Daddy Types: May 2011 Archives

May 2011 Archives

May 31, 2011

Parenting Without Balls

By now all that's left is for someone to round up a highlight reel of all the clips of parents trying to catch foul balls. Figures it's the Dodgers. Dad drops daughter at Dodgers game [youtube via @anildash] Previously:...
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Station Wagons You Can't Get Here Yet: The Lancia Delta

Gotta say, the Lancia Delta 5-door really looks great on the street's of Our Nation's Capital. If this is what we get for rescuing Chrysler and selling it to Fiat, we could do much worse. And if the reports...
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An Incomplete History Of Jean-Paul Gaultier

1988 Gaultier launches a women's bridge line called Junior Gaultier. 1993 My guy at Bergdorf Goodman Men tells me that this spiky, latex Gaultier vest hanging here on the rack has so far been purchased on three Thursdays and returned...
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May 30, 2011

The Minimii Arne Jacobsen Dollhouse Is A Rareified Object.

Well, it didn't arrive in time for Christmas 2009, but it's available for 2011. And assuming you stopped buying anything else in anticipation of its arrival, you might have enough socked away. Of course, I'm talking about the Arne Jacobsen...
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May 28, 2011

Iranian Baby's Got A Gun

Portrait of the Artist as a Rebel 2005, by Iranian artist Amitis Motevalli, who shows at Aaran Gallery, Tehran but who lives and works in Los Angeles. [via artinfo]...
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May 27, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Measles Edition

Some headlines from the worlds of science, safety, and parenting to freakout over this weekend: Can't install them right so you can't get Zipcar, or take them on a trip. Holy smokes, Alexandra Lange asks, why are car seats so...
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It's Just An Opiate Smuggled Into Prison In A Coloring Book

Suboxone is a prescription opiate that has become a drug of choice in prison because it is easily converted to an orange-tinted paste, which is then smuggled in via the mails:"We've had too many people dry the stuff onto...
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Birth Announcement Lets Everyone Relive The Magic Moment

When the aperture is fully dilated, you can see the babies head! Cardnetics Iris Mechanism business and greeting cards [cardnetics via boingboing]...
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May 26, 2011

The Kodak Colorama Babies

For forty years, the Kodak Colorama hung on the east end of the Great Hall at Grand Central Station. The 18x60-foot backlit transparency was called the biggest photograph in the world, and Kodak photographers changed it about once a...
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Fem* One2Stay? Really? Why Not 'Dutch Folding High Chair'?

The Dutch designers of the Fem* [Fem-Star] One2Stay portable, indoor/outdoor, tent-like, aluminum, folding high chair expended so much brain power on the product, they didnt have any left for the name. One2Stay? What does that even mean? How about...
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Vanity Fairy Hollow

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is writing a children's book. I assume it will either be about the Kenendys or about a boy who discovers his hair can fly. Graydon Carter: Children's Book Author [nyt via @lehmannchris]...
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May 25, 2011

If You Haven't Been Pitched It, It's New To You!

Alright, so this had been bugging me: why Steve Guarnaccia's kind of dopey-yuppie Three Little Starchitect Pigs book just got a promo in the New York Times T Magazine, even though it was actually published two years ago? But after...
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It's Just A Hippie Naming Strategy

I really hope marijuana legalization works out and whatever, but his name is by far the most interesting thing in this whole "flaky, slightly shady 'Oakland potpreneur'" story: The letters in his first name stand for "yes and no." His...
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Go Tide! Daddy Types Is The Alabama Of Dadblogs

Ah, the congratulatory opening lines in PR pitches are already coming in. So thanks to the media and communications gurus at Cision for jiggering my Klout Score enough to make the cut on their Top 50 Daddy Bloggers list. Daddy...
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Don't Brush My Hair In Knots, By Murp

The Sadnesses have chosen to kick off their rather awesome guest playlist at Network Awesome with Murp's breakout debut single, "Don't Brush My Hair In Knots." The Sadnesses are a Berlin-based band of Americans. Network Awesome is a New...
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May 24, 2011

