Daddy Types: November 2012 Archives

November 2012 Archives

November 30, 2012

If You See Something, Play Something

Just in time for the holidays, a couple of Brooklyn fellas have debuted Commute, a giant, playable pegboard subway map of New York City. It's made locally from local, sustainable, blah blah blah plywood and stuff, and it looks...
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November 29, 2012

Daddy, What Did Babies Drink Before Brawndo?

Frankly, I'm less interested in the Crib Dribbler itself than in the "Kindex™ Infant Energy Drink" mentioned on the package. And both are quickly forgotten when confronted with the actual existence of Prank Packs, a social network-powered, digital retail...
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You Should Buy These Vintage Creative Playthings Blocks Before I Do

Seriously, this big 52-pc set of vintage Creative Playthings blocks, solid maple, in good condition, in their original box, for just $43 plus free shipping?? That's like $3.50/lb, cheaper than Froot Loops. Get on it, people! You crazy! Vintage...
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November 28, 2012

Every Overparenting Generation Must Have Its Goodnight Moon Parody

And here's ours, in the New Yorker, courtesy of Jen Nessel and Lizzy Ratner:Goodnight non-slip socks And goodnight sustainable-wood blocks Goodnight friends with unique, unusual names And goodnight brain-development gamesGood Night Nanny Cam [newyorker] Previously, and uncannily similar, from DT...
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The Station Wagon Is Undead: Zombie Saab 9-5 SportCombi Auction

While we're on the subject of unusual cars in Scandinavia... The Saab liquidation auctions are still going on, including a round on Dec. 15&16 in Tjörn, Sweden, which, really? Wow, it's like BF Gothenburg, a little less than halfway...
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November 27, 2012

Crown Prince Olaf's Baby Cadillac

London Cadillac dealer Frank Bennett created this electric-powered "Baby Cadillac" in 1912 as a promotional stunt. It caught the attention of Queen Alexandra, wife of Kind Edward VI, who bought it for her grandson, Crown Prince Olaf of Norway....
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November 26, 2012

Reclaimed Wood Nursery Furniture By Jocelyn Costis

Creme Anglaise is the atelier of Toulouse-based ebeniste Jocelyn Costis, who specializes in making kids' furniture, often from upcycled, slightly overworked salvage wood. This rocking chicken, for example, or my personal favorite, the crescent-shaped cradle that perhaps was once...
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If Measured On A Per-Bounce Basis, I'm Sure The Bouncy Castle Industry Would Look Much Safer

The first nationwide survey of bounce house injuries has found that the unregulated, inflatable death castles are the site of an epidemic of pain, suffering, and injury on a massive scale not seen since the Great Trampoline Plague of...
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November 25, 2012

Modernists' Kids Had The Best Nurseries

In the wake of MoMA's Century Of the Child exhibition, Paul Makovsky at Metropolis Magazine has assembled an awesome collection of images and childhood stories from the offspring of mid-century modernist designers. There's György & Juliet Kepes' daughter Julie,...
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Charlie Bit My Wheat Thins!

Watching K2's unprompted, awesomely and unexpectedly combative re-creation of the Family Guy Wheat Thins commercial is the closest I think I've ever come to regretting my perhaps overly principled decision--made, I might addd, before YouTube itself existed--to not pursue...
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November 23, 2012

Shailer Park Kids Rocker

I stumbled across this in a deep Google search. and it's got interesting lines. But with that DIY-in-the-dark paint job and the handle being hidden/held on by a plastic bag, the Australian seller of this random, old kid's rocker...
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November 21, 2012

It's Playground Morning In America

Maybe if Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love had run on how she successfully thwarted the parasites in the personal injury lawyer industry to build Utah's awesomest new playground, she'd be Utah's awesomest new congresswoman right about now. But then...
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Mother May You?

"Mommy, when you have a minute, may you get me some water?" - K2, standing next to our bed, 2:30 AM....
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November 20, 2012

Turniture II: Rocking Plywood Playhouse/Bar By Lester Walker

Speaking of plans for cutting circles out of plywood in 1970, this popped up a few weeks ago on retronaut, and then I lost track of it. It's called Turniture II, a 4-in-1 convertible outdoor furniture project by architect...
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Vintage Plywood Rocker Surfaces In Microsoft Ad

As his mind was lost in thought, calculating how much toner the kid in this Microsoft Windows * commercial is burning through, eagle-eyed DT reader Erik was snapped back to reality by this nice, vintage-looking, kid-sized plywood rocking chair....
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November 16, 2012

Have You Seen Me? Kid Portraits From The Warhol Foundation

The Warhol Foundation is cleaning out its closet and getting out of the Warhol selling business to focus on the grantmaking business. So everything must go. This week was the first of many sales to come at Christie's. And...
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November 15, 2012

Q: And Babies? A: And Babies.

