In this week’s installment of TIG TV, We look at Edward Hopper's classic painting, Nighthawks, Alain de Botton takes a philosophical look at our desire to travel, and there is an introduction to Roland Barthes’s Mythologies; Robert Pirsig, author of the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, discusses his influential book; Edgar Wright discusses his passionate use of music as a storytelling device in his latest film, “Baby Driver”, and as always much, much more. Happy viewing –P
TRAVEL recently became the world's biggest industry according to World Trade Organisation. Statistics claim that millennials would rather save for travel than anything else, and Instagram has created a certain wanderlust that influences decisions about how they spend their money. The instagrammability of a destination is now the number one motivation among millennials for booking a holiday, creating an important discussion of expectation and reality.