Daddy Types: March 2012 Archives

March 2012 Archives

March 31, 2012

Here, Via A Tumblr, Is A Sad Tweet About Skype

It's quite tragic when, using video Skype, your distant 2-year-old son thinks you are in the same room as him, and asks you to pick him up.— Huw Langridge (@huwlangridge) March 26, 2012 via the new aesthetic [tumblr]...
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March 30, 2012

Playscapes Reissue Of Friedberg's Handcrafted Playgrounds

This is pretty amazing. Paige from Playscapes, the playground design and history blog, has acquired publication rights to M. Paul Friedberg's long out-of-print 1975 DIY classic, Handcrafted Playrgounds, and has made it available again as a PDF. It's just...
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DT Friday Freakout: ASD BPA CPSC Edition

A collection of--let's face it, a couple of--headlines from the worlds of health, science, and parenting designed to ruin your weekend, it's the DT Friday Freakout: "New Study Finds Skyrocketing Increase in Autism" could really be from any week now,...
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Uh, OK! Parent Profile Rattle From Cameo By RUX

When you find a concept that works, you stick with it, I guess. Russell Greenberg designed his wedding rings by extruding his and his wife's profiles, and now that they've had a kid, he's deployed his profile extrusion technology...
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March 29, 2012

Lactivist Tintype

Not sure what's up with that kid's hair, but here is a c.1866 tintype photograph of a woman breastfeeding, from the collection of the late filmmaker Gary Winick. I am sure it's just a coincidence that Winick was a...
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Wait, What? Clyfford Still Jigsaw Puzzle?

Artist/critic John Perreault offhandedly mentioned this Clyfford Still jigsaw puzzle in his review of the Still Museum in Denver, but the puzzle isn't listed on the Museum's online store. I will investigate this potentially awesome development in eleven minutes,...
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Oh, Those Kids! Helen Levitt Givin' Me A Heart Attack From The Grave

Our trip this weekend gave me and my mom a great chance to talk about how screwed up society is that we can't even let kids play outside anymore or whatever. And I think we can trace the beginning...
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March 28, 2012

Racing Like Bunnies: Bernal Dads Take On The 24h LeMons In A Volvo 240

Oh man, the other thing it killed me not to be able to blog about last weekend while I was marooned in the brush on St John? The awesome Volvo wagons Bernal Dads Racing took to the 24h of...
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March 25, 2012

The Four Sponsors Of The Apocalypse: Gender Reveal Twitter Party #pinkorblue

UPDATE, FINALLY BACKThe details: the Twitter party will be on Sunday, March 25, 2012 from 8-9pm ET. Follow the hashtag #pinkorblue to win prizes, talk babies, gender reveal, registries and more. Follow me @CharChronicles, @MBeans and @TheBabyGuyNYC in order to...
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March 22, 2012

Daddy's Girls

At dinner tonight, I asked the kids what kind of seaweed they wanted, and they were like, "All of them!" Which I figure almost makes up for my taking them to Popeye's last night....
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There's A Sale At Buggies!

Because "strollers and accessories will sell out fast!" Bugaboo recommends arriving early for their sample sale next Saturday. And if you're late, you'll be stuck buying, um... What else would there be at a Bugaboo sample sale besides strollers and...
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March 21, 2012

Vintage Stacking Elephants From Abbatt Toys

Abbatt Toys were kind of the cottage-sized, family-run, Creative Playthings of London. Great stuff, that turns up for sale much less frequently than CP. This set of stackable, wooden elephants is kind of sweet, and maybe not a choking...
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America Needs Charter Schools Or Whatever

Homework? Traveling sports? College application padding? What the hell is up with American public schools? Because cartoonist d-bag and online crank Scott Adams has had enough:When I'm president, I will use the power of persuasion to encourage schools to adopt...
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My First Patti Smith

From Oslo designer Anders Hansen's series of record cover book covers. The only way this Patti Smith Horses X Dorling Kindersley remix could be better is if it were a boardbook. Correction: Thanks to Anders for pointing out that...
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Kenno Cardboard Kids Chair By Heikki Ruoho

The Helsinki design duo Heikki Ruoho and Teemu Järvi have been working with a recycled cardboard laminate called Re-board since at least 2008, but they only launched actual product earlier this year. Showroom Finland has apparently put the Kenno...
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March 20, 2012

