So we met the Tokyo in-laws halfway for New Years, in Hawaii. During the kids' surfing lessons in Lahaina this morning, I snapped this BOB Revolution stroller on the breakwater. The dad of two was there taking surfing photos...
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December 2014 Archives
December 31, 2014
Spotted In the Wild: BOB On The Breakwater
December 28, 2014
Amazing Stokke Tripp Trapp Anniversary Edition High Chair For Sale
The greatest version of the greatest high chair in the world is for sale. Proceeds will go to charity. You should buy it. 2012 was the 40th anniversary of the Stokke Tripp Trapp, designed in 1972 by Peter Opsvik....
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December 26, 2014
Paulsberg Concrete Toy Trucks Belong On Grownup Desk
Here are a gorgeous toy cement mixer and a steamroller from Studio Paulsberg of Dredsen. They are made from actual concrete. The word for concrete in German is Beton, just like in French. You can learn these words now,...
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December 25, 2014
Alexander Calder Christmas Trees
In 1942 Alexander Calder was asked by a nurse friend to make some things to cheer up wounded soldiers convalescing in a Staten Island military hospital. One of those things: this awesome Christmas tree, cut from a tin can....
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December 23, 2014
Hermann Hesse At Nursery School
Visitor is struck by the 7yo footnote, but it's the one above that gets me: "'Hermann is going to nursery school, his violent temperament causes us much distress.' The child was three years old." on hermann hesse at seven:...
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I'm Thinking Of Making The Senate CIA Torture Report Into A Boardbook
Gotta tell you, the CIA onesie, coupled with multiple stories like this about Melville House making a trade version make me want to adapt the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture as a boardbook. Maybe over the Christmas break. Maybe...
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December 21, 2014
The Most Maddening Part Of Parenting Is Definitely Copyright
Susan Copich's Domestic Bliss photographs look like pathological, dystopian stock photography, a Stepford Cindy Sherman, about as funny as an electrocution in the tub. I hope she makes a million dollars from them. They've been turning up on various websites...
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Onesie Shopper Does Not Simply Walk Into CIA Gift Shop
The Washington Post went shopping at various government agency gift shops, and all I got is this CIA Onesie made in one of the Agency's growth markets: Pakistan. Kind of has a Circle of Life-level warm fuzziness to it,...
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December 19, 2014
DT Friday Freakout: Pollution Causes Autism, Vacctivism Causes Whooping Cough Edition
As far as Friday Freakouts go, this is it. It's like having a drought and a flood at the same time. Not coincidentally. There is a whooping cough wave crashing on California right now. We're closing in on 10,000 cases...
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December 18, 2014
Eames For Vintage Kids
Some magic Eames moments from my recent immersion in the archives of esoteric survey: Here is Baby Valastro perched on the family's red CTM coffee table. The Valastros used their wedding money in 1954 to buy a houseful of Eames...
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December 16, 2014
OG Craig Ellwood Bunk Beds
In 1955-7, Jerrold Lomax, working at Craig Ellwood's architecture firm, designed basically the greatest Southern California modernist beach house ever: the 2BR, 1,350-sq ft Hunt House in Malibu. Ellwood's firm also designed the amazing bunk beds seen above, in...
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From A Dad Who Wears T-Shirts In The United States
From Cleveland Browns' Andrew Hawkins' statement to the media yesterday about his wearing a Tamir Rice & John Crawford t-shirt on Sunday, as reported by ESPN:As you well know, and it's well documented, I have a 2-year-old little boy....
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December 15, 2014
OG Philadelphia Windsor High Chair
This rather awesome Windsor high chair is from Philadelphia c. 1790, and has a very old-looking green painted finish. It sold for $1,375 at Freeman's Pennsylvania Sale last month, so chances are you didn't buy it. I was going...