The Gnome-Mobile, By Walt Disney And Upton Sinclair

How many lives did you ruin, Julie Andrews? Just tell me. Go ahead, how many? If you ever wondered what happened to the half of the cast of Mary Poppins, that didn't end up in Herbie The Love Bug,...
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Sometimes It's OK Not To Share

The flair can't hide the pain inside. After a third report of a toddler at a national chain restaurant getting a sippy cupful of alcohol, a few anonymous waiters are coming forward to explain what's going on. Basically the living...
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May 23, 2011

Homeless On The Street, Knockoff Pushbikes Are Cracked

You can Skuut, but you can't hide. Sooner or later, that knockoff karma's gonna gitcha. Spotted by DT reader and Skuut Skout Rolf on the Lower Lower Lower East Side, Gold & Fulton Streets, Manhattan....
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The First Rule Of Baby Fights

Is that you never talk about Baby Fights. You are free, however, to reblog the YouTube video, and then retweet the hell out of it. Because it is pretty awesome. Chris Morris - Blue Jam - Baby Fights [youtube via...
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May 22, 2011

Holy Family Circus! Antonio Vitali Is Tearing Up eBay Right Now

YOW. When I first didn't bid on a pristine, complete set of Antonio Vitali's Wooden Family dolls made for Creative Playthings, in 2006, $51 was enough to scare me off. When they sold for $229, I thought it was...
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A Family Vehicle Of Obvious Utility

Though I'd posted a couple of items already, I decided to hold off on this one until after the Bonham's Aston Martin auction was over. Didn't want to tip my hand, lose my chance to scoop this baby up...
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May 21, 2011

Wagons You Can't Get Here, Vols 48-53

We've replaced the insane hot rod station wagon these British car nerds normally drive with four other insane hot rod station wagons. Let's see if they can tell the difference:So, alongside the Piston Heads Fleet Mercedes C63 AMG on...
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May 20, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Apocalyptical Distance Edition

A passel of parenting and pediatric press to freakout your Friday, fellows. It's no Danny Stiles, but it'll have to do: So THIS is why the Tylenol PRs have been emailing me all this time. Big Acetaminophen is getting on...
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Parenting With Balls

That was gonna be the tagline for the blog at one point. Can you imagine? I asked a friend draw the logo for me, two IBM Selectric typewriter balls, with "D A D D Y" and "T Y P E...
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May 19, 2011

Do We Become Our Parents Or Our Childhood Selves?

At The Millions, Kevin Hartnett tells of suddenly having a deep, nostalgic, and deep again onrush of emotion while reading Caps For Sale to his son at bedtime.As my son finished his milk and started to fall asleep, I found...
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Hello Kitty Personality Sphere

How can Chris Myles ever top these awesome, functioning personality spheres from Portal 2? Two words. Hello Kitty. Myles made this for some fantastically nerdish friend's baby shower. Awesome. [flickr via neatorama]...
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May 18, 2011

Home Court D-Bag Kids Furniture By Lebron James

As you can imagine, the only reason getting Lebron James to design kids furniture makes any sense is if you're a furniture licensing guy who really loves Lebron James. So I guess it follows that the promo site for...
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Shake Shack Kid Swag

I don't go myself, but I heartily approve of the proliferation of Shake Shacks across New York City; I like to think they help bleed off a little bit of the line at the original Madison Square Park location....
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Kodomo Bako By Miha Design

In the gut renovation of an older [1977] 71 sq-m condo for a Tokyo family, Naoto Mitsumoto and Naoko Hamana of Miha Design created two sleeping boxes with loft tops for the kids to study and play. While it...
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Sweet Kalon Echo Toddler Crib, Sweetest Nymph!

Now that everyone's quiet and in the frame of mind to discuss high-design, thousand-dollar children's beds... HOLY SMOKES, PEOPLE, THE KALON ECHO TODDLER BED! Every penny you were thinking of dropping on an Aino Aalto should now go into...
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May 17, 2011

Dammit, Where My Comments At?

