Welcome to Suburban Paradise

About this episode

Kaitlin Prest introduces a series of episodes created from her parents' garage, exploring themes of creativity and personal narrative in a digital age.

A series of episodes quietly created from her parents' garage in the sleepy government city of Ottawa. In an era of well-crafted tightly edited, lushly designed and rigorously vetted (either by the network execs that hold the purse strings, by the powers of the algorithm, or by the monster of our own digital footprint-fueled perfectionism), these new episodes do more than just show the hand of the maker, they extend open palms, bow, kneel and lay foreheads to the ground. DONATE to the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild (aka: KP + Mermaid Palace) Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People in this episode

Host: Kaitlin Prest

Topics covered

• suburban life
• personal narrative
• creativity
• family
• digital culture

Keywords

• suburban paradise
• Ottawa
• creativity
• family
• digital footprint

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Ottawa

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