Here's another Kickstarter I'm slow to write about, and this one is facing dire consequences. Artists Ezra and Miriam Elia's critique of the contemporary art world is called, We Go To The Gallery. It's a parody of the Ladybird...
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March 2014 Archives
March 28, 2014
We Go To The Gallery Is Awesome, Facing Insane Copyright-Fueled Doom
Glam Rockers' Kids Always Have The Nicest Names, Songs, Palazzo Pants Photo-Ops
In June 1971, three weeks after their son Zowie was born, David and Angie Bowie took a stroll for paparazzo Ron Burton. The resulting photographs are the second coolest thing that resulted from Zowie's birth: #3 is the song...
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DT Friday Freakout: Graco Recall Edition
Here is a round-up of headlines to ruin your weekend all at once, instead of ruining your week one day at a time, the DT Friday Freakout: Because of volatile chlorination byproducts, do not pee in the pool. [amer. chem...
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After Effects Animators' Kids Have The NICEST YouTube Videos
DreamWorks animator Daniel Hashimoto started adding CG effects to little videos of his son James playing. He posts them to YouTube as Action Movie Kid. They are pretty awesome, and are getting a lot of media attention starting yesterday...
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March 27, 2014
Q Is For Queens On Kickstarter
I'm slow sometimes, and maybe If I'd written about it last week, there would have been more suspense involved in Amol Sarva's Kickstarter project to create Q is for Queens, an illustrated alphabetic roadtrip through New York's third borough....
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March 26, 2014
The Velveteen Rabbit Never Forgets. Never.
I've never liked The Velveteen Rabbit. It feels like it's been coasting into new bookcases based on pure saccharine grandparental nostalgia for decades. But now I'm terrified of it. Mallory Ortberg has ripped the happy facade off another vintage...
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March 25, 2014
Buddhist Publicist Dad Ready To Renounce 95% Of Nothing
The BBC reports that the "Boss of £1m firm will give it away to be a full-time dad." He was a publicist for the Dalai Lama and TED and the Prince of Wales. For just £10,000, he will "hand over"...
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March 24, 2014
Unidentified Local Couple Photographed
Dear Publicists, They might not show up in mirrors, but they will display every damn camera-equipped electronic device and luxo-crib you send their way. Or maybe they got it from Z-Bey. [via the signs of the end times] Nurseryworks...
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Cheetos, Doritos, Baby Carrots: The Top Three Things Baby Carrots Are Not
In a shocking, exclusive report from Huffington Post, which they copied from imgur, where five months ago user SassyPants had LOLCATS'd the animated GIFs from a Buzzfeed post about an industrial trade group's 5-year-old PR video, baby carrots are...
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March 21, 2014
DT Friday Freakout: Helicopter Edition
The DT Friday Freakout is here to ruin your weekend with a roundup of headlines from the worlds of science, health, parenting, politics, and France: An Indian couple in a rough Northern Paris suburb is being investigated for child neglect....
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Baby Trashes Bar: Las Palmas Trailer, By Johannes Nyholm
This is obviously completely perfect. This is why the world needs more paternity leave. Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm was on his family leave, taking care of his 1yo daughter, when he decided to shoot a one-day short film. That...
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March 19, 2014
Up. Pat. Papers.
@patkiernan This a.m. our 19mo old tried many tactics to rouse us from bed. Here's what did it: he tugged my arm & said "Up. Pat. Papers."— Dana (@real_danimal) March 19, 2014...
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Did You Take Your Kid To See Nymphomaniac This Morning?
I think the last time we tried to take a newborn kid to see a movie it was Million Dollar Baby. It felt awkward and depressing as hell, and I was only too glad to take the kid out when...
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March 17, 2014
There Is Still No Better Breast Pump
Speaking of It Doesn't Get Better, the Times asks, "Shouldn't the Breast Pump Be as Elegant as an iPhone and as Quiet as a Prius by Now?" Yeah, no. Considering how recent the iPhone is, and how rare design talent...
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It Gets Whiter: Kids Books After The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day was one of my favorite books growing up. It wasn't until I was a parent myself that I realized how extraordinary it was, and that before Keats' success, there had been almost no...
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March 16, 2014
It Only Feels Like Forever: On The Passage Of Time In Goodnight Moon
If Burrito Justice had stopped at documenting the clock in Clement Hurd's illustrations for Goodnight Moon, and created this animated gif, and determined that bedtime took a freaking hour and ten minutes [!], it would have been enough. But...
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March 13, 2014
O Manhatta, Get Your Damn Measles Vaccinations!
City of the World (for all races are here) City of tall facades of marble and iron Proud and passionate city. When million-footed Manhattan unpent, descends to its pavements. And spreads measles to vulnerable children because you are not vaccinated,...
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March 12, 2014
Typing By Michael Dumontier And Neil Farber
I'd seen the various editions that artist/blogger/Canadian/dad Michael Dumontier had published with Paul + Wendy Projects. But I confess I didn't realize the Typing edition, the unique, hand-typed prints which he and Neil Farber started in like 2012, were...
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One Baby To Another Says: Nirvana For 2yos
Jason Kottke pointed to Thomas Beller's New Yorker post about introducing his 2yo son to Nirvana. Though the lyrics start with babies talking to each other, Nevermind's "Drain You" is kind of a creepy, angsty song [Nirvana, duh], and...
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March 9, 2014
Maurice Sendak's Rosebud: Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Ladder
In 2008, Maurice Sendak told the NY Times about how the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and the sensational trial that followed, freaked his 4-year-old self right out, and generated an anxious fascination with the incident for the rest of his...
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Much Ferrari So Not Bad: Ferrari FF With Booster Seat
It's right there! Behind the glare! Can you see it?? No, of course you cannot. But it is there, I swear. We pulled into McDonald's in McLean, VA yesterday afternoon on a post-Girl Scout cookie run, and parked next...
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March 7, 2014
DT Friday Freakout: White Noise Edition
Time was if you wanted white noise to put your kid to sleep, you had to run the vacuum cleaner, or the washing machine, or the dishwasher. Then some enterprising genius figured out how to make CD's of these same...
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March 6, 2014
How Music For How Crayons Are Made Was Made
Now the story can be told. In 2008, Daddy Types set out to find out once and for all who composed the music on the classic Sesame Street clip, "How Crayons Are Made." What we find will not surprise...
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March 5, 2014
Spotted, Splatter-Painted At The Armory Show
Let me guess, her favorite book is Olivia. Are these product? Or homemade? Or both, i.e., etsy? In other Armory Show news, it's amazing that Uppababy is turning up at the VIP preview. Back in the day it was...
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Math Is Hard, Let's Go Shopping For Math Books
"5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus," says a math education researcher with a book out about teaching calculus to 5-year-olds. I'm all for it, and I'm quite ready to believe that the traditional way the math education system is set up,...
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March 4, 2014
Kevin Young Reads Poem About Miscarriage In His Poetry Voice
Writer Kevin Young was on NPR Fresh Air today talking about his new book of poetry, Book of Hours. It sounds like it's largely associated with the unexpected death of his father, and then becoming a father himself. Young also...
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Hey, I Just Met You, And This Is Crazy
This was on Facebook and had a zillion Likes but it's actually very sad for multiple reasons: pic.twitter.com/1BdsEH3pPd— Gabriel Roth (@gabrielroth) March 5, 2014 I guess I should specify that the dad of Baby Harper is a US military...
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