I don't carry a bag because when I do I wind up filling it with shit I don't actually need to be carrying around. 95% of days the most I actually need is food, one book, and maybe one or two documents from work, all of which can fit in a plastic or paper shopping bag, which may not be the greatest style move but at least it prevents me from taking more than I need.
but yeah I have an office, no need for a laptop, etc.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
if i need a scarf in the morning for work i generally need it when i'm going home..?
buy more stuff and get a separate coffee brew set-up for each office locationdeclutter your life
declutter your life
haha ok, you got me here. still though. i looove never buying cups of coffee or carrying a thermos or w/e
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
xpost need i remind you what board this thread is on, get one tote bag
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
when one person (that's you, Tracer) assumes that what works for him MUST work for everybody else
i think we're going to have to agree to, well, not necessarily disagree, but that i am completely right and that everyone else is completely wrong
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
all of which can fit in a plastic or paper shopping bag
hurting, are you my step dad, wth
― ampersand cooper black (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
someone do a NYer cartoon of tracer lecturing to a homeless person
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
here you go:
http://i.imgur.com/MOCkLp3.png
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
why would i be lecturing to a homeless person??
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
are you that dense
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
ohhhh... cause homeless people have to carry their possessions with them! boy, would my advice be inappropriate for them!!!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
man, i have learned something today though. when you question the backpack, you reap the whirlwind.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
take the L gracefully
― 乒乓, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
I actually do keep a separate coffee "station" at work -- a mug and a hario one-cup dripper and some beans that I split with a co-worker. It's really not that hard.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
basically i am equating my plight to that of a homeless person here, yes
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
has anyone solved the camera-bag-that-can-be-worn-with-a-suit problem for under $200?
― chinavision!, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
For ladies, there are some beautiful purse camera bags (different than reg purse in that they are more heavy duty, specialized inner dividers for camera, lens, misc purse items.
A backpack is basically a large paper bag you can use every day without throwing it out. Feeling gr80's plight here, happy to have a purse to carry my smoothie, coffee, lunch, sunglasses, wallet, gloves.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
I use my camera bag as my bag-bag as well, for sunglasses, pen and paper, headphones, etc. but it's kinda worn and rough so I can't imagine it working well with a suit.and of course I need a camera bag everywhere... get outta here with that.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
i will grudgingly admit that in sunnier weather my lack of a bag can be somewhat, uh, challenging. and by challenging i mean i look like i'm smuggling lego sets in my pockets.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
Unless I'm wearing jeans, like CA said, no pockets in most of my outfits. My husband only carries a briefcase to work if he's bringing lunch, pockets otherwise, but his job doesn't require technology & he's not a photographer. He has a locker to store his coat/scarf/etc.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
I have an office and my employer provides coffee and water (and tea and ice) and all our work stuff is ~~in the cloud~~ but I still bring a bag because 1) I work remotely two or three days/week and while I sometimes work from home, I sometimes work from other exotic locales like my couch or a coffee shop and no matter how adamantly I insist, Starbucks won't keep a computer there for me to use so I take my laptop home with me most of the time and 2) I bring lunch/snacks most days and it's actually easier to throw everything in a cross-body bag (one of these - http://www.queenbee-creations.com/items?category_id=38) and have my hands free than it is to bother with a grocery bag. Plus also no pockets and the need to carry an umbrella, reading material, wallet, phone, house keys, sunglasses, etc.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
― chinavision!, Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:11 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark
i think the domkes made out of ballistic nylon (iirc domkes use the good kind) are nice, all the reviews say it's really hard to make them look beat up
― 乒乓, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Domke-701-J83-J-803-Satchel-Black/dp/B0009PAU06
― 乒乓, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
ah, the truth comes out
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
in london that's only 2 days out of the year, tbf, once in late april/early may and once more in september
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
itt tracer teaches you how to be a man.
(on weekends and in evenings sometimes I can get it together enough to not take a bag with me. walking around the city without one feels goddamn luxurious.)
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
idk I just feel like when the apocalypse comes or aliums attack or the rain of toads happens, I'll be happy that I have my bag full of stuff that everyone thinks is so 'useless' or 'nonessential' or 'ugly'
good luck with yr pockets tracer
:)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
whenever I do carry a real bag, I just wind up with, like, four books that I'm not even reading, a bunch of papers I'm not working on, random crumpled up papers and receipts, an umbrella when it's not raining, etc. I guess I could just clean out my bag more often, but no, fuck you.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I'm kind of a 'what if I need this' packrat
every now and then I'll simply things and pare down my purse to only the essentials and then a week later I'm back to a halfton load again
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
*simply = simplify
― chinavision!, Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:11 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
do it weggles-stylehttp://www.topphotographyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/William-Eggleston.jpg
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
(i assume that's just a case on his shoulder)
brb buying 'architect glasses'
― chinavision!, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.trakke.co.uk/product/bairn
this could work as a camera bag, but it's pretty expensive. could just also make one?
this is a p cool backpack, too, but hella big http://www.trakke.co.uk/product/krukke
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
just noticed ol' bill isn't even using a camera strap at all. I would be guaranteed to drop the camera at some point using that method.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
is that an x100
― the late great, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
XD
― 乒乓, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
that a buddha ear m3 with a leica 50mm collapsible 'cron
― 乒乓, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
*dies alone*
We Angelenos don't need backpacks.
― crdbl (admrl), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Honestly I'm surprised when I see people out wearing socks
― crdbl (admrl), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2466615
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 May 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
I never expected a Gartner article to be linked in this thread.
― Jeff, Friday, 3 May 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
take it to ILE
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Friday, 3 May 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
www.gartner.com is currently unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 4 May 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
"Yiur grandfather and I had to carry three or four books at a time, plus notebooks for taking notes!"
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Saturday, 4 May 2013 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tOWL55f.jpg
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
TURTLE POWER
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
one thing I've always complained about re: backpacks is that they don't look enough like kevlar vests; finally someone gets it
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
spotted one of those in the wild today, on a 275lb man wearing khakis
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
what are you supposed to keep in it though
magazines, documents, envelopes, maybe a pizza
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link