Daddy Types: April 2007 Archives

April 2007 Archives

April 30, 2007

The Concrete Jungle: Toy-On-Street Art By Alexis Lloyd

Though she's not the one who gutted the praying plush Christian sheep [nice segue, right?], Parsons grad student Alexis Lloyd was in the school's awesome electronic toy hacking class last fall. But today it's her final project, titled "The...
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By Their Customized Recordings Ye Shall Know Them: Joyful Joe, The Bible-Quoting Plush Hippo

I confess, Joyful Joe has led me into temptation. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is weak. If Joyful Joe, the plush hippo named after one of the fruits of the Spirit [Galatians 5:22] had been hardwired to recite...
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Finally, A Can-Do Lobbyist To Cut All That Red Tape At The CPSC

How can the CPSC get rid of all their onerous and needlessly costly safety regulations without a chairman with lengthy experience lobbying for the very companies stuck under the CPSC's thumb? The short answer is, it can't. Since the last...
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Gnagno And The Organs: Plush Rip-Outtable Guts Included

If the kid's old enough to handle the name of the flower in the last post [bleeding heart, thanks dt reader christine -ed.], she's old enough to play with a plush toy that allows you to rip out its...
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Flowerspotting Question, Or Help Preserve My Paternal Omniscience

When it comes to preserving your aura of omniscience, I would've thought Wikipedia would be a parent's best friend, but no such luck. I'm sure it's partly because I try to tell the kid when I don't know something,...
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Creative Playthings Shape Sorting Toy Now Available In Non-Pre-Chewed Version

So you love everything about a cool, vintage Finnish-designed toy like the classic Creative Playthings Shape Sorting Box except the idea of your kid gnawing on something that's coated with 35 years of slobber and/or basement dust. Well you're...
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Chemobil

Why, viva my Revolucion, it's Playmobil Che! Look on the wall of Richard Unglik's photograph of a typical 1969 living room from his book, La grande aventure de l'Histoire avec Playmobil. Acros from the Playmobil Warhol, next to the...
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Welcome To The Desert Of The Playmobil

You know, I was wondering: What if you, me, this whole planet, the solar system, were just like dust under the fingernail of a giant? Or what if, you know, all of human civilization is not our own, but...
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April 27, 2007

Itsy Bitsy Spider Of The D'Urbervilles

The kid this morning, as we watched the rain come out of the spout [punctuation, paragraphing, and breaths in between added]:Daddy, when it rains, water falls down from the clouds, and it his the roof. The water comes down onto...
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Say Hello To Mike Kelley's Little Friend

Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites, 1991-9, via LA-based artist Mike Kelley has been selling plush toys for a long time. The only problem, at least from a kidsplay standpoint, is that he uses them as elements in his sculptures...
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Amazon Baby Registry 25% Off Coupon Jiu Jitsu

I was wondering where Amazon's good old, "$25 kickback on your $99 Pampers order"-style deals went, and after trying to wrap my head around how this Baby Registry offer works, I miss them even more. Here's what I get...
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Alec Baldwin Calls Dora The Explorer

Anyone who's seen South Park: The Movie knows that the Baldwins are the Archduke Ferdinands of the Apocalypse, and anyone who's seen T-2 knows that kind of foreknowledge can really weigh you down and mess with your head. Who's to...
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April 26, 2007

Sugoi: Honda Type-R Civic With Matching Car Seat

There are a few stealth-goodlooking cars that make me stare whenever one goes by: older Aston Martins, the VW Phaeton, its more common [in every sense of the word] variant, the Audi S8, the Honda Civic 4-door sedan... Seriously....
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Here Comes The Sun Canopy

Call me slow on the uptake, call me crazy, but I'm liking the Bugaboo Gecko more and more. With all that extra aluminum real estate, its design is the kind of clean that gets Fleurvillians excited. Now that sunny...
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Buddhist-Made Fleurville Diaper Bag Helps You Overcome Attachment To Your $70.

