Spesh Ep: Functional Magic's Environmental Art with C. Andrew Hall

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Art meets science! Problems meet solutions! Climate change meets … hope? In this atypical episode, things get casual as hell as Alie sits down to talk about the Functional Magic: an illustration non-profit started by filmmaker, Emmy-nominated television editor and longtime friend Andy Hall. When he’s not having to edit Alie on Innovation Nation, Andy is the founder and creative director of the Drawdown Design Project, which commissioned some of the world’s most sought-after artists to illustrate climate solutions outlined by Drawdown.org. What resulted was the just-released limited-edition 200 print run of ENGAGE, EMPOWER, CULTIVATE and ELECTRIFY. Andy walks me through the passion, the production and the process of raising money for rainforests while making something gorgeous and uplifting. Also: I used to serve snacks on film sets. Get one of the 200 limited-edition Drawdown Design Project prints: https://drawdowndesignproject.org/donate Follow www.Instagram.com/DrawdownDesignProject and maybe win a poster! More info on climate solutions at www.Drawdown.org A donation went to: https://www.rainforestcoalition.org/ More about the illustrators: https://drawdowndesignproject.org/illustrators ENGAGE by Brian Steely https://www.steelyworks.com/ CULTIVATE by Tula Lotay https://www.instagram.com/tulalotay/ EMPOWER by Khary Randolph https://www.instagram.com/kharyrandolph/ ELECTRIFY by Malleus https://www.instagram.com/malleusdelic/ More links at alieward.com/ologies/drawdowndesignproject Sponsors of Ologies: alieward.com/ologies-sponsors Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and now… MASKS. Hi. Yes. Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Transcripts by Emily White of www.thewordary.com/ Website by https://www.kellyrdwyer.com/ Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's technically expired yogurt. That's probably still fine and maybe even more alive.
0:07.8	Allie Ward back with a promised special episode of Ologies. Oh, what a couple of weeks it's been.
0:13.7	My God. If you're a patron at Patreon or com slash ologies, you know that I was in the ER and why.
0:20.7	But if you're not and you're like, what? Did you die?
0:23.9	I did not. But I will one day, but just not today. At the end of the episode during the secret
0:29.2	portion, I'll tell you why I found myself in the ER for seven hours during a pandemic. But I thought
0:34.7	I deserved some weekend loafing. I said to myself, fuck all. Let's make this intended
0:38.9	bonus episode of full-blown Tuesday one, shall we? We shall. We did. Here we are. Okay, so this is a really
0:45.6	great conversation with my old pal, C. Andrew Hall. He is an Emmy Award nominated editor.
0:51.9	My first friend I ever made in L.A LA decades ago and the person who really helped me pave my
0:58.7	path to being a science communicator by introducing me to the fine folks at Innovation Nation
1:03.9	on CBS, which we're now shooting our eighth season.
1:07.7	I'm recording this in a hotel room outside of Detroit shooting, actually, to be
1:13.1	honest. Innovation Nation, check your local listings. It's on Saturdays, CBS. But first, I want to say
1:19.8	thank you to all the folks supporting via patreon.com slash ologies. Thank you to everyone who recommends
1:25.3	ologies to friends and family and who rates. Of course, to everyone who leaves reviews, such as this fresh one. It was written by
1:32.6	Sev, one, two, three, four five. I'm a feeling not the real name. But they said I have severe
1:37.5	depression and listening to this podcast makes me feel so much better. Thank you, Allie. Sev,
1:42.1	one, two, three, four, five. Thank you for finding the time to write that.
1:44.9	And I really appreciate you back. I hope this episode helps with some of the existential gloom we all feel.
1:51.4	Actually, I know it well. So let's get into it. Okay. So Andy first told me about the drawdown design
1:56.9	project two years ago. He was vexed by climate change and he was inspired by the
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