Daddy Types: January 2012 Archives

January 2012 Archives

January 31, 2012

Very Wrong And Very Bad...

...is the name of this 2011 drawing by British artist David Shrigley, whose show just opened today at the Hayward Gallery in London. David Shrigley | Brain Activity, Feb 1 through May 12, 2011 [southbankcentre.co.uk via guardian] Check out 100+...
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Kids Are Consumers, Too

To add a little bit of meta to Adam Ladd's video of his 5yo's impressions of corporate logos, K2's impression was that it was Marcel The Shell. Fresh Impressions of Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) [youtube via swiss miss]...
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Heath Ceramics For Kids

Oh man, not only are these kid dishes from the pioneering crafty hipsters at Heath Ceramics gorgeous, they are also gorgeous. Let's just savor the gorgeousness for a second. They're available in fruit [top] and veggie [above] colors, and...
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'Pregnancy Is A Choice, Not A Medical Condition'

After reading Dina Bakst's NY Times op-ed about pregnancy discrimination, political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow took a bit of the shiny, happy glow off of Jet Blue with these tweets. Pregnant and Pushed Out of a Job [nyt via @tomtomorrow]...
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January 30, 2012

HIT Job

image: via seo blog thomasthetankenginefriends Speaking of selling out babies, the announcement that, as anticipated, senior executives of HIT Entertainment will be leaving the company when its acquisition by Mattel is completed, led me to this awesomely written article...
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Babies Are Sold Out

And the winner for email subject line of the week goes to my counter-programming curatorial hero Alanna Heiss, whose Clocktower Gallery is hosting a concert by Brooklyn lo-fi country pop duo The Babies tomorrow night. Which is, alas, sold...
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Everything Counts By Dicken Schrader Y Ninos

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THE WORLD'S GREATEST DEPECHE MODE COVER EVER. And then go home and start playing music with your kid. It's like the Pitagora Suitchi of music videos. Dicken Schrader, with Milah and Korben, playing...
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January 29, 2012

The Subconscious Art Of Shirt Removal

Matt Connors' photo of a dad pushing a Mamas & Papas Sola stroller down the street on the east side of LA somewhere reminded me of two things: Matt McCormick's awesome 2001 short film, The Subconscious Art of graffiti...
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January 28, 2012

Throwback Bugaboo Cameleon At Giggle

In the words of the bard, This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Bugaboo has released what amounts to its first throwback edition, a 2012 Cameleon outfitted in one...
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January 27, 2012

Balancing Blocks By Fort Standard

Fort Standard was founded like yesterday by designers Gregory Buntain and Ian Collings, and already they have a tableful of awesome, crystal-faceted balancing blocks handmade from salvaged hardwood and finished in a range of tasty colors, and white. Fort...
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'The Quarry Whence Modern Names Are Hewn'

The past and the future once again meet in the present, with generally awesome effect. Because while it seems normal that you can now instantly find and buy a copy of Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley's suddenly indispensable 1888 book, Curiosities...
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Peregrine White Had A Posse

God bless the Puritans and their Biblical baby naming strategies. Or as they might put it, God, please don't damn their infants to a fiery hell for only having a two- or three-word scripture phrase as a given/baptismal name. Sarah...
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January 26, 2012

Funny, Die, Or Breastfeed?

For a moment there, Funny or Die thought comedian Ahna Tessler's short comedy video, which included the new mom of twins breastfeeding, was obscene or whatever, and took it down. But when the Times started asking about it, they decided...
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Wanted: More Hilarious People To Interview Maurice Sendak

I barely missed it the other night, but DT reader Rolf sent the link along today. And sure enough, Maurice Sendak's interview with Stephen Colbert is as funny as hell: It'll be sad when he's gone, which, wow, I wish...
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January 25, 2012

That's a Nässjö Molded Ply Rocking Horse

Wow, among the interesting items Andrew scouted out at Cologne specialty auction house W.G. Herr's most recent sale: this sweet, Swedish, molded ply rocking horse. The label said it was a special edition made in 1970 to celebrate the...
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Raisin'em Right

Sometime ago we began a thing where the kids can opt to have their dessert in the bathtub. That usually only happens when it's what you'd expect: popsicles or a lollipop. Not Raisin Bran, which is what K2 insisted she...
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January 24, 2012

3-D Printed 'Still Alive' For The Fisher-Price Record Player

I'm getting chills watching this. It's a 3-D printed record that plays "Still Alive," Jonathan Coulton's song for the credits of Portal. On a vintage Fisher-Price record player. The future, the past, the virtual and the real, all have...
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Tilda Swinton On How To Not Raise A Murderous Sociopath

