So some new study about high fructose corn syrup came out in the journal Obesity, and basically every word that's come out of HFCS's mouth is a lie, including "a," "the," and "is." Interestingly named nutritionist professor Marion Nestle has...
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October 2010 Archives
October 31, 2010
HFCS: Holy Crap, Fructose ≠ Sucrose!
October 29, 2010
Visionaire Fairytale
It's 2010, over three years since my old buddy Greg Foley, the creative director for Visionaire and V/V Man began his incredibly sweet, awesome series of children's books with Thank You, Bear. And so it should be the most...
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On Jawas, On Gagas, On Dancer And Vixen
While Jean was traveling in Germany this week, I've been on bedtime duty, and we've been watching a few minutes of Star Wars: Episode IV each night in lieu of one of the kids' stories. So when this awesome...
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DT Friday Freakout: 4yo Can Be Sued From The Grave Edition
Holy crap, I don't know what's more freakout-able: that two 4-year-olds riding their training wheel bikes on an East Side sidewalk, knocked over an 87-year-old neighbor, who died three weeks months later from complications related to hip fracture surgery. Or...
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DT Friday Freakout: Whooping Cough Edition
You ever have one of those weeks where the news from science, health, parenting, and everything else is just too diverse to freak out over in one post? Well, this is one of those weeks. So for the first in...
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Manivan
The Dodge Grand Caravan's got a new grille; it can fight its own battles. Me, I am so sick of the phrase, "man up." If it was trying to angle into the preschool dropoff line ahead of me, I would...
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October 28, 2010
Baby, Remember My Name? Unknown Bent Metal High Chair
Just today, Michael from Stopping Off Place confirmed that the unidentified lithograph I'd helped a friend move out of his childhood home this summer was, in fact, by Ezra Jack Keats. [Vintage Children's Books My Kid Loves just posted...
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October 27, 2010
Hermès - Album A Colorier
On the Dinosaurs + Robots post about the Hermès X Leica M7 camera, Mister Jalopy paraphrased "the merchant prince" Mickey Drexler, who "cited Hermès as being the only luxury brand that delivers the promise." So true, I thought, as...
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OG Saab Turbo 006 Convertible Junior
When I saw the first shot, I'm thinking, "weird and looks kinda homemade." And since it's an actual 1986 Saab product, I'm not really that far off. A Hemmings correspondent hit the Saab Fall Festival in Albany and came...
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Watch Out, Neal Pollack
Whether you're a parenting advice expert or a momblogger, a filmmaker, a comedian, a hipster memoirist, a singer or a Kardashian--hell, it probably even happened to Erma Bombeck--there's that moment anyone who makes money off his kids dreads: Hahahaha, no,...
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October 26, 2010
Warhol's Paintings For Children: The Exhibit
In 1983, with a couple of kids of his own running around, Andy Warhol's longtime Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger asked him to create a show of small paintings for children. The show, "Paintings for Children," featured The Toy Series...
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¡Atención, Los Publicistas Del Museo!
I don't ask for much, really. I'm not one of those swaghound bloggers mucking around for free samples. Or blackmailing companies with the threats of negative posts because baby needs a new pair of Crocs. And though I mock the...
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October 25, 2010
Build The Town Posters By Ladislav Sutnar
Wow, has it really been four years and two weeks since I first posted about Czech emigre designer [and area code parentheses inventor!] Ladislav Sutnar's beautiful-but-unproduced Build The Town block set? Well then, I'm only two weeks late in...
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The Snow Baby
Admiral Robert Peary's wife Josephine accompanied him on several of his early expeditions to Greenland, including the one where he pretty much swiped Ahnighto, the massive meteorite fragment which had been the Inuit's primary source of iron for centuries,...
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Less Is More Applies To Plexi, Too
Just the fleeting impression of a guy who knows a thing or two about inordinately severe crib design and plexi... And in completely unrelated news, Nurseryworks previewed their new all-acrylic Hollis crib at the ABC Kids Expo in Las...