Oh R They? R-Class Unpopular, To Be Discontinued In US

So the R-Class is going the way of Seal and Heidi Klum's marriage. MBUSA sold under 3000 of the 6-seat not-a-minivans in 2011, and only 300 in the first three months of 2012. And so the model will be...
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'The State Department Says The Donor Determines Citizenship'

I'm kind of amazed by this story. Maybe it's the way it's written. The State Department's regulations do not consider kids conceived in vitro and born outside the US to US citizens to be eligible for US citizenship themselves. The...
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March 19, 2012

Protect Ya Neck & Fingaz: Maclaren Volo Amp Carrier

It's not all darkness and gloom for Maclaren, guvnuh, not when you've got artists like Lewis Floyd Henry out there every day, on the streets, representing the brand. Though you'd think that a guitar player of all people would...
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The DiaperPod Is A Plastic Bag On A Diaper.

The DiaperPods is [are?] a "revolutionary new concept for disposable diapers" "[d]esigned with safety and sanitation in mind," that "controls odor and provides a convenient and sanitary disposal method, in the form of a disposable receptacle built right into...
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March 18, 2012

Maclaren's Holding Pattern

Still trying to figure out what's going on with Maclaren's main website, Maclarenbaby.com, but DT commenter DD pointed out that the company's retailer website, B2BMaclaren.com, is still up and running and doing fine. Which I thought was unusual, because even...
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March 17, 2012

Maclarenbaby.com: Nothing To See Here, Move Along

Just when you think that nothing's happening this week on the Maclaren bankruptcy and PR smokescreen front, the company's global website, Maclarenbaby.com, goes down for two days and counting. As [so far] only Daddy Types has reported, Maclarenbaby.com, is...
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March 16, 2012

DT Friday Freakout

Whether it's criticism of your choice of preschool art party clown or something weightier, like, say, your soon-to-be-born baby being poisoned by everything in your house, the DT Friday Freakout is your one-stop headline roundup for ruining your entire weekend:...
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March 15, 2012

Antwerp Central Youth Hostel Bunk Beds By Vincent Van Duysen

You might think that, whether it's the kids or the dads, the Daddy Types demographic would be as far away from the subject of youth hostels as it's possible to get. I thought that, too, and no amount of...
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Um, No: Avant-Garde Preschool With Dan Colen

Honestly, I feel like Schrodinger's Cat right now, simultaneously alive and dead. An "Avant-Garde Preschool" artmaking activity for 5-12yo kids at Partners & Spade to benefit RxArt? Sure, why not? Sounds awesome. "Creating abstract works with flowers and M&Ms"...
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March 14, 2012

Waanaki.com, Because You Waana Kid To Have Awesome Vintage

Waanaki means 'to live undisturbed, to live in peace' in Ojibwemowin, the Algonquian language family dialect of the Ojibwe people, who call themselves Anishinaabe, and their language Anishinaabemowin. Except for the Ojibwe who moved from the Great Lakes and Eastern...
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DT Customer Service

We interrupt this stream of quick & dirty posts culled from Twitter with this important announcement: If you have one of the 15 Marc Jacobs Bugaboos, please contact Melanie, she "need[s] one urgently!" Oh, we've all been there, Melanie....
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The Bow Always Wins

I just cut myself trying to remove a bow from my daughter's down vest with a kitchen knife. Lesson: the bow always wins.— Alexandra Lange (@LangeAlexandra) March 14, 2012 Of course, in a saner world, girls' clothes would just be...
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Kissing Babies

Our 5-week old daughter and Mitt Romney have one thing in common; they've both been up all night, crying.— Michael David Murphy (@whileseated) March 14, 2012...
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March 13, 2012

RIP Blossom Dearie

Just a couple of minutes ago, I learned that jazz/cabaret singer Blossom Dearie passed away three years ago last week month--holy smokes, I can't believe it's March already. Also 2012-- at the age of 84. Not being much of...
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Disney Has Us By The Nostalgic Short Hairs