In an interview with the SF Chronicle about playing the mother of a school massacrer in Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton makes some sober observations about pregnancy and parenting:Q: It's...
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Mr. Caitlin Flanagan Is Barbie's Executive Producer And All That Entails

HAHA, all this time everyone's been getting all worked up about Caitlin Flanagan and her pretend-housewifery, and her imaginary teen oral sex epidemic fearmongering, and have been ignoring the real menace II society: her husband, Rob Hudnut. Hudnut turns out...
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January 23, 2012

BREAKING: Performers Name Children

During my formative literary and journalistic years, when I discovered it as source of inspiring, vital writing and reporting, as well as outrageously smart, outrage-inducing statistics, devastatingly presented, Harper's Magazine was led by Lewis Lapham. At one point, I hoped...
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DTQ: Servicey Enough?

Not sure why, but since checking my twitter last night, I've been worrying that maybe DT's drifted, and that maybe it's missing the big parenting issues, the burning dad questions. That maybe it should really focus on the news new...
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Negativland X Chumbawamba = The ABC's Of Anarchism

In 1999, ahead-of-the-curve appropriationist musicians Negativland did a colabo with their one-hit wonderin' mates, Chumbawamba, remixing THAT SONG with audio of Alexander Berkman's 1932 manifesto The ABC's of Anarchism, the Sex Pistols, and the Teletubbies. Unfortunately for the band,...
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January 21, 2012

K2 Playmobil Garden

We try to keep each Playmobil set intact and separate from the others, but I think I see a couple of invasive species in this garden....
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Ryan Trecartin Baby Names

Delta, Just, Spin, Glendale, Cement. While none are required, of course, Each of video artist/savant Ryan Trecartin's baby name suggestions would be enhanced by one or more diacritics [offer not valid in all jurisdictions]. [via @ryantrecartin]...
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January 20, 2012

Fatherhood Is Is Awesome

Woo-hoo, this is awesome. Though I think Adam Brown, the new dad under the kid above--and behind Fatherhood Is--is underestimating the extent to which his non-Internet-famous twin will resent his sister's Internet fame. Then again, with a new dad...
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Richard Prince's Velvet Underground Album Cover

There are no details on Richard Prince's collection website about what's going on here, but you know what they say: the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it's kids made their own covers....
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January 19, 2012

Beauty, Mate! Now Get Lost! Greg Wiggle Is Back, Other Yellow Wiggle Is Toast

Oh, man, I seriously haven't given two synapses worth of attention to The Wiggles in years until just a few minutes ago, when I was reminded of them by the four blockhead toy dudes in that Antonio Vitali car....
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Toot Toot Chugga Chugga, Antonio Vitali Car

Maybe someone with their Antonio Vitali retrospective catalogues handy can tell us for sure, but I think this sweet, signed toy car is from the US toy collection the Swiss designer launched after he did his work for Creative...
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Government-Approved Baby Names Blow My American Dad Mind

It really is the little differences. Like having to get government approval for your kid's name. Seriously, rest-of-the-world, what is up with that?Less noble concerns play a role, too. First names that imitate lofty titles remain the most frequently disallowed...
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And The Only One With AWD Was The 959

So I just got back from chaperoning the kid's 2nd grade field trip to the National Gallery. Where I spent most of the bus ride explaining to her car-obsessed classmate that real Porsches only have two doors. Seriously, the...
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January 18, 2012

MakerBot 3-D Printed Playsets

Finally, not only does my blogging procrastination pay off, I get to call it a protest against censorship! Yesterday, the 3-D printing gurus at MakerBot unveiled the first MakerBot Playsets, a print-at-home, 1:18-scale dollhouse castle full of princesses, Utah Teapots,...
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It's A Girl! A Documentary About Killing Infant Girls In India & China & Such

"Today, India and China eliminate more girls than the number of girls born in the United States every year." That's the opening line in the trailer for It's A Girl!, Christian filmmaker Evan Grae Davis's upcoming documentary on the widespread...
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January 17, 2012

Entertainingly Grim, Old-Timey Photos Of Canadian Children

Master Henry Archibald, Montreal, QC, 1865 Via Retronaut comes a very nice selection of photos of mid-19th century Canadian children posing grimly with toys, from the digitized collections of the Musee McCord Museum in Quebec. The images were published...
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The Wonderful World Of SOPA & PIPA