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Amazing Wood Artist Alma Pearce Tossing A Baby
Amazing Joshua Tree-by-way-of-Heber-Utah wood artist Alma Pearce carved a containerload of biomorphic reclaimed wood stools for Japan, built a house by hand, and tossed his kid into the air 100 times before you even made your first pot of...
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No Via Boxes Were Harmed In The Making Of This Promotional Video
Here at DTHQ, we've been inundated with stinkbugs, so I've been climbing on our Via Boxes a lot lately to squash them on the ceiling. Even so, I'm a bit surprised that John, chief Via Boxer, drove his car...
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Mommy Steps: Lisa Belkin's Slowly Coming Around
Whether it's a couple of years of intensive parentblogging, or the shifting economy, finding the right research, or whatever, the NY Times' Lisa Belkin is finally seeing work-family balance issues as a parents' problem, not just a moms' problem. From...
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October 24, 2010
Oh, The Brat Books You'll Write
Some folks are stoked by the news that a previously unknown, unfinished Dr. Seuss manuscript came onto the market. [It sold at auction for $42,000.] Ted Geisel had begun it in the late 60s and shelved it, and then in...
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October 23, 2010
It's My Kid In A Karpoúzi
BoingBoing links to someone else's traffic-jacking copy, but I think the clip above is the original Greek baby in a watermelon video AS SEEN ON ELLEN IN JULY. Seriously, why do I even try anymore?...
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October 22, 2010
Poster For Bono's German Democracy Album
It has been Bono's plan all along to be the elected king-for-life of a unified Europe. And for a brief moment there in 1991, when the Berlin Wall fell, it looked like he'd have his chance. U2 brought in Brian...
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October 21, 2010
Training Wheels & Hand Grenades
"Lob in a play hand grenade, and finish off the rest with the submachine gun." Look, I didn't have one of those violin lessons & mufflers childhoods; I played my war in the ditches and woods like the rest...
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Really, What Can I, There's Just, I Mean, Holy S-, I, Wow.
Oh, hi, crazy/awesome Chihuly VC mom who finagled a long-term lease on the caretaker's apartment in the pyramid of the Smith Tower in Seattle and installed acres of salvaged marble slabs and a tire swing zipline! Making a Home...
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October 20, 2010
Oilily 3.0
This just in from DT's senior Dutch moppetwear bankruptcy correspondent Jan: Oilily is back, its global boomer hippie founder family is in charge, and it's business as usual. Which I assume means knocking off independent Portuguese crafters and, well the...
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Ozoo, Par Le Maître De Plastic Kids Furniture, Marc Berthier
Ozoo 0600 desk, 1971, image via form.de We've seen some of designer Marc Berthier's kids furniture before, and we'd probably see more of it if the mid-70s oil crisis didn't wreak havoc on the economics of plastic. Or if...
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The Answer Is, The Rabbit Takes Too Long To Go To Sleep
Yes, even if there weren't a clock right there on the nightstand, measuring the passage of time in Goodnight Moon by the distance the moon travels across the sky IS overanalytical. And our in-house astrophysicist is asleep, so I'm...
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October 19, 2010
Wingnutsac
God Bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her, while ignorant authoritarian religious zealots and their Alaska Birther husbands treat her as a high school cafeteria, and make taunts about the president's balls, which prompts the...
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October 18, 2010
Expressionist Slot-Together Kids Chair
Sweet, unattributed, vintage, slot-together ply kids chair goodness this weekend at Mondo Blogo's favorite dealer, Jere Barnard. There are a couple of other kid design oddities in MB's post, so check it out. My Favorite Dealer, Jere Barnard [mondo-blogo]...
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Pennsylvania Maternity Wards On The Frontlines In The War Against 'Poppy Seed Use'
Thanks to Pennsylvania's mandatory drug testing of mothers about to give birth, state officials took custody of a newborn after her mother tested positive for poppy seed bagels. In lieu of any information about what other states might require drug...