The AP photo above was taken at a hospital in Gaza, and shows BBC videographer and editor Jihad Misharawi holding the body of his 11-month-old son Omar. The child was killed, along with his aunt, when their home was...
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The Ultimate Strolling Machine: BMW Licenses Self To Maclaren

Are you gonna let a shady bankruptcy, corporate shell games, and offshore intellectual property shenanigans get in the way of a brand licensing deal? Not when you've got xDrive! That's right, BMW has done its first stroller cross-branding deal--with...
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November 14, 2012

Adam Yauch Playground

The S.E.M. Ensemble has been performing experimental and modern music for over 40 years. This evening S.E.M. Ensemble tweeted that Palmetto Playground, the city park along State St & Columbia Place in Brooklyn Heights has been renamed Adam Yauch...
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This Is Not Your Father's C-Max: The Ford Transit Connect Wagon

Well, son, when a Focus and a Transit Connect love each other very much, and there's actual demand for smaller seven-seat cars that get decent mileage... 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon brings minivans back to the Blue Oval [autoblog...
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November 13, 2012

Alison's High Chair, By Wendell Castle

You know, these are the kind of things that make the blogging worthwhile. Studio furniture pioneer Wendell Castle is having four shows at the moment. He talked to Artforum today about his retrospective at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut. And...
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November 12, 2012

Nathan Heller On Andrew Solomon On Difference, Disability, Identity, Parents, Kids

Nathan Heller will get your attention in his review of Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon's amazing-sounding new book on parents, kids and difference grappling what he terms, "horizontal identity": wherThe secret history of sex is not a story of...
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'I Refuse To Lie To Children.'

The whole time I was reading Emma Brockes' 2011 interview with Maurice Sendak this weekend in The Believer, I kept thinking how rare it is to hear the word schnooks these days. And how awesome it would be if he...
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Eric Carle X Game Of Thrones

I don't watch Game of Thrones, but this is how I imagined they talk, and I'd sure like to send Eric Carle and his band of marauding ladybugs there. So win-win. If Westeros had a picture book [mrstater's tumblr...
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Tickle Me, Elmo Is 16 Years Old This Year.

OH, NOW ONE DAY LATER AND WITHOUT AN APOLOGY COMES A BIG OL' NEVER MIND. La la la la, la la la la Do you know who just turned 16 years old? Tickle Me Elmo! If you were only eight...
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November 9, 2012

Coppernickel Goes Mondrian, By Wouter van Reek

On a more upbeat, and slightly more abstract, book note, here's Coppernickel Goes Mondrian, an "artist tribute" featuring Keepvogel, a hoodie-wearing bird character created by the Dutch animator Wouter van Reek. Coppernickel/Keepvogel is apparently famous in Holland. The bird,...
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Jake & Dinos Chapman's Kid's Book WTF

British artists Jake & Dinos Chapman have been working their creepy, shocking, disgusting, puerile, warped, deviant, unsettling schtick for so long now, the kids born when the duo first started making mutant Nazi penis-nosed baby hell sculptures are now...
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November 8, 2012

Artists' Kids Always Have The Best Rooftop Treehouses

As if the guy who built an inflatable pipe organ as big as a football field could imagine any less. Sculptor Tim Hawkinson and his daughter started designing a treehouse when she was about 5. Now that she's 9,...
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November 7, 2012

Pheasant-Covered Eames Rocker By Meredyth Sparks

It's been a while since we've seen a sweet, reasonable, practical, no-nonsense rocker around here. And guess what, the wait's not over. Artist/explorer of the domestic form Meredyth Sparks has donated her 2011 sculpture, Feather-Covered Eames Rocker with La...
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November 6, 2012

That's So Cute! Thank You!

Found more of my art in the trash. Not sure why I keep trying.— Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) November 6, 2012 [via @jendalton]...
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November 5, 2012

'Weird' Science

You know how it used to be that everyone you knew from Hong Kong's English names sounded like they were taken from an E.M Forster novel? Well not anymore. At least I think that's what this really long Atlantic article...
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Newborns For Obama

Tell me this kid is not flipping off Bill Clinton. [talkingpointsmemo]...
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A Large Company Is Opening A Store

And they would like you to know about it. By paying a firm to ask me to write about it for free. Yeah, capitalism!...
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Rock On, PlyPlay!

Any week that starts out with a new, handmade, small-batch, molded birch ply kid object is automatically guaranteed to be better than the week before it, hurricane, blackout, or no. So high five to St Louis dad/designer Jon Marten on...
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Old-Timey Photos Of Kids With Cars

DT senior senior car correspondent DT is right: the "Automobile photos with children" tag on David Greenlees' blog for The Old Motor is full of delights. There are mini racers, soapbox derbies, cars so covered with kids they look...
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November 2, 2012

For Sale: Creative Playthings Playset, Come And Get It

Even in the face of power outages, transit paralysis, food and gas shortages, and Halloween reschedulings, the brave, resilient band of Creative Playthings collectors are not letting hurricane Sandy slow their trading activity. Why, just now, on the North...
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