Product Test... Eastpak

We regularly walk miles in the pursuit of paint spots and urban exploration.

After a while the back starts to suffer from the heavy weight of spray cans and paint pots, not to mention the potential collapse of our delicate feet arches.

So we got to thinking, there must be an easier way to cart around our tools of the trade without a constant struggle. RDC contacted Eastpakand put the question to them to see if they could help out? They came back with the idea of using a piece from their wheeled luggage range.

When the Transfer M arrived on the doorstep we thought it was far to big and bulky. After loading it up with 10 cans, spray mask, bag of caps, a 2.5 litre paint pot, roller, paint tray and a water bottle (where is the kitchen sink we hear you ask) we realised just how much we had been lugging about and how perfect the bag was to carry/cope with our paint sessions!

On its first excursion into the concrete jungle we took it to our favourite spot. It offers all sorts of challenging terrain and obstacles to over come and the bag coped with them very well... don't take our word for it though, we filmed it - check out the footage at the bottom of this post...

Eastpak. Getter Popout Backpack. Product Test

Eastpak

Getter 'Popout' Back Pack

From Their Urban Collection

Eastpak has kindly given us a backpack for our Street Test. 

We have been putting our featured backpack through it's paces just recently and it has stood up remarkably well.

A few weeks back we hit a hotel with the Fauna Graphic Crew, splashed some paint on a wall with Danny KJ; hit the trails on the mountain bike and thoroughly mudded up the bag but with a cloth and some mild detergent it washed up a treat and was ready for a city coffee shop meeting with our decerning artist friends who always have positive things to say about it's vibrant colour scheme. 

It has also been lugged about to numerous shows and exhibitions and has withstood dusty alleys, fence drops and general after dark activities... God that sounds ominous don't it! With it's brilliant yellow interior it is always easy to find that concealed cap or marker that you would normally only find in a standard dark interior backpack after you had dumped all the contents of the bag onto the floor first. You can fit 15 spray cans into the bowels of the bag and walk 2 miles to the next paint venue without any back prodding or discomfort.

As for skateboards, it holds a standard 8 inch with ease and will carry, we estimate, at least six Tech Decks safely. Super!

Tech Deck support!

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Eastpak (2nd post)

'Getter' Back Pack

From Their Urban Collection

Eastpak has kindly given us a backpack for our Street Test Feature. 

And the saga continues... 

We have had some pretty criminal weather just recently, plenty of downpours with a bitta snow thrown in for good measure. That means soggy ground and a mud bath out on the trails. So it's no surprise that we were mucked up to the 'Getter' on the photo shoot yesterday, even though the sun was out and the birds were singing the joys of spring.

It felt real good on the back and on some of the long up-hill pulls that we had to do to get to the intended shoot area, the bag didn't stress out the shoulders at all (the S and chest straps spread the load to take the stress off your upper arms on a long ride)!

As for visiting friends and artists at galleries - we discovered an almost attractive disdain towards the bag. Someone remarked, "Shit, that's loud" and eventually "I quite like it, it's growing on me" an attitude which seems to follow us wherever we went.

Looks like a big thumbs up to Eastpak so far... 

More Testing to come, keep um peeled!

Coffee shop partner... lacking in conversation though, dang!

In Switch Studio, on the casting couch... read these lines for us please!

Zebster photo shoot... just hangin around outside.

Back to Black...

Your nicked me son...

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Street Test. Eastpak. Getter Popout. Backpack

Eastpak (1st post)

'Getter' Back Pack

From Their Urban Collection

Eastpak has kindly given us a backpack for our Street Test Feature. 

The idea is to put it through the mill and see how it holds up to our day to day demands. We are regularly out spraying, stickering, hangin at Galleries, Skateboarding, Mountain Biking, Enduro Motor Biking and generally on Urban Exploration Missions. 

That means this bag has to be functional but be able to shine up real quick and look good! 

Let's check out the functions on this thing:

‣26 litres of space

‣Lap top sleeve

‣Front compartment organiser and key hook

‣2 large zip pockets up front

‣2 small side zip pockets

‣Small top zip pocket with head phone port

‣Velcro web Skateboard straps

‣Mega robust s-curve shoulder straps with chest belt and waist strap

‣Also a 30 year warranty, yes 30 years... ooba good!

Be prepared for it to get down and dirty, right here...

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