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To Thine Own Self...
In Hamlet, the play, Polonius told his son, "to thine own self be true."
Everyone in this representative photo seems old enough to have taken grade 12 English to read Hamlet. Most likely, they have come across this scripture and thought deeply into it. But, all I saw was, "to thine own self" and nothing else. This photograph. Everyone seemed to be off in their own world. No one cared for each other, no one cared that one person got a "Tall White Hot chocolate" or a "Grande Skinny Vanilla Bean Latte."
What was the point of all this? Why buy from a higher class coffee shop? Why not go to a family-run coffee shop? Why Second Cup where things aren't relatively cheap?
To show off. Everyone wants to look better, more expensive than the people around them. They are so focused on beating their "competitors" that they don't even focus on their competitors at all. They don't stop to think, "hey, if I’m not paying them any mind. why should they?"
The girl in the front is wearing a Von Dutch hat, bought a grande drink that cost over a few bucks, and shopped for a few expensive underwear that no one sees but herself. Why? Why would she bother to even put on heavy hoop earrings and shop around all day when no one will notice because they're all just thinking about themselves?
Because, they have all forgotten the last two words that Polonius said to Laertes, "be true."
They only stop to remember, "To thine own self."
I took this picture in this angle so that I could get as many people in it as possible and I got the perfect moment in which no one had eye contact with each other. The girl in the front probably thought about HER day shopping, the woman in the red probably wondered when HER drink would come out, the cashier probably wondered how much longer HE'D have to work, and the man in line probably wondered when HE would be served. The lighting I chose was a mellow one. The reason is because when one is in a mellow mood, they usually zone out of reality and forget things. It reflects the storyline to this photograph. People zone out of what Polonius really said and they twisted it up.
To Thine Own Self...
In Hamlet, the play, Polonius told his son, "to thine own self be true."
Everyone in this representative photo seems old enough to have taken grade 12 English to read Hamlet. Most likely, they have come across this scripture and thought deeply into it. But, all I saw was, "to thine own self" and nothing else. This photograph. Everyone seemed to be off in their own world. No one cared for each other, no one cared that one person got a "Tall White Hot chocolate" or a "Grande Skinny Vanilla Bean Latte."
What was the point of all this? Why buy from a higher class coffee shop? Why not go to a family-run coffee shop? Why Second Cup where things aren't relatively cheap?
To show off. Everyone wants to look better, more expensive than the people around them. They are so focused on beating their "competitors" that they don't even focus on their competitors at all. They don't stop to think, "hey, if I’m not paying them any mind. why should they?"
The girl in the front is wearing a Von Dutch hat, bought a grande drink that cost over a few bucks, and shopped for a few expensive underwear that no one sees but herself. Why? Why would she bother to even put on heavy hoop earrings and shop around all day when no one will notice because they're all just thinking about themselves?
Because, they have all forgotten the last two words that Polonius said to Laertes, "be true."
They only stop to remember, "To thine own self."
I took this picture in this angle so that I could get as many people in it as possible and I got the perfect moment in which no one had eye contact with each other. The girl in the front probably thought about HER day shopping, the woman in the red probably wondered when HER drink would come out, the cashier probably wondered how much longer HE'D have to work, and the man in line probably wondered when HE would be served. The lighting I chose was a mellow one. The reason is because when one is in a mellow mood, they usually zone out of reality and forget things. It reflects the storyline to this photograph. People zone out of what Polonius really said and they twisted it up.