Growing Up Aspen

10/13/2026

Perspective: An Aspen eye catches all!

10/10/2026

A fun movie review… looking back!

A New Years perspective!

10/09/2026

In the days when I knew Aspen, the travelers and dreamers who found their way to that high-altitude sanctuary didn't just talk about it as a mountain town; they spoke of it with the breathless reverence due to Shangri-La, viewing Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon not merely as a piece of cinema, but as a living, breathing metaphor for the valley itself.

It was a secluded refuge tucked away from the frantic, rushing pulse of modern America, a place where time seemed to stand still in the crisp alpine air and cinematic beauty collided with a fragile, utopian ideal.

Like the lamasery hidden in the Tibetan peaks, Aspen offered an intoxicating promise of eternal youth and artistic sanctuary, capturing that rare, fleeting magic on celluloid and in the soul before the outside world inevitably came knocking at the pass.
https://growingupaspen.substack.com/p/aspen-as-shangri-la-a-lost-horizon?r=2g93c&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Lou Dawson

A New Years perspective!

10/09/2026

Perspective:

10/02/2026

Another local voice!

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At the beginning of summer, it felt like I got shot out of a cannon. Now it’s October, and I feel like I got shot by a cannon. Let’s be perfectly honest: The events here are absolutely incredible,...

09/28/2026

Aspen kids perspective on indie film and Ai!

Robert Burson, Andy Collen, and Chris Pomeroy

If you've spent enough time freezing your toes off in the lift line at Aspen Mountain, you learn pretty quick that necessity is the mother of invention, and right now, the entire independent film world is standing at the top of a double-black-diamond chute called Artificial Intelligence, wondering if they should pizza or french fry.

On one hand, these generative tools hand a scrappy, budget-starved filmmaker the kind of wizard-level superpower that used to require a Hollywood backlot and a twenty-million-dollar check; on the other hand, you look at it and wonder if we're about to pave paradise and put up a synthetic parking lot.

But if you grew up carving your own line through the powder instead of following the groomed trails, you already know the secret: you don't stand at the top of the mountain complaining about the snow conditions. You strap in, fire up the gear, and figure out how to ride that crazy, runaway technological avalanche faster and weirder than anyone else, because at the end of the day, no algorithm in the world can replicate the beat of a human heart hurtling down the mountain at fifty miles an hour.

https://youtu.be/W9qZn0rMij8?si=oZs99Ol3P9LET0AS

Rob Burson talks about the independent spirit and possible Ai.Rob...

09/26/2026

A little Aspen history from one of its kids!

https://youtu.be/aOkAFtQzjVc

Welcome! This is Episode 3 about building Aspen Colorado in 1888 - ...