On Wednesday the 18th, many people, organizations, websites and companies will stage one-day Internet strike, shutting their sites down in protest of two pieces of legislation currently before the US Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA] and the Protect...
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MetaFilter Roundup Of Unlikely Kids Book Authors

MetaFilter has a nice thread about kids books by people you might not have expected to write kids books. Many of them have been mentioned on DT before: Gertrude Stein [twice, kind of]; bell hooks; Graham Greene; and Sylvia Plath,...
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January 16, 2012

Starck For Target Diaper Backpack

The color is basically like shooting pure, undiluted 2002 right into your veins, but unless the finish and quality are an problem, this new-condition, vintage Philippe Starck diaper backpack actually looks kind of nice. Diaper Back Pack - PHILIPPE...
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Specific Kids' Objects

Last Summer, David Zwirner Gallery screened a couple of documentaries about Donald Judd, including The Artist's Studio, a 2010 remix of vintage 1970s footage by Michael Blackwood. Blackwood had filmed Judd and his family both in Marfa [in 1975]...
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The RAPEX Of Europa

Alright, the unrecalled Ikea Antilop high chair is becoming an endangered species. Did DT get it wrong before, when I said that Antilops made between 2006 and 2010 were being recalled for having ridiculously flimsy safety straps? Because the Daily...
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Laser-Cut Steel Dollhouse By Bunker Hill

Though he's mostly into Swedish pine and plywood lately, in the mid-to-late 2000's, Stockholm architect Daniel Franzen definitely had a laser-cut steel phase. One result is this awesome steel dollhouse inspired by the barn house he designed for Swedish...
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January 15, 2012

Pussy On A Plate: Queen Victoria's Etchings

In the early 1840s, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert studied etching under the tutelage of the Royal Portrait Painter Sir George Hayter. Among the subjects of the 87 plates the pair created were a few sketches of their children,...
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January 13, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Disaster Edition

Well, I just had my calendar cleared, and ended up spending ten hours out with the kids. At one point, we just sat in the car. For like an hour. Just chilling when napping wouldn't do. And then there were...
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January 12, 2012

50s Mickey Mouse Rug At Rago

At first I was trying to puzzle out a date for this decent-looking, 4x5 ft. Disney rug that's coming up this weekend--yow, the 13th? Friday morning!--at Rago Auctions in New Jersey. But then I realized that Lady and the...
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Vintage Molded Ply Kids Chairs At Mid Mod

Once you build a mold for the plywood, it's just a matter of coming up with all the different uses for the shape you can now make. That's my takeaway from this odd, 1970 chair and fish-shaped storage box...
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Nanna Bespoke Kid Management App By Jackie Ki

This is like seven kinds of awesome. Designer Jackie Ki created this custom kid management app for an extended family in Los Angeles, so that five parents could keep track of seven kids and four nannies. It syncs and reports...
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Future Systems For Kids: Hauer-King House

From the way she and Jan Kaplicky divvied up the projects post-divorce, it looks like Amanda Levete got one of Future Systems' first, widely published projects: the 1994 Hauer-King House in Islington, London. It's so funny, I remember totally...
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Rosie The Hungarian Momblogger's Chair-Based Play Kitchen

Why not make a play kitchen out of a chair? Take a wooden chair, paint or stained to your liking, the leg holes of shelf brackets, it is plywood or sheet set a residual shelf "console". One of the...
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January 11, 2012

Cuppow: Mason Jar Sippy Cup

Bwahaha, a simple, BPA-free way to turn a canning jar into a sippy cup! I can't tell if this is real, or the flatout-awesomest Portlandia parody product campaign ever. Someone please spend the $7.99+shipping to find out, then let...
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January 10, 2012

Unidentified Local Hack Buys PR Bullshit About NurseryWorks Lucite Crib

First of all, it's US Magazine, right? So what do you expect? Except that it gets repeated and retweeted everywhere, with nary a mention of whether it's true or not. So let's make this clear, as clear as a...
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My Oh My

Wow. Never mind Disney; it's a miracle any of us survived the 1980s. It was only about halfway through that I realized this: was not a single Mouseketeers in Disney World episode, but a compilation of clips. I can't...
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How Awesome Is This Kid/Photo/Natural Rubber Pacifier?

OMG, so cute! Buy a natural rubber pacifier just like Andy from Reference Library and Stork Bite Man's peace sign-throwing kid! It's like the blogger version of People Magazine all up in here. Next up: Little Sartorialist's exclusive street...
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January 9, 2012

Uniqlo - 666 Fifth Avenue @ 53rd St - NO

Restrooms are on the third floor. Plenty of room, but no changing table....
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Pennsylvania 6-Brony Thousand!

