Conor Creighton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Under a Full Moon in Santa Fe

    So this is what a Levis® Station to Station happening is. A concert and alongside that a bunch of little tents of activity where locals flock like moths to gas lamps. In cowboy hats, fleece jackets, hippie dresses sandals and bicycle clips.

  • 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...

  • Nazi Side Effects - Introducing the NPD

    Welcome to Nazi Side Effects, a new bi-weekly column from our friend Conor Creighton, which will endeavor to explore and uncover the hilarious and deleterious legacy of Nazism around the world.