Arizona
Matt Moore
The unrelenting sprawl of tract houses and big box stores has made its way to Wadell, Arizona, outside of Phoenix, pushing out small farms. Matt Moore’s family has farmed there for decades, and before his farm becomes a subdivision, he decided to make art about it, by plowing the floor plans of tract houses into […]
Los Suns
Last fall Studio 360 looked at how the NFL used throwback jerseys to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the old American Football League. Those uniforms used design to honor the game’s past. But now the NBA’s Phoenix Suns are using uniform design to try to impact the present. Yesterday the team celebrated Cinco de Mayo […]
Novelist’s Loner Protagonist is All Too Real in Tucson
Like the rest of the twitterati,the novelist Walter Kirn quickly tried to make sense of the Arizona shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and several others. As events unfolded, Kirn’s tweets stood out. By Sunday night, Kirn realized the uncanny similarities alleged shooter Jared Loughner shared with Kent Selkirk, the socially-inept-loner-on-the-internet protagonist of Kirn’s novel, The […]
