Daddy Types: October 2011 Archives

October 2011 Archives

October 31, 2011

I Speak For The DVDs

Holy crap, who are the brain-wave-challenged vultures in charge of Dr. Seuss's movie adaptations business? The only possibly good thing that can be said about The Lorax Movie is that it might be technically impossible that it's worse than Cat...
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No More Babies, Please, We Have A Winner

Thanks to all the folks who entered last spring's the United Nation's 7 Billionth Baby! Contest. Because she was born close to midnight and within arm's length of this large UN-prepared photo-op backdrop,Danica May Camacho of Manilla, Philippines turns...
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Flying First Class

This tweet by Waxy's Andy Baio reminds me how rarely I'm bothered by screaming babies on planes anymore. I find that any annoyance they cause is far outweighed by the relief of knowing I'm not on the hook to...
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October 30, 2011

Baby Rabbi Costume? Eh, It Could Be Worse

Would adding a tiny scalpel and clamp to turn this baby rabbi costume into a baby mohel costume make it more "culturally insensitive," or less? Asking for a friend. Baby Rabbi' Tops Worst Halloween Costume List [the schmooze, forward.com...
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October 29, 2011

Bro Earns $100 The Hard Way, Gets Ass Stuck In A Swing

Dude lubed himself up with dish soap and slid into a bucket-style kid swing on a bet last Friday night. Then he got stuck and his friends abandoned him. Had to get cut down by the fire department the next...
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October 28, 2011

Small Criminals Among Us

The opening horror story vignettes may be overflowing with obvious, overlooked developmental and parental red flags, but even if it's not enough to be the best parenting advice book written by a juvenile detention psychologist, Gad Czudner's Small Criminals...
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Baby Maddox Halloween Costume

Daddy Types has no Halloween advice for you, and you wouldn't need it if we did. I will say, though, that this Baby Maddox costume floating aimlessly and info-free around tumblr is pretty damn funny. [via afc]...
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October 27, 2011

Don't Steal The Snowsuit!

With nights growing longer and the temperature dropping, this Moncler snowsuit with matching booties is perfect for camping out with the kid at Occupy Wall Street this season. A real Zuccotti Park must-have! MONCLER BABY SNOWSUIT WITH BOOTIES, $515...
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More Of The 99 Percent Are Kids

The New York Times has a nice article on the increasing numbers of kids visiting and participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Its presence in the Fashion & Style section, however, means this is just a trend story, and...
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USAKids! USAKids! USAKids!

We discovered Boo at the Zoo by accident one year, when our neighborhood in DC suddenly filled up with costumed families headed for the National Zoo, and the kid wanted to go too, and couldn't, because her derelict parents...
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October 26, 2011

Please Send Your Baby Bentwood To Wary Meyers

If you have some of these kid-sized bentwood chairs from c.1968 Design Research, please send them to Wary Meyers. It'll save him he trouble of inventing a time machine. Bentwood Baby Chair at Design Research, 1968 [warymeyers]...
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Trapper Hats Are Back!

Cookie Magazine may be gone, but trapper hats for kids are forever! Pair it with a Moncler snowsuit, and your kid'll be retaining body heat like it's 2005! Fuax Furever small trapper, $146 [fauxfurever.com via publicist] Previously: Put down...
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Baby Ajax, Ed. 1

Congratulations to Bushwick artist Marni Kotak on the successful realization of her performance piece, The Birth of Baby X, at Microscope Gallery yesterday. A video of the work and related ephemera [i.e., the placenta] will remain on view as scheduled,...
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October 25, 2011

Gender Neutral Baby Shower Gift

In case you get invited to Repo Man's baby shower. On the other hand, "daddy-proof romper"? Kiss my ass, Perpetual Kid. GENDER NEUTRAL BABY SHOWER SNAPSUIT, $16.99 [perpetualkid via swiss-miss]...
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OH@DT: Startup Idea

OH while walking home from dinner last night, a dude explaining his startup idea on his cell phone: "It's like Hot or Not? for kids, on Facebook." That smell is burning rubber as the US economy stomps its foot on...
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Parentlode Hits The Fan

