:50

Burnout isn’t just about feeling tired—it’s the slow erosion of passion, purpose, and energy that can take even the best coaches out of the game. If you’ve ever found yourself drained, disconnected, or questioning if you can keep going, you’re not alone. In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Host Colton Leonard visits with Coach Stephen Ma…

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334. Coach Ben Nicholas: Building Champions Beyond the Scoreboard - Coaching Leadership & Culture 27:04

1M ago27:04

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Every coach dreams of building a winning program—but what defines winning? Is it state championships and trophy cases, or is it developing young athletes into leaders who thrive beyond the game? In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Coach Ben Nicholas, Athletic Director at Village Tech Schools, shares his journey from unexpected coaching o…

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333. Huddle Up with Coach Mackey - How to Build a Championship Culture: 4 Steps to Defining Core Values in Your Program 36:40

1M ago36:40

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Culture isn’t just a catchphrase on a locker room wall—it’s the foundation that defines who your team is under pressure. Every great program, from high school teams to college powerhouses, thrives on clear core values that guide athletes beyond the game. But how do you go from a list of words to a culture that actually shapes behavior? In this epis…

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332. Coach Cody Moore: Be Real & Control The Controllable: How Coach Moore is Building Leadership at Round Rock High 41:28

2M ago41:28

41:28

Every coach wants a player-led team, but how do you create a culture where athletes hold each other accountable, play for something bigger than themselves, and show up every day ready to compete? At Round Rock High School, Coach Cody Moore and Coach Jordan Gesh have built a football program centered around brotherhood, relentless effort, and above-…

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331. Huddle Up with Coach Mackey: The 5 E’s of Leadership - Coaching Tips & Lessons with Coach Mackey - Coach Beyond The Game 29:18

2M ago29:18

29:18

Coaching today isn’t the same as it was 10, 20, or 30 years ago. The landscape of youth development has changed, and adolescence now extends well beyond high school. As adolescence expands, today’s athletes need strong coaches more than ever. In this episode, Coach 360 host, Colton Leonard, welcomes back Coach Stephen Mackey for our special series …

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Reynold Mackey: “When you pick up the globe, you feel time.” 43:34

3M ago43:34

43:34

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 we…

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Neil Allen: “Making a map in isolation is never a good idea.” 54:17

6M ago54:17

54:17

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)…

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Dr. Kara Dean-Assael and Dr. Anthony Salerno in Conversation with Seth Porges and Dr. Stephen Porges 1:00:36

10M ago1:00:36

1:00:36

Polyvagal theory emphasizes the role the autonomic nervous system — especially the vagus nerve — plays in regulating health and behavior. Created and developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, the theory describes the physiological and psychological states underlying mental health challenges and everyday behavior. With his son, director and producer Seth Por…

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Dr. Andrew Cleek in Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Hoagwood 42:19

11M ago42:19

42:19

Dr. Andrew F. Cleek, McSilver’s Deputy Executive Director, speaks with Dr. Kimberly E. Hoagwood, the Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, about how to make improvements to large and complex health systems.…

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Dr. Anthony Salerno in Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Irby Coard 49:15

12M ago49:15

49:15

Dr. Anthony Salerno, NYU McSilver’s Innovation and Implementation Officer, speaks with Dr. Stephanie Irby Coard of UNC–Greensboro about the important and often under-appreciated role of resilience in addressing mental health issues — especially in communities of color and among young people.By McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research

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Hap Wilson: “If there’s no risk then there’s no adventure, right?” 46:29

12M ago46:29

46:29

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-ol…

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Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.” 29:49

12M ago29:49

29:49

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 cultu…

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Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.” 42:36

1y ago42:36

42:36

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 i…

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John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.” 36:00

1+ y ago36:00

36:00

Manhattan writer and cartographer John Tauranac on his first maps of Midtown’s pedestrian passages, a public debate with Massimo Vignelli (“His geography was egregious”), working at a very different MTA (they used to have an aesthetics committee?), the “no improvements” made to the subway map since he chaired the 1979 MTA map committee, guiding Yan…

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330. Kids with Character Win | Jamie McDougald | Girls AD and Head Volleyball Coach at Iola HS 18:04

