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Ologies with Alie Ward

Field Trip: I Take You to the Making of a Mural

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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 muralists as they work on their 17-foot paintings lining Front Street. You’ll meet UNAPXLXGETIQ, El Toro, and Iris Barbee Pendergrass a.k.a. These Pink Lips and learn about their favorite inspirations, methods to making their designs huge, how many Sharpies it takes to outline a building-sized painting, sticker vs. marker vs. paint, graphic and text mural designs, freehand, and most of all, how not to get caught doing illegal art. Onward.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, it's the acorn at the bottom of your purse,

0:02.6

alley board.

0:03.2

And I love a field trip.

0:04.8

I love them.

0:05.8

Checking things out, you're walking around, you're talking to strangers,

0:08.2

seeing the world.

0:09.3

Now, this episode is the much promised long awaited partner to our recent modern toegographology

0:15.4

episode all about murals with a wonderful Conrad Benner of the mural arts

0:19.7

department of Philly so I take you with me kiddos and today we're going to a street in the

0:25.1

Fishtown neighborhood in Philadelphia underneath some train tracks and next to a

0:30.5

large expansive wall with perfectly primered surfaces ready to become six murals.

0:36.7

Again, this is the Front Street mural project.

0:39.0

It was orchestrated by Philly's mural arts program.

0:41.8

We talked about it in the modern toggographology

0:44.2

episode about murals and street art. That one's linked in the show notes. But

0:48.4

over 300 local artists pitched their designs and only six were chosen. So we'll reunite with Conrad

0:56.0

Benner and artists who go by unapologetic, El Toro and these pink lips. One muralist

1:02.0

Emily White was in Greece,

1:03.7

muraling over there, but we chatted with a few other nearby street

1:06.8

artists who were on hand to help. But before we hit the streets,

1:09.5

thank you to patrons of the show for supportingologies,

1:12.0

since before even our first episode, you make the show for supporting Ologies since before even our first episode you make

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