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Mitch Hampton
Jul 112 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
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 19 min read
June: Aesthetics of Eras and Change
To live in one’s own time is to inhabit a world where we encounter and live with aesthetics that were largely others’ ideas and preferences.
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Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20237 min read
September Post: Art, Tech, and Time
"I think that our desire to make history about the present all the time actually kind of robs it of something. We miss the point of just...
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20237 min read
What I talk about when I talk about Aesthetics
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; ...
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20227 min read
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, 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...
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 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...
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20218 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"
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20217 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...
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Mitch Hampton
Dec 213 min read
A Vast World of Poetry
“One of the things about this time that is really hard on me is that temperamentally I really only like the quotidian and the small and I...
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Mitch Hampton
Nov 112 min read
Temperament, Art and the Known World
“I was woken up by my parents on the morning in March when the Russian Revolution occurred, rather early. And we went onto a balcony. And...
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Mitch Hampton
Oct 29 min read
Understanding Backwards While Living Forwards
“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem
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Mitch Hampton
Sep 19 min read
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.
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 112 min read
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
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Mitch Hampton
May 19 min read
The Experiences of Learning About The Arts
Every single aspect of the arts is inextricable from and intimate with how each of us learns many different kinds of things in the world...
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 19 min read
Snapshots of Artistic Experiences
I have both written and spoken here and elsewhere about my concept of the snapshot. One of the predominant, perhaps incessant matters is...
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 17 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...
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Mitch Hampton
Feb 14 min read
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...
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Mitch Hampton
Jan 19 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...
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lauriesstorygarden
Dec 1, 20239 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...
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