Mitch HamptonJan 17 minOn the Aesthetics of our Snapshots as History TurnsThe month of January of course makes me think about the passage of time - both within single eras and from one era to the discontinuous...
Mitch HamptonOct 1, 20229 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,...
Mitch HamptonMay 2, 20226 minWhy I am a CinephileWhat follows is an incomplete list/prose/poem: I am a cinephile because I actually believe what Robert Bresson believed about the camera...
Mitch HamptonApr 1, 20226 minArts and HumanitiesApril:On Getting in Touch With One's FeelingsGeorge W. S. Trow, the public intellectual, humorist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist and many other things, closes his last book...
Mitch HamptonMar 1, 20226 minMarch Post: Embracing our PluralityAs 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 HamptonOct 14, 20218 minMy Snapshot Theory of ArtWe ring in December with some thoughts about art and the connections these works bring.
Mitch HamptonOct 1, 20215 minCreativityA 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 HamptonSep 1, 20215 minBack 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 HamptonAug 1, 20218 minAugust through the lensOur podcast host, Mitch Hampton, explores the August blog post through he lens of 1976 beach memories and the film, "Lifeguard"
Mitch HamptonApr 1, 20217 minPodcast 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 HamptonMar 1, 202110 minPodcast DEAR March Come InWe welcome Spring take a look at the connections between poetry, creativity, and autism....