They say life is suffering, but if more products like the Fleurville Mobi come out, I think we sentient beings could turn that around pretty darn quick. The folks at Fleurville wanted to build a "clean" diaper bag: "Clean...
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Toilet Seat Stuck On The Kid's Head? Try Dishwashing Soap

A 2.5-yo toddler from Braintree, Essex, England got a toilet training seat stuck on his head. His mom took him to the fire station, where the firemen lubed the kid's head and ears with dishwashing liquid and slid the...
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ReliaDose: PharmaNip BottleSyringe

The ReliaDose infant medicine delivery is basically a syringe-in-a-bottle. It's a way to fake out a feisty kid who won't take medicine via a syringe alone. It looks like it was invented while staring at a Dr. Brown's anti-gas...
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One Man's Decision Whether To Have An Abortion

Unlike DBB, I am a religious guy. But like DBB, though, I think a lot of the time I've mentally sidestepped the political questions surrounding abortion, falling back on my own, personal lack of a uterus, and because they've been...
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Musical Furnishings: It's A Table! It's A Marimba! It's A Table! It's A--

Artist/woodworker Tor Clausen turned a slaphappy, musical lunch at a picnic table into a couple of patents, and then he turned a couple of patents and the family woodworking tradition into a business making solid hardwood musical furniture. Tor...
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Arbitrage Opportunity: Eames Elephant Gets $800 Spread

You remember that limited edition Eames plywood elephant that Vitra's selling this summer for 1,000 euros? According to The New York Times, it will be $1,900 US. Even at current, woeful exchange rates of $1.30/euro, that's an almost $800...
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Fire Up The Ink-Jet & Break Out The Iron-on Paper: Weird Wheels Trading Cards

And get a case 'a them American Apparel bodysuits, because this summer, the kid's gonna be wearing nothing but Weird Wheels Wunzies, with pictures of vintage 80's grossout hot rods ironed onto them. Frankly, I'd like the source images...
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Who The Hell Left This Stroller In The Hall?

I was just thinking about this, and now it's in the New York Times. When the elevator door opens on a floor below ours in NYC, there's a Bugaboo Cameleon parked right there, where the hallway widens just a bit....
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DT Exclusive: First Crack At Nurseryworks On Sale

Sparkability always seems to have the inside track on Nurseryworks furniture in discontinued colors and styles. Now they're letting Daddy Types readers pass on the inside, with an early tip off about a new, limited number of pieces marked...
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April 25, 2007

Nursing Room 0+ Collection: Polycarbonate Cradle Designer Cranks It Way Past 11

Are you looking for a cradle which "will return stylish shine to motherhood"? An "outraged piece of equipment in a market that is ruled by lack of imagination"? A "gift for women that are so choosy about picking the...
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Welcome To The [Cardboard Geodesic] Playdome, Under Construction

You wanna know the difference between our hippies and the hippies in the 70's? They both lived in lofts on the Lower East Side; they both went on about the environment, and they both built geodesic domes out of...
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NASA Scientists Discover Thumbless Latex Glove Balloon Creature

Last week was Honey, Take The Kid To Your Office Day, and when they went to visit a colleague's lab at NASA, he made the kid a couple of latex glove balloons. You'd have thought he said the earth moves...
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April 24, 2007

Insane Katamari Damacy Wallpapers Collection

Detail: Katamari turtle, baby, and keyholder Day-um, it's as if Namco rolled a giant ball across the art world, and every cool artist stuck to it. Back in the day, Namco apparently published 82 Katamari Damacy wallpapers [for your...
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Not Just ANY Plush Ultraman Doll. Plush Ultraman Pattern Doll

Sure, they're awesome, you say, but what exactly are the colors of these plush Ultraman dolls trying to tell us? The official story from Japanese toy manufacturer MegaHouse is that the Pattern Doll Series are made this way to...
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Bitz Pixelated Palz: 8-Bit Alien Plush Toys [What, Not Toyz?]

