Hopefully, you all live in places where local officials have arbitrarily rescheduled Halloween, so you can fire up the porch speakers & projectors like DT reader Mike, and freak the neighborhood kids the hell out with Le Corbusier &...
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October 2012 Archives
October 31, 2012
Trick Or Treat Freakout: Poeme Electronique
Do You Know Me? Antonio Vitali Hand Puppet
DT reader AC has me stumped, but maybe you know anything about this hand puppet, which seems to have been made by Antonio Vitali. Based on the tag around its neck, it'd seem to be from Vitali's own postwar...
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October 30, 2012
Unidentified Local Man Rides Family-Sized WorkCycle Fr8
Though this picture was taken a couple of weeks ago, I am sure that, thanks to his handmade WorkCycle Fr8 with both optional kid's saddle & seat, SuperStorm Sandy and her associated blackouts, floods and transit disruptions have not...
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Sandy Adventure Playground
I hope everyone affected by the storm is managing alright. And that getting back to normal does not automatically include removing this tree from this frankly kind of already ad hoc-looking playground near the lower tip of Manhattan. Playground...
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October 29, 2012
Happy Birthday Baby X
They grow up so fast. And by they, I mean, of course, the still-unwitting collaborators in our ongoing parenting-as-performance-art projects. Bushwick artist Marni Kotak and her son Baby Ajax have returned to Microscope Gallery, the site of their first successful...
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October 26, 2012
Brooklyn Kid Gets Toddler-Sized Payout In WTF Mongolian BBQ Playground Case
The pseudo-private government entity that ran Brooklyn Bridge Park when it opened, and the playground designer who installed those giant, stainless steel Mongolian BBQ playdomes in the first place, will split the $17,500 settlement awarded to a Brooklyn kid,...
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My Kid The Mutton Buster
90 minutes 'til show time. #dad2summit@ MetLife Stadium instagr.am/p/RPuCWpix4H/— Doug French (@LOD) October 26, 2012 I can't believe I'm missing seeing the OG dadbloggin' crew at Dad2Summit's Dove-in today. But we've got family in town, three sets of contractors in...
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October 25, 2012
There Is No Friday Freakout Big Enough
Ho. ly. Smokes. I just can't even mention it or link to the story. Or to the mom's blog. Even reading the Times, with the little details of their day culled from the blog and sprinkled through the report, it...
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Hunter Alignment Model Car & Truck
Last week, I needed a new tire. So I ordered two. And then bought a set of windshield wiper blades. And an alignment. The only thing the fellows at the shop didn't try to sell me was the only...
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October 23, 2012
Before He Walked On Water: Baby Jesus Walker
I confess, when I saw the subject line of JJ Daddy-o's email, "The Infant Jesus In A Baby Walker," I assumed it was one of those "Virgin Mary in a piece of toast" kind of stories. So I was...
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October 22, 2012
Richard Prince Has A Bob Dylan Poster Dress.
I didn't notice it until Mondo reposted the images. But now that it's framed and seemingly tiny enough to be worn by a kid, I see that the artist Richard Prince has a Harry Gordon "Poster Dress" with Bob...
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October 20, 2012
The Crown Prince Of Dadbloggers
"Daddy? It looks like the center is having a baby, and the quarterback is the midwife."— Doug French (@LOD) October 20, 2012...
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October 19, 2012
Suspiciously Cute: BuzzFeed Kids, With Ze Frank
It's Ze Frank, so on the one hand, sweet. But also, what? I guess I'm just wondering what the SEO catch is. Or will be. But in the mean time, Baby Animals! SingAlong! [youtube via @felixsalmon]...
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Century Of The Child Playground Symposium Livestream, Yo
Whoa, I can't believe it's about to start. As part of the exhibition, Century of The Child, MoMA curator Juliet Kinchin is hosting Child in the City of Play, a symposium exploring urbanism, play, and child development, starting at...
