The Table Sessions

TS Episode Page: Powers of Ten

Ken & Austin are joined by guest Contributor & Host Sean Konig to discuss the concept of Narrative World Building. Starting with Charles & Ray Eames’s Video “Powers of Ten” we dive into what type of elements frame a story, a narrative’s outer and inner “bounds”, and a look into popular cinematography, before explore’s Sean’s own in-process narrative “Reader’s & Deceivers”

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Charles & Ray Eames - Powers of Ten

Sean Konig - Website

TS Episode Page: Sensible Commuting

In this conversation, we debate the merits of biking vs. walking in the city. We talk about sense suppression in transit, pace and how it relates to security, social influences on transit and much more. This conversation takes place one year after Austin and Ken's first ever recorded discussion on the same subject - of which brief snippets are included.

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Wikipedia - Proxemics

TS Episode Page: Trekking to the Renwick

Some days you’ve got to just get out of the studio and see the world. We experiment with a few new forms of audio in this episode: recording on the go and public soundscapes. DC’s Renwick Gallery featured No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, in 2018, in which patrons can intimately participate in a variety of art featured at the latest Burning Man festival in Nevada. Although this conversation isn’t specifically centered on Burning Man, the team hopes to dive deeper into the visual and audio spectacle that is Burning Man in a later episode.

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The Renwick - Website

Burning Exhibit - No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man

Burning Man Festival - Website

TS Episode Page: Statues in Social Context

Our conversation takes its inspiration from a months long study we implemented on the statues in Washington DC. In light of recent effects in places like Charlottesville, we were inspired to thrust ourselves into researching what is in our own backyard from a qualitative and quantitative angle. Who and what we choose as a society to monumentalize in stone can have a lasting effect on the conscious and unconscious well-being of everyone. Historical patterns of statue building have certainly favored certain demographics, genders, and religions. We are here to ask if those patterns have the potential to be altered.

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Fabric[K] Design - https://fabrick-design.com/

TS Episode Page: Fantasy In Historical Context

Nothing is better than a great work of fiction positions itself into an even richer, more dynamic historical context. Pan’s Labyrinth, the 2006 dark fantasy film by Guillermo del Toro, is tactfully positioned in the historical context of the Spanish Civil War. The line between fantasy and reality is tread by the characters in this film as they deal with the tyranny and oppression of reality’s current regime, and the fantastical unknown of the underworld.

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IMDB - Pan’s Labyrinth

TS Episode Page: Cinema Through Section Drawing: Samurai Style

In Seven Samurai, the classic film by Kurosawa, our team took a particular interest in the defensible strategy of the small Japanese village in the context of defending one’s home. A feeling of “home” is precisely innate to the human endeavor, especially when that feeling in danger of being revoked by a looming, evil presence. Before the breakdown of the final battle, we discuss the historical context of Japan, how Kurosawa assembled one of cinema's first fighting super-teams, and the cultural humor differences that must have existed in 1950's Japan.

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IMDB - Seven Samurai

TS Episode Page: Four Apartments, One Montage

Our team pinpoints a montage sequence in the Brazilian film City of God, in order to discuss urban decay through the story of an apartment which evolves in four specific sequences from home to drug factory.

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IMDB Info: City of God - IMDB

TS Episode Page: The Table Sessions

Co-Creators & Hosts Austin Raimond & Ken Filler reflect on the past, present and future of The Table Sessions platform.

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