Mixed Mediums
We Talk to Laura Sato from the Levi’s® Makers Tent About Her Experience on Station to Station
Laura Sato was one of the super-talented people hand-crafting one-of-a-kind pieces of clothing in the Levi’s® Makers Tent during every Station to Station event. I convinced her to stop sewing for a few minutes and talk to me about her experiences on...
Meet the Conductor
Throughout Station to Station there's existed an emphasis on collaborative work but the most important collaboration has been between Doug Aitken and Len Peltier, the Global Creative Director at Levi Strauss. Without that the train would never have got...
We Talk to Josh Lovell from the Station to Station Recording Car About Playing with Patti Smith
Josh Lovell was Justin Stanley’s right-hand man in the Station to Station recording studio car. Justin, who has worked with Beck, Prince, and Eric Clapton, among others, handpicked Josh to assist him for the entire train trip. Amidst all the commotion...
Italians Do It Better
Cat Power played Satisfaction, Jackson Browne sung Take It Easy and Cold Cave performed in the middle of a hay bale maze, then Giorgio Moroder climbed the stage and performed just one song. He'd written it earlier that day on the train in the recording...
Close Encounters In The Desert
The Fitzgerald family are fourth generation Irish with a dash of Cherokee. They're originally from the Burren, a bizarre rockland in the west of Ireland that, from above, looks a little like the pieces of a cracked ceramic plate sprinkled on a table...
Mixed Mediums: Los Angeles
For the fourth episode of Mixed Mediums we travel to Los Angeles, CA to meet up with local artist and illustrator Michael Hsiung who partners up with Stockholm based art director, illustrator and image-maker, Clara Terne. Together the two creative...
Ways to Pass Time in the Desert
Jack Kerouac said that the 'road is life,' but the railroad is really living. A giant, moving platform of bathrooms, dining cars, music studios, gallery space and a Levis® car with sofas and tables and deep-leather chairs that drop you right down to...
Downtime Pilgrimages
When the Station to Station: a public art project made possible by Levi's® train's not rolling we generally find ourselves out exploring the local landscape. In Arizona this means giant craters, grand canyons and a million and one references to Route...
Wobbling On A Corner In Winslow Arizona
Levis® didn't build the railroads, the Irish and the Chinese did. But Levis® did outfit those laborers. The 501 jean was introduced just before completion of the Atlantic-Pacific route, the same route incidentally that our merry band has been rolling...
Mixed Mediums: Minneapolis
UK based sculpture artist and illustrator travels to Minneapolis to team up with local print and design artist Arran Gregory. Together the two create a piece of work showcasing their talents through printed media and design.
Station to Station Is Planning Something in Kansas City
There was a long gap between the Station to Station event in St. Paul, Minnesota and the Happening planned for Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the rumors started circulating around the train. No one I talked to knew anything concrete, but word was that Doug...
Mixed Mediums: New York City
In this episode, Berlin-based fashion blogger and founder of Dandy Diary, David Kurt Karl Roth teams up with TECLA, a New York born and Brooklyn based musician. Together they collaborate on a stop-motion video that explores all five boroughs of New...