Is that a joystick in your hand, or are you just happy to see these awesome 8-bit monster-lookin' plush toys? Artists Amy & Jude Buffum made each of the eight creatures in their Bitz Pixelated Palz Seriez [ok, I...
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Small Object Kid T-Shirts Turn Cuteness Up To 11

It feels like I just woke up from the cuteness coma brought on by the last objects that showed up around here from Sarah Neuburger's The Small Object . Now her adorable is not only back, it's spreading. The...
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Kidsmodern: Nume Remodels Cardboard Playhouse For Milano

Italian kid furniture manufacturer Nume hit it big with their US distribution deal with DWR. But DWR seemed to wildly overestimate the popularity of Nume's most affordable design, a blank white cardboard playhouse which was ready and waiting for...
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P Is For Persona Urbanae: Sweet Juniper's Street Art Alphabet

Great Caesar's Ghost, where was I February 1st? That's the day Dutch published the digital images for the latest of his growing oeuvre of beyond-awesome children's books. This time it's a stunning alphabet book composed of street art, which he...
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April 23, 2007

Sweet Juniper - Mies Mashup

Holy smokes. Grace at Design*Sponge persuaded Dutch and Wood and Juniper to take pictures of their Detroit townhouse, which was designed by Mies van der Rohe. Though the photos say otherwise, Dutch claims, "We are not designers or artists....
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Q: Who Cleans Up Your Home Birth Bathtub If You Don't Have An Assistant?

Lessee, 3pm, that means it's lunchtime on the Coast. Sorry. Because she was concerned with the increasing frequency of Caesarian births at hospitals these days, Ricki Lake produced a documentary about the Delivery Industrial Complex which debuts this weekend at...
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Wow, Tau: Punch-Out Knock-Together Plywood Kids Toys

This is awesome. Tau is a line of children's toys which you--and your kid--assemble by popping the pieces out of a single sheet of CNC-routed, laminated birch plywood. Like the new, knock-together, Momoll doll house/fire house/kitchen toys, putting them...
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Fluffizoo: More Foam Animals

This week in Elephants In The Kid Design News: German furniture manufacturer Elmar Flototto [seriously] released Fluffizoo, a series of giant animal toy/furniture made out of safety-coated foam. [Mocoloco says it's been toddler bite-tested.] There's aslo a mouse, a...
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Sweet Suiko Crib Convertible By Sirch

Wow, nice. This molded birch baby bed converts from a cradle to a crib to a toddler bed. It's by Sirch, the German wooden toy company which also makes those cool molded ply ride-in carts. [On the other end...
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Chemical & Industry Journal: Hormone-Laced Formula Will Help Kid Keep The Weight Off

I don't know which is more reassuring: the fact that this study about the possible obesity prevention benefits of hormone-filled baby formula was published in a journal called Chemical and Industry, or the quote from the lead researcher who argues...
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Wheelchairs, Dance Troupes & Peacocks: Bugaboo Bee In Blueprint Mag

More coverage of the upcoming Bugaboo Bee, this time in Blueprint Magazine [the UK design mag, not the Martha Stewart one]. Big news is the price, and the picture of the effortlessly folded Bugaboo [never thought I'd see those...
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Cute Twink Music 4 Daddy Types

Could "This Twink I saw on Swap Meat would be perfect for Daddy Types!" possibly sound any more like a gay chatroom conversation? I don't think so. Oh wait, what if there was a vintage Fisher-Price Grand Piano with...
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2. Put Your Chick In That Box. Gearability's Baby Box How-To

What you're gonna need is some Masonite or some tongue-and-groove pine panels, a couple of 40w bulbs, a thermostat from a chick brooder, some brownie pans, some plexi, some mesh for the mattress... Marty at Gearability was raised in...
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April 22, 2007

MakeAOnesie.com To Soon MakeAOnesieLawyerAngry.com

If you'd like to pay an extra $3 to use their image upload interface to create a CafePress infant bodysuit you could make at Cafepress.com for $9.99, then hop on over to MakeAOnesie.com. But you'd better hurry before Gerber's lawyers...
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Thanks To Daddy Types Advertisers--And Birthday Giftgivers

Sorry the posting's been a little slow over the weekend; you know how it is when you get a giant HDTV flatscreen for your birthday, and suddenly, you have to clear your calendar to get that bad boy installed,...
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April 20, 2007

Audi Cross Coupe SUV Concept May Turn Into Q5

Audi unveiled a new five-door SUV concept car, the Cross Coupe, at the Shanghai Auto Show this week. According to Jalopnik, it's slated to be slotted into Audi's seeming infinite avant/quattro/suv lineup as the Q5. Someday. It has a...
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Vintage Mr. T Cabbage Patch-y Dolls

From now on, I pity the fool who tries to tell me pop craftiness is a 21st century trend. In 1984, "Miss Martha Originals, through a license with Big T Enterprises, (Mr. T’s licensing company) created a pattern book,...
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Mia Moda Strollers Kickin' It Euro-Style? Or Brady-Style?

