In Persona – What’s in your bag?
Awesome series of photographs by Jason Travis. Make your inner voyorist happy and visit his Flickr set In Persona. Also, there is an interview with him on Dashboard Co-Op.
Awesome series of photographs by Jason Travis. Make your inner voyorist happy and visit his Flickr set In Persona. Also, there is an interview with him on Dashboard Co-Op.
diego
Jul 14th, 2010Name change. “What’s in your hip(ster) bag?”
Stefan
Jul 14th, 2010Haha, true! That would be an appropriate title too. :)
Thomas
Jul 15th, 2010I want to marry the [hipster] girl at the top.
Megan
Jul 18th, 2010The squirt gun is for booze.
Megan
Jul 18th, 2010Also find it hard to believe that none of these women keep a tampon in their bag.
SOPHIE
Jul 18th, 2010I’m in shock right now. I stumbled across this page and was stunned to find out as I’m scrolling down that the black guy, second from the bottom, is my cousin. Well my cousin married him. They live 2 1/2 hours from where I live and I’ve met him once..
Just scrolling through when all of a sudden, “WAIT! I KNOW HIM! THAT’S PENIVEK!”
This is so weird. Crazy chances.
Trey
Jul 19th, 2010Hmm, a breeze card and a guy standing standing on that bridge with the “Team Danger” tag over Ponce… Maybe all the cool cats do live in Atlanta.
Jeff
Jul 19th, 2010Holy God, these people are so fake they can’t pile enough fake on their bodies that they have to carry fake in their bags! What, are they afraid the hipster police will do a stop-and-search to prove their hipster credentials? Like ironic mustache guy, carrying around a Norman Mailer article…get real. The only way this is forgivable is if its a meta-art photo shoot and the photographer imagined what was in their bags and arranged the shot. Unbelievably lame.
justin phillip hill
Jul 19th, 2010super uber not bad…
Nick
Jul 19th, 2010@Jeff
Glad someone said it.
bluesbird11288
Jul 19th, 2010Our generation has become so image-concious that we edit our bags the way we edit our facebook/myspace/blogger site.
The personal has become public, thus we modify our behaviour accordingly.
SK
Jul 19th, 2010@Jeff and Nick
who gives a shit? people like you fall into their own stereotypical category. one of self-proclaimed omniscience. save your diatribes, we can already see you hovering on your clouds above us all.
as for the posted artwork. it is what it is, real or fake. just let it be, its not the damn loch ness monster or bigfoot. let your mind create a story and personality for these people based on what is “in their bag.”
and i’m sorry if the only personality for these people your progressive minds can create is “dick.” or as you so eloquently put it, ‘fake’ and ‘lame’
Ivar Lee
Jul 19th, 2010haha i was going to say hipster bag too. look in a regular person’s bag and you would not find all that fashion statement items.. or mustaches
Ivar Lee
Jul 19th, 2010those**
Spidula
Jul 19th, 2010None of them carrying condoms. Ha ha. In this day and age eh?
Maude
Jul 19th, 2010I find this extremely annoying. Just sayiiiinnnn
Shovan
Jul 20th, 2010Awesome List
starte to think whats in myne
Ike
Jul 20th, 2010This seems to be fairly common, hipster-issue rations and uniforms. I see these images less as individual studies and more as recipes for conformist lifestyle. If only the individuals were shot from head to toe. It would make a more robust checklist.
sir jorge
Jul 20th, 2010that is quite cool, i loved the juxtapozition
wendy
Jul 20th, 2010I think it would be more interesting if you mixed up the pictures. Like if the moustached guy was carrying the binoculars, and Penivek was carrying the sales book and the norman mailer article.
Alex
Jul 20th, 2010why does the black guy have 3 sandwiches? that’s all i wanna know.
avisioncame
Jul 21st, 2010It’s as if everyone of these people loaded up their bags every morning thinking to themselves, “Hmm, I better make sure everything in this bag is incredibly hip, you never know when a photographer will want to photograph all the stuff in my bag.” laaaaame
David
Jul 22nd, 2010Looks like the tattoed one enjoys the usual cannibus. (dimebag)
ray
Jul 22nd, 2010My god, that GameBoy system looks sweet even to this day! I want to buy one so I can mount it on my wall. (also that girl is hot.)
Patrick
Jul 24th, 2010nice breeze card. atlantaaaaa
ellen
Jul 24th, 2010damn hipsters
pav
Jul 24th, 2010Title says, “In Persona”..I’m sorry, but as an artwork it doesn’t question or open up anything. It’s narrowing things by choosing only hipsters as the only “persona” in the artwork. Quite weak as an artwork in my opinion.
Web design yorkhire
Jul 24th, 2010I quite like the idea of mixing the photos up with what’s in their bag. But I’m presuming these are set-ups because there are some things like the knife in one that I just don’t believe. Either way thought provoking.
sid
Jul 25th, 2010very different idea and working though , The things in bag helping in personifying the respective person :)
B
Jul 25th, 2010the only actual genuine bag is the dude with the sandwiches. I just want to know where the random bits of tobacco, mints and receipts are….
