An amazing story of a promising architecture student who loses everything as war sweeps across his country, and restarts life in America, just as a new tech region of Silicon Valley begins to grow

The Next Stage of Silicon Valley - Mapping Biotech with Terry Guyer

May 23rd, 2022 31m 43s

Out of the dynamic growth of Silicon Valley came a new field of Biotech that would begin to outpace its technical field of origin. Even as people speak of the end of Moore's law and the slowing of tech development, it seems biotech just grows a

Frank Romo - The Big View of Mapping Now

Mar 8th, 2021 31m 21s

From a lifetime of practical experience in community work, wrestling with the structures that form and direct peoples, Frank Romo (https://www.romogis.com/)has had an expanding perspective on the human experience. In this conversation we get

Saving the Everett Henrys - The Rich Foley Story

Dec 10th, 2020 20m 56s

A young employee at the Harris Seybold printing company always loved those framed paintings of classic books. They hung in the offices, those original paintings, and were mostly done by artist and illustrator Everett Henry. They were extraordin

Kirby Scudder - A Unique View for Regions

Jun 23rd, 2020 21m 14s

Drawing on a whimsical approach to depicting areas, Kirby Scudder has tapped into a greater depth and continues the tradition of the American Birds Eye View map. Here we chat with him about his early work for the Tech Regions around Boston wit

The Kroll Map Company - "A Passion For Place"

May 4th, 2020 33m 52s

With its roots back to the 1870's the Kroll Map Company has been a regional mapmaker that adapted and grew, just like its home town of Seattle. Here, we get to speak with John Loacker, the third generation owner of the company about its history

Frank Ordaz - That Transcendent Moment

Apr 19th, 2020 34m 19s

While you might know his for a series of maps that looked at Sports history from Baseball, Football, Golf, and more. You really know, and believe his work from movies such as "Return of the Jedi", "The Goonies", "E.T." and more. Here a discuss

James Niehues - The Man Behind The Maps

Dec 18th, 2019 24m 30s

He is your visual guide to understanding the slopes, and his work has taken him around the globe. Here an interview with James Niehues about his history, his process and how to capture the drama of a mountain experience and make it accessible.

Corbin Hillam - His Early Silicon Valley Map

Jun 19th, 2019 19m 30s

He was a artist and illustrator active in the Bay Area as the Silicon Valley phenomena began to bloom, and his map may be one of the first to document it. A discussion with Corbin Hillam about his work and culture of early 80's Bay Area cultur

Emek- Conveying the Intangible

Apr 22nd, 2019 21m 17s

An old quote claims that "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"... in other words some things don't translate. But one artist with a unique process and history has found a work around. Emek Golan has done album covers, artwork

Maximilian Noichl - The making of data driven beauty

Mar 4th, 2019 26m 50s

The making of data driven beauty.Maximilian Noichl centers in the world of philosophy, and with an elegant aesthetic he draws on influences like Japanese artist Numata Kashu. The end result is a mesh of two worlds, one of subtlety and texture,

Robert Williams - The Heathen in Art's Hallowed Ground

Dec 24th, 2018 16m 19s

He's the renegade artist that has lived life on his own terms and made art free of sophistication and pretense, but packed with life and "low brow" ethos. Part of the group that founded Zap Comics in the late 1960's, one time artist for Ed "Big

The Daughter & The Son of the Discoverer of the Planet Pluto, Clyde W. Tombaugh

Sep 14th, 2018 24m 14s

An interview with the Daughter & Son of Clyde W. Tombaugh, the discoverer of planet Pluto. Annette and Alden Tombaugh discuss their father's life, discoveries, his curiosity and patient determination.

Dr Marius Bauza - Human GPS - Navigation and the Hippocampus

Jul 9th, 2018 27m 7s

Within the last several decades, great leaps of understanding have occurred around how humans navigate their environment and what mechanisms in the brain allow this elegant understanding. This interview with Dr Marius Bauza gives us an update o

Timothy Edward Downs - Mapping the Internet

Jan 31st, 2018 26m 15s

In what may be the first depiction of the newly developing invisible world of the internet, Timothy Downs made images to help people explore and navigate the new digital frontiers. In the early 1990's his love of electronics and his refined ab

Maryanne Hoburg - The Woman Who Mapped Silicon Valley

Jan 8th, 2018 34m 42s

She was the first to make a map of the complex eco-system of businesses that would become the garden of Eden for the Internet age, Silicon Valley. At the time she described the energy of the south bay area communities as volcanic, as the land

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