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October 17, 2010
DT Friday Freakout: Sunday Supplement Edition
On the bright side, if the Friday Freakout doesn't come out until Sunday night, maybe it only ruins my weekend. Here are some devastating headlines from the worlds of science, education, safety, and parenting: Sleep positioners have been implicated in...
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How To Earn $100 The Easy Way
Dear Expectant Parent, While pairing pop songs with his celebrity-rewrites of Anton Chekhov stories, including Bonnie Tyler's immortal classic, "Holding Out For A Hero," New Yorker editor Ben Greenman makes expectant parents an offer they'd be crazy to refuse:Sing along...
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October 15, 2010
Ai Weiwei Not A Highway
It's been a long, black & white streak here at Daddy Types the last day or two. But this story has some international color. That grey beach those two darling British moppets are frolicking on is actually an artwork,...
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Fall Is Shorts Season
Next time you see a 50-something year-old Frenchman, ask him if he wore short-shorts and a skull cap and had the merde scared out of him by the St George and the Dragon puppet show in the Tuileries when...
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October 14, 2010
Luigi Colani, The Designer Of The MONOBLOC Would Like To See You Outside.
And if you make it back alive, will you please tell me his name? This desk/closet/loft bed combination called the MONOBLOC was exhibited at the 7th International Furniture Expo in Paris in 1973. It is credited in Form Magazine...
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Nanna Ditzel Designed A Crib In 1962.
We all know about Nanna Ditzel's Toadstool tables and chairs. And her high chair. And her cradle. [Right? We do?] But how is it possible that I can't find any reference besides an 1963 issue of Form Magazine to...
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Wolfgang Rebentisch Designed The Hippo In 1993.
Seriously, I like Stokke, and I like the Hippo. And it's totally their call if they decide not to produce or carry it anymore. ergo:design in Germany picked it up, and it still rocks. But Wolfgang Rebentisch, the man...
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Canada Declares BPA Toxic/Toxique In Two Languages
The Gouvernement Canadian Government had proposé adding BPA to the list liste of toxic substances toxique in 2008 deux mille huit. And yesterday they made it official officielle. BPA will now be subject sujet to regulations and restrictions under CEPA...
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October 12, 2010
Chaises Anonymes Des Puces
An anonymous tipster traveling undercover in Paris shares wisdom from les puces:The flea markets are insanely expensive. In many cases, the vendors have no idea what they have/value, but they are just pulling insane numbers from the air. I...
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WTF? LMAO! STFUParents!
Maybe if I ever read blogs or gone on Facebook, I would have known about STFU, Parents before now. As it is, all I can say is, back when I was a non-parent, we had to comb through UrbanBaby messageboards...
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Oh, Hell Yes. Not Just A Crawligator. Crawligator DOT COM.
In practice, they may only ever pop up once or twice a year, but that still means that anyone can post a plain, old Creative Playthings Crawligator on eBay. But only one man, the visionary who registered it two...
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From Womb To Cradle, By Jack Rogers Hopkins
If all you knew about Calfornia craftsmaster Jack Rogers Hopkins was his Vulcantastic rocking chair ["Live Long and Rocker"], sit down, because Hippie Woodworking Christmas has come early. Mondo Blogo has posted more incredible images from his seemingly endless...
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It Appears That Chicken McNuggets Are Not Exactly Hot Dogs. But Neither Are Hot Dogs.
So in attempting to "report the controversy" over whether the pink chicken Silly Putty photo that's all over the net actually represents the contents of Chicken McNuggets, Daddy Types has been accused of "spreading false information" by no less an...
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October 11, 2010
Coal, Minders, Daughter
Just when I was beginning to wonder whether anyone actually ever bought one of Brockhage and Andra's Schaukelwagen, DT reader and schaukelwagenmeister Andrew spotted this 1970 photo in the Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz:The GDR built up a network of day...
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October 8, 2010
Warhol Brillo Box End Tables For Everyone!
