Daddy Types: June 2012 Archives

June 2012 Archives

June 29, 2012

Mit ISOFIX: Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake

Somehow [publicists], Autoweek.nl managed to get their hands on a zipfile full of leaked Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake images, and they totally published them! Meanwhile, full press release and specs are expected to be "gelekt" right in on schedule....
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Blackwater's 'Master Of Disaster' Will Make You Forget Maclaren Was Ever Bankrupt

I owe Maclaren's new spokesman Mark Corallo of Corallo Media Strategies an apology. Yesterday when he sent out his press release asking that the "media" end its "confusion" and to kindly stop referring to Maclaren when talking about Maclaren USA's...
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June 28, 2012

Problem Is, She'll Be Obsolete Before She Starts Pre-School

Just met a young, seemingly-pleasant couple who named their new baby Retina Display.— Matt Thomas (@mattthomas) June 29, 2012...
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Maclaren Would Like You To Kindly Stop Mentioning Their Bankruptcy

So I just got a press release from Maclaren's new, what, branding crisis management consultant, I guess:Please find the attached announcement by Maclaren, the world's leading brand in children strollers, to honor product liability claims affected by the liquidation of...
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Maserati Indy In The Car Pool Lane

If Daddy Types were a preschool, our drop-off line would be INSANE. Not content with just the Family Ferraris, DT reader Nathan is now turning up other vintage 4-seat exotics that lull you in with oh-so-reasonable-seeming sale prices, and then...
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June 27, 2012

The Piranha Then Promptly Declared Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

Family's 'Pet' Piranha Bites Off The Fingertip Of A Toddler [babble]...
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OG Creative Playthings Supertanker

This vintage Creative Playthings tanker has the most unusual hull configuration I've seen since Karl Stromberg's Liparus. At 21 inches, it also has dimensions, parts, and construction techniques that look like they could be replicated easily in your Popular Mechanics-era...
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Yes, But Is It Good For The Jews?

A court in Cologne, Germany has ruled that religiously motivated infant circumcision is unlawful and constitutes "grave bodily harm." The case involved a doctor whose circumcision of a 4-yo Muslim boy resulted in medical complications and hospitalization. "The body of...
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'It Was The Life Of The Times'

Because it's blowing my dadmind right now, here is an expanded quote from William Duckworth's interview with pioneering minimalist composer Terry Riley, who traded the VW Bus his young family was living in for a loft in SoHo:RILEY: [My] wife...
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June 25, 2012

Another Family Ferrari: Greg Garrison's Desert-Optimized 400i

Isn't it funny how, when you become a dad, you start to like the Ferraris you hated the most when you were a kid? I used to laugh at the very idea of a 2+2. Those weird 60s GTs,...
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Our Long Central Park-Roaming, Jew-Hating Elmo Nightmare Is Over

photo of restrained Elmo getting loaded into the wagon via @kathleen_loftus' twitter Gothamist has a round-up of tweets and YouTube videos of the nutjob in the Elmo suit who'se been prowling around the Central Park Zoo, and who finally...
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June 24, 2012

Billy Manbo, WWII Flying Ace

This is pretty extraordinary. During World War II, Los Angeleno Bill Manbo and his family were imprisoned along with thousands of other Japanese Americans in an internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. But he somehow managed to take photos--Kodachrome slides,...
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DT Sunday Sippathon: Drinking For Two Edition

This weekend's Friday Freakout has been replaced, belatedly, by the Sunday Sippathon, wherein everyone nurses a drink while reading the results of a CDC-funded study which shows that moms' light to moderate drinking during pregnancy didn't have any discernible effect...
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June 23, 2012

Luke, I'm Your Involved Father

Jeffrey Brown made this book about Darth Vader taking "an active role in raising his son" that is surely as "sweet" and "hilarious" as its publishers promise. It is non-canonical, but from the title, you can see it has...
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June 22, 2012

Everyone In Threadless

It's funny, until the moment I found out about it, I would have sworn that Gap and Threadless are at diametrically opposite ends of the fashion spectrum. But now that I see their collaboration--exclusive collections of Threadless artist t-shirts...
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June 21, 2012

Come On And Vogue, Kids!