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October 18, 2012
DEA-yum! Drug Seizure Honda Odyssey
I got so caught up this morning contemplating the possibilities of turning the drug-raid-seized Lamborghini Diablo up there into some kind of conceptual critique reverse version of Jay-Z and Kanye's disgraceful Otis Maybach, that I completely missed the US...
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October 17, 2012
Romney Onesies
I am an MBA who used to work in private equity, who's distantly related to Romney through some shared polygamist ancestors. Some good friends are raising mad money for him. Josh Romney crashed on my couch in New York....
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Obama Onesies
I am voting for Barack Obama because I have kids--daughters. I am also wondering what the hell is going on with Beyonce's $65 Obama onesies, which not only aren't capitalized, but which also are a cotton/poly blend. Because not...
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October 16, 2012
Sesame Street Old School, Volume 3 Is Brought To You By The Letters WB
Alright, people slightly younger than myself, this is it: proof that there is, in fact, no school like the old school. Sesame Street Old School: Volume 3 is shipping on November 6, from Warner Brothers Home Video. Volume 3...
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October 15, 2012
I Count One Homeschooling Dad
There's a lot of Tiger Momming going on in this NY Magazine's profile of five NYC homeschooling families. Also a lot of momming in general. And one dad who taught one class once Antonin Dvorak. Also, parents saying things like...
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October 13, 2012
Boys Playing With Princesses
Just guided my 4yo son to walk, jump, and get the mushroom on the first screen width of Super Mario Bros. This was surprisingly emotional.— Ryan Gantz (@sixfoot6) October 13, 2012 I teared up, @anildash. Not mere nostalgia: watched him...
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October 12, 2012
Boy On The Wall, Hammarkullen, Gothenburg, By Jens S. Jensen
Today in Century of The Child News: Swedish photographer Jens S. Jensen tells the story of taking the great picture that the MoMA curators decided to use to establish the identity of the exhibition, the 1973 shot of a kid...
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Parisian Playmobil Incubator
Sometimes you wonder if being the go-to blogger for European Spottings Of Random Playmobil And/Or Incubators is where you want to be in life. And sometimes, it's just nice to be understood, and to know people are thinking of you....
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October 10, 2012
We're All Jackasses Now.
Colin Furze is a British stuntyob who looks like Ze Frank, but acts like Steve-o, and whose schtick is that he collects WTF Guinness World Book records on YouTube. His next target, on Oct 14: World's Fastest Pram, for...
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Sweet, Crafty Block Blankets By Musahar
We really try to steer clear of the crafty owls here at DT, but rarely, they do slip in. Like the owl pillows on that plywood box bed, which were designed by Karen Bagge for her Danish indie label...
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Dip The Pinheads (Bowling)
These paint-dipped bowling pins are great, but really, they just remind me to check out Chigo again, which is still really one of the most amazing kid stores around. Even if their wooden toy cell phones are a little...
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It's My Kid In A Norwegian Wood Box, Baby
Here is some Norwegian kid's Norse pine ply toddler bed-in-a-box--that, let's get real, has Kai Bojesen and other tchotchkes perched on top and is not rolling anywhere--shot by Danish photographer Kira Brandt, via a Swedish design blog, which got...
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October 9, 2012
Occupy Protestors Multiplying
You know how it goes. When a peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestor and the medic who treated her pepper spray burns love each other very much... Mazeltov to Kaylee Dedrick, Robert Grodt, and their new daughter Tegan, who joined the...
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There Is No I In ADHD
Kids are taking ADHD drugs to offset the effects of underfunded schools: "If I don't take my medicine I'd be having attitudes. I'd be disrespecting my parents. I wouldn't be like this." Despite Quintn's experience with Adderall, the Rocaforts decided...
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October 8, 2012
Hulk Hogan Of Children
We try not to judge. That said: parents,if you get this costume for your kids, you're horrible. twitter.com/DadCentric/sta...— DadCentric (@DadCentric) October 9, 2012 Yes, well, yes, obviously, but I'm also posting this because I've really wanted to use the "Children...
