Daddy Types: August 2011 Archives

August 2011 Archives

August 31, 2011

Kid Fills It, ABC News Shills It

How does this even become a news story? How does this exist? It is a giant landfill's worth of PR nonsense. According to ABC News--NEWS, PEOPLE!--"Designer Diapers Big Hit With Moms". What's the hook? What's the story? Patterned diapers exist?...
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You've Come A Long Way, Tony!

Kellogg's is coming for you[r kids]:The campaign is meant to tap into the growing trend of dads buying groceries. ... "Dads love to share the things that he is passionate about with his kid and Frosted Flakes and sports are...
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Wagonfreude: Rolls Royce Travestywagen For Sale In Dusseldorf

Technically, there is no bright side to this story: a hapless 1972 Rolls Royce was horrifically modded into a bloated, badonked-out station wagon. It was loaded with speakers and a giant flatscreen, as if it's perpetually on its way...
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Amsterdam On The Potomac: Bakfiets Spotted In The Wild

So I saw a dad with a bakfiets with in infant carrier in the box driving down the street in Washington DC today. He was too quick, and I was too slow to get a picture. But it looked...
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August 30, 2011

My Name Is Gween. I Speak For The Twees.

Here is a set of toy trees from a green-themed toy company called Gween:Gween represents growth. The growth found both in a child and nature. Gween toys bring the two together. We believe that the future of the planet...
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August 27, 2011

Like-A-Bike Delivery Truck

This beautiful survivor 1972 Ford F-100 has never left Southern California. After three decades delivering motorcycles around OC for Irv Seaver, it retired with Seaver's shop manager to a life of well-cared-for leisure. Whether you buy it or not,...
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Bring A Trailer, Leave A Stroller

Take a moment to honor the Los Angeles-based seller of this beautiful 1964 Jaguar XKE, who has provided it with a decade of care and marque- and period-appropriate performance enhancements. The seller whose father, we are told, "raced 250F's...
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Space Oddity: The Children's Book, As Imagined By Andrew Kolb

This is ground control to Andrew Kolb, you really have made the grade. This homebrewed, just-for-fun, not-for-sale, trying-to-get-blessed-by-the-Bowie-gods reimagining of "Space Oddity" as a kids book is flat-out awesome. Though it is also very, very sad... It would certainly...
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The Surf Guide Baby And Her Velzy Stick

This perfect image has just made land via my friend Christine's awesome tumblr of zen. The October 1964 cover of Surf Guide magazine featured a photo of Karen Gallagher taken at San Onofre. According to big sister Karolyn Gallagher's...
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August 26, 2011

OK No

Oh man, I am not going to link to it, I am not going to suggest you see it, I barely even want to mention the involved parties by name. But HOLY SMOKES, the OK Go version of The Muppet...
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DT Friday Freakout: I Got Nothin' Edition

Seriously? What freakouts could the worlds of science, education, or parenting propose to ruin your weekend that earthquakes and hurricanes haven't already got beat? As luck would have it, we checked our "go bag," which we call our 72-hour bag,...
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Ostalgie's Rainbow: Dresden Rocket Slide

Beth from the awesome indie label Lemon Cadet was traveling in Germany when this vintage postcard jumped off the rack and screamed "Achtung, Daddy Types!" at her. So she had to get it and send it to me. [The...
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August 25, 2011

Sweet Stash Of Antonio Vitali Wooden Toys On eBay

It's always tough to post about awesome Antonio Vitali toys, knowing as I do that the biomorphic, abstracted carved wood pieces are rare enough, and the prices are going to go high enough, that it's extremely unlikely any actual...
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The Kid Should See This

Obviously, The Kid Should See This, Rion Nakaya's new project, undertaken with her 3-yo kid, to find awesome, educational video and photography online that a kid should see, is just awesome. Here's just one of the many things the kid...
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August 24, 2011

1966 Ford Fairlane: Made From Cobra Jets

Just to show I'm not down on all utterly insane station wagon modding projects, here is a 1966 Ford Fairlane Wagon in which the original Windsor 289 has been replaced by a 428 Cobra Jet. Also a 6-speed, a/c,...
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Aucune Idée: Citroen CX Loadrunner

I love station wagons, Citroens, diesels, England, and long, overly chatty web accounts of ridiculous custom projects. And my wife works at NASA. And yet somehow, I just can't get excited about Phil Collins' [yeah, no, I know, right?]...
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August 23, 2011

Mothers By Martin Creed

I've been a big fan of Martin Creed's work for years, and this is the biggest yet. Apparently, this spinning, 12.5-meter long steel beam with a giant, neon MOTHERS sign on top of it was originally designed for a...
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Help, Mom! There Are Communist Environmentalists Under My Bed!

