So I guess I am now liveblogging Dave Tatsuno: Movies & Memories. Here is one for the Tide commercial: Tatsuno doing laundry at Topaz Mountain, hanging diapers up do dry....
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March 2013 Archives
March 29, 2013
Dad Does Laundry
Topaz Mountain Sleds By Dave Tatsuno & Bill Fujita
Dave Masaharu Tatsuno ran the dry goods store at Topaz Mountain, where Japanese Americans from the Bay Area were imprisoned during WWII. And he took a bunch of 8mm home movies, using color film which he'd pick up on...
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Carnie Baby Daddy Ryan Gosling
Hey Girl, Let Me Rob Some Banks To Support You And Our Kid From the NY Times review of The Place Beyond The Pines which will set tumblr afire:Luke (Ryan Gosling), first glimpsed as a tattoo-covered torso striding away...
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March 27, 2013
Calvin & Hobbes Nursery Murals
Finnish redditor Pellari recently got his/her sister to paint the mural for this sweet Calvin & Hobbes nursery, which comes complete with an awesome tree house/slide/toddler bed. Which, well done, and I can totally understand the appeal of the...
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Hands-On! Robert Mapplethorpe Children's Museum
This story is going viral so fast it's like--uh, actually, no. Though Theo Nion's report makes the new Robert Mapplethorpe sounds like a barrel o' edutaining LULZ, there really are no good virus jokes to be had here:Additionally, sources...
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March 24, 2013
Dan Graham Pavilions For Kids
The artist Dan Graham is probably best known for his mirror & glass pavilions, walk-through minimalist-style sculptures where your views and reflections shift with every step. They can be fun enough for the kids on their own, but it turns...
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March 18, 2013
Tiny Puppetmasters Will Turn Us All Into Heathers
If we let them. Through over 200 experimental pairings of nice and mean puppets, researchers at Yale have found that 9- and 14-mo kids like to see cold justice dealt to all those who dare to differ from them in...
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March 13, 2013
WHOA, ADO Ride-On Cars
Maybe you spotted them in the background of Agata's photos from the ADO Speelgoed exhibition in Apeldoorn, Holland. Or maybe you clicked through to see the rest of her pictures on her blog at Rafa Kids, including the one...
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March 11, 2013
Robert Bliss's Cradle For A Young Viking Or Viqueen
Except for some chairs he made while studying at Black Mountain College, modernist architect Robert Bliss, didn't really get into designing furniture until after he retired as dean of the University of Utah's architecture school, in 1986. In 1990...
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March 9, 2013
We Don't Need This Transportation: Nick Mason's 2001 E55 AMG Wagon
I, for one, did not know that Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was a classic car-collecting "petrolhead." But with 117,000 miles and an industrial strength bedliner like this, you can be sure that this RHD E55 AMG Estate he...
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March 8, 2013
Egon Schiele Sketchy Newborns
The turn-of-the-last-century Viennese expressionist Egon Schiele has always creeped me out a bit, maybe half the time in a good way. An OB/GYN friend giving the 20yo Schiele free rein at a maternity ward so he could paint newborns...
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March 7, 2013
It Was An Ancient Randonneur
I've had a draft for a post about this 1940s randonneur in the style and meter of Coleridge's "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" half-written for so long, the unsold item listing has disappeared from French eBay. Which is...
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March 4, 2013
Reversible Hello Kitty Hamburger Hello Kitty
This is what almost forty years without a mouth will do to a kitty. [via]...
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The Radiant High Chair
Wow, kudos to architectural historian/mom Victoria Solan for working Le Corbusier into this helluva thinkpiece about of one of the world's greatest high chairs, the Ikea Antilop:As a formal composition, IKEA's $25 Antilop high chair hews to a Corbusian...
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The Game Over Tinies ABC, By Brentalfloss
For Black History Month, YouTube-famous lyricist/comic Brent Black [get it? Black History?] created a video game cover version of Edward Gorey's classic black comedy celebration of death, The Gashlycrumb Tinies. The Game Over Tinies is pretty sweet. It'd make...
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Here Come The Cubies' ABC
History is not written only by the winners. Sometimes the losers get to add a cutesy ABC book with well-crafted, parodic rhymes to the record. The 1913 Armory Show opened 100 years ago last month in New York, and...
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It's My Kind In A Box: Babyhok, The Dutch Baby Hutch
So that BBC story that DT reader Helena pointed us to the other day about Scandinavians kids being totally awesome and pink-cheeked and healthy all the time because their parents are parking them outside to sleep all winter elicited all...
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March 1, 2013
One Country, Two Formula Markets
No, these people in Shenzhen haven't violated the one-child policy; they're taking as much powdered formula as they can carry back to Hong Kong, ahead of HK's ban on Mainland powdered milk products, which goes into effect March 1st....
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Personalized Dutch Belly Bands
From a purely practical standpoint, a belly band can keep a pregnant tummy warm--and can close the growing gap between too-short shirt and lowriding pants. I wish the guy who kept getting into the overhead bin right above me...
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