Tis the season… I walked around the city today and saw these two guys carrying their tree home on an empty shopping cart. Guess this is the NYC version of Santa’s sleigh.

Photo of a water seller in Cairo, sent by Jeannie Fletcher’s father to her mother during the 2nd World War.

Water sellers In front of Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque.

water seller, Marrakesh, 1988

A lot of guys feel uncomfortable about carrying totes. But what I’ve noticed is that those people tend to prefer the sling behind a shoulder instead of on the shoulder like it’s intended. Being in the men’s bag world, trust me when I say, that there is a very fine line of masculinity when it come to bags. It doesn’t only depend on how it looks but how it’s meant to be carried. If a proportion is off by a few centimeters, it can skew feminine.

This picture sums up the difference between living in NYC vs. LA.

The lack of personal transpiration in NYC can make the simplest of errands become a bag design problem.

Money.

How do you carry yours?

flat, folded, plastic?

Back-breaking work. Gathering wood is time-consuming and exacerbates deforestation in Nepal, but for many households, it’s the only option.

San Francisco Theater Festival, 2007.