Konrad Lueg went on to become Konrad Fischer, a hugely important art dealer, who introduced many American conceptual and minimalist artists' work to Germany and beyond. But before that, he was a straight-up artist himself, and was super-tight with...
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October 2013 Archives
October 31, 2013
Babies By Konrad Lueg
October 30, 2013
'Ohh You're Crying, Monkey. OK, Mommy's Done.'
This video starts out, "Mommy's gonna sing you a song. You want Mommy to sing a song, honey? Let me know how you feel about the song." Mommy is holding a video camera. Someone else is sitting silently next...
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October 29, 2013
I Want Rockabye Baby Nickelback Nickelback Nickelback
I swear, if I EVER find out you have bought Rockabye Baby's lullaby cover versions of Nickelback to play for your kid, I will grind your iPod under my boot while I'm on the phone with Social Services. But...
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Area Man Pushes UppaBaby Vista [Black]
Buy an UPPAbaby Vista Stroller, Jake [amazon, image via dailymail, I know, I know, sometimes I feel like putting a pic where they're staring straight at the paparazzi, just to make it weird for us, too. Jake.]...
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October 28, 2013
Actually Baby DJ School IS As Ridiculous As It Sounds
But that shouldn't be a dealbreaker. If sample boards are what it takes to get a parent on the floor, making music with his kid, then so be it. And when he's not spinning in Baby DJ Class, your kid...
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Swedish Village Of The Damned
Sweden is a too-egalitarian, too-democratic hell on earth overrun by out-of-control children, thanks to thirty-year-old ban on smacking kids, which was adult humankind's only non-nuclear option for keeping those little monsters in check. But it will all be OK,...
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October 26, 2013
Amazing Matching Burl Walnut Kids Chair
Amazing. In any realistic view of human civilization, you figure in one human life, you'll see maybe one gnarly burl kid's chair attributed to JB Blunk? Maybe? Ever? And yet, here we are less than six months later, and...
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October 24, 2013
Must Not Make Magic Wand Jokes
I love that Canadian new dad Anthony Stuart is getting so much tumblr love for his Magic Show. I'm sure pregnancy and childbirth was effortless, instantaneous magic for his lovely assistant, too. The Magic Show [daddyslittleprop.tumblr.com via cbc]...
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October 23, 2013
Hulk Think Deep Thoughts
Reddit has a thread of Deep Thoughts From An Under-5yo. There were too many driveway moments, and I have a bunch of work to do, so I stopped about halfway down, but this one seems very, very useful:[-]Shrtbuspdx 615 points...
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A Brief History Of Breast Pumps - DRAFT
Aah, Autumn, when the young journalist's heart turns to thoughts of, "Wait, how exactly did we become a world where people are mailing each other breastmilk after meeting on the internet? I bet I can get a 1,200-word backgrounder out...
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October 22, 2013
Why Buy The Breast Milk On The Internet, When You Can Get The Salmonella For Free?
Breast milk obtained online, whether through informal markets or donations, was found to have pathogenic bacteria and other contaminants. These include staph and salmonella, which can pose a significant health risk to preterm and medically compromised newborns. Who, if...
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October 21, 2013
Finally, A Scientific Justification For Circumcision
People say a boy should look like his father, which, what? But scientists in Pakistan and Columbia University have found that when it comes to baldness, a father doesn't have to look like his son:The researchers took papilla cells from...
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October 18, 2013
Three Brothers Share A Room, By Casa Kids
Speaking of staying in the city, here's a recent project that Roberto Gil of Casa Kids just emailed me the other day: a bedroom for three brothers. It's a custom adaptation of Casa Kids' Marino bunk bed + stairs...
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Jake Dobkin's Guide To Kid City Living
Despite the occasional dalliances with meggings, Gothamist's Jake Dobkin is my raised-in-the-city-and-now-raising-kids-in-the-city hero. In today's installment of Ask A Native New Yorker, Jake gives invaluable advice over whether to move to the suburbs now that you have a kid. And...
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October 17, 2013
Portrait Of The [Pregnant] Artist By Jennifer Rubell
Frieze Week is always good for a blog post or two. So mazeltov this year to noted Miami food- and gala-artist Jennifer Rubell, whose Portrait of the Artist, a monumental fiberglass-on-steel sculpture of her eight-months-pregnant self, complete with enterable...
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'Do You Think They Should Make iPhone For Babies?'
Maybe if someone had told me that Peter Dinklage supports making iPhones for babies, I might have ever watched Game of Thrones. Whatever, now I'm all caught up: "MEDIEVAL LAND FUN-TIME WORLD" EXTENDED TRAILER -- A Bad Lip Reading of...
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October 16, 2013
Susie's Pavilion, Or Rory Hyde's Folly Playhouse
Designing a house for your parents used to be a going-solo architect's rite of passage. Now post-architects build playhouses at their parents for their kids. At least that's my theory about young alt-architect Australian Rory Hyde, whose new book...