In my other blog/life, I've been researching the slightly absurd, increasingly high stakes saga of Andy Warhol's iconic Brillo Box sculptures. In a nutshell, it turns out that Pontus Hulten, one of the major museum directors in the world--he...
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B Is For Ben-Day Dots, C Is For Condolences: Lichtenstein's ABC
While poking around photographer Bob Adelman's site, I found this children's book he published in 1999, Roy Lichtenstein's ABC. Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by a work or detail from Lichtenstein's iconic oeuvre. Adelman was friendly with...
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October 7, 2010
Those Pregnant Women'll Getcha Every Time
Here in America, we don't think twice when our highest elected officials conceal their pregnancies, and then jet all over the continent without telling anyone that their water's broken because they want to have their high-risk, special needs baby born...
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October 6, 2010
And To Think That I Saw It For A Million Freaking Dollars On eBay
Add three small, beat-to-hell, "Unorthodox Taxidermy" animal head sculptures made in the mid-1930s by a young, ambitious, and slightly broke Ted Geisel on his Upper East Side dining table as mail-order bar decorations, but which ended up on some...
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It Appears That Chicken McNuggets Are Hot Dogs.
Yeah, so this single photo of mechanically separated chicken is now entrenched in the web as the apparently freakout-inducing answer to "what are Chicken McNuggets made from?" Ever the Internet statesman, Kottke calls for calm, or at least a...
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October 5, 2010
Putting The 'Free' In 'BPA-Free': DT Reports From The Adiri Evening Of Pampering
Recently, Daddy Types was invited to the chic WeHo boite, Falcon to enjoy an evening of mini-cupcakes, mani/pedis, facials, and some serious momtalk about which ultimate breast shape-simulating baby bottle has less BPA than the evening's sponsor, Adiri. [hint:...
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Mombloggers Of The Corn [Refiners Association]
DT hero and double-barreled momblogger Liz has an epic, yet constructive takedown on the Corn Refiners Association's recent giftcards-for-HFCS-propaganda tour through the mommy blogosphere. Brands and blog tours - not always so sweet. [mom-101.com]...
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It's Just A Barbiturate Suppository
You know how we chuckle and shake our heads at how the Industrial Revolution was carried out on the opium-sedated backs of working class kids? Haha. Because the Cold War was, too. That's when The Greatest Generation turned to...
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October 4, 2010
Pamela Weir Rocking Horse
Southern California woodworker Pamela Weir-Quiton has been making what she calls functional wood sculpture since the 1960s. LA Modern has this rocking horse of hers from 1972 in their upcoming auction October 17th. It looks a little side-tipsy to...
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Aawesome: Alvar Aalto Kids Chair
A nice-looking vintage example of Alvar Aalto's Child's Chair No. 103 is coming up for auction at Chicago's Wright20 next week. They list the date as 1930, but that's when Aalto made his first, related, bent ply and metal...
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October 3, 2010
There's More To Renate Mueller Than Jute Hippos
All the stuff I wrote 2.5 years ago about the New Hotness of eastern German toymaking legend Renate Mueller still stands: the only things different are that R 20th Century has finally amassed enough vintage Mueller to put on...
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October 1, 2010
DTQ: 'Why Is Darth Vader Angry?'
So K2 drew this yesterday, and it kind of blew my mind: "This is Darth Vader, and his teeth and his legs and his cheeks and his mouth. He's angry. Why is Darth Vader angry?" I did not quite know...
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FAO Schwarz Coming Soon To A Toys R Us Near Your Downmarket Neighborhood
So 18 months after buying the crumbling premium brand, and 18 months before the lease expires on its only remaining retail location, Toys R Us is readying a Christmas plan to roll out F.A.O. Schwarz products into its 595 big...
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DT Friday Freakout: Duct Tape Edition
Just in case the rain isn't enough to ruin your weekend, here's a special Foto edition of the Freakout: Apparently, there is an uproar sweeping across the British Isles after an editor in some baby magazine said she didn't breastfeed...
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