Daddy Types: January 2014 Archives

January 2014 Archives

January 31, 2014

Kid-Size Art Installations By Benin's Own Beshac Gaba

La Mode en Miniature (2008) installation view, Stevenson I just found images of these kid-related works I saw from the Frieze Art Fair in London last fall, by the Beninese artist Beshac Gaba. Gaba often makes installations that take...
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Polizei Onesie

This doesn't inspire confidence. #siko #sicherheitskonferenz pic.twitter.com/2ZXO5kWkmv— Nein. (@NeinQuarterly) January 31, 2014 Spotted at the Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, the Munich Security Conference, sort of a Davos of international security policy, surrounded by ticky tacky market tents full of swag. I love...
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If Not Breastfeeding Is Illegal, Only Criminals Won't Breastfeed

Breast is best, in fact, it's so great, that the United Arab Emirates' legislature, whose members are appointed by each emirate's ruling monarch, has decided that every child should be breastfed until the age of two. And so they passed...
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January 30, 2014

Hey, Mommy Writes, Too

Wow, it turns out becoming a parent totally upends lady writers' lives and creative practices, too, not just the dads'. Go read up on dad/writer Shane Jones' creative struggles, then take in Vogue's Q&A with Jenny Offill, whose second novel,...
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No Kids Is One Of My Favorite Stores

Bring the kids! pic.twitter.com/TLGSh2xzEG— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) January 30, 2014 OK, I get it. They could do like MOSS in SoHo, which just put all the merchandise in glass vitrines so no one could touch it....
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January 29, 2014

Daddy Writes

Shane Jones has a very thoughtful essay in The Paris Review about writing and fatherhood. It makes me wish he'd write another that picks up where he leaves off, and that thus deals a decisive blow to his troubled premise,...
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A Children's Treasury Of The Holocaust

Bedrich Fritta was a Jewish Czech artist forced to produce construction plans and diagrams for the Nazis. His son Tomas was one when the family was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Bedrich made unauthorized drawings, too, documenting and criticizing...
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Maybe Raccoons Aren't So Bad, Is What I'm Thinking?

Jennifer Liss had her second kid at home, in Oakland:"What would you like to do with the placenta?" the midwife asked. "You can take it," I said, staring at my son's perfect, perfect face. "Oh, no, it's yours," she said....
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January 28, 2014

This USB-Lookin' Wet Diaper Detector Will Be A Thing

It looks like a normal, everyday USB stick, but when it gets near a wet diaper, it lights up! Because it's a wet diaper detector. Made out of a USB casing. That's how Eric Schuh designed his Kickstarter, and...
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January 27, 2014

FYI: The JL421 Badonkadonk Landcruiser Does NOT Have LATCH

The JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank's manufacturers say it fits five, but if you put more than one Jabba-the-Hut-sized passenger in there, I suspect someone's gonna have to walk. What's more interesting, though, is that even with nearly 300 Amazon...
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Rocking Hoth Roundup

These rocking tauntauns have bubbled up from the random picdump sites last week, and are now appearing on more mainstream blogs. There is no information available yet about who made them or where. All we know is the build...
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January 26, 2014

The Starsky & Hutch Wagon

Holy smokes, I had no idea this car existed, but now it's obvious that every station wagon should have a giant, white Starsky & Hutch stripe down the side. It's a 1973 AMC Matador Wagon, in exceptional condition, with...
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DT Advertiser Shoutout: Macmillan Kids Book Sweep

It may be coincidence, or it may be because Daddy Types' readers are great connoisseurs of bedtime reading, but all the ads on DT this week are for kids' books from the Macmillan family of publishers. A big shoutout...
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MUSEUM HANDS, PEOPLE!

This is some world-class WTF going on here, as reported this afternoon by New York art dealer Stephanie Theodore, who saw these parents letting their kid climb into an extraordinarily fragile Donald Judd stack sculpture at Tate Modern: Holy crap....
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January 25, 2014

Battle Cat Toddler Hopper

80s blogger and He-Man aficionado Shawn had a major come-to-Greyskull moment when he spotted this Masters of The Universe Battle Cat Toddler Hopper while vintage toy shopping this weekend. I confess, I've never seen anything like it. He managed...
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Babies Cry For Attention

In lieu of a DT Friday Freakout, here is the shocking result of a Japanese researcher's 6-month in-depth study of two babies: one sometimes fake cried for attention.Just over 98 per cent of Baby R's crying episodes were also preceded...
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January 24, 2014

Forget It, Karl-Heinz, It's Playmobland

Gotten goods never prosper ! The fence is not better than the stealer ! 22 Jan 2014, @playmobklau01 I am not really understanding the nuances of graphic designer Karl-Heinz Weiss's Twitter stream, but anything that results in more morality...
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January 23, 2014

All I Want For Christmas Is DemBabies.com

Regular readers of Daddy Types know we don't go in for celebrity parenting around here. Celebrities are just like us, we figure, except for all the free baby swag they hustle, and so don't warrant special attention. We're taking...
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Mazel Tov! Now Name This Jewish Baby For $20,000

OK, then. A Jewish family in Central New Jersey has put the naming rights for their ninth daughter up for sale on Craigslist. After eight girls, the dad says to the JTA, "we're out of names basically. We needed...
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January 22, 2014

Kidpost Will Automatically Email Kidpics To Whomever You Want

FINALLY. As Jason said, every parent who codes has imagined doing something like Kidpost, and it's great that someone as sharp and sensitive as Khoi Vinh is doing it. Kidpost is promising to solve the problem of sending the...
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January 21, 2014