1+ y ago18:04

18:04

Today, Coach McDougald tells us what it takes to be a championship team and lessons she has learned throughout her coaching journey. Email Address: [email protected] Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: [email protected] -‌-- Visit www.2Words.tv/gameplan to lea…

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Andrew Middleton: “There’s something poetic about running a map store.” 50:09

1+ y ago50:09

50:09

In early 2023 GIS analyst and cartographer Andrew Middleton saw a tweet about Andy Nosal’s search for someone to take over The Map Center, Nosal's map shop in Pawtucket, RI; six months later Middleton left California to move into one of the last map retail stores in the U.S. We discuss his goal of turning the shop into an inviting retail space and …

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Lionel Portier: “What I'm trying to convey with my maps is the pleasure of seeing beautiful things.” 28:33

1+ y ago28:33

28:33

Lyonnais illustrator and designer Lionel Portier on a mapmaking career that spans 30 years and five continents, accepting any map challenge an art director might conceive, a travel magazine gig that led to an Australian passport, painting 100 birds for a wetland park, his favorite territory to illustrate, spending three months on a 3x4-ft. map of B…

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Isaac Dushku: “A map has to evoke a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home.” 38:13

1+ y ago38:13

38:13

Utah artist Isaac Dushku on how a map has to evoke either a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home, the best- and worst-selling states in his catalog (he drew all 50), taking his business Lord of Maps from being ghosted on Facebook Marketplace to supporting his family, creating a board book of America’s highest peaks with a “ridiculously complic…

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Sam Usle: “Slowly but surely we’re starting to recover the built environment.” 46:35

1+ y ago46:35

46:35

Urbanist and illustrator Sam Usle on designing human-scale communities and rendering them in watercolors, why theme parks reflect a yearning for human-scale towns, redesigning part of his high school campus before graduation, why you can thank Le Corbusier for hideous Revit-default cities, the axonometric map that sold Disneyland, storytelling with…

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Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.” 33:37

1+ y ago33:37

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Naomi Rosenberg, assistant director of the Media and Accessible Design Lab at San Francisco’s LightHouse for the Blind, discusses the art of making fingertip-readable maps: why clutter is the enemy of good tactile maps, the quest for an affordable embosser, being locked to 24 pt. type, creating large-scale accessible maps for the Golden Gate Nation…

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329. Coaching Girls vs Boys | Jack Bowles | Girls AC and Basketball Coach at Hooks High School 33:25

1+ y ago33:25

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Welcome to the Coach360 podcast! Today, Colton interviews coach Jack Bowles from Hooks High School. He has been coaching for over 30 years and in the last 6 years has recently made the switch from coaching Boys Basketball to Girls Basketball. We discuss the similarities and differences and advice he would give to other coaches. Read our written blo…

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328. Strength from Within | Beau Blackard | Promaxima 25:05

1+ y ago25:05

25:05

Today we have a special guest on the podcast in the form on Beau Blackard from PMX Promaxima. Listeners will learn more about the organization and how they have set out to support coaches and school programs across the country. To learn more, visit PMXstrength.com. If you are a partner school of either Promaxima or 2Words, we want to know about it!…

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327. The Scoreboard Isn't Bigger Than Them | Marcus Bronson | AD Tri-City Prep, AZ 35:27

1+ y ago35:27

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In today's episode, Colton sits down with Coach Marcus Bronson of Tri-City Prep. Coach Bronson shares with us the importance of building relationships that lead to success for his athletes not just on the field but in their lives as well. We discuss his philosophy and passion of helping students become leaders and well-rounded adults. Connect with …

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Matthew Dean Shaffer: “My approach is to try and be as accurate as possible.“ 52:22

1+ y ago52:22

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New Haven architectural designer and artist Matthew Dean Shaffer on balancing accuracy with art, taking a break from straight lines to draw birds, software-driven homogeneity in American architecture (“Straight-out-of-Revit, as we say”), why he draws the vegetation last, how anything’s better for the urban fabric than a surface parking lot, and sac…

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Jamshid Kooros: “These maps are based on walking, walking, walking.” 56:05

