This beautiful masterpiece is a part of the original Jack Spade Warren Street collection. In my never ending search for the perfect messenger bag, I think I have determined just having one wont do the trick. I recently added this classy bag, The Field Bag in waxwear to my esteemed messenger bag collection. It has a few separate interior pockets, exterior pocket and adjustable shoulder strap. It’s extremely basic but the craftsmanship is top notch. It’s available in a few other colors materials, my second favorite being the chocolate suede.

More Messenger Bags I Love: Tom Bihn’s Super Ego, Tumi Flow Messenger Bag

This is by no means ‘new’, but was far too good to never mention. Often playing the role of music maven among my group of peers, I find it difficult answering the question, “How would you describe the music?” Much like fine wine, a espresso brew, or bittersweet chocolate, the words used to describe a band or song is completely subjective. With so much variance, it would be difficult to do any sort of meaningful data manipulation. Six years ago, a group of musicians and technologists came together to create a comprehensive analysis of music. 10,000 songs later, the Music Genome project has produced Pandora. The free service is straightforward. You simply enter in an artist or song title. It then returns a precise description of the music, plays you an example, and asks if it’s what you had in mind. A simple thumbs up for approval and a playlist is generated for you with songs that match the characteristics you are looking for. Whether you are seeking new music recommendations or want some variety outside of your iTunes playlist, Pandora is one box you’ll want to open.

A couple weeks back we reported on the then upcoming first ever gallery showing of Adam Haynes entitled “Walks with Evad” at the Seattle Art Studio OkOk. The show, which opened with Adams weekend long mural painting, went off without a hitch and had a great turn out. In honor of this glorious event, our friend and owner of OkOk, Charlie Kitchings has hooked us up with a few of the limited edition screen prints from the show and being the generous people we are we can't help, but pass along the favor. So, this Friday we will pick 5 random names from our mailing list and send them a print. Featuring Haynes iconic symbols of consumption, shotgun riddled beer cans, frayed paint brushes, and other objects of decay on a powder blue background, the print is signature Adam. You can own part of his artistic debut, but only if you are on the mailing list so make sure to sign up before Friday! Also make sure to check out the time lapse video of Adam's mural here.

I’m generally pretty cynical when it comes to travel websites, I think they all do a mediocre-at-best job providing travellers with deals and helping us all make educated decisions about air travel in general. In comes Farecast, an ‘Airfare Prediction’ site with a mission to help us buy our airfare more wisely based their educated ‘guesses’ about airfares rising or dropping based on past data. Finally, a Web 2.0 type travel site packed with features– I’ll be keeping my eye on this one and watching the RSS feeds to my popular destinations see how it does!