Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography

08/14/2024

If you listen to Conan O'Brien's Summer Smores, you've heard him joke about how remote and isolated Altadena is. If you're not an Angeleno, however, you probably don't have a good sense of Los Angeles geography, though, so I created this map of Conan's Los Angeles

If you, like me, are a regular listener to the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast — especially the Summer S’mores series — you have no doubt heard Conan joke, um, more tha…

11/30/2023

Check out Tony Pierce's podcast, Hear in LA -- specifically -- the one on which I'm a guest.

Eric Brightwell is all the things you’d want in a neighbor. He’s been around for seemingly forever, he rides his bike everywhere when he’s not on the bus, he...

10/27/2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mapping-los-angeles-w-eric-brightwell/id1708309133?i=1000632667266

‎Show All Valley Everything, Ep Mapping Los Angeles w/ Eric Brightwell - Oct 26, 2023

10/27/2023

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/16f98754-9581-4ceb-8d57-957093286a2c/id/28284791

On this week's episode we're joined by cartographer, writer, and LA explorer, Eric Brightwell for a conversation that spans the length of the valley and beyond! We talked about his love of making maps of LA, Plaza Del Valle, Jug Jug Sports Bar, the LA River, and so much more! Veronica Shirley joined...

09/06/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nol0knU_f_E&t=2s

In our latest installment of L.A. Untangled we caught up with to discuss his floor to ceiling map of Los Angeles, neighborhood boundaries and...

08/17/2023

This week, 25 years ago, I visited and explored Los Angeles for the first time. I took photos and wrote observations in a journal at the time -- with the intention of posting about it on my LiveJournal. Well, here I am, 25 years late.

https://wordpress.com/post/ericbrightwell.com/87245

06/15/2023

Last Friday, my friend, Matt, and I explored Torrance -- the second (or third) most Japanese community in the US. A pre-car streetcar suburb that is now the most populous in Los Angeles County without ANY rail transit (unless you count live steamers)!

https://ericbrightwell.com/2023/06/15/california-fools-gold-exploring-torrance/

05/25/2023

The other day, I explored the Miracle Mile with my friend, Mike, for California Fool's Gold. I previously explored it a decade ago, when I made this map.

https://ericbrightwell.com/2023/05/24/california-fools-gold-exploring-miracle-mile/

04/12/2023

I got interviewed about my maps and other thangs by the Silver Lake History Collective. Check it out when you have 50 minutes or -- pro tip -- hit 2x speed and save yourself 25 minutes.

https://youtu.be/Id4QGJx8gHw via

Interview Date: March 22, 2023Interviewer: Cheryl RevkinCamera: Khoi PhamThanks to: Eric Brightwell

11/28/2022

It's Cyber Monday, the holidays are approaching, and your loved ones have been begging/nagging/gagging for mugs, Ts, totes, &c decorated with Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography's charming hand-drawn maps. 40% off sound good?

Shop t-shirts, phone cases, hoodies, art prints, notebooks and mugs created by independent artists from around the globe.

11/02/2022

Dave Stoelk made a short feature for Spectrum News about me exploring and mapping Metro Los Angeles. Check it out!

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-east/arts/2022/11/02/artist-on-a-quest-to-map-all-of-la-by-hand