Naz Hamid, a fantastic designer from Chicago started a flickr group called, “The Items We Carry.” The group is rapidly growing, and I am sure you’ll agree, it has a very interesting voyeuristic quality to it.
- see the flickr pageThe Items We Carry are the small things we put in our pockets* or on our persons — the essentials we need to function daily at a basic level. – Naz
Jeremy Zilar is the Blog Specialist at The New York Times and an avid creator and collaborator across the spectrum of media.
Jeremy, you’ve inspired me to add my own pic to the flickr photo group!
nice.
there are a couple of related flickr groups;
“what’s in my bag”, which is a great way to keep tabs on the coolest new fine-tip pen, or flashdrive, or moleskine notebook, or merlin-mann-approved hipster pda du jour):
http://www.flickr.com/groups/19253565@N00/pool/
and
“what’s in my makeup bag”, which sort of ends up being “here is $400 worth of expensive lipglosses, in the most nuanced shades, adherences, and reflectivity levels that plain old rosy beige lip products can ever attain:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/whatsinyourmakeupbag/pool/
browsing these is almost as fun as feigning interest in real estate in order to snoop through sunday afternoon openhouses in trendy neighbourhoods.
nice seeing you yesterday, jeremy, however briefly.
I am also going to write about this on my blog very soon.