backpacks are so fucking ugly

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.

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.

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.

has anyone solved the camera-bag-that-can-be-worn-with-a-suit problem for under $200?

― 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

http://www.amazon.com/Domke-701-J83-J-803-Satchel-Black/dp/B0009PAU06

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.

ah, the truth comes out

in london that's only 2 days out of the year, tbf, once in late april/early may and once more in september

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.)

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

:)

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.

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

*simply = simplify

has anyone solved the camera-bag-that-can-be-worn-with-a-suit problem for under $200?

― chinavision!, Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:11 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do it weggles-style
http://www.topphotographyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/William-Eggleston.jpg

(i assume that's just a case on his shoulder)

brb buying 'architect glasses'

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

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.

is that an x100

XD

that a buddha ear m3 with a leica 50mm collapsible 'cron

*dies alone*

We Angelenos don't need backpacks.

Honestly I'm surprised when I see people out wearing socks

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2466615

I never expected a Gartner article to be linked in this thread.

take it to ILE

www.gartner.com is currently unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.

"Yiur grandfather and I had to carry three or four books at a time, plus notebooks for taking notes!"

http://i.imgur.com/tOWL55f.jpg

TURTLE POWER

one thing I've always complained about re: backpacks is that they don't look enough like kevlar vests; finally someone gets it

spotted one of those in the wild today, on a 275lb man wearing khakis

what are you supposed to keep in it though

magazines, documents, envelopes, maybe a pizza

http://pics.streetpeeper.com/sites/default/files/meredith-wendell-backpack.jpg

this backpack is not fucking ugly at all. actually ME WANT.

I inherited this Swiss Gear backpack from my kid last year and thankfully one of the main zippers has shit the bed. I hated this goddamn thing so much.

I think the secret is to buy sporty backpacks ie ones specifically made by athletic brands, like I have two identical adidas backpacks that I really love & I think are p fly

I need external water bottle pockets, but I don't really need any other kind of pocket, is my deal. I carry a book or two, a small lunch, and over-ear headphones. Sometimes some paperwork.

Whereas my current Jansport doesn't have enough different pockets. There is no such thing as enough different pockets for me.

mil-spec normcore

http://www.lapolicegear.com/backpacks.html

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/policestuff_2439_19305397273

I know right

https://www.peakdesign.com/product/bags

i like the look of these, though they are aggressively trendy and expensive

those look ok and less than what i just spent. :|

the strap on my giant digital-dj backpack ripped in two, and duct tape is only working to hold it together temporarily. i'm not going to sew it together right now, i don't have the time or the stuff or the skills. i really should learn how to do that. anyway i ordered a new backpack from amazon yesterday. it took two hours of looking and caused way too much anxiety. there are a lot of ugly-ass bags out there. i ended up spending $50 more that i don't really have on a travel/gym under armour bag instead of going for the really inexpensive stuff with brand names like Vitalismo and Kaka.

it's got that under armour bro-core thing going on but i feel somewhat more confident i'll be happy with it

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ImaylkF0L._SY300_.jpg

xp to la cop tombot

"nice" bags get out of my price range like instantly

and god help me i will never own something with the word "OGIO" on it

or FUL.

with the line over the U

Yeah, the last one I had (also inherited from my son) was FUL, and I felt like one.

http://i.imgur.com/ZewkQj5.jpg

i feel this way about running shoes

http://i.imgur.com/S7cqevn.jpg