Bag Hack.
My boyfriend and I decided to walk over the Williamsburg bridge last weekend and had one of those aimlessly walking days. While we were out, we stopped to do some necessary shopping, but then I was stuck carrying around hardware pieces all day. I find this is a common problem in the city which tends to bring out the MacGyver in me. With a quick slip, clip and a clasp, I’m good to go again, turning my purse into a mule more than a fashion accessory.
An interesting write up for a camera strap that shows the importance of intuitive functionality.
Russian newsboy. Russian newspaper delivery man posed, standing, full-length, with bundle of newspapers. Soviet Union. 1900-1918. Photo by Bain News Service
Newspaper Delivery Boy. Date & location unknown
The distance crops travel from the fields to your dinning room table is baffling. Its easy to forget about the hard physical labor that is spent, well before it even makes it onto a delivery truck. These are photos of some extreme cases.
The famous Dabbawala or Tiffin Wallahs of Mumbai…Photo taken April 2008.
Tiffin Wallah translates as one who carries the box. Tiffin is an old English word for a light lunch, and also the name of the multi-compartment metal lunch box that carries it. The Tiffin Wallah originated over a century ago when the many Indians working for British companies disliked the food served at work. Tiffin service was created to bring home cooking to the workplace. Today the city’s 5,000 tiffin-wallahs deliver 200,000 tiffin-boxes filled with home-cooked food each day. According to a recent survey, there is only one mistake in every 16,000,000 deliveries and the system has registered a performance rating of 99.999999. Prince Charles is a fan and patron of the Tiffin Wallahs and countless businesses and corporations study the system to learn of its success and efficiency.
I went back home to LA for the holidays and got my much needed fill of non-city things like hiking and swimming. But this time around I decided to do a bit of exploring in an area of LA I know very little about…Downtown.
I have my old time favorites, like Grand Central Market and Union station but I got to discover a few new spots like the Bradbury building and the Flower district. That’s where this photo was taken. Nothing too ground breaking about how she is carrying her flowers, just a quiet glimpse of this downtown moment.
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.
San Francisco Theater Festival, 2007.
· Images are either from personal archives or borrowed from the web-o-sphere.
