The Flats Built for Idealists, Recruiting for Moscow
Foster + Partners just put a Dezeen Awards shortlist plywood collection through the Isokon name. The building that name comes from spent the 1930s doubling as a Soviet recruiting station.
The Whole Team, Hired on the Spot
Valve poached a DigiPen student project on sight and turned it into Portal. Twenty-one years later the same trick just got orphaned back to peer-to-peer hosting.
Seven Days Later
Hole's "Live Through This" came out a week after Kurt Cobain's death and two months before bassist Kristen Pfaff's. UMe just remastered it for vinyl — overseen by the one member of that lineup still around to sign off on it.
The First Computer-Generated TV Host Was a Guy in a Rubber Suit
Variety says an AI actress is about to star in a real film. Forty-one years ago, a real actor starred as an AI — and Hollywood needed everyone to believe the opposite of what was actually happening.
The Nine-Million-Euro Corpse
Thieves cut a fence, timed a shift change, and stole four Renoirs from the house where he died. A century and a half earlier, a critic described that same body of work as literal rotting flesh.