Beauty's where you find it, Not just where you bump and grind it. Here is a kindergarten class performing Madonna's "Vogue." And here is a YouTube commenter commenting on it:Good to know there are people out there teaching their students...
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The Family That Plays Together Eats Food Out Of A Bag Together

Holy moley, I see the headline on Matt Ritchel's NYT longread about baby food in a squeezebag, and I'm like, "Wait, exactly what family ritual is being squeezed here, exactly? The ritual of spooning mashed carrots into a Ziploc...
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The First Step In Solving A Philippe Starck + Target Diaper Bag Problem

Looks like someone's finally facing up to their Philippe Starck for Target diaper bag hoarding problem. An eBay seller has five of the graphite-and-highlighter bags, which Starck made in 2000, in both backpack and shoulder styles, all apparently new-with-tags....
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June 20, 2012

Wax, Max, Ill Tracks

Yesterday YouTube rapping twins Wax and Herbal T released a new single, "Milk In My Sippy Cup". Wax's and Yesica Rodriguez's kid [I'm guessing] Max plays all the instruments, which are masterfully remixed right in EOM and Andrew Kurchinski's...
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June 19, 2012

Backpacking Dad Reviews Brave

From Backpacking Dad's review, it sounds like Pixar's Brave gives boys the girl treatment. Personally, I'll be satisfied if it imbues K2 with even a bit of curly hair pride; she's been going on about how she wants nothing more...
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Playmobilympics

Uh-oh, look what Matt Haughey found on his family's tour of Europe: Playmobil sets for Olympic sports. Hmm, but I can't find others. Or even this cycling one. All I see is this Playmobil Dressage horse and rider, owned...
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June 18, 2012

Pokotto By Mitsuru Senda って, 知っている?

Gymboree-style, built-up, modular play structures wrapped in padded vinyl are so commonplace now, it's hard to imagine how unusual Mitsuru Senda'a Pokotto [ポコット] play structure might have looked in the early 1970s. The Japanese architect and playground designer created...
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'You Need To Find Your Own Line.'

I was happily reading along with dealer Kenny Schachter's gossipy recap of the Art Basel fair, when he dropped this poignant little bomb: At a lunch before things kicked off, I was going in and out of consciousness during a...
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June 17, 2012

Just In Case You Need To Make A Sock Doll

Here is a Depression-era sock doll with some wire around its neck, now in the collection of Jim Linderman. I think it behooves everyone with equity investments to at least review the technique for constructing such a doll, minus...
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Windsor X Williamsburg: Hand-Whittled Crib By Aaron Scaturro

Fear not, people who think $25,000 is too much to pay for a piece of kid furniture with a highly constrained useful life! Because self-taught Williamsburg woodworker Aaron Scaturro and his shavehorse will whittle you one of these sweet little,...
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This Post Is Banned In Michigan

Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein, author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank, talking to The New York Times for the recent trend story on hiring delivery room photographers:"There is a...
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Happy Father's Day

Now to celebrate, check out this slideshow of Daddy Types' 18 Favorite TV-Watching Dads!...
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Retweeted Without Comment Because, Seriously, What?

THESE are called NIPPLE CLAMPS and THAT is called CLAMP SHAMING and THIS is the most uptight Baby Gap I have EVER been inside GOOD DAY SIR— mattfraction (@mattfraction) June 17, 2012...
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June 16, 2012

School Of Rachel Harrison

It took me a long time to wise up to Rachel Harrison's art. Too long, in fact, and by the time I realized the intelligence and complexity of her sculptures, I couldn't afford them. Live and learn. Meanwhile, the...
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Zounds. Gerrit Rietveld Zig Zig Kinderstoel For The 1%

Maybe it was less noticeable in the oak finish, but there sure is a lot of hardware in Gerrit Rietveld's Zig Zig high chair. I hope it came already assembled. This white painted version of the 1940 design was...
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June 15, 2012

Shady, Baby! Buy THE 2009 Maclaren Quest Today!

It's true, a piece of dadblogging history can be yours today. Or probably tomorrow, since it's late. I bought this 2009 Maclaren Sport stroller as part of the big Macpocalypse 2012/ Shady Baby/ Secret Maclaren Factory Outlet investigation a...
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Monaco Royal Family Cars

Long story, but I used to live in Monaco. Way early Internet startup days. Anyway, as the monarchs of tiny states are wont to do--the Sultan of Brunei comes to mind here--SAS le Prince Rainier liked to collect cars....
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Ba-Bum! David Netto Sues Farzad Rastegar For Fraud

Law & Order, baby, and this time it's personal. I was doing my periodic check of the docket on the Maclaren bankruptcy case, when, whaddya know, a new lawsuit showed up under Farzad Rastegar's name: he's being sued by pioneering...
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June 14, 2012

I Believe That Toddler POVs Are The Future

Go ahead and melt, laugh, chuckle, retweet, whatever, just savor this moment. Because though the day when a dad'd stage a cute home video and sent it to Bob Saget are long gone, and even the idea of producing...
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Close Shave

Nobody knows the #newfaceofdad better than @LOD @jimhigley @blurb @whithonea @daddyclay & @didacticpirate Check their blogs for more info!— Philips Norelco (@shaveexperts) June 12, 2012 It's a Twitter dadblogger grouphug tonight, fellas! Give it up for Phillips Norelco and The...
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June 13, 2012

Limited Edition Crib Sheet By Camilla Engman

Third Drawer Down is apparently one of the global leaders in the museum shop industry. Which does not quite go far enough in explaining how it came about that the Australian souvenir company ended up producing a limited edition...
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Douglas Gordon Kidswear Explores Dualities Of Authenticity And Knockoffery

