Brian Lange

Hooray For Earth does an interesting take on one of my favorite...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:59:00 -0600

Hooray For Earth does an interesting take on one of my favorite songs by Owen Pallett. Love the overdrive.

Rather profound advice from the Chicago Transit Authority (Taken...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:10:01 -0600

Rather profound advice from the Chicago Transit Authority (Taken with Instagram at Noyes CTA Station)

Commutin in a winter wonderland.. (Taken with Instagram at CTA -...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:38:59 -0600

Commutin in a winter wonderland.. (Taken with Instagram at CTA - Belmont)

Cut-in-the-hill. Hello again, Cincinnati. (Taken with...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:01:12 -0600

Cut-in-the-hill. Hello again, Cincinnati. (Taken with instagram)

Cookie making with the fam. @ingridlange made this one. (Taken...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:17:41 -0600

Cookie making with the fam. @ingridlange made this one. (Taken with instagram)

(via F Yeah! Art!: Useless Fliers via Apparatjik)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:39:42 -0600

(via F Yeah! Art!: Useless Fliers via Apparatjik)

Disclaimer: this is almost a year old (I’m cleaning out my...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:38:57 -0600

Disclaimer: this is almost a year old (I’m cleaning out my Read It Later Queue over break) but still super cool technology. Just a matter of time before we start seeing this technology in all of our LCD screens…

This would’ve been a really interesting show to be...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:51:58 -0600

This would’ve been a really interesting show to be at…

toronto200x:

This was an early performance by The Dirty Projectors in Toronto. Dave played solo, I believe; I was coming down with a flu and had to leave early. Singing Saw Shadow Show was led by James Anderson. Total War was a pre-Vampire Weekend thing, Ezra was in it, I don’t remember who else, it was a shredder’s band. This was Final Fantasy’s fourth show, and the first one for which I had an octave pedal.

I made the shitty poster, it was sprayed in gold and blue. I have a color version but it’s 11x17.

LOTS OF PULP (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:50:08 -0600

LOTS OF PULP (Taken with instagram)

These carved-leather saddles on Fab today are beautiful. Too...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:28:00 -0600

These carved-leather saddles on Fab today are beautiful. Too bad I can’t afford a normal Brooks, much less an artfully transformed one.. (via Fab.com | Byzantine Brooks B17 Saddle)

Loving this song from Active Child. Admittedly I don’t...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:19:08 -0600

Loving this song from Active Child. Admittedly I don’t listen to R&B much, but I love this dream-poppy interpretation of it.

Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:41:37 -0500

I sincerely hope MG’s right about this one. The lackluster Gmail experience on iPhone is one of my chief complaints about living on iOS so far, so I’m really pumped for this. Especially if the app exhibits some of Google’s new minimal-readable design sense (which I would expect it to).

parislemon:

Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.

At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply focusing on the mobile web (they’ve had a pretty good mobile web version of Gmail for a while). Then it was the strained (to put it mildly) relationship between Google and Apple. Still, other Google iPhone apps came. But never a Gmail one.

Until now.

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You’re waiting for a train… (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:57:03 -0500

You’re waiting for a train… (Taken with instagram)

I’m kind of hooked on the Jacques Green remix right now…

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:36:00 -0500

I’m kind of hooked on the Jacques Green remix right now…

Work + Cortado = Not as bad (Taken with picplz at Other Brother...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:37:28 -0500

Work + Cortado = Not as bad (Taken with picplz at Other Brother Coffeehouse in Evanston, IL.)

Steve

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:25:00 -0500

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around Steve Jobs’ death today. The news came first from a friend, then I quickly headed over to Twitter and started absorbing reactions, anecdotes, quotes, etc.

I really didn’t think this would affect me this way. I don’t own any Apple products to speak of (I’m composing this on a Macbook Pro, but it belongs to the company I work for). And yet, like the rest of us, I’ve been living in Steve’s world. Toy Story was the first movie I saw in theaters, and I loved it. Some of my fondest memories are based around Pixar movies. And even though I never owned a Mac, I still remember using the iMacs and eMacs in the labs in middle school, when my love of the internet and computers was blossoming. I remember watching Stevenote liveblogs since liveblogs were a thing, and breathlessly explaining to my friends that the new iPod Nano was thinner than a pencil and fit in your jeans pocket, or that the iPhone 4’s antenna was brilliantly a part of the structure of the phone itself.

But it’s not all these memories that I think are what I’m hung up on- it’s not Steve’s product legacy that has me in a funk about his passing. It’s the man himself. I watched his Stanford commencement, his double interview with Bill Gates at D, read anecdotes from Brian Lam and others. I read the quotes everyone is passing around, saw the pride on his face as he was showing the world the iPhone, the iPad, the Macintosh, to the point that he was holding back a grin, holding back a complete blissful collapse because he was so proud of his creation.

Steve, from as best I can ascertain, was everything I could ever aspire to be. To call him a genius is dismissive- he didn’t create the things he did because he was really smart, but because he didn’t compromise. Because he had such high standards in brand new industries where there were barely any standards to begin with- that’s why everything he touched became what it is today, in my opinion.

There are so many lessons to be taken from him, and they all resonate with me and where I am in life. ”Stay hungry, stay foolish”. ”You’ve got to find what you love”. ”Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

“Think Different.”

Rest in peace, Steve

(click for animation) Yeah, this pretty much sums up the NU game...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:57:00 -0500

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Yeah, this pretty much sums up the NU game this past weekend. Here’s hoping Fitz and the crew can get it together this weekend for Michigan. Beating an undefeated ranked team in a night game at home could be a big momentum swing for the season.

Twin Sister! Yeah, we’re pretty close. (Taken with picplz...

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:35:44 -0500

Twin Sister! Yeah, we’re pretty close. (Taken with picplz at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL.)

Via @Good: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi (by Timo)

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:32:39 -0500

Via @Good: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi (by Timo)

My new desktop on my macbook. I really like this saying. (via...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:00:49 -0500

My new desktop on my macbook. I really like this saying.

(via Wallpapers | AisleOne)