Just wanted to check out an interesting exhibit promoting a new UK photo website and Flickr, and stumbled into a lot of free beer, drinks, food and some nice music.

The third and fourth photos are particularly interesting. The old man drinking tea, "Jacob Drinking," shows an elderly gentleman enjoying his cup while the younger woman and man neighboring him are both armed and immersed in their laptops, the young man drinking a beer. I just loved the setup and colors, but most of all the symbolism of how it seems that traditional places, such as coffee/tea shops, which used to be primarily for a place of enjoying your brew and socializing; now its the place to be to get whatever digital tasks you need to work on while being under the pretext of a social situation and being quasi-indulgent. On the flip side, it shows how ancient it seems to have elderly people in the idea of a modern coffee shop, and how the zen philosophy of "living and enjoying the moment and action at hand" is ignored just like the aging figure.