Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who gets his inspiration and material from the natural world, is the narrator in the film Rivers and Tides. The documentary follows him as he creates his work from the things he finds outside in nature and provides insight into his philosophy, his methods, and his cooperation with nature.
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This American Life: Mapping was an audio program presented on thislife.org and presented five ways of mapping the world. One story was about individuals who make maps the traditional way (cartography)—by diagramming locations for our reference. And the other stories were about people who perform some non-traditional cartography: they map the world using smell, sound, [...]
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