How unlike the Huffington Post to knock off another media outlet's content! In her inaugural post on her new HuffPo gig, Lisa Belkin made it sound like her new blog, Parentlode, was going to be a more gender-enlightened continuation of...
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Bruce Weber And The Webisode Of Cruelty

Oh, what to do with Don't Steal The Jacket!, Bruce Weber's truly, spectacularly, nonsensically awful kidvertainment disaster for the Italian revival puffy coat manufacturer Moncler? Don't Steal The Jacket is every Weber cliche--dopey-beautiful young, white boymen plucked from a...
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October 24, 2011

The Capitalist Tool's Rocking Ram

In addition to Queen Victoria's silk bloomers and stockings, the November 1 sale at Glasgow auction house Lyon and Turnbull includes this rocking ram, made by noted Chelesa folly architect Vernon Gibberd. Lyon and Turnbull are selling the entire...
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October 23, 2011

Juice Box And Jack

I don't drink, but if I did, it sure as hell wouldn't be something mixed with a juice box. A sippy cup, on the other hand...Sippy's Surprise half-full sippy cup (contents unimportant) 2 oz. liquor (type unimportant) Take whatever liquid...
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Jean Prouvé Swingset Mayhem

Whoa, check out the man going crazy on his rocket sled swingset! This image if from Ivorypress's new mook, Jean Prouvé 1901-1984, which is apparently/obviously pretty sweet. You can buy it from Walther Koenig, and/or see some more vintage...
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October 21, 2011

Kiddie Art Cars: Kinderspielplatz By Rosemarie Trockel

For her entry representing Germany at the 1999 Venice Biennale, artist Rosemarie Trockel created three films, including a "Brughellian" playground-as-world idyll called Kinderspielplatz, in which kids romping and roding around in eight tricked out toy cars represent our entertainment-...
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DT Friday Freakout

Instead of following the publicists' plan to schedule science, health, and research-related news releases one a day, thereby freaking you out all week, Daddy Types saves them all until Friday, so you can freakout over them all at once. All...
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The Real World

Explanatory headers, please! I don't understand! I have no idea what Neal Genzlinger's up to here; I think he has made up a column about an entire life reflected in the titles of actual reality TV shows. Following instructions apparently...
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October 20, 2011

B.O.B. Bought By Britax

Now that all their previous merchandise has been recalled for minor embroidery issues, B.O.B. was free to sell itself to over-upholstered car seat juggernaut Britax. And that's just what they did. "The parties have agreed to not disclose the purchase...
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October 19, 2011

The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Coloring Book Is Quite Advanced

Of COURSE Greg Irons' illustrations for Gary Gygax's D&D coloring book are a bit too advanced for little kids; it's got Advanced right in the title! What are you, -5 Intelligence? Giant, colorable scans of The Official Advanced Dungeons...
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It Takes Balls To Be A Babble Twitter Power Mom

Holy crap, people, have you been following this? It's only like the most important thing happening on the Internet right now. At least 6 of Babble's Top 50 Twitter Moms of 2011 right now are dads. And as someone retweeted...
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Kurt Schwitters' Merz Fairy Tales

There was a fantastic exhibition of Kurt Schwitters' art work this past spring and summer at Princeton, which woke me up to the Dadaist collagist's wacked out fairy tales and illustrated children's books. Schwitters began publishing fairy tales illustrated...
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October 18, 2011

This Is Not Your Mother's Quinny

You know, I started watching Elizabeth the other night, and for a few minutes, I almost thought, "Real princess, big dresses, horses. Maybe I'll TiVo it and show the kids." [Of course, I changed my mind long before the...
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October 17, 2011

Workman Twins Ikea Hack

Twins, whatryagonnado, right? Well, if you're Jared and Krystal Workman of somewhere DC area, the answer's simple: you jigsaw out a couple of holes in the free Ikea tabletop and drop in some plastic seats from a daycare activity...
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Get Into Godzilla's Belly: Exhausted, By Simparch

Simparch is an architecture-flavored artist collaborative run by Steven Badgett and Matt Lynch. So naturally, when they built a giant, barebones Godzilla collapsed on his side in 2009 for their exhibition at Open Satellite in Bellevue, WA, they had...
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OG Sesame Street Signing Alphabet By Joan La Barbara

Once again, mid-70s Sesame Street quietly blows my mind. This time it's an animated sign language alphabet sequence with beep bop boop vocal and electronic music soundtrack by avant-garde icon Joan La Barbara. K2 is picking up a lot...
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October 16, 2011

Bath Bottle Bedtime?

