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
- Feb 1
- 9 min
February: An Aesthete Travels in Middle Age
Many of our common social dictums, however hoary they may in fact be, contain at least partial truth as much as they do falsity. One...
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Mitch Hampton
- Jan 1
- 7 min
On the Aesthetics of our Snapshots as History Turns
The month of January of course makes me think about the passage of time - both within single eras and from one era to the discontinuous...
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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
- Sep 1, 2022
- 5 min
Styles of Back to School Prose
With September comes thoughts of endeavors that get categorized in our culture as intellectual pursuits. Part of this is of course the...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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