Mia Moda is a new line of affordable [around $350], high-design, European-styled strollers that launched last fall. When I saw the press release yesterday for their new model, the Atmosferra, I thought it looked nice, if slightly familiar. Those...
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April 19, 2007

MunnaMunna, ThreadlessKids.com Launches

When I got the press release announcing that Threadless, the crack dealers of the t-shirt junkie world, were invading the playground with the launch of ThreadlessKids.com, I was like, "Finally, it's about damn time." Which, as it turns out,...
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Q: One Good Piece Of Advice That You Didn't Give That Dad On The Street?

Most folks have a governor on their flow of unsolicited advice, and while New Yorkers probably have theirs jammed open much wider than average, I could fill a whole blog with the hundreds of suggestions I bit my lip on...
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More Moo-Flickr Goodness: This Time, It's Notecards

Moo, the folks who turn your photos into beautiful little calling cards will now turn them into notecards, too. I still can't get over how awesome the Moo Minicards I got last fall are. They're printed with images culled...
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David Askevold's Enlightened Symbols

The kid's favorite magazine is actually "the airplane magazine," the safety information card that she pores over and demands to have read to her repeatedly, with a fervor that would probably startle even the most jaded-but-secretly-attention-starved flight attendant. Her fascination...
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April 18, 2007

Long Live The Glorious Chinese Propaganda Poster-Themed Nursery!

I don't remember exactly how I got on this Chinese kick, but now I feel like I'm on a long march to a cultural revolution in kidspace design. DT reader Mark pointed me to 1930 Shanghai and More, a hotbed...
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Milan Reports @ Kidsmodern: Hella Jongerius Kid Table

Susanne Fritz, the designscout behind Kidsmodern.com, is in Milan for the International Furniture Fair. She posted the first of what I hope will be a large series of kid-focused reports from the ground. First up: a cool kid table...
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Chinese New Year Chubby Baby Posters

It's not just for space programs anymore. Stefan Landsberger has a great collection and a bit of history of the New Year picture, nianhua, which was a Chinese folk tradition co-opted by the Communist Party for its own propaganda...
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Glug Baby: Long Live The Cute Industrial Complex

So when the Chinese make images of pandas and spaceships, it's propaganda, but what is it when Americans do it? That's easy: it's so cuuute I could just gobble them all up. The kid's aunt just sent her this...
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April 17, 2007

Chinese Space Program Promoganda Posters

Stefan Landsberger has a collection of posters promoting the Chinese space program, which is relatively young. Which makes the visual style of these things all the more remarkable; for all China's capitalist transformation, fantastical social realism still rules the...
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Vinyl Toy Competition Finalists Snatch Plausibility Away From Grup Deniers

Yeah, so about how contrived that whole grup thing about people persisting in some state of suspended adolesence? Where they wear the same clothes as their kids? And uptalk all the time? Turns out I neglected to check with...
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Chalkboarding Is Definitely Not A Crime

Hello, five kinds of awesome. Chalkboard Skateboard, $80 shipped, by Brooklyn design duo Mary & Matt [maryandmatt.net via notcot]...
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What Else Could You Build With A Bunch Of Refrigerator Boxes And Mr. McGroovy's Box Rivets?

Mr. McGroovy is dad and an art teacher-turned-entrepreneur, the success of who's main product, Mr. McGroovy's Box Rivets, is almost entirely dependent on getting more parents to make more play-related structures for their kids out of large cardboard boxes. On...
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Dad Builds PBSKids.org Kiosk

We've expended an enormous amount of energy keeping the kid from touchscreening our laptops, so we're already doomed on this one, but maybe it's not too late for you. A dad named John loaded Firefox onto a surplus point-of-sale...
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"The Landlord": Dad Films Daughter Swearing At Will Ferrell

The Landlord is Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's latest project. [They've worked together since their days on SNL; McKay wrote/directed Talladega Nights and Anchorman.] In the mean time, they've both had kids, who have obviously provided them with endless...
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Hudson's Bay Baby Blankets?