Here is a thoughtful report from the latest BroNYCon, which was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City on Saturday. At least one con attendee was married, which I think means that the possibilities that a brony might...
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DISCLOSURE: Daddy Types Has No Uterus, Influence

There's some actually useful coverage out there of the Detroit Auto Show, and I might even link to some of it. But so far, I haven't seen anything as entertaining as Joel Johnson's dig at Ford's VIP junket for "Mommy...
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The Best Dr. Seuss Movie In, What, 20 Years? 40?

A video version of Dr. Seuss's Oh The Places You'll Go shot entirely at Burning Man? If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Surprisingly, it lacks most nudity. Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man! dir....
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January 6, 2012

Oops Crib: There It Is.

It's been a while since we had a good ol'-fashioned custom crib gawkin' around here. So say hello to the Oops Crib, from Savanna-based eco-craftspeople at Structured Green. Structured Green specializes in furniture and architectural fixtures made from their...
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DT Friday Freakout: Boing Boing Edition

It's the weekend! Which will now be ruined by freaking out over these news stories from the worlds of parenting, health, science, and whatever: Fetal cells basically stay floating in the mother's bloodstream forever. It's called microchimerism. [boingboing, which, hmm,...
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Ikea Antilop Recall! World's Greatest High Chair Has World's Flimsiest Straps

If there's one thing Ikea's famous for, it's meatballs. If there's two things, it's cheap, stylish furniture. The third thing? Value engineering the hell out that furniture year in and year out, to squeeze every possible penny of profit...
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January 5, 2012

LAT: Schindler With Kid

I would guess that when you marry an architect's daughter, you're not going to be fazed by your father-in-law's inserting himself in your househunting and remodeling projects. In fact, you might even welcome it. Especially if you've got a...
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January 4, 2012

Parody Of Momtweeting Comes As No Surprise

You never know with Twitter; I just got burned by Rupert Murdoch, who turned out to be boring, and Wendi Deng, who turned out to be fake. But I've had @JennyHolzerMom open in my browser tabs since before Christmas,...
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OG Toy Braun Blender From Creative Playthings

Well here's something you never see. Or at least I've never seen. It's apparently a toy-sized Braun Multimix blender, imported back in the day by Creative Playthings. Which, does this make sense? It clearly dates from the Dieter Rams...
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HHI DH DC WTF OWS

Don't you ever change, Urbanbaby....
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Northern Calloway Is Roller Discoing In Heaven Right Now

Metafilter has announced their top posts of 2011, and one of the nominees was filthy light thief's amazing, sad, and memorable recounting last month of the life and death of Northern Calloway, who played David on Sesame Street. Calloway had...
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January 3, 2012

Here's The Thing About That Kusama Yayoi Polka-Dot Sticker Room For Kids

Look, it's awesome, I know. You know. On this we all agree. Fine. But from the moment DT reader Sara sent it along--and to her credit, it was ridiculously early--something felt off to me about the Yayoi Kusama's Polka-Dot Stickers...
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Don't Send Me That Perfect Mom Story

My 2012 strategy for dealing with Ayelet Waldman is the same as for Caitlin Flanagan and the Kardashians: ignore them, and they'll go away. Or to CNN, which is close enough. I was forced to watch that network for a...
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January 2, 2012

Awesome National Geographic Story About Twins Studies

If you have or are having twins, you probably already know about it, but Peter Miller's National Geographic article on twins studies is pretty fascinating for anyone with DNA:"What I like to say is that Mother Nature writes some things...
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Darcel The Shill

I don't know why it took me this long to make the connection, but now it feels like the entire spectrum of hip culture can be mapped out by the travails of imaginary, big-headed, one-eyed, emotionally fraught misfits with...
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Sixty Ten, Four Twenty? Qu'est Ce Que C'est Ça?

K2's sitting here counting on the floor, and obviously not getting the whole base ten concept yet, because she asks, "Daddy, what comes after 29?" "What comes after 39?" every time. And then suddenly, she doesn't mention 59, and she...
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January 1, 2012

Future Systems For Kids: Dinghy Sofa & Josef's Bed

Until I just reorganized some shelves and went through my stash of their 1990s architecture books, I guess I'd forgotten how utterly awesome Future Systems was. The London firm comprised of Amanda Levete and Czech emigre Jan Kaplicky was...
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