A rather broad topic, but what are you reading about now or enjoying doing at the moment?
Summer tends to be when I find myself reading about something new (or at least, to greater detail than I've previously studied). Over the last few years it's been bits and pieces of philosophy, mythology, oenology, architecture and history.
This year, I've just started getting into the history of art in a more structured way. I've always been your typical "don't know much about Art, but knows what he likes" philistine, capable of vaguely recognising the more famous works and generally mindlessly appreciating of it without really understanding the context of it, or much of the detail.
But an idle conversation with someone a few weeks back in real life, which was then coincidentally echoed a few days later online, reminded me of the reaction I had to one painting in particular (a Renoir, as it happens) and how much I loved it. So I decided that this was a topic worth my actually knowing something structured about, so I picked up a simple & popular introductory text to art history (Gombrich's Story of Art) and I'm truly loving learning about the timeline and context of various masterpieces. Fascinating stuff and it really addresses a significant gap in my knowledge too. I think I'll pick up a couple of more detailed texts after I finish the primer.
What are you interested in right now?
You might even inspire someone else here to also learn something about it!
(highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow, populist, esoteric... doesn't matter; just something fairly unrelated to your day job)
Summer tends to be when I find myself reading about something new (or at least, to greater detail than I've previously studied). Over the last few years it's been bits and pieces of philosophy, mythology, oenology, architecture and history.
This year, I've just started getting into the history of art in a more structured way. I've always been your typical "don't know much about Art, but knows what he likes" philistine, capable of vaguely recognising the more famous works and generally mindlessly appreciating of it without really understanding the context of it, or much of the detail.
But an idle conversation with someone a few weeks back in real life, which was then coincidentally echoed a few days later online, reminded me of the reaction I had to one painting in particular (a Renoir, as it happens) and how much I loved it. So I decided that this was a topic worth my actually knowing something structured about, so I picked up a simple & popular introductory text to art history (Gombrich's Story of Art) and I'm truly loving learning about the timeline and context of various masterpieces. Fascinating stuff and it really addresses a significant gap in my knowledge too. I think I'll pick up a couple of more detailed texts after I finish the primer.
What are you interested in right now?
You might even inspire someone else here to also learn something about it!
(highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow, populist, esoteric... doesn't matter; just something fairly unrelated to your day job)
I'm getting a new/used widescreen tv in the livingroom and a new/used sofa (from my dad) so I need to make room for them 
(I'm quite the mutt.) 
I was unsure if you might be bothered by it, but I thought I'd take that risk, because I rarely take such risks. 