In Disney's Most Notorious Film / Race, Convergence and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South, his forthcoming study of the zip-a-dee-doo-dah racist classic, film historian Jason Sperb has a fascinating discussion of nostalgia, and how it shapes our...
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Infa-Print

So awesome. Also, mazeltov all around, print nerds. The things print nerds notice [printresting]...
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Survey: Dads Are Parents, Too

AdAge's Matt Carmichael took an interesting look at a Parents Magazine/Edelman survey tracking dads' shifting roles in family life. As ambivalent as I am about encouraging targeting by dad-happy marketers, I found myself basically agreeing with his take:With any research...
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A Steady Diet Of John Cage

I was going to skip the NYT's story about the 22-year-old student at Brown who also happens to be an up&coming electronic musician, because, hello, it's Brown; throw a rock, and you're gonna hit a whatever-slash-electronic musician. But New Yorker...
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March 12, 2012

First, Get Some Clippers And A Styrofoam Plate

Chris Paul's kid said he needed a protective mask now, too, so Paul made him one. This does not mean, however, that you can throw the ball into the kid's face. I mean, you're not Kobe Bryant or anything....
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Bezos Is His Middle Name

I'm going to name my first child Amazon. I'm incredibly grateful to them. There's no other way to put it but that working with Amazon totally changed my life for the better.writer/bartender-turned-writer Mishka Shubaly, talking about his experience making like...
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March 11, 2012

こどもの椅子展, Chairs For Children Exhibition

I knew it'd be hard to top the one South Willard and Reference Library already flagged, Yasufumi Nakamura's Seven Chairs, kid-size riffs on iconic modernist chair silhouettes. But I really wanted to see what kind of kid-size chairs the...
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TMBG Papercraft Monster Hearse & Boom Box

TMBG's track from their new "Join Us" album, "When Will You Die?" is as catchy as any of their kids' tunes, but unless you want to have it sung at you during a temper tantrum, it's probably best to...
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Folding RockingHorse By Michael Knap

After spotting Danish designer Michael Knap's awesome fold-flat RockingHorse on Shoebox Dwelling, I wanted to see what else he's working on. Right now it looks like he's going all in on the RockingHorse. RockingHorse by Michael Knap Industrial Designer...
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March 9, 2012

Maclaren 'Regrets The Recent Confusion In The US Media'

No, Maclaren, I'm sorry. It's not you, it's me. Though they won't actually talk to anyone live, or answer any questions, Kids Today, the longtime trade journal for the juvenile products industry, reports that Bevin Gove, Maclaren's director of public...
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An Ambivalent Report On Mercedes Convertible Pedal Cars

His confidence momentarily shaken, DT reader and off-da-hook pedal car expert DT questioned how I could have posted this image of the Play-Modern play cube system without mentioning the 300SL pedal car. So let's get a stake in the...
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March 8, 2012

I Have No Idea What To Expect From What To Expect

Good gravy, I've been at this thing for years now, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what the hell is going on in the trailer for What To Expect When You're Expecting: The Movie. A...
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March 7, 2012

A Brief History Of Maclaren, The Folding Stroller Company

As I was saying the other day in the New York Times [ahem], "The corporate behavior here seems out of step with my perceptions of the Maclaren brand as a parent." Which really got me thinking about what I actually...
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Molded Ply Mayhem! Creative Playthings Ride-on Tractor

I'll be brief: this 1960s-era ride-on tractor from Creative Playthings is awesome, and you should buy it. If you live in or around Eastern Pennsylvania, because apparently, it is too heavy or unwieldy to ship. And then everyone else...
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March 6, 2012

Huffington Post Reports On Maclaren Bankruptcy Bafflement

I would have gone with, "Maclaren Bankruptcy Leaves Finger Amputation Lawsuits Hanging," but otherwise, Alice Hines' report in the Huffington Post today is pretty solid--and very well-illustrated. Hines interviewed one of the moms of a kid whose finger got...
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I Dunno, I Think It Could Work

Just heard this dad call his toddler son "Finster" #thanksforruiningmylifedad.— Hennessy Youngman (@therealhennessy) March 6, 2012 UPDATE Thanks to DT reader David for remembering Babyface Finster [image via minorlooneytunes.com]:...
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Oh, We're Freaking Out Every Day Now: Today Is Toddlers With Cavities

