OK, this is flat out amazing. Cowacca is a small strap and ring for kids to hang onto. It just clips on your belt, or backpack, or stroller, or wherever you need it to not lose a kid. It...
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April 2013 Archives
April 30, 2013
Cowacca, Small Strap For Kids
April 27, 2013
Cardboard Survivors: Vintage Papp Kids Furniture By Peter Raacke
It really is amazing that this exists. Peter Raacke designed the Papp collection of cardboard kids furniture in 1967. By any reasonable expectation, it should all have been destroyed and recycled a dozen times by now. But someone apparently...
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April 26, 2013
DT FRiday Freakout: Freeball Edition
The Scottish Medical Journal reports that some Dutch guy heard that Scottish guys have better sperm quality because kilts and scrotal temperature and sure, why not? Seriously, that is the level of the analysis we're talking about here. It's...
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Playgoda On The Playa
Holy smokes, I had no idea that Gregg Fleishman, the plywood architect artist behind the Playgoda series of slot-together playground structures, is in the Burning Man business. This will be the third year Fleishman and his collaborators are building...
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April 24, 2013
This Is Not A Drill. Should I Teach The Kids The McCrew Dance?
Alright, so we know that McDonald's Japan has made this McCrew Dance video to virally recruit the Kids Of Today to work there. This is not my concern. But there is also a McCrew Dance instructional video. Which makes...
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April 22, 2013
Stroll Your Cares Away With The Mark Maclaren!
So far they haven't taken me up on my suggestion to do a co-branded stroller with BP, but Maclaren is now rolling in style on Madison Avenue. The Mark hotel and residences on the Upper East Side are delighted...
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Happy Punks 123!
Oh, hi there, Happy Punks! John and Jana's new book, Happy Punks 123 A Counting Story, looks as awesome as their last title, A Rule Is To Break: A Child's Guide to Anarchy. I confess, my kids' punk education...
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April 18, 2013
Library/Stairway/Home Theater/Slide By Moon Hoon
There is a LOT to love about this awesome space at the energetic center of architect Moon Hoon's Panorama House, built in Chungbuk, South Korea. I mean, it's a family room, a stairway, a library, a home theater [with...
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BYO Booster Seats: OG 1975 Volvo C303 Soft-Top
Remember that amazing Volvo C303 that had been demilitarized and given a deluxe-looking, preschool dropoff line-ready metallic silver paint job? Yeah, this is not that. The C303 was Volvo's 1970s military flagship, the Swedish equivalent to the Unimog and...
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April 17, 2013
America's Day Care Hellscape Is A Political Choice
From The New Republic:First, Mire tried KinderCare again, but they wouldn't take Kendyll until Mire paid her debt; when she did, there were no openings. She called about a dozen centers, all of which were either too expensive or had...
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'Il Buon Mobile Per Bambini': Enzo Mari Kids Shelf
It's not that Enzo Mari has never designed kids' furniture. It's just that he hasn't designed nearly enough of it. Of course, there's the Play Wall, the beautiful corrugated cardboard folding screen from 1967. And there is the Seggiolina...
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April 16, 2013
Bamboo Stroller Hack
Here is a stroller turned into a vegetable cart, as photographed by Beatbeatrice at the Anilao Market in the Philippines. [instragram via @beabeatrice]...
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April 15, 2013
And If It's A Boy, We'll Name Him Felonious
This is probably one of those days when you come home and hug Biggles, Posie and Tuppence extra tight. And then curl up with a subreddit full of other peoples' eye-opening baby names: "I knew a Hamiley. A combination...
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Il Faut Que Tout Parte! Except This Hotel Crillon Kids Robe
So the Hotel Crillon on the Place de la Concorde in Paris is closing for a gut reno, and they're auction off basically everything, floor to ceiling, that might be worth more than the cost of hauling it to...
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April 14, 2013
Silverplated Miffy Bank
So I spotted these kind of awesome, silver Miffy banks in the NY Times this afternoon, and for a while, I worried the difficulty in tracking them down was because this Parisian jewelry designer Marie-Helene de Telliac has hoovered...
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April 10, 2013
'The Private School Has No Connection To The Disney-owned Network'
Way back in the day I used to work on an education-related startup at Disney, and I think that their focus grouping Sofia The First at pre-schools is as hilarious as it is appalling.The children are students at ABC...
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Belligerent Hustling Muppets Take Manhattan
After another reported assault by violent, tip-hustling muppets, the NYPD and government officials said that sorry, there was really nothing to be done. "It's very challenging legally because dressing up in a costume and walking around Times Square is,...
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April 9, 2013
You Cannot Buy This Helge Sibast Child's Chair
Unless, of course, you're the person who already bought it from etsy seller Blueflowervintage. Sibast's No. 8 chair was first designed in 1953, but I don't know when the kid-size versions were made. If missing the chance to buy...
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April 8, 2013
Project OBJECT's Mid-Century Kid Sale At Fab.com
Remember last fall when that sweet, mime-lookin' Antonio Vitali puppet turned up? Well, he's back. And now he can be yours. Georgia-based design aficionado Aaron Cohen, who found the puppet, just launched a week-long, kid-design-themed sale at Fab.com, and...
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The 40 Top Reasons This Guy's Son Is Crying
"No matter how puzzling or frustrating your baby's crying may seem at first, you will soon learn to understand the reason(s) for the tears and how best to respond, [like, for example, by starting a Tumblr.]" - Baby's Best...
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April 5, 2013
Kids Cardboard Lifestyle: The Cardboard Collective
Seriously, kids go through so much stuff, so quickly, it really all should be made of cardboard. And then it's like, seriously, just make that yourself. Which is a severe underselling of the awesomeness of Tokyo expat Amber's kids...
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April 4, 2013
John Galliano Kids Are So Street
Kudos to John Galliano, who, in his F/W 2013-14 collection for John Galliano Kids, brilliantly overcomes the controversy surrounding his multiple, unhinged Nazi-ish harangues against hapless Marais cafe-goers with video cameras, by returning to his visionary roots by dressing...
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April 3, 2013
Tokyo Street Art Coloring Pages By A Small Lab
Gaijin-turned-Edo-ko anthropologist Chris Berthelsen has spent years documenting the stickers, stencils, tags and graffiti of various neighborhoods around Shinjuku and Shibuya for his Tokyo Street Art Research Project. Until now the best way to see the fruits of his...
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April 2, 2013
Baby Gutai
I saw this a couple of weeks ago, then lost it, and not it's found again. Gallerist NY critic Andrew Russeth calls it "Baby Gutai." It's an audience re-staging of Murakami SaburÅ's 1956 Gutai work Passage, where the artist...
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Fukushima Babies Are A West Coast Thing
A study has found that kids in western US states born in the first four months of after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown were up to 28% more likely to have congenital hypothyroidism. The condition, which can be treated with...
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April 1, 2013
BAM Presents Baby Einstein On The Beach
OK, BAM's announcement of the world premiere of Baby Einstein on the Beach wins the day. Dovetailing the avant-garde mission of Next Wave with the curriculum of BAM Education, Glass' hypnotic score proves a natural tool for teaching kids...
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