Rick A
Jul 25th, 2010The black guy looks like Wesley Snipes, but with accessories
Markus
Jul 25th, 2010This is pretty cool. Just stumbling and realized hey, i have a Marta card like that girl, and I have a Gwinnett county public library card, and i’ve raved with the black guy before at the Colab. http://colaboratory.net/ kickass
TJ
Jul 26th, 2010She has a gameboy… I think I’m in love
sky
Jul 27th, 2010all of them have this things: phone, key and wallet!
Kevin
Jul 27th, 2010This is a really cool idea.
It would have much more impact for me, however, if I knew that the things in each person’s bag weren’t there ironically. A lot of the above items are clearly there to serve the purpose of identity formation, and nothing more.
I’d me much more interested to know what was in the bag of a 50 year old Ukranian woman, or a sketchy Thai nightclub owner–basically anybody who’s been around the block a few times, as the above subjects clearly have not. If one of these people had a gun in their bag, I’m guessing most people would think, “Oh look, they’ve got a gun so they can show it to their friends.”, not “Oh look, they’ve got a gun so they can defend themselves/shoot people/shoot animals/kill zombies/etc.”
What I’m trying to say is that for the above subjects, insofar as possessions go, function clearly follows form. Find some subjects for whom form follows function and you’d have an even richer story to tell.
Just my two cents. Still thought it was awesome.
this is
Jul 29th, 2010Puh-Teh-Tik
jen
Jul 31st, 2010I, personally, agree with the whole hipster thing. Not to say that it’s bad, everyone has a phase in their life. However, I do think that the “artist” could have photographed some “normal” people, as well. It seems to me that it was intentioned to pick out the most hip people on the side of the street.
Picking out normal people, at least a couple, would have seemed a bit more interesting, and probably less annoying and hipster-ish. I’m pretty sure, also, that normal people would have some pretty strange stuff in their bags.
Alyson
Jul 31st, 2010Hm.
Odd.
My bag:
Wallet. Keys. Cheap-ass cell phone. Tube of concealer. Goldfish crackers in a ziplock bag. Loose change. Three size 4 Luvs diapers. Fourteen mini Tootsie Roll pops (for bribing the toddler to not whine in the grocery store). Random paperback book – I think it’s either my dog-eared “Silmarillion” or equally battered “Tell-tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe”. Box of Apple-Grape Juicy Juice.
I understand handle-bar moustache camera-bag guy… but everyone else looks staged. And not even well-staged.
isis
Jul 31st, 2010what’s with all the ‘hipster’ hatred in the beginning?? It seems like you are just hating because they fit within YOUR definition of ‘hipster’.
how do you know they are fake? you don’t know them personally, just because of appearance and what they carry with them? it makes me wonder what you carry with you. probably nothing, that’s boring.
what demographic would you have rather been photographed? because in my opinion these seem like interesting people.
pater
Aug 7th, 2010^^^^^^^^
hipster :D
Jason from Geeky Coupons
Aug 9th, 2010if there was more variety instead of all these hipster dudes it would be a goooood idea :D
aninnymouse
Aug 9th, 2010Three womens bags, not one of them has tampons. Right.
Zoey Carr
Aug 9th, 2010Why is it that all of those above me seem to think that these are set up? God forbid people actually carry around a camera, or a gameboy, or parliament cigarettes, right? People carry around things they like. These people like those things that are shown. Why can’t you accept that and move on with your lives instead of trying to tear down people for their interests?
Z
Aug 9th, 2010ALSO
women dont carry around tampons every single day. stop commenting on it. There are only three women. It’s not that unlikely that they wouldn’t be on their periods (they could also be on birth control that causes less periods)
conin
Aug 18th, 2010this is pukey.
conin
Aug 18th, 2010isis don’t get so mad, especially when your wrong. someone’s bag contents don’t make them interesting, the whole thing is staged and based on what is hip. not only is it fake it also promotes materialism and identity through brands and products.
stimp
Aug 19th, 2010seriously, this is one of the most inauthentic things i’ve seen all week.
spacecamp
Aug 21st, 2010Hey! I have that exact Gwinnett County Library keychain card!
Anywho…real or staged, hipster or not, I really liked the idea for this photoblog. Mayhaps the reason why all the individuals shown here all have ironic stuff in their purses (or…satchels?) is for just that reason: they KNEW they had cool stuff with them! I mean c’mon, if some random dude came up to you and was like “yo! can I photograph all the shit in your bag?” the majority of people would keep walking. Why? Because they knew what they had was boring like old receipts and antacids. Because no one wants to appear uninteresting. It’s possible that the photographer initially set out to find “normal” people and the only ones that would comply were the hipsters. So to the hipsters, I applaud you. Thank you for making such entertaining images. I know if I carried with me an outdated Gameboy or a watergun or some sweet skeleton shades, I’d want to share too.
spacecamp
Aug 21st, 2010Also–if you look closely, all of them do carry ordinary things.
Keys, wallets, cellphones, ipods, ciggerette lighters, mints, cough drops, cash, pens; it’s all there.
@Zooey Carr–completely agree, all women do not carry tampons with them at all times. Just goes to show how misconceived men really are about these matters.
@Web Design–I do carry a knife with me at all times (minus airports, schools etc.) in lieu of not being old enough for a gun permit. It must be nice living in safe cuddly Wherever-You-Are-Ville.
spacecamp
Aug 21st, 2010@Alyson–thanks for the list of crap in your diaper bag, but no one cares.
Vovo
Aug 30th, 2010SmArT idea