October 28, 2004
Crumpler Surf
In my pre-Dutch life in Melbourne I had a Crumpler bag. It's now in a box in the back of my mother's house being too old and daggy to bring to the Netherlands with me. I've never seen many crumplers here but recently they seem to be having a bit of an European debut.
My ex-colleague Jaap was talking about getting one not-so-long-ago and a similar discussion is in progress on macbebekin and this morning at Cafe Krull they were there in the most recent edition of NL20 as the-must-have-accessory (except they seemed to think they came from America?).
Spurred by this and a camera-bag-inspired-existential-crisis* I've been trawling the internet and noticed one thing about Crumpler I HADN'T known before. They make some damn KEWL internet sites.
Crumpler Australia (made by Sputnik)is brilliant and you must try ALL the buttons, bells and whistles, just go mad clicking, to make sure you don't miss out on anything. Then I went to Crumpler in the States which was a bit dissapointing, a bit too cleaned-up and corporate. Crumpler Germany were on the right track, true Crumpler style with some nice German twists. And finally Crumpler Europe which it turns out is just Germany in disguise but with a nice intro. (how scary....?)
After that it was all down hill, Crumpler in the Netherlands, well we can only live in hope. Crumpler Japan was suprisingly, the most dissapointing site. Given the Japanese penchant for bizzare sites this was a great let down, or is its ordinariness what make this site bizzare in Japanese terms? Crumpler UK was also disappointing, I thought eccentricity was meant to be a British skill?
PS. I hope you read everything about Chicken Tex.
PPS. How come I never have clients like this?
PPS. Are there more Crumpler sites out there?
Posted by Faith | TrackBack