So a few days ago, the site was getting bombarded by comment spam, and I was traveling, so I disabled the comment script entirely until I could get home and fix it properly. It's active again, but now, for some...
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Mrs. Aalto's Crib

Do not adjust your monitors, this is not a rendering. It is an honest-to-goodness crib, designed in the 1940s by Aino Aalto, the Finnish architect and designer, who you may know from such roles as the first Mrs. Alvar...
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May 16, 2011

Saab 9-3 Sport Combi With A Dodge Viper Engine

From the Department of Good Bad Ideas, fellow named mrspringer, who apparently lives in a land without either curbs or speed bumps, has managed to stuff the V-10 from a Dodge Viper into a Saab 9-3 Sport Combi wagon....
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Youpla-do 2000 Lit Parapluie, How You Say Umbrella Crib?

Tres interessant, look what DT reader Gilles found at French vintage design shop the Hiving Room: it's a folding crib from the 60s/early 70s called the Youpla-do 2000 Lit Valise Parapluie, or Suitcase Umbrella Bed. I guess it's the...
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Nanolaw

When he went to work for Harper's Magazine, which is owned by some part of the MacArthur family, I was worried that Paul Ford would be ineligible for one of the MacArthur Foundation's genius grants. Fortunately, he quit, and he's...
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The Sweetest Nan Goldin Photo You'll Ever See

Isabelle as a ghost, St. Remy de Provence, 2002 If I had to make a list of words I'd never use to describe Nan Goldin's photography, "sweet" would come right after "adorable." But whether it's the kid or the...
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May 15, 2011

Putting The Dwarf- And Stripper-Filled Yachts Behind You

Never let it be said that the SEC is anti-family. With the yacht, the fleet of jets to the Delano, the strippers and the dwarf at his weekend-long 2003 bachelor party all paid for by his sell-side clients, Fidelity trader...
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Go The F**k To The Top Of The Amazon Bestseller List

Un-f**king-believable. Days after a bootleg PDF scan of Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes' parents' book Go The F**k To Sleep started making the rounds, the book hit #1 on Amazon's bestseller list, where it jostled with Tina Fey's parenting book...
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May 14, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Just One Word...Plastics

Woo-hoo, first they came for the BPA, but I was not BPA, so I did nothing. Then they came for the crapload of other Estrogenic Activity-triggering chemicals in basically every plastic everything in the world, but my manboobs were too...
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May 13, 2011

Too Big For Stroller, Too Little To Leave Behind

Oh, these kids and their tumblrs! If only I'd had the foresight to start one of these things a year and a half ago, I, too, could've been on Salon.com this week! Strollers, of course, are a tool of...
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May 12, 2011

Maclarens Keep Chopping Fingers, CPSC Keeps Recalling Maclarens

18 months ago, in an extraordinary recall event we've come to call Macopalypse 2009, Maclaren and the CPSC recalled basically all the Maclaren umbrella-style strollers sold in the US through 2009, after the company received multiple reports of the exposed...
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The Handmade, Bespoke Pride Of Newport Pagnell: AML Soapbox Derby Winner

ON THE OTHER HAND. Wow, I mean, just wow:Lot No: 189 The 'AML' Soapbox, outright winner of the 2010 Newport Pagnell Soapbox Derby, designed and built by former Aston Martin employee Roy Pink of Roy Pink Cycles, Newport Pagnell, alloy...
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The Decline Of Aston Pedal Car-ization

The Queen can take care of herself, it's the Aston Martin pedal car that needs saving. Just look at these two cars, both for sale in Bonhams' upcoming Aston Martin Automobilia sale on May 21st: Lot No: 201 is an...
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May 11, 2011

I Feel Compelled To Post About Hipster Ariel

Even though there's probably an embarrassing formula for calculating just how far from the trending epicenter I am based on how many weeks [months!] it takes me to hear about something like Hipster Ariel, and even though it kind...
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Mericas Funniest

This is who we are now. We make videos of our kids snuggling adorably with dead squirrels, and our adopted greyhounds wandering alongside our "outdoor rooms," then we post them on YouTube. And then we tag them so that maybe...
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Baby Dada: Swiss Artists Lookin' To License Another Baby

In 2005 the Swiss bad boy artists duo Com & Com had a project called Gugusdada, in which they offered 10,000 CHF to the parents who agreed to name their kid Dada, like the old, absurdist, art movement. The...
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Oeuf Sparrow Crib Probably Still 20% Off At ModernSeed

