SLHC Interview with Eric Brightwell, Silver Lake entrepreneur and cartographer.

I was interviewed, as suggested by the title (not mine) by the Silver Lake History Collective. Have a watch, if you’ve got fifty minutes to spare (or 25, if you increase the playback speed).

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**Eric Brightwell is an adventurer, essayist, rambler, explorer, cartographer, and guerrilla gardener who is always seeking paid writing, speaking, traveling, and art opportunities. He is not interested in generating advertorials, cranking out clickbait, or laboring away in a listicle mill “for exposure.”Brightwell has written for [Angels Walk LA](http://www.angelswalkla.org/), ***Amoeblog*, ***Boom: A Journal of California, [diaCRITICS](http://diacritics.org/2013/keep-on-music-new-wave-and-80s-reunion-party-the-vietnamese-new-wave-revival-2), **Hidden Los Angeles**, and [KCET Departures](http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/columns/block-by-block/). His art has been featured by the **American Institute of Architects, the [Architecture & Design Museum](http://aplusd.org/), the [Craft Contemporary](http://www.cafam.org/), [Form Follows Function](http://www.fffmedia.com/), [Los Angeles County Store](http://lacountystore.com/)**, the book [Sidewalking](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273726), **Skid Row Housing Trust, and the [1650 Gallery](http://1650gallery.com/)**.Brightwell has been featured as subject and/or guest in [The Los Angeles Times](http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/13/local/la-me-brightwell-maps-20120614), [VICE](https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvne8z/how-i-live-car-free-in-los-angeles), [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/map-of-los-angeles_n_1305551.html), [Los Angeles Magazine](http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/citydig-discover-the-eastsides-hidden-delights-on-this-hand-drawn-map/), [LAist](http://laist.com/2011/01/05/hand_drawn_neighborhood_maps.php), [CurbedLA](https://la.curbed.com/2017/7/28/16059422/los-angeles-neighborhoods-map), [Office Hours Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Cv8Rd1IYI), [Spectrum News](https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-east/arts/2022/11/02/artist-on-a-quest-to-map-all-of-la-by-hand), [Eastsider LA](http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2011/06/silver-lake-map-maker-draws-attention/), [Boing Boing](http://boingboing.net/2015/02/10/pendersleigh-sons-cartog.html), [Los Angeles, I’m Yours](http://laimyours.com/20409/handmade-maps-of-los-angeles-by-pendersleigh-sons-cartography/), [Notebook on Cities and Culture](http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/s1e22-the-discerning-cosmopolitan-cartographer-with-eric-brightwell), **KCRW**‘s [Which Way, LA?](http://www.kcrw.com/people/eric-brightwell)*, at [Emerson College](http://www.emerson.edu/ela), and the University of Southern California**.Brightwell is currently writing a book about Los Angeles.

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