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Inside this episode with host, Mitch Hampton

By any measure I am an unusually outgoing person in public spaces. Indeed that is how we have come to have our producer for this show. And as I always like to say, some of our guests are people I have known personally and others I have not met until the date of the episode. Still others, like Michael Mesrchat, are ones I have met before the show, but more recently.

I first met Michael during the Christmas season of 2023 at Blue Mountain Pizza, a place renowned not only for its food but for its elaborate decorative displays for the Holiday season. I witnessed a man who, while waiting for his pizza, appeared to be investigating one of the many statues or dolls that fill the restaurant at this time, his interest might have been the type of metal used on a particular nutcracker drummer.

I asked him if he was an interior decorator of some kind and he replied that he was an architect.

For the longest time it had been my dream to have an architect on the podcast and I can't think of anyone better for such an episode than the present guest. As can be experienced on this episode

Michael is an architect who specializes in where people live and he has the kind of emotional intelligence and likability that anybody would want such an architect to have.

Although I feel I always learn an enormous amount in every episode we do, even when it is a field with which I have some prior familiarity going in, I have to say that I found this conversation to be especially enlightening on more than one level and I hope you enjoy watching this as much as we did recording it.

  
More about Michael Merschat and his beautiful work:

Michael grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside Asheville, NC. After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design, he moved up to Washington, DC, to pursue his career in architecture. 

After two decades of city life, Michael returned home and found renewed connection with the land and rural community of his youth.
 
He believes that we have an opportunity to bring thoughtful design principles into every home, effortlessly blending the natural flow of the land with modern architecture.

He currently serves as the Education Director on the Executive Committee of the Asheville Chapter of the AIA and as Chairperson for the Capitol Area CRAN (Custom Residential Architects Network).Links to Michael’s beautiful works:
Website: www.opencornerarch.com
Social: https://www.instagram.com/open_corner_architecture/
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-merschat-2b7b444/
Houzz: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/open-corner-stewardship-modern-architecture-pfvwus-pf~378136292?



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Special thanks to everyone who joined us last week for our recent "All About Aesthetics" livestream, episode 10 focused around Blake Edwards masterful film, "10".

Enjoy and see you soon!

More on this special stream ,here:

For this, the tenth episode of the Aesthetics series, I will focus on the Blake Edwards 1979 masterpiece 10 with the large and unusually terrific cast of Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Brian Dennehy and Dee Wallace.



Although on a more surface level this is Edwards' comedic and even philosophic take on the Sexual Revolution and changing societal mores I will show how it is also compatible with the current discussion in this series of the shift from pre-Rock culture of the 30s-60s, represented by the main character George who is a jazz pianist and composer (!) and the post-Rock era (as well as disco), represented by Bo Derek, the woman to whom George is so deeply drawn.


In this sense 10 is as much about aesthetics styles and tastes as it is human relationships.

It is also in so many ways quintessentially 1970s filmmaking, a nod back to my 1970s film series while being utterly timeless: one of the most classically and tightly written plays or scripts from Edwards, or really anybody, in the era.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our "Almost Summer" concert featuring your host Mitch Hampton and his wonderful jazz trio!

For our great replay crew, here is the link to watch and share.

You are all the best part of what we do!

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Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer".

This is episode 3, Part 2 of 3 of the multi episode set.“Inside The Episodes: The Martin Davidson Show”

I have long loved the movie Almost Summer; indeed I have one of those long and vintage movie posters of it hanging conspicuously in my home. But of course any movie of whatever quality has many creative souls who contribute to its realization in the world.

Lee Purcell, who is one of the well known cast of Almost Summer, has had a most illustrious career since the 1970s. Our interview occurred right on the heels of an anniversary of the movie Valley Girl - in which she plays one of the parents. Featuring Purcell on our show is a real joy as she has had a career in Hollywood for decades and knows more about how movies are made than many. She also had great stories from her life and career.

Martin Davidson of course is the director of the film; he also was a filmmaker who was one of the first to feature, among others, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in his now classic and famous The Lords Of Flatbush.

He has had a long career in Hollywood since the 1970s and was an early forerunner in directing for HBO and other similar networks. Like Purcell, his interview was dense with great stories.

Of course having an episode with both of them is what our podcast is really all about: I am grateful to them for their generosity and contributions. in the episode with all three of us I more or less watched or listened and learned an enormous amount.

I hope you enjoy all three of these episodes as much as we did creating them.

More about the film and wonderful artists in this episode:
Links to the film Almost Summer: AlmostSummerImbd
Links to Lee’s beautiful work: LeePurcell.Com
Links to Marty’s phenomenal work: MartyDavidsonImbd
Link to watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYi1CXzcAI

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More about us:
Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts.

He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human.

DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

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Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer".

