I admire solid craftwork in every sort of tool that I use. I consider bags tools. Whenever I hear my friend David Sparks talk about his custom "Indian Jones" bag from Saddleback Leather, I'm wracked with jealousy and covetous thoughts. The above twelve-minute docu-design ad makes my bag-carrying mouth water. None of it has to do with filmmaking or media or any of the tangential things I generally write about, but the actual mini-pseudo-process-doc itself qualifies.
The best bag I currently own is a Tom Bihn Ristretto that I use as a day satchel to carry my MacBook Air, notecards, my leather-bound journal, pens and so on. For some time, I've wanted a proper, heavy-duty leather bag. I studied Anthropology in college, and got into full-on Alan Grant/Indiana Jones mode, carrying various leather bags (many by the vile Wilson's chain I now despise in retrospect). All have disintegrated, had broken un-mendable seams, and otherwise failed.
I've come to admire real leather craftsmanship thanks to my wife introducing me to the world of horsemanship, and now I want some version of one of these even worse.