Mixed Mediums
A Car-by-Car Walkthrough of the Station to Station Train
No matter where we were on the Station to Station trip, the most common question people asked me was about the different cars on the train. There were rumors of recording cars, and double-decker dining cars, and a caboose that Frank Sinatra once...
We Talk to the Band White Mystery About Their Time on the Station to Station Train with Levi’s®
Alex and Francis’ music is loud and fun and everything that rock today should be but isn’t. Someone told me that Amtrak was scared to have White Mystery play at Chicago’s Union Station because their music might bring the old stone and marble building...
Tips for Riding on the Station to Station Train
Station to Station is over, but we asked River and Conor to put together a list of tips for riding on the Station to Station train, just in case the train goes out for another lap.
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...
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. (Josh is actually living in my house right now while he looks for an apartment in New York, so I cornered him as he was getting out of the shower and...
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...
Mixed Mediums: San Francisco
In the fifth and final episode of Mixed Mediums, we travel to San Francisco, CA to meet up with local installation and visual artist Sarah Applebaum, who partners up with Paris-based street artist, Mademoiselle Maurice. Together these two visionaries...
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...
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.