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abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake Pfeil’s experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States and around the world. Along the way, abandoned asks critical questions about American history and culture, community, economics, the environment, and mental health while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing. |
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(We gently recommend that you start at the very beginning: season 1, episode 1: "Prologue | Anemoia".)
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“What Blake has created with abandoned is a wonderful, rich sonic tour of his imaginings.
Join Blake as he guides us through the walls of abandoned spaces to meet apparitions who nod
to what once was the tragedy of the human condition.
The world he's created is one I want to escape to."
- Martha Little, Senior Director of Creative Development, Audible
About Your Guide
Blake Pfeil is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His current project is All-American Ruins, a multimedia travelog in which Blake fantastically recounts his experiences exploring abandoned spaces through multimodal storytelling. This ongoing body of work has been showcased around the world, including presentations or awards at the UK International Radio Drama Festival, the 27th Prix Marulic, On Air Fest, North Carolina Museum of History, History Colorado, Peekskill Film Festival, Swedish International Film Festival, PopCon Podcast Awards, the Ambies (nominee, Best Indie Podcast), and the upcoming Future of Media Awards (nominee, Podcast of the Year - Regional). All-American Ruins has also been featured in Business Insider, People, Atlas Obscura, Colorado Magazine, and on WAMC. This fall, it will see additional installations at New Jersey WebFest, Minnesota WebFest, and Eugene Environmental Film Festival. Outside his work with All-American Ruins, Blake most recently served as a guest producer for season 5 of History Colorado's Lost Highways while also working his "day job" as the Operations & Digital Programs Manager at TMI Project and "night job" as host of The Pfeil File on Radio Kingston/WKNY. Blake is an alumni of Purchase College (MA), Emerson College (BFA), and SUNY Stony Brook's Audio Podcast Fellowship.
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“ abandoned is exquisite. Truly. The sound design alone is worth the listen.
Enter the audio realm of Blake’s travels (and imagination)
as he visits the abandoned heart of America.
A genuinely strange and magical trip.”
- Nina Lawrence, Pushkin Industries
Enter the audio realm of Blake’s travels (and imagination)
as he visits the abandoned heart of America.
A genuinely strange and magical trip.”
- Nina Lawrence, Pushkin Industries
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Season 2
Season 1
“abandoned is rich, immersive, reflective sonic poetry
that will leave you wanting to hear more and
to explore the places Blake explores for yourself.”
- Wade Roush, co-founder, Hub & Spoke Audio Collective
that will leave you wanting to hear more and
to explore the places Blake explores for yourself.”
- Wade Roush, co-founder, Hub & Spoke Audio Collective
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abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is produced through the Community Podcast Program at Radio Kingston/WKNY.
"I was so glad to learn of the ghosty & addictive
abandoned. I love the concept, execution, and generosity of spirit.
A great mix of past, present, & future."
- Sherill Tippins, Author, Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Chelsea Hotel
abandoned. I love the concept, execution, and generosity of spirit.
A great mix of past, present, & future."
- Sherill Tippins, Author, Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Chelsea Hotel
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