This is episode 3, Part 1 of the multipart special series.“Inside The Episodes: " The Martin Davidson Show”

I have long loved the movie Almost Summer; indeed I have one of those long and vintage movie posters of it hanging conspicuously in my home. But of course any movie of whatever quality has many creative souls who contribute to its realization in the world.

Lee Purcell, who is one of the well known cast of Almost Summer, has had a most illustrious career since the 1970s. Our interview occurred right on the heels of an anniversary of the movie Valley Girl - in which she plays one of the parents. Featuring Purcell on our show is a real joy as she has had a career in Hollywood for decades and knows more about how movies are made than many. She also had great stories from her life and career.

Martin Davidson of course is the director of the film; he also was a filmmaker who was one of the first to feature, among others, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in his now classic and famous The Lords Of Flatbush.

He has had a long career in Hollywood since the 1970s and was an early forerunner in directing for HBO and other similar networks. Like Purcell, his interview was dense with great stories.

Of course having an episode with both of them is what our podcast is really all about: I am grateful to them for their generosity and contributions. in the episode with all three of us I more or less watched or listened and learned an enormous amount.

I hope you enjoy all three of these episodes as much as we did creating them.

More about the film and wonderful artists in this episode:
Links to the film Almost Summer: AlmostSummerImbd
Links to Lee’s beautiful work: LeePurcell.Com
Links to Marty’s phenomenal work: MartyDavidsonImbd
Link to watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYi1CXzcAI

#henrywinkler #slystallone #hollywood #1970s #1950s #rocknroll #beachboys #almostsummer #motown #soul #stevemcqueen #1960s charlesbronson #genre #highschool #california #newyork #highschoolmovie #teenmovie #hbo #treatwilliams #perryking #mikelove #socal #brooklyn #flatbush #musical #varietyshow #marthacoolidge #heidiholicker #deborahforeman #michellemeyrik #quentinttarantino #newbeverly #losangeles #michaelbowen #allettieri #richardfleischer #sydneypollack #outofafrica #paulkoslo #lindacristal #tomberenger #virginiamadsen

More about us:
Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts.

He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human.

DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

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Special note to listeners: We are releasing three episodes as a set- actress Lee Purcell's solo interview, director Marty Davidson's solo episode and their combined episode discussing their work together on their iconic film "Almost Summer".

This is episode 2 of 3 of the multi episode set.

“Inside The Episodes: The Lee Purcell Show”

I have long loved the movie Almost Summer; indeed I have one of those long and vintage movie posters of it hanging conspicuously in my home. But of course any movie of whatever quality has many creative souls who contribute to its realization in the world.

Lee Purcell, who is one of the well known cast of Almost Summer, has had a most illustrious career since the 1970s. Our interview occurred right on the heels of an anniversary of the movie Valley Girl - in which she plays one of the parents. Featuring Purcell on our show is a real joy as she has had a career in Hollywood for decades and knows more about how movies are made than many. She also had great stories from her life and career.

Martin Davidson of course is the director of the film; he also was a filmmaker who was one of the first to feature, among others, Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler in his now classic and famous The Lords Of Flatbush.

He has had a long career in Hollywood since the 1970s and was an early forerunner in directing for HBO and other similar networks. Like Purcell, his interview was dense with great stories.

Of course having an episode with both of them is what our podcast is really all about: I am grateful to them for their generosity and contributions. in the episode with all three of us I more or less watched or listened and learned an enormous amount.

I hope you enjoy all three of these episodes as much as we did creating them.

More about the film and wonderful artists in this episode:
Links to the film Almost Summer: AlmostSummerImbd
Links to Lee’s beautiful work: LeePurcell.Com
Links to Marty’s phenomenal work: MartyDavidsonImbd
Link to the film, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYi1CXzcAI

#henrywinkler #slystallone #hollywood #1970s #1950s #rocknroll #beachboys #almostsummer #motown #soul #stevemcqueen #1960s charlesbronson #genre #highschool #california #newyork #highschoolmovie #teenmovie #hbo #treatwilliams #perryking #mikelove #socal #brooklyn #flatbush #musical #varietyshow #marthacoolidge #heidiholicker #deborahforeman #michellemeyrik #quentinttarantino #newbeverly #losangeles #michaelbowen #allettieri #richardfleischer #sydneypollack #outofafrica #paulkoslo #lindacristal #tomberenger #virginiamadsen


More about us:
Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Your host Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts.

He is a lover of life, 70's scholar, journalist, writer, thinker, an aesthete. Mitch takes us on a journey, opening doors and taking us inside the lives and minds of brilliant creatives, makers and humans, exploring creativity across genres, mediums and what it means to be human.

DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

https://anchor.fm/mitch-hampton
https://www.patreon.com/journeyofanaesthete?fan_landing=true
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