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"All About the Golden Age of the Made For T.V. Movie with Amanda Reyes   From Mitch’s Notebook about the episode:  “One of many, in my view, most unwelcome developments in public commentary as of late are the explicit demarcations being made regarding culture - usually between the trivial and the essential, or between the irrelevant and the mandatory.  The suppressed question then b...

Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton “From 1470 to 2020, with a few stops in between: a musical conversation with bassist Bill Fouty " “Bill Fouty is one of the many fine musicians I have had the privilege to meet and work and play with over the years. He is an expert on the bass and I was quite overjoyed at the prospect of playing with him as he unearthed an actual cello from Italy in the year o...

From Mitch’s notebook about this episode: “I have always been almost as interested in certain topics like history and philosophy as much as the arts. The first time I encounters the name George Kateb was in a quite old book from the early 1990s where the phrase "positive alienation" was attributed to one George Kateb . More familiar with the word alienation as being (only) a pejorative the curiosi...

A personal note from your host, Smith Hampton, about becoming a Patreon subscriber and what it means for you, and, to  our show. Thanks for listening and please share our links with us~ https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton The Journey of an Aesthete Podcast Team

From Mitch’s Notebook on the episode:  “I aim to have guests of every stripe on my show. The reasons are many. Part of it is my conviction that the arts come in different mediums - visual and aural, for example. One of the other reasons (I am sure I will leave out or forget some reasons - there are many) is actually more idealistic. I actually think that people different from one another. eve...

In this episode I discuss with Mike White his movie podcast The Projection Booth , the movies he loves, his approach to interviews and podcasting and all matters of cinephilia."  "Movie Talk with Mike White”  From Mitch’s notebook on the episode :  “I first discovered Mike White through his wonderful cinema podcast, The Projection Booth . There are two reasons I love it, and I am sp...

Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton “Jon Stepp: The Value Of the Handcrafted”   From Mitch’s Notebook about the episode: “ I first became acquainted with Jon Stepp more for the joy of conversation with him than for any particular knowledge of his artistic practice. Later I was to discover that he was a visual artist in all sorts of media and was quite eloquent in expressing what it means fo...

A comprehensive look at the career of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski , including detailed discussion of how his films up to now were made, especially the originality of their style, his educational background at Harvard with Chantal Akerman , working with both professional and nonprofessional actors, issues of reception and distribution, films both of us have loved, and much more.  Inside the Epis...

From Mitch's Notebook :  "I have an archivist’s passion for things past and largely for aesthetic rather than political or sociological reasons - and the fact that it is aesthetic makes all the difference. I suspect that my psychological state is really about the same as the Thora Birch character’s response to the old artifacts she discovers from her friendship with the Steve Buscemi/Seymour...

Mitch talks with Daniel Kremer about both his cinema scholarship as well as prolific filmmaking on the occasion of the release of his Overwhelm The Sky .  “I guess I first became acquainted with Daniel Kremer before actually seeing any of his films because the man has an encyclopedic knowledge of film history; he knows as much if not more about cinema than anybody I have ever met. But being a...

Ring in the New Year with us with this inspirational episode as we sit down with Olympic Marathon Runner, Doug Kurtis , about what is possible! From Mitch's Notebook on the episode: "If you will recall if you have heard our Smriti Shankar episode . I say early on that I dreamed of being able to talk with an athlete on our show under the principle that it is a very good idea to explore ideas with p...

Inside the Episode with Mitch “ The Holiday Show” With special guest, Laurie Jill Strickland creator of Everyone’s Carol From Mitch’s Notebook on the episode: “ Back in the (Analog) day everybody and everyone would do a Christmas timed and themed show of some kind. One of the joys of growing up when I did is seeing what The White Shadow or Eight Is Enough or The Waltons and Family would do for a C...

Inside the Episode with Mitch Episode 9 : “Music with Mitch, Second Edition”  For this special episode of   Journey Of An Aesthete Podcast , your host, Mitch Hampton, records live at his Steinway piano.    An Alumni of New England Conservatory of Music , Mitch discusses his process of creating original music. Mitch is a world renown musician and composer who has scored for many...

Inside the Episode with Mitch Hampton:  “I was first introduced to Jaimee Wriston Colbert by her daughter Mailie Colbert , who told me I should read her mother's books. I read Climbing The God Tree , and later Shark Girls , and more recently, Vanishing Acts with the greatest pleasure. Colbert's work is exciting in its formal inventiveness: it blurs the line between short stories and the...

The Art of Sound and Image: a conversation with Maile Costa Colbert Inside the episode with Mitch Hampton : I have known Maile Colbert personally for more than a decade, originally going back to the days when I frequented Mass Art Film Society where she presented some of her very first work, including a film about artist Sophie Calle , and my interest in some of the faculty at CalArts with whom sh...

We are so delighted to announce to you all that Journey of an Aesthete Podcast is now sponsored  by Audible! Check out Mitch's original music he composed in this ad, off his new, soon to be released album. A sneak peak and treat for all our listeners. You can click this link : http://www.audibletrial.com/JourneyofanAesthete and receive your free audio book and a free trial to Audible for a mo...

Since the publication of his Care of The Soul in 1992, Thomas Moore has been a bestselling author on all matters important to the human being. He has a background as monk, musician, psychologist and practicing psychotherapist with deep connections to Carl Jung, and is very erudite on all of the humanities, making him an ideal guest for Journey Of An Aesthete Podcast.   Moore holds Ficino...

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" Mr. Sanifu Al Hall Jr. :  The Consummate Musician " AL Hall Jr. is that uncommon individual: the consummate musician or musician's musician. He has literally done it all. From session work on the trombone to touring and recording with some of the best musicians of the previous century - Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Freddie Hubbard, Sammy Davis Jr. for starters, Hall has also pla...

Jon Jost is one of the precious few filmmakers who can accurately be called independent. He makes movies the way jazz improvisers improvise, composers of music compose and since 1960s has been most prolific, making 40 plus movies, handcrafted with integrity. Visit @JourneyofanAesthetePodcast for more episode details! www.jonjostphotography.com/ www.jonjost.altervista.org www.acinemafornone.wordpre...

...in which our host, Mitch Hampton, introduces himself and his passions. Through the vantage point of the late, great Isaiah Berlin's ideas about pluralism, he reflects on what art is, has been and can be, the reality of stylistic diversity, with some personal reflections from the host's early life, movies, musical training and much more. More aout Isaiah Berlin here : http://www.isaiahberlin.org...

Enjoy this teaser and subscribe and then Join us July 1st at 1pm, for the official launch of Mitch Hampton's Episode 1 of his,  " Journey of an Aesthete" on Anchorfm. Direct link here: https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton Please subscribe and then help us spread the word by sharing the link with us!!! Thanks for going on the journey with us. Mitch Hampton and team #podcast #arts #humanities #music...