A Trip to Childhood with the Hundred Acre Wood Map
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Winnie-the-Pooh and the wonderful stories of the Hundred Acre Wood are a huge part of the childhoods of millions of people around the world. The image of Christopher Robin traipsing through the English countryside, his bear and books at hand, stick with us for so long. And even the map of the Hundred Acre Wood, created by E.H. Shepard, the illustrator for the series, gives us a way to navigate childhood and come back to things that we’ve forgotten as adults.
A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard together created a series that no one expected to be so popular, but has been incredibly long-lasting and eclipsed both of their careers, and even those of their children. Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit, and all the others hold a special place in so many hearts. And in this video, we go over the land and map of the Hundred-Acre-Wood. It is a map with a very special style unlike almost any other map that exists. It is straightforward, simple, direct, and yet deeply meaningful. It captures a collaboration between adults and children in remarkable ways.
Revisit childhood a little in this video, and learn more about how the map of the Hundred Acre Wood is something truly great, though it may very well be underrated compared to other cartographical works in literary history.
My goal with this series is to explore the amazing maps that humanity has created over the span of human history, and to use these as ways to connect with our ancestors. I hope you enjoy going on this journey with me, and please let me know if you like this format and if you want to see more videos.
A huge thanks to everyone that helped to contribute to this video and whose works are featured here, including:
Images and Clips
Winnie the Pooh sketches and art
Art from Wikipedia and other sources
Many clips from Pexels.
Audio
Dvorak: Humoresque ( • Dvorak: Humoresque )
Chopin: Waltz No. 9 ( • Frédéric Chopin - Walt... )
Scott Joplin: Solace ( • Kasparov KO’s Short in... )
Research
The Art of Winnie-The-Pooh, James Campbell
The Pooh Sketchbook, Brian Sibley
The Winnie-the-Pooh books
Shepard's War, James Campbell
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.o..., and others)
And many more.
A nod to Great Art Explained ( / @greatartexplained ) for helping me come up with the idea for this series.
And of course, thanks to all the many hands along the course of history that created and shared such works, so we can all learn more from the past.
Love,
Victor
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Great concept to combine your passion of cartography with pop culture. Thank you!
Wow! When I did my military service (in peacetime, in Sweden, but in a special operations force with a lot of really hard work for 1.5 years), I often longed home to my parents, and specifically so sit and watch the "Search for Christopher Robin" movie with my little sister. I had no idea about this, but I can really understand how WWI experiences could induce fantasies about an idyllic fairytale world like the 100 acre wood.
this was my first map in my winnie the pooh book, reading it as a child with my mom 😊 It seemed big and complex back then. I remembered it as I first picked up a lord of the rings book and saw the map there. Now I could truly investigate something complex 😅
I grew up with Disney's Winnie the Pooh and some books that derived from that version, not the original books. I remember one of the books had a Disney-fied version of the map they show here (roughly the same map in the Disney art-style) and I always thought it was really cool and wished it was real and I could explore it (I mean I guess technically it's real, but the real woods looks rather different than an animated cartoon).
Youve just inspired me to try and draw the map of my home woods. I grew up at the firests edge out in the sticks on Falster in Denmark. It occurs to me now that a map drawn from memory of that area would be a fun place to to spend one of the novels im working on.
This is awesome to hear!! I hope it stirs some great memories for you... :)
Fantastic
milne & Shepard are so much better than so-called Disney - which are sometimes ugly, not cute at all, & in bad taste.