Daddy Types: May 2013 Archives

May 2013 Archives

May 30, 2013

America's Funniest WTF Where Is That Kid Sleeping? Photos

Frankly, a few of these photos of kids sleeping in WTF? places look a bit staged. Is Bob Saget involved in this website somehow? Because one kid is supposedly sleeping on the TV. SRSLY WTF? Kids Asleep In Awkward...
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Parking Space: The Final Frontier

Which is funny, because in the alternate timeline Park Slope, it's the lack of stroller parking that's the dealbreaker. Park Slope Patrick Stewart [tumblr via our man in tumblr, dt]...
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Brooklyn Artisanal Cork/Felt Table/Stool: U.M.O. Users & Makers Object

The U.M.O., a kid-sized bench/stool/table object by François Chambard, first showed up at Brooklyn Design a couple of years ago, in a cork version. Some time between now and then, Chambard added a felt-covered option, UMO2, which seems both...
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May 29, 2013

Tesla Holds Many Small Children

After the warm feeling in your heart that comes from thinking you're personally saving the planet, the most undersung feature about the Tesla S, aka the Palo Alto Camry, has been the jump seat, which is supposed to boost...
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May 28, 2013

Hedge Fund Manager Mansplains Breastfeeding

Have you heard the one about the hedge fund manager who mansplained how those trader gals are totally useless after they have a kid? As soon as that baby's lips touch that girl's bosom, forget it. Every single investment idea,...
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Orbis Sensualium Pictus, The First Picture Book For Kids

Did you know that the first picture book designed for children was published in 1658? I did not. Orbis Sensualium Pictus, or The Visible World in Pictures, was published in Nuremburg by the Czech educator Comenius. Originally in German and...
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Quel Sougez! OG French Kids Photobooks

Emmanuel Sougez was a pioneering French photographer who created two of the earliest children's books to use photography. Regarde! « Mes photos » and Alphabet were published in 1931 and 1932, respectively. Regarde! was basically a photo album of...
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May 26, 2013

Donky The Kid-Size Donkervoort

This was the first lot at Bonhams' Spa Classic Sale of vintage autos in Brussels yesterday: a kid-sized "'Lotus Seven.'" I think the quotes must be part of the actual name, since this Lotus Seven, like so many, 'Lotus...
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May 25, 2013

Life Is The Rollercoaster

So K2's sitting on the sofa, waiting for her turn on the iPad, and telling us about some boy who chases her around the playground and is "sooo annoying," and suddenly I'm like, I don't even need to look at...
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May 24, 2013

Convos With My 2 Year Old

Here is the debut of Matthew Clarke's short series, "Convos With My 2 Year Old." Clarke plays himself. The part of Coco The 2YO is played by a scruffy dude. [YouTube via gawker and tastefullyoffensive]...
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OG Vinyl: 1971 Ford LTD Country Squire

Keeping with the luscious woodgrain theme here on Daddy Types, check out this total stunner of a station wagon, a 1971 Ford LTD Country Squire with a mere 60,000 miles. It's being sold by GR Auto Gallery in Grand...
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May 23, 2013

Gnarly Vintage Burl Kids Chair

For all you Napa redwood cabin-in-the-forest dwellers who already have wacked out kid chairs carved from a single piece of walnut burl, my apologies, feel free to skip this post. For the rest of you, HOLY SMOKES WHAT IS...
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From The Woodshop: Two Sweet, Custom High Chairs

You might see one custom high chair from a master woodworker come up at auction, but you hardly ever see two. Rago Arts has these two rather amazing pieces in their upcoming 20th century design sale next month. First...
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Car Seat In Porsche: There Is No Substitute

This dad's story of racing his Porsche 911 proves there is no substitute...for love:When the first two-syllable word he spoke was "Por-sha," I wasn't surprised. He plays with miniature GT3s and Turbos now, steers them around tracks of his own...
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May 21, 2013

5 Top Updates You Can Make On Your LinkedIn Profile During Paternity Leave

Today's paternity leave accomplishments: cleaned, cooked, reread some DeLillo, long walk w/ Jane, caught a projectile newborn shit midair.— Brandon Stosuy (@brandonstosuy) May 22, 2013...
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Kids Are Short

Chris Angelini let his toddler-sized son try on his Google Glass while they went to get some juice. The takeaway: HOLY SMOKES, KIDS ARE SHORT! SERIOUSLY, the world looks so weird when seen entirely from crotch height. [via waxy]...
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The Lozziwurm Is Open

Rejoice, Western Hemispherians! Yvan Pestalozzi's Lozziwurm playground structure is open for business at the Carnegie. Go check it out, or maybe wait a little longer, until the amazing-looking playground design exhibition opens in June. Just sayin'. A Playful Worm...
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May 20, 2013

'Because People Need To See This'

Dad why are you taking pictures of me when I'm stuck?Because people need to see this. twitter.com/herdyshepherd1...— herdyshepherd (@herdyshepherd1) May 20, 2013...
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May 17, 2013

DT Friday Freakout: Rollercoaster Edition

As a public service, Daddy Types holds back on publishing all the incendiary, headscratching, anxiety-inducing, clickbaiting WTFparenting stories during the week, to offer them up all at once in a little weekend-ruining feature we call the Friday Freakout. Here it...
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Ninjabread Men Cookie Cutters

