{"id":613,"date":"2012-05-19T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=613"},"modified":"2012-05-19T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T21:36:20","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e22-the-discerning-cosmopolitan-cartographer-with-eric-brightwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E22: The Discerning Cosmopolitan Cartographer with Eric Brightwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-614\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"brightwell\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/05\/brightwell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Silver Lake with Eric Brightwell, proprietor of both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#%21\/Pendersleigh.and.sons.cartogaphy\">Pendersleigh &amp; Sons Cartography<\/a>, which offers hand-drawn maps of neighborhoods in Los Angeles and beyond (and posts them to Amoeba Music&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amoeba.com\/blog\/contributors\/eric-s-blog\/page1.html\">Amoeblog<\/a>), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Brightwell.Boutique\">Brightwell<\/a>, which offers luxury and craft items to the discerning cosmopolitan gentleman. They discuss the days when Silver Lake was Ivanhoe; the distinctively shifting and disputed nature of Los Angeles neighborhoods; the differences between neighborhood mapping by Google Maps, by Yahoo Maps, on <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/uploads\/Picture%203.png\">subway station walls<\/a>, and by hand; the unintended Berlin Wall effect of freeway construction; his attracting of angry, all-caps comments from the gangs of Frogtown; longtime Angelenos&#8217; lack of awareness about the neighborhoods that surround them, and their need to believe that their own has gone to the dogs; Hollywood&#8217;s retailers of pimp-geared $169 three-suit deals; how an authenticity jones can ruin your experience of Los Angeles; his discovery of microsubcultures in unexpected places, and the larger fact that no one part of the city is more interesting than any other; Hitler&#8217;s Pacific Palisades bunker; and the advanced art of entering a neighborhood, exploring it, and documenting it without knowing anything at all going in.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e22-the-discerning-cosmopolitan-cartographer-with-eric-brightwell\">here<\/a> or on iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Fern)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Silver Lake with Eric Brightwell, proprietor of both Pendersleigh &amp; Sons Cartography, which offers hand-drawn maps of neighborhoods in Los Angeles and beyond (and posts them to Amoeba Music&#8217;s Amoeblog), and Brightwell, which offers luxury and craft items to the discerning cosmopolitan gentleman. They discuss the days when Silver Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}