Grey-Beige Conformity
The guy Denmark decided was too weird to touch just turned 100, and the design world is throwing him the whole canon treatment.
The Purity Testing Kit
Happy Mondays' biggest album just got reissued as an actual gold pill. The label that put it out didn't survive what came after.
Bound for Scrap
In 1993, two years after Nintendo said the game was finished, a factory ran it again — a hundred copies, headed straight for a smelter. Ninety-seven never got there.
A Cat-Machine
Since the mid-'80s, a lost shipping container has been feeding a French beach with pieces of a Garfield telephone, one at a time. A new short film finally sits with the people who've been finding them.
The Wave and the Tower
Brussels carpeted its main square in 750,000 dahlias to rebuild Hokusai's Great Wave, marking 160 years of friendship with Japan. The same fascination once paid for a pagoda across town — with a fortune pulled out of the Congo.
