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Discussion Thread: Field Trip about mural-making is live and published! (Patreon)

Published:
2024-10-30 20:30:25
Edited:
2024-11-08 04:45:13
Imported:
2026-06

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The awaited follow-up field trip to our Modern Toichographology episode is here! Have you listened yet? In it, we hang out under some train tracks at night in Philly watching muralists work on their series of 17-foot artwork. I've never felt cooler, even though they are the cool ones.

Learn tips on how to make your own mural, what inspires these artists and how to trouble shoot in the field with UNAPXLXGETIQ, El Toro, Iris Barbee Pendergrass a.k.a. These Pink Lips, Donna Grace Kroh, and Mr. Scoot. How many Sharpies does it take to make a mural, and how does one not get arrested if it’s not city-approved? We’ll ask. 

Let me know what you think of this one, as as I asked at the end of the episode, suggest some future Field Trip episodes here! 

Yours in pod,

Ward on the Street

Files

FIELD TRIP: I Take You to the Making of a Mural - alie ward

Folks, come with me. We're hanging out under some train tracks late at night in Philadelphia doing street art. As the promised companion piece to our wonderful Modern Toichographology episode on murals and street art, this Field Trip takes us to where the action happens, chatting with several murali

Comments

JENN 'Benthopelagic squirrel' ALVAREZ

Love! I can't imagine how much attention span would be required to paint a mural. There is one near my house. I wish there were more! I wanna hang out with you and Sarah next time you're here! 💙

Alie Ward

Wait you're in Philly?!?!?! And I think they must listen to a lot of podcasts, just like a lot of crafters!

JENN 'Benthopelagic squirrel' ALVAREZ

Im in Mt Pocono but it's only an hour away. I would drive eleventysquirrel miles to hang with y'all!😁 I hope that doesn't make me sound like a stalker. 💙

Diana Teeter

If you are ever in NYC during fall/spring bird migration you have an open invitation to join me for my volunteer work with the NYC Bird Alliance walking my Project Safe Flight route in the morning. We gather data about birds that hit windows during migration and use the data to assist scientists and policymakers in pushing forward legislation to make buildings more bird friendly. We also work with local wildlife rehabbers at Wild Bird Fund to rescue any birds that survive building collisions. I would love to play host as can talk forever about the important work we are doing!

Alie Ward

Awesome! Question: we have westward facing windows and in 5 years of living there and working from home/being quarantines we have NEVER had a birdstrike. then a few weeks ago at 11pm a nightjar (!!!) ran into our window! Who can I ask about this?!?!

Alie Ward

I need to see your license plate in person!!

Diana Teeter

Oh no! I love nightjars!!!! How sad. I actually have a fairly good idea of why this happened now and not before. If I remember correctly you have been cultivating native plants in your yard, native plants attract native bugs, and that will attract nightjars who want to eat those yummy bugs (at night, hence the name “nightjar”). So since you now likely have more native birds flying in your yard after the bugs you have attracted the opportunity for a bird to hit a window goes up. Birds don’t understand glass like humans do (I say it this way because it is flim flam that birds can’t see glass and humans can…humans cant really “see” glass either, we just learn where glass can be and how to spot it via things like reflections. Ever watch a toddler run into a sliding glass door…? ) Anyway that’s why a bird hit the window it was probably following a bug and didn’t know there was glass there. But there are great ways to make your windows visible to birds. Our favorite suggestion is a product called Feather Friendly. I hope this helps solve your mystery!

Nina Giacobbe

I absolutely adore how much love Philly is getting with these episodes! I live north of the city but work in the historic district and just love the chaotic energy that Philadelphians thrive on. I also love that Drumline Elmo gets a shout out. A true Philadelphia icon. If anyone wants to know more about Drumline Elmo, check out PME Drumline (https://www.whourockinwit.org/) And for my favorite chaotic Philadelphia story, I present to you The Fairmount Furnace Party: https://billypenn.com/2019/04/28/how-a-formerly-homeless-mans-letter-turned-into-a-meme-and-inspired-a-giant-picnic/ Do attend.

Lizzy Martinez

Such a fun episode! Also, agreed turtle neck tank tops are amazing!!!! 😂

Alie Ward

Thank you so so much and great memory!! Our native plants are doing their thing! I'll definitely look into Feather Friendly! And the little nightjar was shaken but flew away quickly. There's a pic of it on my last IG post which is a photo dump (IG isn't loading oddly for some reason...)

Olivier Calas

Philly rocks and its murals and graffitis are not to be missed. Awesome show Allie, once again;-)

Gene Phillips

This episode was extra fun for me as an art historian. The varied techniques of the artists in Philadelphia echo the ones used historically. I am so happy the see the vibrancy of this artistic community,

Annabelle

Field trip ideas -Bird migration -Whale watching -Landfill / recycling plant -Redwood national park - distillery, vineyard, brewery -prairie chicken lek (awesome mating dances) - Mesa verde, or any historic human sites -Bone marrow donation center (how does it work and will it kill me) -a real shipwreck (idk where you find one but I’d love it)

Annabelle

I went to see the sandhill crane migration in Kearney, Nebraska in March. Beautiful to see and hear the massive flocks taking off every morning :)

Susan G

This was so cool! I'm going to be in Philly in October next year so hopefully I will get to see the finished murals!

Lydia Freeman

I had a mural painted on my house in Baltimore! It took 5 years of planning, securing a grant, working with the community on a design, etc before it just came to life this past spring. We just unveiled an "augmented reality" piece of it this weekend, where you look at it through your phone and the mural comes to life (flowers grow and lightning bugs fly around). It's no easy feat painting a 3 story mural and I am forever grateful to the talented team at Mural Masters for their amazing work on our house!

beccaand

In the vein of the NHM field trip, I think a weird/niche museum trip would be interesting!

Hasley

I visited Philly for the first time last month and went to the Mutter Museum. Spent 5 hours there and cannot tell you how often the thought, "I wonder if Alie Ward knows about this place," entered my mind

Megan M

Happy birthday Alie!

Ashley

Alie-thank you for making such an amazing podcast-I’m an ol fart and I love that you make learning so fun! Cheers to you and your crew!!!

Alli B

Happy birthday, Alie! This is probably the worst birthday ever but here’s a big THANKS from another Alli who appreciated the odonatology episode to get my head out of the shitshow of the election. Take care of you, byeee!

Sydney Booker

Love the episode…what happened to the rest of spooktober?

Ted Vician

Florida field trip idea: Kennedy Space Center.

Meg is Me

I've noticed that Spotify is about 5 episodes behind in available episodes. Are any other podcast streaming services less behind? I just don't listen to them on the website as I listen in my car and i can't pause, skip back if I missed something, find my place if I arrived at my destination halfway through an episode and therefore closed the window etc

Meg is Me

I'd love some episodes understanding more things from outside America. I'm Australian and many people here and from other countries outside the USA notice that Americans don't know much about other countries and cultures even though we all know what's going on in America all the time. It would be great for people to learn more about things outside their own country and culture and understand them at a deeper level. I know I always love to learn things about other countries and cultures and interesting flora and fauna that I didn't grow up learning about. I also would like people to understand more about Australia's history, Australian Aboriginals are the world's oldest continuous living culture and there is so much to learn and appreciate about their culture and so much that much of the world doesn't understand about the history of Australian colonisation and what happened with the stolen generation and so much of that time and I wish people understood that history as they can say things that aren't considerate of that history and they don't mean to be rude but it's due to not knowing and understanding