Because you can never have enough ninjas, here are ninjabread men cookie cutters. Also, I just like saying ninjabread men to myself. TRY IT! Buy a set of three Ninjabread Men cookie cutters for like $5 [amazon via @mathowie,...
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My Other Other Other Other Kiddie Car Is A Ferrari 250 GTO

Alright, Stuart Gurr has so far built seven kid-sized cars for his 6yo daughter Scarlett, including a replica of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a Cobra, a Bentley, two Bugattis, a Mini-and this insane Ferrari 250 GTO. He makes them...
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May 16, 2013

#firstworldproblems

Ogilvy Brasil is bringing the cutting edge of first world diapering technology home with this Huggies concept whereby a robotic urine sensor sends an alert to your iPhone when your kid needs a change. It's called Tweet Pee, which...
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It's For You: Creative Playthings Cardboard Phonebooth

I have this 1967 Creative Playthings catalogue lying around somewhere, but I swear, I never noticed these cardboard play structures until John from Wary Meyers pointed out these photos on a recent eBay auction. First, yes, a flatpack Creative...
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May 15, 2013

'Head In Mini-Bar'

Come for the photo that accompanies this caption: "Pictured, clockwise: Whit Honea (head in mini-bar), Andy Hinds, Charlie Capen and Doug French." Stay for Betadad's very mature takedown of the Wall Street Journal's nonsensically sexist story about "Mommy Business Trips"...
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Hold The Fetal Mint

A sign at some Dupont Circle salad restaurant today:...
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May 14, 2013

USA! USA! USA! 1993 BMW E34 M5 Touring

Well it's been a while since we've seen one of these 'round these here parts. This is a 1993 BMW M5 Touring, one of only a very few that have ever made their way to the US. It was...
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Baby Mop Is Apparently A Thing

This has been a LOLBABEEZ idea online for years, but this purports to be an actual product you can actually buy. I don't know if that's progress for civilization or a decline, but there you are. It does make...
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May 13, 2013

Small Child Attends Large Art Fair

The Frieze Art Fair came and went in New York over the weekend. It was in a massive tent on Randall's Island, off the coast of the Upper East Side. Photographer Scott Lynch captured this adorable scene on Thursday...
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May 12, 2013

Max And Gaby's Alphabet, By Tony Fitzpatrick

Chicago artist/dj/dad Tony Fitzpatrick was quizzing his 4yo kid to come up with things that begin with each letter of the alphabet, and he decided to make an illustration project out of it. Two+ years later, in 2001, Max...
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Bugaboo's Having A Sample Sale Saturday

What do you make of this? A pteradactyl? A brooch? There's a sale at Buggies! The Bugaboo Showroom in LA is throwing open the doors and clearing out the merch with a sample sale this coming Saturday, May 18,...
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May 9, 2013

This Creative Playthings Grey Wolf Puppet Will Change The World

Look, here's the deal. I'm posting about this insanely awesome Creative Playthings grey wolf puppet, even though I'm bidding on it. Because ultimately, my winning the puppet is less important to me than making sure that it gets reproduced,...
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Japanese Kids Always Have The Best Cardboard Play Kitchens

It hit me a few weeks ago when DT reader and Cargo Collective guru Amber sent along the cover of Ishikura Hiroyuki's DIY cardboard furniture book, Papa, Mama, tsukutte!: damn, that is a fine and simple cardboard play kitchen!...
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May 7, 2013

JDM Minivan Drift

Yes, this Best Motoring clip of a Japanese minivan track showdown is from 2007, so it's really of no use in deciding whether to buy a new Honda or a Mazda. Now its only value is to entertain, and...
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Harrison Ford Will Not Name Your Kid For You

So this just happened at the San Francisco International Film Festival:1st question from the audience was would Harrison [Ford] name their son who is scheduled to arrive in 4 Days.Glad he left it to them! #SFIFF— Ted Hope (@TedHope) May...
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OG French School Desk At Kinder Modern

It is Design Week Mayhem in New York this week. As I was looking through the exhibitors at the Collective .1 Design Fair, I noticed that in addition to my kid-savvy buddy Patrick from Mondo Cane, there is both...
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May 6, 2013

Mullet Headband Sold Separately: Agassi-esque 1990s OP Jacket

OK, straight-up, this fluorescent Ocean Pacific windbreaker makes me wish I had a toddler who I could force to hit 3,000 baseline shots a day before turning him over to Nick Bolletieri to raise into a money-minting champion. Brilliantly...
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May 3, 2013

The Avenues Parent

If the rest of the community is half as perceptive as this mom, Avenues will be the greatest school in the history of school:Or, as Ella Kim, mother of a 4-year old, explains, Avenues took the anxiety of a New...
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From Russian Dashcam With Love

Russian dashcams: they're not just for epicfail car crashes and apocalyptic meteorites anymore. It probably won't help, but if you really don't want to cry with joy over this happy Russian dashcam video compilation, I suggest you mute the...
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DT Friday Freakout: Edition Of The Rat

It's been that kind of a week, the kind where you wish you could avoid all the freakout-inducing headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, and safety. Where you wish you could just bundle them all up into one, so...
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May 2, 2013

That's 'Emmy-Nominated Fresh Beat Band' To You

Big news from the TV front this week: Kevin Clash, who has already made history as the first male professional in a major American puppeteering league to come out as gay, got nominated for two Emmy Awards. After he...
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