July 1, 2008
DETROIT -- Whene'er I find myself in the Motor City, I take a moment to kick around the office of Creative guru Scott Lange...a long-standing favorite of all Organics who have had the pleasure to make his acquaintance.
Scott's office stands as a living monument to interesting trinkets and, if he's around, stories to go with 'em. This masterpiece -- an original poster of the 1985-ish Michigan Panthers Cheerleading Sqaud of the now defunct USFL brought to you by your Metro Detroit Dodge Dealers-- will be the first of what I hope to be many bloggish explorations of this impressive collection.
Try, if you can, to allow the eye to be drawn away from the fearsome Panther's Eyes for a moment. Near the middle of this pack of Michigan's finest b-list cheerleading corps (impressively including two gentlemen) are two old school Chrysler products from the K-car era. One is drawn back to the days of the Iococca Era -- straight talk, can-do attitude and "lead, follow or get out of the way". These are the Dodge Daytona and the vague "Dodge Convertible" Just imagine the wind blowing through your hair on I-75 in that convertible Dodge Aries...freedom defined.
And there is more to be found as we explore to the left of the frame and see a strange cloud of smoke (click on the picture for a larger view). For details, we asked Scott himself.
"I imagine it to be either a smoke machine that didn't get going very well or, more likely, I'd see it being the photographer's van running just outside of the shot," Lange said.
--Mike Hudson
Office Slange: Treasures from Scott Lange's Office Pt. 1
DETROIT -- Whene'er I find myself in the Motor City, I take a moment to kick around the office of Creative guru Scott Lange...a long-standing favorite of all Organics who have had the pleasure to make his acquaintance.
Scott's office stands as a living monument to interesting trinkets and, if he's around, stories to go with 'em. This masterpiece -- an original poster of the 1985-ish Michigan Panthers Cheerleading Sqaud of the now defunct USFL brought to you by your Metro Detroit Dodge Dealers-- will be the first of what I hope to be many bloggish explorations of this impressive collection.
Try, if you can, to allow the eye to be drawn away from the fearsome Panther's Eyes for a moment. Near the middle of this pack of Michigan's finest b-list cheerleading corps (impressively including two gentlemen) are two old school Chrysler products from the K-car era. One is drawn back to the days of the Iococca Era -- straight talk, can-do attitude and "lead, follow or get out of the way". These are the Dodge Daytona and the vague "Dodge Convertible" Just imagine the wind blowing through your hair on I-75 in that convertible Dodge Aries...freedom defined.
And there is more to be found as we explore to the left of the frame and see a strange cloud of smoke (click on the picture for a larger view). For details, we asked Scott himself.
"I imagine it to be either a smoke machine that didn't get going very well or, more likely, I'd see it being the photographer's van running just outside of the shot," Lange said.
--Mike Hudson
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now that's a classic
Nice post, Mike. Unfortunately, this poster was recently lost to my manic cleaning during a move to my new office. I'm glad you recorded it for posterity's sake. I'll have another artifact and more stories for you during our next visit.