Among the things my wife has to put up with are the unreconstructed vestiges of my preppy youth: the horrible, old arygle v-neck sweater I'm wearing; my fondness for Volvo 240 wagons; and that old, candy-striped Hudson's Bay Point...
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April 16, 2007

The Red Balloon @ Wooster Collective

Awesome. [woostercollective.com]...
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And By "Vintage," They Mean, "We Wheeled It Out Of Wal-Mart's Cafe"

Hard to believe, I know, but apparently, not everything labeled "Vintage L@@K!!" on eBay is actually vintage. Take this "Vintage Modern Era Highchair on Wheels" which "has a great modern danish Eames era look." This description is technically accurate, I...
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Cop Drops Dad, Dad Drops Baby: Taser-Happy Cop Or Fishy Half-Story?

There are a lot of questions I'd like answered before getting all up in the Houston Women's Hospital's grill about the tasering and arrest for attempted kidnapping of a new father as he was leaving the hospital the maternity ward...
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UNKL To Release UniPo Versions Of Wilco At Comic-Con

Everything that I just wrote about the Eames Bearbrick? Frying pan, fire. Iceberg, tip. Uma, Oprah. According to Core77, UNKL is creating a UniPo doll version of the band Wilco, which whill drop at Comic-Con in July. If anyone...
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Eames Bearbrick Colabo: And Yet Somehow, Universe Remains Unannihilated

You don't read much about Be@rbrick on the Daddy Types. Or Munny, either, for that matter. Whatever charges of ex-post-facto gruppiness might be laid against me, I still think the site is for dads first, parents second, and perpetual...
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Tiny bObles Make Me Warm All Over

bObles is Danish children's gear company founded by two sisters with an interest in spurring children's motor skills development and, judging by the picture below, at least, in teasing US product liability lawyers with their model's demonstrations of actual...
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Time Waits For No Bugaboo Bee

So the buzz--let's just get that pun out of the way right now--has been building for a few weeks, but the Bugaboo Bee debuts for reals at JPMA, where it's gonna bring down the house. Now the underground hipster...
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April 15, 2007

Tip: Don't Let The Kid Eat Lead, Jewelry

Lead is highly toxic for kids. They shouldn't get near it. And it turns out to be mostly up to you to guess what has lead in it and keep it away from your kid, because the EPA and the...
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Russian Kids Furniture Smuggled Right Under My Nose

So Rago auctions off a trio of vintage Russian modern kid furniture last October without telling me? What gives? The set, a table, rocking chair, and side char in birch plywood, had "Made in USSR" labels, and was estimated...
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Whoa, Kid! Get Off That Eames Plywood Elephant! It Cost A Thousand Euros!

In his exhibition at MoMA titled, I believe, "My New Plywood Molding Technique Is Unstoppable!" Charles Eames included what was to become the world's most collectible leg brace, the first of what came to be called the Potato Chip...
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April 14, 2007

Normal Room: And The Winner Is...IKEA

with PINK coming in a close second. The website Normal Room is a growing collection of photos of how people around the world live in their rooms. It's the same kind of voyeuristic pleasure that's driving you to visit open...
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April 13, 2007

Harvey Kurtzman, Josef Schneider, And The Art Of Child Photography

After he founded and left Mad! magazine, Harvey Kurtzman edited Help!. Suck.com co-founder Joey Anuff posted a collection of Kurtzman art, including the layout notes for the Feb. 1964 cover above, which tell a bit about how they got...
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Dylan Hears From Dr. Seuss's Lawyers

Salon has half a story about Kevin Ryan, the one-man-band behind the incredible Bob Dylan - Dr. Seuss mashup, "Dylan Hears A Who," and his wrangling with Dr. Seuss Enterprises over the parody exception in copyright law. Oh wait,...
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April 12, 2007

DT's Server Having A Tony Randall Moment

Yeah, I have no idea what's up, but the whole day's posts didn't show up until just now, and no comments are coming through, either. I'd fire all the IT people, but well... it's me. If you are experiencing technical...
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Thrashmetal Laurie Berkner Cover Band 15% Less Annoying

