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...
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Mitch Hampton
- May 1
- 7 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Mar 1
- 6 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Nov 1, 2022
- 7 min
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...
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Mitch Hampton
- Oct 1, 2022
- 9 min
"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,...
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Mitch Hampton
- Aug 1, 2022
- 7 min
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
- Jul 1, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Apr 1, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Feb 1, 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sep 3, 2020
- 4 min
Our "Back to School" Post
An inside look at our September episodes and the connectivity of all the arts.
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