K2 and I were at the playground this afternoon while the kid did her ballet practice. And I SWEAR I don't do the Overheard On The Playground thing, I really don't, and I certainly don't blog about it. So let's...
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Emliy Rapp Is Intense Parent, Writer

Even if my experience and religious beliefs give me a different kind of hope, Emily Rapp's insights into raising her terminally ill son are extraordinary, inspiring--and hard-won.Our experiences have taught us how to parent for the here and now, for...
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October 15, 2011

Frieze, Baby

I deeply don't like Kiki Smith's work, but this photo of someone's twins with Smith's sculpture is the best one in The Art Newspaper's set of kids hanging out at the Frieze Art Fair in London this weekend, so whatryagonnado?...
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October 14, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Occupy Sesame Street Edition

Personally, my weekend's already ruined, full of regret for not doing more with the Occupy Sesame Street concept. Or maybe I'll just work in my Photoshop skills. [tauntr] As for the rest of you, here are a few headlines from...
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I Am Unsettled By The Idea Of A Smartphone Ultrasound

Ultrasound should stay in the mall where it belongs. Ultrasound on the go? Smartphone-based imaging system released by Mobisante [geekwire via someone, thanks]...
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October 13, 2011

The Clone Wars Are A Trojan Horse For The Prequel Trilogy

Look, I'm as fed up with Lucas and as baffled by The Clone Wars as the next guy. And so I appreciate Michael Agger's game attempt to make a parent's guide for The Clone Wars. But maybe because it's...
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October 12, 2011

Nura, Nura Woodson Ulreich

Another incredible vintage children's book find at 50 Watts. This time, it's illustrations by New York artist Norah Woodson Ulreich, who worked under the name Nura. Above is The Buttermilk Tree from 1934, which, I hear the photogravures are...
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Spy Shots! Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake

The Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake is a Dodge Magnum for The One Percent, and like the Revolution, it's coming next year. See bigger images and a slideshow at World Car Fans, and Autoblog has some rumors/speculation. Thanks to DT...
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October 11, 2011

Bugaboo Wanna De World, Chicco, An Everthinisinnit

It's kind of amazing that Bugaboo hasn't made an adapter for Chicco car seats, but there you go. Anyway, there is one now. Frankly, when we were shopping for a car seat, one of the deciding factors was the...
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DTQ: Ariel Wig Runoff?

So the shedding, whatever, it's ten bucks, but you know how, when a 3yo puts one of those cheap-ass Disney licensee Ariel wigs on, the unknown-in-nature red dye starts rubbing off all over her white wedding dress costume? Is...
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October 10, 2011

This Week In Tentacle Kawaii: Alien Facehugger & Seussian Cthulhu

So Neatorama introduces an Alien facehugger plush toy the same time DrFaustusAU starts publishing his Lovecraft X Seuss mashup, The Call of Cthulhu? All we need is a plush great vampire squid doll, and we can declare this a toddler...
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Bamboo Strollers High & Low

While researching the latest developments in bamboo resin concept cars, DT senior minivan correspondent JJ Daddy-O decided it has been way too long since we've had a decent bamboo stroller sighting around here. Coincidentally, it was way back in 2004,...
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So Take A Kid And A Kids Book To Occupy Wall Street

Alright, here's what we do. I just got an email from Betsy, who's helping to organize the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street. [The Library's getting great coverage, btw, and GalleyCat reports they just posted their OWSLibrary catalog online.]...
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October 9, 2011

A Report From The Occupy Wall Street Little People's Library

When the New Yorker's Alexia Nader first wrote about the library being created at Occupy Wall Street's protest headquarters at Zuccotti Park last week, it contained all of 100 titles, and "the only books that are sectioned off are the...
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October 8, 2011

DTQ: Supergraphic Play Cubes In A Modernist Maine Cabin?