Modern Seed is having a 20% off sale on its current stock of sweet, birch Oeuf Sparrow cribs. Though I love the $730 Sparrow in its original grey finish, for $146 off, I could certainly learn to love the...
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May 10, 2011

It's Just An Awesome Bedtime Book With The F-Bomb In The Title

Wait, yeah, yeah, Adam Mansbach, author of Go The F*%$ To Sleep. But why did I not recognize that the illustrator Ricardo Cortes is the Ricardo Cortes, creator of the kindergarten-narc-thwarting classic, It's Just A Plant? I mean, holy...
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They Go Together Like Childhood Cancer And Parental PTSD

So this Boston Herald story is not one of those, "Oh no, nothing worse than finding out the baby has cancer" stories after all. Its' about the inevitably worse stuff that happens because the kid has cancer, and the parents...
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Global Automakers Lobbying For Pool Noodles

The industry association. What a racket. Earn millions of dollars a year saying things about politics your corporate members are too embarrassed to have come out of their own PR flacks' mouths. And so we come to "Global Automakers"...
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May 9, 2011

The Best Tweet About Rims And Sonograms Of 2011

I'm sure this is going to make the Daddy Types Top 10 Tweets of 2011 list, but it'll have to happen after the site gets bought by AOL, and I get laid off via mass email. Because frankly, I can't...
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May 7, 2011

Phil&Teds: Metoo High Chair? I Don't Recall. CPSC: And That's Gonna Be A Problem

From the Department of Whoa That's Never Happened Before, So I got a personal email request from the CPSC yesterday. Not some mailing list alert, or even a "Dear Momblogger," pitch. A straight up, "Hi Greg, I know that you...
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May 6, 2011

Chupiriffic! Palazzo Chupi Onesies

This is like five kinds of insidery awesomeness, but from Lockhart's twitpic caption, I gather that Curbed account exec @michellecurb whipped up a his&her pair of Palazzo Chupi Onesies for Joey Arak's coming twins. I look forward to seeing...
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Hello Knitty

Get ready, you're totally gonna knit your pants over this one. This pattern is knit ready yet, but it will be soon! I got a million of them, but now I wonder if I should pre-sell my Austin Powers...
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May 5, 2011

Is This Chandigarh Playground Available To Order?

This playground structure from Chandigarh, Le Corbusier's planned city in India, is pretty awesome. If you really like it, just wait a while, and someone will loot it and bring it to auction in Paris, New York or Chicago....
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May 4, 2011

So Did You Know About This Toddlers & Toothpaste Thing?

Because any time I hear someone warning me about the evils of fluoride, I check my wallet. I mean, my wallet-sized map of southern Utah, because I wonder if I'm in one of those towns where people keep watch nights,...
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Juicy Phooooteur

DT reader Greg and his daughter took the crayons to the 20-page Maclaren newspaper that was inserted in their most recent diapers.com order. He calls this page "a loose interpretation" of Walter Benjamin's axiom, "There is no document of...
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A LEGO Room With A View

Yeah, so it's not in a 40-room Georgian country manor in England, just a reno'd rowhouse in Cobble Hill. But at least the New York Times finally came through and showed us the damn Lego Room. Turns out it's...
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May 3, 2011

Le Clochard Homeless-Lookin' Cardboard-Printed Sheets

Cardbird I, Robert Rauschenberg, 1971, ed. 75, image baeditions Oh, man, welcome to this installment of Dutch Conceptual Beddengoed. I've been looking at a lot of Robert Rauschenberg sculptures lately for the other blog, and so while I was...
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First Cleats Kicking Baby Butt!

So they were all,...an innovative, first of its kind in the world, infant sport cleat! We are www.firstcleats.com Our little soft and safe cleats (0 to 6 mos.) are designed after big kids soccer, football, baseball cleats. These little...
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Why Not? Bugaboo X Missoni

Let's get this out right up front: the new Bugaboo X Missoni strollers look fantastic. Now I'm normally opposed to fashion designer stroller colabos on principle. On several principles, actually, none of which apply in this case. Let me...
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