Dad Reality TV 360-Degrees, 24/7/365

Being a dad is like having your own reality TV show that three people are forced to watch every day.— Jonathan Gourlay (@JGourlay) January 21, 2014 Yeah, I would flip that. If you look around the room during a high-pitched...
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Cha-Chung! Law & Order Location Scout Caprice Turbo Wagon

Our Dominican brother showing us how it's done as he rolls like a boss up the West Side Highway. Let that man through! He's from the Mayor's Office of Film & Television, and he's got important Law & Order...
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January 19, 2014

Les Jeux d'Enfants Cookbooks By Michel Oliver

I lost this link, and then I just found it. Which is awesome, because this 1966 book, La Patissierie est un jeu d'enfants/Mkaing French Desserts & Pastries is Child's Play, written and illustrated by Michel Oliver, who was then...
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Colonies Diverge On Baby Names For Boys

From the 2013 list of top boys and girls names in Queensland, Australia, we see two things: Top Anglo girls' names seem more consistent throughout the Empire. But many Australians give boys names like ancestral names like Cooper, Harrison and...
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January 17, 2014

No, The Question Is, Who Hasn't Seen A Unicyclist Pushing A Stroller?

At first I wanted to find out where reddit user spokes1215 snapped this picture of a unicycling dad. You know, as a value-add for ganking his pic. Lincoln Av. Welcome to [Two Name Neighborhood]. But then I figured it's...
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January 16, 2014

America Has A Whooping Cough Vacctivist Problem

The Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations has assembled a map showing the vaccine-preventable outbreaks of disease around the world. And those aren't green chicken pox across the face of America; they are outbreaks of pertussis,...
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January 15, 2014

Devil Baby Drives A Bugaboo

Srsly, you can't buy publicity like this. And I don't know that you'd want to anyway. Though I'd pay cash money for a remote control stroller. Nice hack, horror movie viral publicity video hacks. [youtube via dt reader evan]...
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January 14, 2014

Downloading

The toddler is referring to anything he has to wait for as 'downloading'. "Where tea?" "Not ready yet." "Is downloading?" "YES." Amazing.— anna pickard (@annapickard) January 2, 2014 This is trying-to-swipe-fingers-across-a-magazine-to-turn-the-page awesome. Also, last night, K2 came in and asked what a homepage is....
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Papa Types Support Breastfeeding In Church

Ohoh, Pope Francis, while baptizing 32 infants in the Sistine Chapel:"Some will cry because they are uncomfortable or because they are hungry," the Pope said. "If they are hungry, mothers, let them eat, no worries, because here, they are...
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January 12, 2014

This Is The Last Thermometer You'll Buy

Yes, you could buy this thermometer pacifier if you want. Even if it's a little off, or your kid doesn't really take to it. It's only like ten bucks, so what the hey. But either way, I'll tell you...
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January 10, 2014

Organic Milk A Capitalist Tool

Did you ever wonder why organic milk had such longer shelf life than inorganic milk? Did you think it was because it was organic? Yeah, well, it turns out it's because it's ultrapasteurized instead of regularpasturized. And so it is...
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January 8, 2014

Get Way More Pick A Brick LEGOs Using This One Weird Trick

Actually, you just stack the bricks before you put'em in the cup. That's it. Toys are Tools runs all the numbers, and they're significant. So stock up smartly the next time you're in a LEGO store, and if the...
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January 7, 2014

What This Blog Post Suggests To Replace The War On Bottle Feeding With Will Astound You

"Breastfeeding: Was there ever a golden age?" asks the BBC headline, because the answer is obviously no. "We talk about the golden age where everybody breastfed, and that age never happened," says Suzanne Barston, author of Bottled Up: How...
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Tech Up, Ladies!

This is actually a snapshot of the MommyTech summit at #CES2014. It's all dudes pic.twitter.com/AwdvnjbFwT— Lauren Goode (@LaurenGoode) January 7, 2014 So the family & kid-related gear section of CES is called MommyTech, and it's all dudes. Even the things...
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January 4, 2014

Cardboard Box Office: Remake, Recycle, Retweet

The family that makes cardboard re-creations of shots from movies together stays together. If only Lilly and Leon Mackie and their son Orson were in the US, their weekly cheeseball LULZcraft blog would have landed them a guest spot...
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Egyptian Spokespuppet Denies Being A Spokespuppet For Terrorists

"The Muppets...Tendencies towards terror?" actual caption on this news.com.au image A puppet on Egyptian TV has been accused of transmitting secret messages via a Vodafone commercial to the Muslim Brotherhood, a huge political organization that was until recently running...
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The Artists' Colouring Book Of ABCs, For Kids Company

original drawing for cover by Bob & Roberta Smith The artist coloring book has crossed the pond. boxed, hardcover limited edition, with Chapman bros. silkscreen Last month Kids Company, a London charity that provides a range of basic services...
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January 3, 2014

Government Birth Panels Website Under Construction

When you have a kid and insurance, typically you call the insurance company to add them to your policy. The premium goes up, and you're done. If insurance has been covering OB/GYN visits and the delivery, they may even...
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January 1, 2014

Side Eye Baby Wishes You A Happy New Year

There's a kid who knows the score on childhood vaccinations givin' Jenny McCarthy and the knuckleheads at ABC the side eye. [via twitter]...
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