Cadillac Desert Revisited

Cadillac Desert Revisited

By Jake Strickler, Staff Writer While driving from Phoenix to Las Vegas, something becomes clear: the farther you get from major population centers, the extremity of the desolation is severe. This is not atypical of the American West. There’s a lot of space in these...
AZ Confidential: The Physicality of History

AZ Confidential: The Physicality of History

By Jake Strickler, Co-Editor As one leg of my long, strange trip that has brought me to Thunderbird, I did my undergraduate work at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I got out of there with a B.A. in Film History and Theory, and a B.S. in Media Studies from the...
On Mobile Banking, Fairy Dust, and the Future

On Mobile Banking, Fairy Dust, and the Future

By Jake Strickler, Co-Editor This is the mobile generation. The untethered generation. Future historians will look back on this era as the beginning of the end of the traditional brick-and-mortar institution and the rise of…something else. We don’t drive to the video...
Iceland on the Fly (Pt. 2)

Iceland on the Fly (Pt. 2)

By Jake Strickler, Co-editor We left Reykjavik before the sun had come up. It being the transitional period between the elongated daytime of summer and the bleak endless nights of winter, the amount of daylight was comparable to an average July day in Phoenix; the...
Iceland on the Fly (Part One)

Iceland on the Fly (Part One)

By Jake Strickler, Co-editor It was mid-September when Zack, a good friend and a die-hard photographer, and I drove into Reykjavik. We had spent the last ten days exploring Norway, flying first into Oslo, where we met a friend who was living in Spain and had spent the...