At first, I'm like, wait, what? Are you kidding? Why would Douglas Gordon make limited edition infant bodysuits for the New Museum in the first place? But then of course, the obvious answer was the right one: he had...
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June 12, 2012

You're With Me, Leather: The Ferrari FF & Car Seat

Speaking of Family Ferraris, it's looking like the new Ferrari FF 2+2 does not actually totally suck, which is...good? Ezra Dyer's review for the NY Times is so ridiculously faux-litest, I half expect that when the revolution comes, he'll...
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Lawrence Weiner XX XY Blocks

We were at a museum fundraiser last week, and the hosts, who have three little kids and a bunch of art, had these awesome Lawrence Weiner blocks on a side table in the living room. They came from the...
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Looks Great, Less Fulfilling: Box Play Stickers

I think we can all agree that Box Play's stickers for recycling empty, little cardboard packaging into toys are awesome. As awesome as they are unnecessary. They're the Swiffer of imaginative play, a slick, quick, and highly satisfying replacement...
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Tony Promo

Starter young, that's what I always say. And by I, I mean pro golfer Tony Romo, who went all Tori Spelling and dressed his newborn son in some gear from his sponsor, Starter, and then snapped some pics, which the...
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June 10, 2012

Bring Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Bugaboo'd Masses

Yearning to be free to keep holding their church services in public buildings like schools and community centers. That's the good Reverend Dimas Salaberrios of Infinity Church in the Bronx, reminding NY State Speaker Sheldon Silver that "The Poor...
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Awkward Twitter Juxtapositions Of The Day

ART DECO BABY STROLLER GAUDI BABY STROLLER WICCAN BABY STROLLER ALL GLASS MODERN BABY STROLLER MOSS STROLLER KVLT BABY STROLLER— GRAEYALIEN (@graeyalien) June 10, 2012 This is weird: ring of baby skulls found in an ancient peruvian tomb ow.ly/brqfZ— Dadding...
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June 8, 2012

OG Baby Carrier + Pipe

DT reader and flickr user knitting iris just posted this awesome photo of her dad from before she was born, hitting Lake Louise with a kid in a tiny aluminum lawn chair strapped to his back. And a pipe....
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Remixster Rogers

Kudos to PBS Digital, whatever that is, for not trying it themselves, but instead getting the originator of the Profoundly Autotune The Childhood Icon genre, John D. Boswell of melodysheep, to remix Mister Rogers. Judging by the half million...
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June 7, 2012

Basically, You Should Name Your Kid Django

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June 6, 2012

Heliosphere

"I want the video with the people having a picnic & then we go into the heliosphere & COME BACK DOWN INTO THEIR HAND!" thekidshouldseethis.com/post/102788551...— TheKidShouldSeeThis (@thekidshouldsee) June 7, 2012 Raisin'em right over at The Kid Should See This, I...
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The Family Ferrari At The Bernal GT

You know, sometimes you just want to load the kids into the backseat of the Ferrari and head for the open road. And unless you're the Sultan of Brunei, that probably means the anomalous Bertone classic, the 308 GT4....
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Total Mercedes Benz Pedal Car Information Awareness

Our entire culture is at risk of disappearing from our grasp, and we don't even know it. Crevasses open up and swallow the hapless as as they trek from the analog darkness toward the glow of the digital networked utopia...
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This Is Serious.

via @peterlattman...
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June 5, 2012

Ausgezeichnet! Thost House Crib & Changing Table By Marcel Breuer

One of Marcel Breuer's earliest residential commissions came in 1926, while he was teaching in Gropius' Bauhaus in Dessau. It was an interior and furniture project in Hamburg for Eberhard Thost, and Breuer did at least a living room--and...
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June 4, 2012

Imagine There's No Dinero: Nuno Nono Preschool

Girod + Anton Arquitectos designed the Nuno Nono preschool in Valencia [2011] to be a blank slate that doesn't overwhelm children's innate power of imagination and creativity with the kind of representational fun/whimsical design that adults mistakenly think kids...
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June 1, 2012

ZOMG Dadwagon Reading In Brooklyn June 13

This is so awesome. You should totally go. Dadwagon is starting a monthly reading series, which, right?? And the first installment features dad-related stories from Peter Meehan, Paul Ford, and Jeff Yang. Like I said, you really, really should go....
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Ah, Summer

The time of year when preschool lets out, watermelon and strawberries stain little linen outfits, and I once again pay $8.99 for the privilege of wondering what the hell was I thinking when I registered manpram.com, and what the hell...
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Here Is A NoLIta Boys Clothing Store Called Little Willy's

A collision of "irreverence and British tailoring," Little Willy's is the spawn of grownup tailored clothing store Lord Willy's. Because, I guess, it's important for sons to look like their father. Little Willy's [littlewillys.com via coolhunting]...
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