Oh, hey, it's the acquaintance who always reintroduces themselves in case you forgot their name.

Ali Ward, this is Ologies, here we are with a trip through time, space, art, ideas,

paint, and guest-starring Philadelphia.

So this ology is in fact real.

I was just tickled to discover that Teiko means wall,

graph means writing, and that scholars have used this term

to discuss wall paintings dating back like thousands of years but

this episode is going to be more of a modern look at big street art that either colors your day

without you even noticing or maybe it stops you in your tracks and

then you're like weeping into a to-go latte. This all it just hails from

Philadelphia and as it happens, so does street art, we shall discuss.

But he has been on the scene as a journalist for approaching 15 years

as the editor and the founder of this really popular blog,

Streetsdepartment.com, and he's a curator for the public arts

program mural arts Philadelphia and also has a podcast called Why is Art

Outside? And through all this work his focus is really about spotlighting and elevating

artists he's the best and I was introduced to him by your favorite squid expert

toothology guest Dr Sarah McInulte and this interview took place on her living room couch.

It was a sunny summer day.

The walls around us were brick on one side

and then various pieces of squid art

on the other with her cat holding court between our

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