Leftist subversives are using their "stranglehold" on the Liberal Children's Media to unleash their ungodly "political indoctrination" of sharing, cooperation, and environmentalism on your vulnerable children! If only the Liberals didn't control the rest of the media, too, maybe someone...
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August 22, 2011

Depressing Caption, Meet Awesome Chairs

The photo blog on The Atlantic has been running extended looks back at images from World War II. Today's theme: Japanese-Americans forcibly removed from their homes and businesses and shipped to internment camps in the middle of the freakin'...
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Whoa, Nari Ward, You're Freaking Me Out Right Now!

Amazing Grace, 1993, Nari Ward, installed with a painting by Christopher Wool and a poster shitshow by M/M Paris at the Palais de Tokyo in 2005. Amazing Grace is a 1993 sculpture/installation by the US artist Nari Ward. It...
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Why Not... Wrap Your Old Digital Camera With Silicon Putty!

If there were a contest for a cute way to burn through a little $20 pack of Sugru moldabe, air-curing silicon putty, the bounce-proofed digital camera Stefan Stocker made for his 3-yo would surely have won it. And if...
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Give Big Carrot Whatever They Want

Oh man, there's so much to post, but who's got the time? Before she went out of town for work, the wife brought home a bag of fresh carrots from the farmers market. Yeah, the kids are transfixed by...
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August 20, 2011

Eames Adjacent! Can You ID This Kid-Size, Mid-Century Mystery Chair?

From awaiting the future to decoding the past: Soon after super-collector Jim Linderman moved to the Zeeland metropolitan area, he snapped up this rather sweet, sculptural, handmade, kid-size mystery chair at a local vintage store. And then he sent pictures...
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The Future Will Be Kickstarted

Someday in The Future, an idealistic English teacher in Beijing with some furniture sketches and a translator friend will commission a giant furniture manufacturer like Beijing Jiangshan Country Home Decoration Company, Ltd., to make desks for the classroom in...
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August 19, 2011

Speak, Pedal Car

A couple of years ago, car writer Roger Boylan published an article in Autosavant about Dmitri Nabokov's passion for cars. A few months later, Nabokov forwarded a rather incredible selection of family photographs, accompanied by his captions. Most are...
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My Other Stroller Is A Porsche

Holy crap, people! You think there could actually be a Porsche Design stroller hitting the streets and I haven't heard about it? I've got freakin' web alerts set up for this kind of thing! [At least I do now.]...
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August 18, 2011

It Gets Better: Dad Owns Up To Rocker Past

On the one hand, we have Jon Bon Jovi and his drummer starting a stroller company. And Steven Malkmus in a baby sling. And the moms from Blink 182 starting a nursery furniture company. And the Rossdale-Stefanis, whoo-boy. And basically...
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The Snowy Day 49th Anniversary Sellabration!

Ezra Jack Keats awesome children's book, The Snowy Day was published 49 years ago, in 1962! So here is a New York Times story about all the festivities. Which are planned for the 50th anniversary. Of a book you can...
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August 17, 2011

Madeline Dollhouse Wallpaper

I was waiting for J. Courtney Sullivan's NY Times article about her deep commitment to her childhood dollhouse to turn out not to be one of those adults-way-too-into-dollhouses stories. I guess the fact that she started going to dollhouse furniture...
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Copyright Gods Away On Business

"Who are the ones we kept in charge? Licensers, thieves and lawyers." This Cookie Monster X Tom Waits mashup is everything that Disney's retro Muppet relaunch juggernaut is not. I suggest you watch before the copyright gods return and...
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Downhill From Here, Picking Up Speed

My little pony eraser! I've been looking all over for that!-K2, rather improbably, as she rummages through her box of junkiest toys, looking for a Silly Band, any Silly Band, since the fire alarm went off just as she was...
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August 15, 2011

Uruk-Hai There!

What am I supposed to do with this one? So K2 and I plopped down to watch some TV yesterday afternoon, and the first Lord of the Rings movie was near the end, so I paused in our channel...
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A Baby Pallet Chair By Studiomama In Every Playroom!