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Manners Can Be Fun (1938) By Munro Leaf
If the only thing you know about Munro Leaf is that he wrote Ferdinand The Bull, oh brother, are you missing out. Over at Stopping Off Place Michael posted some spreads from one of the amazing books Leaf wrote...
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October 7, 2012
Here Is A Silicone Chair By Alessandro Ciffo.
You probably didn't wake up this morning thinking it, but you may now go to bed tonight, wondering to yourself, if what that corner really needs, isn't a prototype chair and tuffett molded from a grid of silicone. This...
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Carlo Mollino Chalet Bedroom
They're no Carlo Mollino bunk beds, but they're close. Christie's in London has a sweet suite of vintage Carlo Mollino furniture coming up this month that includes a pair of single beds, a wardrobe or two, and nightstands in...
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October 6, 2012
Pre-Snyder Era Kids Redskins Poncho
Unused, c. 1970s-80s, kid-size, vinyl Washington Redskins rain poncho, : $45. Shipping & Handling: $7. Knowing that Dan Snyder does not see even one thin dime of your purchase: priceless. VINTAGE WASHINGTON REDSKINS CHILD'S VINYL PONCHO SIZE S, buy...
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October 5, 2012
Introducing Tom Ford For Dads
Mazeltov, I didn't even know they were expecting. Maybe because I stopped paying much attention to what Tom Ford was doing or thinking or talking about many years ago, and so missed his 2008 interview in Fantastic Man where...
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I Want My, I Want My, I Want My Mernet Larsen
Aw, 2003 Is it a coincidence that I click through to Mernet Larsen's amazing geometric figure paintings just as I'm in the middle of arranging a custom kitchen delivery? I don't think so. Mernet Larsen: Three Chapters, runs through...
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Parenting Is Hard, Let's Go DNA Shopping!
Scientific American has a post warning about the potentially disastrous unforeseen consequences for humanity posed by pre-natal genetic testing and the increase in abortions and "abuse" that will "inevitably" follow:The 1% prevalence of schizophrenia makes it an apt target for...
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October 4, 2012
The Coming Diapercalypse
image via brisbanetimes There's nothing like an explosion in a Japanese superabsorbent polymer factory to throw the disposable diaper industry analysts into a frenzy. Literally, before the smoke had cleared, and the injured firefighters had been accounted for, headlines...
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October 3, 2012
And I Approve This Cup Holder
Cup holder, Mercedes G Wagon style. #mamafallrallyinstagr.am/p/QVFCKUIVQG/— David Thomas (@DaveLikesCars) October 3, 2012...
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October 2, 2012
Don't Bring A Kinder To A Massfight
image: dpa/spiegel Der Spiegel reports that the number of lost children so far at this year's Oktoberfest is 93, compared to 56 in 2011. Also:"Happily, there were no attempted killings during the first half of the festival, and no...
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October 1, 2012
Pappa The Rapper: Hatarake ECD
I don't read Japanese, but I smell DadWagon's influence... — Dadwagon (@dadwagon) October 1, 2012 Smells like Dadwagon spirit? Right generation, wrong genre. ECD is Yoshinori Ishida, one of the pioneers of underground Japanese-language rap. That's him up top...
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The Pre-School Entered Apprentice
The "blankie" Henry takes w/ him to preschool is a prop towel from Cremaster 3. Fun time explaining the iconography at dropoff this morning.— Brandon Stosuy (@brandonstosuy) October 1, 2012 Yes, I would imagine that depending on what that blankie...
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The Littlest Yahoo
Baby boy Bogue born last night. Mom (@marissamayer) and baby are doing great--we couldn't be more excited!— Zachary Bogue (@zackbogue) October 1, 2012 Just got a large-group email from @marissamayer. She's crowdsourcing suggestions for Baby Boy Bogue's name! How digital...
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Scrollable Harold And The Purple Crayon
In the spirit of that incredible, single-pane XKCD comic the other day, and because, inexplicably, no one else seems to have done it, Matt Haughey turned Harold and The Purple Crayon into a single image. Harold & The Purple...
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