Alright, let's figure this one out. Here's a LIFE magazine picture of an otherwise unidentified "Modern Home" in Maine, circa 1969, shot by longtime staff photographer Mark Kauffman. There are a few other images in the set, but no...
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Eames Planking

It's the little metadata differences. Somehow, Andrew from an ambitious project collapsing found this sweet 1948 photo from Google's LIFE Magazine photo archive and sent it along. Maybe if, instead of Rocky Stensrud, Jr., using children's chairs in a...
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October 7, 2011

And Now For My Next Performance Art Piece...

I'm sorry, did I say the previous post about Marni Kotak was the culmination of everything Daddy Types has been working towards since 2004? I meant THIS post. Surfing through Bushwick performance artist Marni Kotak's website, I learned that immediately...
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Next Week DT Will Totally Lose Parents Magazine's Best Daddy Blog Competition

By Best Daddy Blog You heard it here second, after I posted it the first time more than two months ago, but now it's looking like a sure thing: when voting closes on October 15th, Daddy Types is perfectly...
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DT Friday Freakout: I Like To Be Told Edition

Some of these things have been quietly freaking me out for weeks now. Let me get them off my chest/browser tabs, so they can ruin your weekend, too: "PBS Mister Rodgers [sic] Spin-Off", says the Entertainment Week URL. I guess...
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Kings Of The Hill: Putin & Medvedev Coloring Book

Supporters of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have published one of those crappy-looking propaganda coloring books which are intended to get media attention from press release-suckered wire service photographers, not actually be any good at all for a kid...
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October 6, 2011

Im Memoriam: The Kid's First iPhone

I really wasn't going to post anything about Steve Jobs here, but then I started watching his 2007 unveiling of the iPhone [via kottke], and I kind of inexplicably found myself choking up over the scrolling demo, and the...
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Rockin' Boats

Oh man, check out the beautiful set of little handmade toy boats scored at the Pasadena City College flea market. They came in this even sweeter case, with little canvas pads on the lid to hold them in. Which...
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October 5, 2011

Handfelted Cute Overload: Amelia McIsaac Animal Masks At Kalon

A little while back at Ikea, we found a binful of cute cloth masks--we got a bee and a dog. I think they were like $3.99 or something. And I've always said that the only way to compete with...
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Occupy Sesame Street

So even though Big Bird lives in a vacant lot, Oscar lives in a trash can, and Ernie and Bert live in a one-bedroom basement apartment, Sesame Street still needs to make a separate, poor Muppet. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -...
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Re-Creation! Les Jouets d'Hermès Petit h

Hermès is preparing to launch the second batch of products objets and jouets made from the scraps and seconds of the Hermès workshops, the Petit h collection. [It's p'tee asch, so you don't embarrass yourself too badly when you...
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Behold The Jump Seats! Tesla Model S Prototype Test

for more and bigger images, check out autoblog Wow, has it really been two years since Tesla unveiled the Model S, the 4-door, seven [!] passenger, electric awesomemobile, without showing what the kid-sized, rear-facing jump seats in the trunk...
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October 3, 2011

The Birth Of Baby X, By Marni Kotak

Suddenly, I feel as if the entirety of the over-emphasis on art here on Daddy Types, indeed, the blog's entire existence to this point, has all been in unconscious preparation for this moment, this post. Beginning this week, Microscope Gallery...
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October 2, 2011

WTF Cosmo Noah Tsunami Shelter/Playhouse

Oh, man, Shoji Tanaka, the CEO of Cosmo Power, says his company's latest invention, the floatable, fiberglass Noah tsunami shelter [JPY200-300,000], can "also be used as a toy house for children." It says it seats four adults, but I'm...
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October 1, 2011

It [Shopping] Gets Better: Disney Princesses And Feminism

There are more comprehensive studies out there, I'm sure, but this thread on Quora about "which Disney princess best embodies feminist principles and why?" is still a pretty good start. Here's part of one [fully illustrated!] analysis of Ariel:Obsessed with...
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