Nina Tolstrup and her design practice Studiomama have been on DT before, for the awesome Kids' House she created in 2008, the one with the Lego and chalkboard walls. Now pieces her breakout Pallet Project [2006] are available at...
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August 12, 2011

Obviously, Ernie & Bert Are Just Not Out At Work

I thought the petition was ridiculous enough to ignore, but Sesame Workshop's statement on Bert & Ernie getting married was too ridiculous not to call bullshit on it:Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that...
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DT Friday Freakout: Hot Dog Edition

Has it been far too long since inflammatory stories from the worlds of science, health, education, and parenting filled your weekend with Freakout? Well, clear the picnic table: Your bologna has a middle name, it's D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S. A daily serving of...
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August 10, 2011

DT Mommy Mailbag: Blog About Your Sex Life For Marketing, Facebook Strangers' Voting Amusement!

Just when I think the whole Mommy Mailbag schtick is played out, I get a pitch that makes me feel like the entire PR Industrial Complex actually IS conspiring against men generally and dads in particular. Even the condom makers...
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Paloma Poster Looks Awesome, Sounds Complicated

Information design guru Nicholas Feltron pretty much set the standard for the awesomely designed personal annual report. I'm a bit surprised it's taken this long for someone to create a kid version. Especially when you see how natural and...
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Big Daddy Drew Is Not Happy With Big Car Seat

A flash thunderstorm blew through Emerald Isle last night just at dinner time, and took about 15 degrees with it. So to turn the heat back up while I head out to the beach with the kids and my new...
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Now That's A Fire!

Hot enough to fry an egg or a dog's brain? Sure. But hot enough to rain shards of melted plastic playground canopy down on your innocent child's head? Hmm. Even though this photo turns out to not be the...
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What, Because FugBath™ Was Taken? FunBath™

You know, I always thought the point of spending several thousand dollars on a bathtub was that you only did it once a generation. Or once a housing bubble, or once a refi. Whatever it was, you weren't supposed...
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August 9, 2011

Come And Play, Everything's A-OK: Sesame Street Covers

DTHQ has gone mobile this week; we are on the Outer Banks with the family, because really, what's stifling heat and humidity without sand and sunburn, amiright? Anyway, point is, posting is light and largely image-free for a couple of...
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August 8, 2011

Gucci Diaper Bag Check

I'm not really a doubles guy, so I don't follow Daniel Nestor's long tennis career all that closely. But I am a fan of the Bag Check. And the rain delays last week at Legg Mason gave me a...
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August 6, 2011

Awesome Creative Playthings Wooden Alphabet Letters

Full disclosure: I wrote this post within minutes of these things turning up on eBay. But these Creative Playthings wooden alphabet letters from the mid-1970s are so quietly awesome, I decided not to mention them on DT until I...
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August 5, 2011

DIY Bugaboo Repairs Do Not Cost $25.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up blogging about bullshit Bugaboo repair stories. I saw the Instructables post right before I left for a conference, but the number of people sending it in tells me it's kind...
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August 3, 2011

Olie Bollen Goin' Out Of Business Sale

Sad news indeed to see that Olie Bollen, a pioneering online kids boutique, and one of Daddy Types' earliest advertisers, is closing up shop. On the bright side, they're having a pretty insane closing sale. Zutano clothing is 50% off,...
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No. 4: Club Seal

Great. Now I can add two weepy, inconsolable girls and one apparently unshareable seal doll to the list of Things That Are Really Not Helping Me Get Through The Day Before A Long Trip. I eat as much tofu...
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August 2, 2011

Here's One Vote I Lost Already

You know why I'm not gonna finish in even the top half of the Parents Best Daddy Blog Award competition? Because I'm not setting up a community outreach table at the Santa Cruz Farmer's Market, so I can campaign...
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Oh, Man, I Am So Totally Gonna Lose This Parents Best Daddy Blog Competition

By Best Daddy Blog I mean, how can I not, right? It's already been like two days since Parents Magazine told me that Daddy Types is nominated for one of their Parents Best Blog Awards, and I'm only now...
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Piet Hein Eek Bunk Bed

Have we talked about this? This awesome Piet Hein Eek bunk bed? Done on commission for [I assume] some lucky little Dutch moppets? I don't think we have. Because we're in a semi-perpetual discussion of bunk beds around DTHQ,...
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August 1, 2011

McDuh

McDonald's forced decriminalization of the Happy Meal got a lot of play last week, even though the healthier changes--apples, no dipper, fewer fries, vegetable option, no sodas--don't take effect until September. And frankly, except for the vegetable [probably carrot sticks]...
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Huggies Slip-Ons: Pull-Up Technology And Pricing, Now In Diaper Format

I am not really sure that slip-on diapers are really as "game-changing" as Huggies VP Eric Seidel wants them to be. I mean, they are just up-crystalled, downsized Pull-Ups capable of "handling multiple insults." But I am always glad...
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