While you're listening to it, this thrasher teenager-in-living room cover version of Laurie Berkner Band's "We Are The Dinosaurs" is easily 10-15% less annoying than the original, but it also goes on almost a minute longer, a full 50%...
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Whodathought? Teething Ring/Toothbrush Combo

I'm usually wary of 2-or-more-in-1 inventions; more often than not, they end up doing neither thing very well. Like sporks, which are barely suitable for eating KFC "mashed potatoes", but nothing else. But this teething ring/toothbrush seems interesting, and...
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88 UP: The Article For Old New Dads

Not quite sure what the takeaway is from the NY Times' eleven years later follow-up article on men in their 60's, 70's, and 80's having kids, other than that the original article's star dad, Tony Randall, died in 2004 at...
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Kohoutek: The Dollhouse Of The Future, By Ant Farm

One of the first of [way too] many [I'm sure] warnings I started giving the kid, even before her vision focused more than 3 feet away, was, "Plastic bags, not a toy." Which is funny, because in the late...
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April 11, 2007

Gimme A [Shooting] Break! Vintage Station Wagonporn Via Hemmings

Clearly, I've been too hypnotized for too long by Jalopnik's whatever-amino! series, which features evermore random cars turned into El Camino-style pickup trucks. While I was distracted by those shiny objects dangling over there, I completely missed the blog...
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DeWalt - Radio Flyer Trike Mashup

Good thing all the crazy DIY dad projects came to an end in 1962. Nowadays, folks do completely safe and wise things like using bungee cords to strap a DeWalt-powered saw motor onto their kid's Radio Flyer Tiny Trike....
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Wait, Don't Throw Out Those Old Paint Cans!

Does it explain a lot to know that Baby Boomers were apparently raised on a steady diet of lead paint, motor oil, and My Three Sons? According to Popular Mechanics [45 years, or in product safety testing and liability...
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Convert Your Back Seat To A Baby Bed!

...if I should die before I wake, it's cuz Dad hit the gas and not the brake. Frankly, it's a miracle any of us is alive to have kids at all. I just posted a scan of some plans...
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I Love Quinny In The Springtime

Word on the street--or from Spilling The Beans, the shopblog for Brookline, MA's Magic Beans, anyway--is that the US models of the Quinny Buzz will drop in May. The Maxi-Cosi car seats will drop in June. The Zapp drops later...
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Strudel Mountain? T.T.T. Austrian Art Theater For Kids

T.T.T. is a Pancake Mountain-like troupe of Viennese artists and jazz musicians who perform slightly dada-ist multimedia theater for kids. They're also one of the few hits on YouTube for Antonioni. Frankly, they seem more Antonin Artaud, but other...
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Sweet Dutch Mobile Home Now In New Amsterdam, Too

Great minds, etc., etc., The Mobile Home, that sweet, corrugated cardboard, totally totable dollhouse by the Dutch firm Kidsonroof that we wrote about a few months back is now for sale at DT advertiser Sparkability. 35 clams. They also...
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Antonioni Rides The Chung Kuo Express

I just/finally watched the first part of Chung Kuo - Cina, Michelangelo Antonioni's amazing 4-hour documentary of life in China in 1972, which he shot at the invitation of then-Premier Zhou Enlai. When it was shown, the film was...
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Dad Back On Market, Kids Don't Convey

Curbed is always so good with the Corcoran real estate ads that populate our fair city with arty pictures of bankerspawn crawling across high seven-figure parquet floors, cent pk vu, triple mint. Or in the case of these two...
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April 10, 2007

Wet Baby Dipper Alarm? Try Wet Baby Diaper Alarm

"Eastern Sale is a estore for Tecoserve," which is located in Maharashtra's second largest city, Pune [No. 1 is a quaint little 'burg called Mumbai]. They have over 20 years in the IT business, so you shouldn't worry too...
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Club Libby Lu CEH [Chief Executive Hoochiemama] Posts Comment On Washington Post

DT reader Marya pointed to a recent entry on the Washington Post's On Parenting blog [who knew?] about the mall rat incubator Club Libby Lu. What with all the discussion of head lice, pedophilia, and general skankitude, CLL's CEO...
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Vintage Eames Skateboard Decks For Girl By Tony Larson