1+ y ago56:05

56:05

Arlington “reformed architect” and pictorial cartographer Jamshid Kooros discusses his 30 years of mapmaking based on photographs, sketching and “walking, walking, walking,” the end of the drop-in pitch, turning three-week hikes into maps of French cities and castles, doing his own paper engineering for a pop-up map of Washington D.C., spending nin…

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David Kulbeth: “It's taken so long to get everything just right because there's no guidebook to this.” 35:53

1+ y ago35:53

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Stafford cartographer and entrepreneur David Kulbeth on reviving old map aesthetics with his digital-to-copperplate-to-print-to-watercolor technique, the (costly) difference between copperplate etching and engraving, finding a custom papermaker, keeping his art affordable, finding style inspiration in 12 moving boxes of cartography books, and makin…

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Sophie Parr: “I have to mathematically scale it, plan it, sketch it, draw it.” 32:00

1+ y ago32:00

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Fish Creek artist and gallery owner Sophie Parr on creating more than one hundred 0.5"-to-the-mile maps using aerial imagery and a 0.2mm-tip pen, why she only accepts 2x2" commissions (while working on her own 2x3 ft. map of Chicago), representing a variety of landscapes within the constraints of black ink, when returning a client’s deposit feels s…

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Lee France: “It was fun to try to achieve those paper map elements in this new digital space.” 41:13

1+ y ago41:13

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Sandpoint cartographer Lee France on making his first topos in Chile, spending months on a single map for National Geographic Trails Illustrated, the challenge of making an attractive interactive map that includes every scale from hilltop to hemisphere, how an up-to-date cadastral layer can make or break your hunting map, how his team of technical …

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Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.” 49:32

1+ y ago49:32

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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, …

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326. If You Don't Love Them You Can't Coach Them | Myles Jackson | Lead Behavior Mentor, AD at Southwest Leadership Academy 24:39

1+ y ago24:39

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Coach Jackson has spent his career developing youth. As Head Basketball Coach and Lead Behavior Mentor for the school he shares with us some of his tactics for engaging students, building trust, getting them to open up, and being there for them when they need it the most. Email Address: [email protected] Interested in connecting or taking the n…

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Tom Patterson: “Right now is the golden age of cartography.” 1:12:22

1+ y ago1:12:22

1:12:22

Leesburg cartographer Tom Patterson on his decades creating visitor maps for the National Park Service (there’s a good chance his work is crumpled in your glovebox), learning to draw terrain by corresponding with an artist in Scotland, why he doesn’t lament the passing of 70s-era production techniques, how to map a piedmont glacier using satellite …

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Melinda Clarke & Deborah Young Monk: “The beauty of the whole project is that we had no idea what we were doing.” 1:23:32

1+ y ago1:23:32

1:23:32

St Leonards map producer/founder Melinda Clarke and Melbourne illustrator Deborah Young Monk discuss their collaborations across more than three decades, how to tell an artist they need to redraw three months of work, scouting territory by car, helicopter and hot air balloon, more than a week spent editing a 4x3 ft. map with a scalpel, selling maps…

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Neil Gower: “Twice a week I’ll make a mark on paper and think ‘I wouldn’t want to be doing anything other than what I’m doing.” 52:34

1+ y ago52:34

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Lewes/Berlin graphic artist and “exuberant mapmaker” Neil Gower on painting an estate plan when the grounds are unfinished, the work that gives him a “hum in the pelvis,” what Frank Zappa has in common with high-effort fake maps, an abandoned 5x5 ft. map of Venice that was more enjoyable to ground-truth than to draw, combining lunar toponymy with 1…

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Andrew Lynch: “I wish somebody else had done this, but I guess I'm gonna have to figure it out.” 1:13:31

1+ y ago1:13:31

1:13:31

New York City cartographer and QueensLink chief design officer Andrew Lynch on using library archives, train-mounted GoPro footage and his own two feet to plot every track in the New York City subway system, a brush with cubicle-based urban planning at the Port Authority, testy-yet-productive correspondence with railfans, the unshakable authority c…

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Danielle Currie: “Zoom in buddy, it ain’t paint!” 20:17

