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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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"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
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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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