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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Apr 1
- 6 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Mar 1
- 6 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Aug 1, 2021
- 8 min
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"
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Mitch Hampton
- Apr 1, 2021
- 7 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Jul 1
- 5 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Jun 1
- 6 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- May 2
- 6 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Feb 1
- 6 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Jan 1
- 5 min
January, Poetry and Turning the Page
Ringing in 2022 with thoughts of art and poetry.
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Mitch Hampton
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
Hope for Gratitude
Gratitude, art and how creativity heals and unites us.
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Mitch Hampton
- Oct 14, 2021
- 8 min
My Snapshot Theory of Art
We ring in December with some thoughts about art and the connections these works bring.
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Mitch Hampton
- Oct 1, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Sep 1, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Jul 1, 2021
- 8 min
Liberty, Independence, Freedom, and Art!!
"As for those for whom to work hard, to begin and begin again, to attempt and be mistaken, to go back and rework everything from top to...
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Mitch Hampton
- Jun 1, 2021
- 6 min
"June is Busting Out All Over"
June is busting out all over! Art, criticism and how we discern what we love.
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Mitch Hampton
- May 1, 2021
- 8 min
Our May Blog Post: " Who Is the Man with The Briefcase?"
"The quotidian is not the most important thing; it's the only thing. All human evil reflects a fleeing from and denial of this truth."...
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Mitch Hampton
- Mar 1, 2021
- 10 min
DEAR March Come In
We welcome Spring take a look at the connections between poetry, creativity, and autism....
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Mitch Hampton
- Feb 1, 2021
- 7 min
LOVE .......in all it's facets
I remember that in the February of last year on this podcast me and my producer did a whole episode on the movie Valley Girl, a sort of...
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Mitch Hampton
- Jan 1, 2021
- 7 min
Getting personal in the New Year
Your host Mitch Hampton kicks off the New Year with an introspective post about time , creativity and autism.
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