And by "vintage," I mean 2005 at the latest. That's when Colin McKay--the vert guy with the Eames Rocker on his deck--stopped skating for Girl and joined Danny Way and the rest in the revival of Plan B. So...
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April 9, 2007

Skoal! Swedish Illustrator Ingela Peterson Arrhenius

There's nothing nicer than finding a great illustrator with a packed portfolio. Ingela Peterson Arrhenius's work at Stockholm Illustration makes me wish I had some gigs that needed illustrating. This one is from "an article about that you decorate...
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Salvor-Palooza At Cool Hunting, Kiosk, &c.

Cool Hunting just posted a video visit to the studio of Salvor designer Ross Menuez. Turns out the company's named after his daughter and muse [well, her middle name, anyway. It's Icelandic.] When it came out a couple of...
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Lucky Boy & "Auspicious Mobile Phone": Beijing Opera Flash Anime

So do you really need a Mandarin-speaking nanny, or is it enough for your kid to internalize the cartoons of her future Chinese bosses? These awesome-looking anime-style renditions of characters from the Beijing Opera turned up on BoingBoing, only...
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Stealth Parenting: What GTWD's Do

Jugglezine is an online magazine about work-life balance by the folks who made your office chair: Herman Miller. It's from all the way back in 2005, but this article on how dads don't get quite the same license from the...
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The Nauvoo Cradle

Nauvoo, Illinois was the Mormon Mecca before Salt Lake City. Now, it's the Mormon Colonial Williamsburg. [Does that make sense?] Anyway, during one visit a while back, my mom was antique shopping in the big city just across the...
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April 8, 2007

Oops. The Kid Loved This Maria Marshall Video At The Met

A couple of Sundays ago, I got a chance to meet a couple of DT readers, Col and Aubrey, who were visiting NYC from America's Capital of Leaving Your Kid With The Valet Parking Guy, Scottsdale. We went wandering through...
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Pot, Kettle: Washington Post Discovers It's In A Culture Free Zone

Back in January, the Washington Post got virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell to perform at the L'Enfant Plaza Metro stop during the morning commute. The response was, well, I still don't know. I mean, who has time to read a long...
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These Vinyl Hand-Shaped Kids Chairs Weird Me Out

Every time I go to Salt Lake, I come back thinking of carved wood handchairs. My stepfather collected a lot of art by Pedro Friedeberg, the guy who made those hand-shaped chairs, see, [Here's one in Mexican mahogany that's coming...
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Awesome Set Of Vintage Palaset Storage Cubes

So I'm surfing through eBay a bit and hey-o! here's a huge set of Palaset storage cubes for sale. This system was designed in the early 70's by Ristomatti Ratia, whose parents founded Marimekko. Victor Papanek and James Hennessey...
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April 7, 2007

Now That's A Take On The Iran-UK Soldier Hostage Story I Hadn't Heard

With her column in the Washington Post explaining the liberalism-led decline of Western Civilization as evidenced by the fact that one of the British navy crew captured by Iran is a mother, Kathleen Parker hit me so hard upside my...
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Club Libby Lu Employee Pouts, Calls Me Grandpa

It's been almost a year since I praised the Washington Post's lengthy takedown of Club Libby Lu, the "experience-driven retail business" which sells glittery makeovers, Paris Hilton-style toy chihuahuas in handbags, and girl band birthday parties to 8-year-olds in 85...
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M Is For Mookie: Sesame Street - Do The Right Thing Mashup

This hilarious mashup of Do The Right Thing using Sesame Street Little People from Fisher-Price is by filmmaker-bartender-madman-Canadian Brent Pike-Nurse [damn, I'm gonna run out of hyphens on the first line] and his comedic crew. In case you can't...
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April 6, 2007

Pampers Finally Getting Rid Of VPL [Visible Pampers Lines]

Naturally, this would happen just as we're getting traction again on the toilet training. One of the things that bugged about Pampers is the needless decoration, which would hang out of the kid's pants and show through when she'd wear...
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Holy Cow, Bozart Kaleidoscope Dollhouse, Still In The Box

