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January & February 2025: Change and Loss in Eras And Time
Author and reporter Gay Talese reads a newspaper in New York City, in 1982 “I think that virtues are real. I think there are good things...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 39 min read
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My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 202412 min read
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March 2024- The Place of Aesthetics in Personal Biography
As of late in these posts I have been discussing my personal relationship with all sorts of art objects that happen to occupy a greater...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20247 min read
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On Likes, Loves and Style
You can imagine my joy at seeing the particular quote that Bradley Cooper chose to open his biopic on Leonard Bernstein. In it he...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20244 min read
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June post: Cinephelia and Summer
"There is nothing quite like that moment when the lights go down and all our hopes are concentrated on the screen." Pauline Kael Readers...
Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20237 min read
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On Being An Archivist of One's Own Life
Last month I went into a little detail about my return visit to my former home of Boston. Embedded inside is my little theory about the...
Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20236 min read
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Snapshots In Season
One of the results of having the immensely good fortune to be able to host this podcast has been the development of my “snapshot” idea or...
Mitch Hampton
Dec 1, 20225 min read
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Getting philosophical with Snapshots,Books and Beaches
August is, of course, a central month in the Summer. In the past year I have been organizing all of my personal effects, mainly...
Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20227 min read
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On Concepts, Categories and Lived Experience
"The time to make up your mind about people is never." Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart/Philip Barry/George...
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 20225 min read
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The Presence of the Past
If I recall correctly, my last June post was in part a celebration and analysis of musicals, in particular my endless fascination with...
Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20226 min read
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April:On Getting in Touch With One's Feelings
George W. S. Trow, the public intellectual, humorist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist and many other things, closes his last book...
Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20226 min read
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March Post: Embracing our Plurality
As my roots are in a style that I would call philosophical: there really isn't any way to avoid such a quality in these blog posts even...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20226 min read
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Hope for Gratitude
Gratitude, art and how creativity heals and unites us.
Mitch Hampton
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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My Snapshot Theory of Art
We ring in December with some thoughts about art and the connections these works bring.
Mitch Hampton
Oct 14, 20218 min read
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Back to School, or, How we never really leave school, even if we want to......
At every opportunity I try to spread the word on this remarkable photo essay on Bennington College in the 80s. I won't be coy; I like...
Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20215 min read
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August through the lens
Our podcast host, Mitch Hampton, explores the August blog post through he lens of 1976 beach memories and the film, "Lifeguard"
Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20218 min read
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"June is Busting Out All Over"
June is busting out all over! Art, criticism and how we discern what we love.
Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20216 min read
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Looking Back ,Springing Forward....The Journey Continues.....
This banner that greeted me when first I started my journey at Interlochen Arts Academy that you also see at the outset of this post has...
Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20217 min read
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Our "Back to School" Post
An inside look at our September episodes and the connectivity of all the arts.
Mitch Hampton
Sep 3, 20204 min read
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