I'm not sure what's more batshit insane about the New York Times' story on how toddlers are having so many cavities, they have to go under general anesthesia to fix them because they're ridiculous parents and nannies are juicing, bottled-watering,...
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March 5, 2012

Modular Ply Playhouse Cubes By Play-Modern

Well, these are cool. Play Modern is a modular ply cube playhouse system designed by Kansas City architect Kimball Hales and, uh, Mrs. Hales. Ah, here we go: Laura. BYU alums, in case the names didn't give it away...
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DT Mommy Mailbag: Poo-Pourri Edition

Of all the things in the kid-related world to gender color-code:Hi- Potty training can be tough on kids, parents, and noses. Add some fun to the bathroom experience with the latest stink-eliminating products from Poo-Pourri, the company behind the spray-before-you-go...
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March 4, 2012

I Am So Unfollowing The XF Sportbrake Now

From Autonews:For now it's a Europe-only car, but in the long-term it might go to other markets," said a Jaguar spokesman. The automaker has ruled out sales of the XF wagon in the United States, where wagons are less popular...
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March 3, 2012

Transformer-Style: Changing Table In Disguise

I lose track of the awesome tiny space design blog Shoebox Dwelling for a couple of months, and it fills up with interesting kid-related posts. Like this "Swiss Army-style" studio apartment in Gramercy, which has a murphy bed and...
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March 2, 2012

Traction: Maclaren Bankruptcy Story Hits NYT, WSJ

Well, that's a relief, to know that the Maclaren USA bankruptcy filing story is as unexpected, confusing, and confounding as I'd thought. The Wall Street Journal's Bankruptcy Beat blog has a post about Maclaren tonight, which is nice. And in...
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DT Friday Freakout: Babyccino Edition

I may add to this later, but it's a start: Dude, male birth control pills, transurethral ultrasound AND babyccino? The only way Colbert could be begging any harder for a Daddy Types link is if he had Uma on to...
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My Name Is The Truax, I Speak For The National Wood Flooring Association

While visiting a 4-H camp once, Terri Birkett, an employee at the Stuart Flooring Corporation ["A Berkshire Hathaway Company"] saw "some college students were using The Lorax to preach a liberal environmental message to children," and knew she had...
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The Year Of The Dadblog At SXSWi

Planning your trip to #SXSWi? @ajjacobs @PetCobra @foodmomiac @cheimbuch and @rufgrisc will be talking about dadblogs. ow.ly/9pXU7— DadCentric (@DadCentric) March 2, 2012 Be there or be square, people!...
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Y Procreator

Megyn Kelly has two children named "Yates" and "Yardley." I will now name her next five kids: Yoohoo, Yorkman, Yuk-Yuk, Yamsy, and Yikes.— Joe Mande (@JoeMande) March 2, 2012 Previously, like 2005, related:...
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March 1, 2012

Brandchannel Nabs Netto For Macopalypse 2012 Story

Nice get, Abe. In his extensive report on Maclaren USA's Ch. 7 liquidation mystery, Brandchannel's Abe Sauer scored some quotes from "ex-Creative Director of Maclaren Nursery," David Netto. And it sounds like the $1.1 million owed to Netto in the...
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Happy Happy Tweet Tweet

If we haven't heard about corporate turmoil and management shenanigans at Maclaren before, it could be because it didn't exist until the stress of the 2009 recall during a recession put people on edge. Or maybe it's just venting by...
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My Name Is The Lorax, I Speak For My 70 Marketing Partners

As if the only reason all the other Dr. Seuss-based movies were so shitty was because they didn't have enough product tie-in "launch partners." Movies That Are Destroying America - The Lorax [colbertnation.com]...
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Creative Playthings Ply Panel Van

The crazy thing about this rarely seen Creative Playthings truck/van is that I just saw one. A nearly identical but cleaner example just sold on ebay for $51 and change, shipped, and then not two days later, some feller...
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Whoa, On The Other End Of The Stroller Spectrum, Bugaboo USA President Kari Boiler Is Leaving

Maybe it's me? Is every stroller company I've ever bought from going to go through a major management shift? I got word from the company's publicists that Kari Boiler, the president of Bugaboo USA, is leaving. Boiler's been president for...
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