2y ago20:17

20:17

New Brunswick embroidery artist Danielle Currie discusses her fans among NASA’s Ocean Processing Group, spending more than 400 hours to render an Icelandic river in straight stitches, her hoops being mistaken for paintings, how you really have to enjoy the colors of a piece you’ll hold in your lap for months, pricing herself out of her own art, and…

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Gabriel Camus: “That would be the dream, to make this city that never ends.” 40:28

2y ago40:28

40:28

Toronto architect and artist Gabriel Camus discusses the 20" wide, 20 ft. long imagined cityscape he’s been drawing since 2018, a 100 ft. (!) illustration he's never seen the whole of for want of space to roll it out, the modern city as utopia/dystopia, how saying you study architecture can deflect rude questions about your street photography, the …

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Simon Polster: “I was hitchhiking from Iran to Berlin and spent quite a long time in the Caucasus.” 29:42

2y ago29:42

29:42

Königs Wusterhausen mapmaker Simon Polster discusses falling into his first topo mapping project after hitchhiking from Iran to Berlin, using Soviet topographic maps as a starting point to map Armenian hiking trails, donating data to OpenStreetMap, the eternal method of “play around with it ‘til it looks okay,” completing most of his map layouts in…

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Kevin Sheehan: “There’s something good about using old ways of doing things.” 44:55

2y ago44:55

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East Yorkshire artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan discusses picking a fight with fellow history PhDs by drawing a 19x29” calfskin portolan chart of the Mediterranean, spending 2 months stippling the lunar surface with a dip pen, acquiring a novel accent after 20 years in England, heated conversations with flat earthers over his map of the moon, how …

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Dr. Andrew Cleek in Conversation with Commissioner Ashwin Vasan 37:28

2y ago37:28

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Dr. Andrew Cleek in Conversation with Commissioner Ashwin Vasan by McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and ResearchBy McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research

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Dr. Damali Wilson in Conversation with Dr. Erin Sadler 39:23

2y ago39:23

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Dr. Damali Wilson in Conversation with Dr. Erin Sadler by McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and ResearchBy McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research

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Dr. Anthony Salerno in Conversation with Linda Rosenberg and Helen ‘Skip’ Skipper 48:04

2y ago48:04

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Dr. Anthony Salerno in Conversation with Linda Rosenberg and Helen ‘Skip’ Skipper by McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and ResearchBy McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research

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Jeff Clark: “Paper maps are dead, long live paper maps.” 51:41

2y ago51:41

51:41

Vancouver “accidental cartographer” Jeff Clark discusses his 100-layer 18-month project to map the Salish Sea bioregion, the importance of testing your waterproof trail map paper, getting a big boost from the local press, the eternal hassle of bathymetric data, consulting North America’s best reference mapmakers, and when to call a map finished (ne…

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Anthony Despalins: “I feel this energy when creating impossible landscapes, spaces, configurations.” 55:00

2y ago55:00

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Lisbon cartographer and artist Anthony Despalins on using the visual language of French 1:50k topos to create imagined landscapes, a toolkit of pencils, poems, markers, memories and ink, drawing inspiration from the Gironde estuary and Matthew 6:9, sketching entire layouts in reverse on tracing paper, chasing altered states while creating worlds, a…

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Grant Preller: “It started as a fun project and has turned into something I would definitely call a vocation.” 41:26

2y ago41:26

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Margaret River cartographer and surfer Grant Preller on catching waves down the Iberian coast in a 1980 VW bus, spending five years on foot marking promising breaks along 50 miles of Australian coastline, relating local history with maps, the plan to map ‘til “the end of [his] days,” and using Google Earth, 1890s coastline maps, 1:50k topos, the lo…

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Aaron Taveras: “I would stare at topos for days on end and thought it’d be fun to make them myself.” 49:16

2y ago49:16

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Reno cartographer and outdoorsman Aaron Taveras on why he started making his own trail maps, “taking [his] sweet time” to create a hyper-detailed monochrome 4x5’ map of Nevada landforms, beginning a map with the raster data, an inspiring backcountry ski atlas, teaching cartography by disassembling National Park maps, and the beauty of low-amenity p…

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