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Values And Sensibility in Education
All of us have feelings like these over cultural products like books or movies, that I am categorizing as works of art.
Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 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
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
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
The End of The Phone
For what I now realize was quite a long period of time, from 1987/88 when first I lived on my own to about 2007 or so, the phone occupied...
Mitch Hampton
Nov 1, 20227 min read
"Acting in Character"
"Usually there is a protagonist who the audience watches the movie THROUGH. But then you need that OTHER guy in the story." (Ned Beatty,...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 1, 20229 min read
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
Why I am a Cinephile
What follows is an incomplete list/prose/poem: I am a cinephile because I actually believe what Robert Bresson believed about the camera...
Mitch Hampton
May 2, 20226 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
It's All In The Style
"I am not saying that a work of art creates a world which is entirely self-referring. Of course works of art (with the important...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20226 min read
Hope for Gratitude
Gratitude, art and how creativity heals and unites us.
Mitch Hampton
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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
A Little Philosophy for October
"When does something truly become 'popular'? And I don't mean 'popular' in the sense that it succeeds; I mean 'popular' in that the...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 1, 20215 min read
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
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
"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
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
Getting personal in the New Year
Your host Mitch Hampton kicks off the New Year with an introspective post about time , creativity and autism.
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20217 min read
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