Even though I was never a diehard fan of Bozart's Kaleidoscope House, it always felt like the one that got away. I knew one of the investors behind Bozart from Philadelphia. A bunch of art world people I knew...
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Sprouto Polkadot Dress From Etsy

I'll search for very specific things, but I don't have the patience to wade through the tacky schlock that clutters the baby clothes listings on etsy. Most of it's either the ruffly, ric-racked stuff of school gym craft fairs...
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Where To Start? Swedish Parents Want To Name Kid Metallica

You know I love me some Sweden around here, but I guess I'm too damn 'Murican to understand what business it is of the National Tax Board what I choose to name my kid. Those countries all over Scandinavia--and...
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April 5, 2007

Rhymes With Scissorhands: Philippe Starck Teddy Bear Band

In 2005, Philippe Starck created a 1,000-piece limited-edition teddy bear for Moulin Roty, the French soft toy manufaturer. Called "Teddy Bear Band," the bear had a forest creatures' heads where 3/4 of its limbs should be. Creepy? No, it...
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Four Odd Mod Rockers Coming Up At Auction

See, every once in a while some things like this come along, and it makes me reluctant to unsubscribe from the email lists of random auction houses I once registered to bid at some point. On April 21st, Sollo Rago...
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April 4, 2007

Mission Style Cribs After Stickley

So in the backseat of my mom's car yesterday is some Utah Design magazine from 2001 [Yeah, I don't know, either], and so I'm flipping through it while waiting forever at a railroad crossing, and see an actual Stickley crib....
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UK Ch4 Extraordinary Breastfeeding Documentary

When we last heard from mompower newsletter publisher Veronika Robinson, she was writing articles about with titles like " Why I still breastfeed my eight-year-old girl." Now a segment of the Channel 4 documentary from 2006 about Veronika's extraordinary...
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IwannathisOnesie, Chico, 'N Everthinisinnit.

Scarface Onesie First Social Worker's Tip-Off [theonion.com via dt reader garrett] Bonus related story: Ain't Nobody Telling Me What My Baby Allergic To...
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On The Subject Of Keith Richard's Bonding Techniques

Like most of you [right? right???] I go through my day with the lyrics to Vanity 6's shadethrowing rap song, "If A Girl Answers, Don't Hang Up" playing over and over in my head. So when the Keith Richards story...
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Bugaboo Calling Cards. You Know, For Playdating And Stuff

Uh, ok. So right after the kid was born, I ran into a friend from business school at the playground. She was actually running the little kids while the older one was in soccer practice. They'd just moved to Westchester,...
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April 3, 2007

Bugaboo's Max Barenbrug on Babble

I'm doublebooked all day with work stuff and won't be posting until later. In the mean time, Definitely head over to Babble and read their interview with Bugaboo designer Max Barenbrug, the tall dad who had his [and your] tall...
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April 2, 2007

Do Hipsters Ream Praying Electric Sheep?

Why, yes, yes they do. I'd forgotten how much I liked the class blog for Parsons' The Art And Craft Of Toy Design until I stumbled across this post where a secular humanist student brings Eternal Condemnation down on her...
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Wha? What's The Delivery Date Over/Under?

We're out in Salt Lake City for a few days; I've got a speaking gig at the University of Utah, and there's a confluence of cousins in town at the moment, so the kid's getting some face time, which is...
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Boston Globe: Toddler Breastfeeders In "Closet," Not "Cult"

So moms who continue to breastfeed their kids are not "earth mother stereotypes"; they just teach at Wellesley. They're "not a cult," says Dr. Ruth Lawrence, who chairs the AAP's breastfeeding section and wrote their "nurse for a year, at...
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Awesome ABC's Made From Mutilated Toy Soldiers

DC artist Oliver Munday made this sweet-looking alphabet from plastic toy soldiers. I'd go into details about how he did it, but everyone who isn't suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is under a gag order at Walter Reed. Fire...
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"Silly Adults" At Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen

To commemorate the birth of his newest son last month, Copenhagen art dealer Nicolai Wallner invited the artists he represents "to do an exhibition celebrating the spirit of life." Pretty open-ended, and the results are on the gallery's website....
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