backpacks are so fucking ugly

This conversation is infuriating because it exemplifies one of my biggest irritations: when one person (that's you, Tracer) assumes that what works for him MUST work for everybody else.

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.

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 location

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

xpost need i remind you what board this thread is on, get one tote bag

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

all of which can fit in a plastic or paper shopping bag

hurting, are you my step dad, wth

someone do a NYer cartoon of tracer lecturing to a homeless person

here you go:

http://i.imgur.com/MOCkLp3.png

why would i be lecturing to a homeless person??

are you that dense

ohhhh... cause homeless people have to carry their possessions with them! boy, would my advice be inappropriate for them!!!!

man, i have learned something today though. when you question the backpack, you reap the whirlwind.

take the L gracefully

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.

basically i am equating my plight to that of a homeless person here, yes

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

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.

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.

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