Conor Creighton
Ten Days of Silent Meditation Will Make You Trip Balls and Lust After Puppies
A Vipassana is a silent prison that you enter of your own free will. You can't talk, read, use your phone, or masturbate, until you've finished ten days of meditating for ten hours each day.
I Took a Lot of Drugs at a Psychedelic Boot Camp
The African Savannah Transformation Retreat promises to transform people through a combination of starvation, sunshine, and psychedelic drugs. Does it work? There was only one way to find out.
Ayahuasca Will Make You Cry, Vomit, and Feel Amazing
Ayahuasca, yagé, the truth vine, the madre, or whatever you call it is not only the strongest drug I've ever tried but easily the most powerful experience I've ever had.
A Visit to One of Germany's All-You-Can-Fuck Brothels
The King George Brothel in Berlin opens at 4 PM, Monday through Sunday, excluding the Christmas holidays. For $135, you can stay there until dawn, drinking and fucking as much as you can handle.
You Need to Get Out of Your Small Town This Summer
It's time to stop dry-humping life and the girl next door.
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...
The End of the Road Is Oakland
The most attractive stretch of railroad in the United States of America is undoubtedly the route that travels north and south between Los Angeles and San Francisco. This is no high speed, intercity rail line. In fact the trip is twice as long as going...
We're Running Out of Clean Clothes in Los Angeles
After ten days in the desert, the train crept into Los Angeles Union Station for the penultimate event. Everyone's pretty tired at this stage. At one point the train came to a dead stop en route and you could hear the groans. Train travel is glamorous...
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...
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...