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my brilliant old idea

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

For the past few months I've been carrying around a small bag that's suited for my netbook and a few A4 file folders. It's a purse.

With about the least likely combination of words in the name, it's called "The Revolution" by "Gnarly Fish" whatever that means. It cost about $20 and has been perfectly suited for my commute, which consists of a crmaped train ride and a couple of twenty minute hikes. Here's a pic of the product. Sexy, I'm sure.

I imagine it being cooked up in some rundown HK trading shop and built more or less anonymously.

One thing it can't carry is my banged up old Minolta X-700 DSLR. So I've been poking around looking for something larger (and more suitable to client visits for that matter). As I looked around, I came across a type of plastic padded bag that they apparently sell for carrying your lunch to work. It struck me as being a rather good camera bag. Water resistent, lightly padded (neither heavy, stiff, and bulky nor unpadded) and of course inexpensive. What's more, no one's going to swipe the thing. Pleased with my idea, it only occured to me much later in the evening that this wasn't really my original idea. My father used to carry his SLR and spare cameras in a yellow plastic "Smurf" themed lunch bag in the 80's. An idea reborn!