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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
Understanding Backwards While Living Forwards
“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem
Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20249 min read
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
More 1970s Reflections - Learning about music and more through historical time
I state all of this in this post only with the empowerment of hindsight,in the attempt to move towards giving an account in prose of my life
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202412 min read
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
January: "A Most Personal Post"
With the turning of one year into another on this partly artificial, partly natural social calendar, I find myself moved to focus yet...
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20249 min read
December post: On The Quotidian In Art
QUOTIDIAN, adjective: of or occurring every day; daily ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane “One of the things that always...
lauriesstorygarden
Dec 1, 20239 min read
Of Things Great and Small, Outer and Inner
What is the relationship between grand exterior events and the discrete, interior things I or we can call art? Or, rather, to be fair to...
lauriesstorygarden
Nov 1, 20239 min read
October Post: Demy, Varda and Our Reception of Styles
I don’t like labels that classify you and file you away as a little ‘romantic.’ Perhaps Lola was romantic, but Les Parapluies de...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20239 min read
Diversity, Beliefs, Democracy and Art
"I should make my own position as a philosopher clear. I'm not a relativist and I'm not an absolutist in the senses I have been talking...
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202310 min read
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
May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life
In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...
Mitch Hampton
May 1, 20237 min read
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
March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience
We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20236 min read
February: An Aesthete Travels in Middle Age
Many of our common social dictums, however hoary they may in fact be, contain at least partial truth as much as they do falsity. One...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20239 min read
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
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
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
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
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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