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October 14, 2013
Papa Wants The Best For You
Wow, OK, so after starring in Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach," Danny Aiello made a response video from the dad's point of view? It was called "Papa Wants The Best For You." Dangerous Minds has the backstory about the long-lost...
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Go Ahead, The Warhol X Bugaboo Canopies Are Fine
When they first announced the Bugaboo fabrics with images licensed from the Warhol Foundation, I basically kept my mouth shut. The fact of the colabo made sense. The availability of separate fabric sets instead of only as full-on strollers...
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October 11, 2013
[St]architects Make Elaborate Dollhouses For KIDS Fundraiser
KIDS, a British charity helping disabled kids and their families, has rallied 20 architects and such to make dollhouses to be auctioned at a fundraising gala next month. The inspiration for the project is "The Queen's Dolls' House," an...
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Did You Have A Motorcycle With Training Wheels?
Kudos to the quick-thinking Mrs. Kaz for snapping a picture of this tiny chopper with training wheels that one of their neighbors had left out for bulk trash day. Judging from the wear and character of those training wheels,...
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October 10, 2013
Music Of The Spheres
Anyone can name his kid Thelonious; the true connoisseur will name his kid Sphere. For the record, Monk's father and son are also Thelonious Spheres. His daughter, Barbara, named after his mother, was known as Boo Boo. She died of...
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October 9, 2013
Incarcerate Me Elmo
Remember that crazy, marauding street hustler Elmo who shouted anti-Semitic rants at kids outside the Central Park Zoo, threatened Times Square tourists for not coughing up photo money, and then tried to extort $2 million by stalking the Girl Scouts?...
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Apple Care
Note to self: do NOT spill breast milk on your computer! Note to baby: Sorry. Steve Jobs ate your lunch.— Nina Simon (@ninaksimon) October 9, 2013...
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OG Ferrarina: Kid-Sized Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
This is not a drill. I don't know what it is, exactly, but a drill it is not. This is a kid-sized Ferrari 180 Testa Rossa that was apparently sold as a "Ferrarina" by none other than Luigi Chinetti,...
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October 8, 2013
Capitalism Works For Elmo
Elmo contemplates capitalism #CAPITALISMWFM pic.twitter.com/65XizXLbXg— Handel (@handelsaurus) October 8, 2013 Speaking of Kickstarter, I backed Steve Lambert's project to build this giant sign, CAPITALISM WORKS FOR ME! True/False a couple of years ago now, and it has been a blast...
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Back The Longest Shortest Time Kickstarter
There's much to say and read and see and hear about The Longest Shortest Time, the podcast series for new parents produced by indie radio star Hillary Frank. But kindergarten pickup beckons, and anyway, the podcast basically sells itself,...
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Like-A Scoot&Ride: The Audi Mini Runner Balance Bike/Scooter Combo
Hey ho, look at this Audi-branded walking bike that also turns into a scooter when you flip it over! The Audi Mini Runner is made of tubular "aluminium" using "a special 'hydroforming' process," the same process used to create...
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October 6, 2013
Forget Drinking Games. Has Anyone Got Any Peppa Pig Recipes?
Has anyone got any Peppa Pig drinking games?— Joe Muggs (@joemuggs) October 6, 2013 OK I should've known the answer was yes really shouldn't I? www.google.co.uk/search?q="peppa pig drinking game"— Joe Muggs (@joemuggs) October 6, 2013 Bonus mumsnet acronym of the...
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October 4, 2013
DT Friday Freakout: Pressured Parent Edition
A selection of anxiety-inducing news stories, collected, and delivered all at once to ruin your weekend (instead of your entire week)? It's the Daddy Types Friday Freakout: Is your kid not advanced enough for his age? Are you already fearing...
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Nursery, An Installation By General Howe
There's a new changing table in Chelsea, people. Nursery, by former Brooklyn [now Wisconsin] street artist General Howe, is the inaugural exhibition at Kianga Ellis Projects. It's an IRL nursery version of The General's vintage kids cartoon-themed tumblr, The...
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October 3, 2013
Laundry Detergent Pod Not A Toy
You'd think the laundry detergent companies would learn after putting a teddy bear on the bottle, but no. kids are still eating--and getting sick from and even maybe dying from--Tide detergent pods, which look like shiny candy, and [used...
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Children Of Duchamp, By Nobutaka Aozaki
It's been a hundred years since Marcel Duchamp introduced the Readymade to an unprepared art world, which is still dealing with it. Since he just graduated from Hunter College's MFA program, I'm going to guess that Nobutaka Aozaki's awesome...
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October 1, 2013
Alexander Calder's Fables of Aesop
In 1931, Alexander Calder was at the height of his fame in Paris, known for his Cirque performances and his wire dessin portrait sculptures of his fancy friends. It was the year he began making and showing the abstract...
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Ford Models, Or Brooklyn Blastocysts On Ice
My online friend and hero writer Paul Ford has a great essay in Elle Magazine [really] about his and his wife's experience with fertility treatments and what to do with the extra embryos. In addition to being a great read,...
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