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December 13, 2014
Don't Shoot
Christopher Robinson, 2, Says "Hands Up" Marching With His Dad #MillionsMarchNYC @kari_paul pic.twitter.com/enpm7iBPYR— Lnonblonde (@Lnonblonde) December 13, 2014 This just tears me up inside, no kid should have to fear this, and no parent should have to worry so...
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December 12, 2014
This Internet Feeds Us A Roll Of Toilet Paper Every Day
It looked like a Clickhole story, as so much news does these days, and so I didn't need to click it. But John Hermann traced the link chain of "This Mom Eats A Roll Of Toilet Paper Every Day" backwards,...
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Labours Of Love And Plywood Floors At Wilton House
Sometimes one cannot improve on the copy one is presented with, and so one just runs with it:Few boys get to play with their model train set surrounded by exquisite hand-painted Chinese wallpaper, but that was the backdrop for...
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December 11, 2014
Adventure Time Christmas Sweater. The ONE For Kids
The grown-up sized Adventure Time Christmas sweater is sold out at Forbidden Planet; the Cartoon Network is only sending them to media people they want to suck up to, like the fine folks at Anorak Magazine. But there is...
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December 9, 2014
Andy Baio's Video Game Parenting Experiment FTW
Oh man, Andy Baio just won video game parenting. If you have a kid, why not run experiments on them? It's like running experiments on a little clone of yourself! And almost always probably legal. It's disappointing how many...
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Meet The Kinder Modern Patinator
It feels like more of a Style section piece, or maybe a Home section feature about product lines and Stuff, but even though there are no prices or renovation costs, the NY Times has put this nice story about...
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December 8, 2014
Amazing Viking Longboat Cradle By Jim Heimbach
When Sonoma County woodworker Jim Heimbach found out his son and daughter-in-law were expecting their first kid, and he himself had no commissions at the moment, he decided to make them a cradle. And he was inspired by his...
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December 7, 2014
Amazon Elements Diapers And Wipes Are The Kirkland Of The Internet
Well, they've gone and done it. They've finally gone and done it. After building an awesome diapers-in-the-mail business, then buying Diapers.com, and introducing subscriptions, and Amazon Mom [sic, obv], Amazon has finally unveiled its own brand of diapers and...
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December 6, 2014
Breastfeeding Mums Welcome
Apparently there's a breastfeeding in public dustup in the UK right now? Where Ukip, the local reactionary, nativist political party, objects to the present not being the past? Who would like to return England to the good old days when...
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December 5, 2014
We Were Promised Unisex Unitards
Parents Magazine, July 1970, via alexandra lange for saturatedspace As part of her tireless mission to lead our culture out of the Pink & Purple Is For Girls wilderness, Alexandra Lange has written an essay on the historical shifts...
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December 4, 2014
Andrew Sullivan Is Skeptical Of This CDC Circumcision Recommendation
The CDC recently released a recommendation that circumcision leads to lower HIV infection rates in men. Noted man and intactivist Andrew Sullivan is not having it--the rationale, that is, not circumcision, though I assume he is also not having that--and...
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Several Sharks Getting Cesareans
Here is a YouTube video of some American folks in Capetown, South Africa, and the dad who guts a dead shark on the beach to release three pups, who then get put into the water. The video is sped...
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December 3, 2014
Fancy A Midwife, Then, Comrade?
The National Health Service has issued new guidelines recommending that births in low-risk pregnancies would be better handled by midwives than in hospitals. This recommendation applies for up to 45% of pregnancies in the UK. The UK is a country...
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December 2, 2014
A Gold Porsche Cayenne Exists
People in Brentwood know a thing or two about restraint and good taste. pic.twitter.com/fLlbddhMHU— hydeordie (@hydeordie) December 3, 2014 I just--there are no words. No words. [via @hydeordie] HAHAHA UPDATE THERE ARE WORDS: DT princelings correspondent jjdaddy-o suggests the...
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Tiny Female Architect Count At Tiny Modernism
Archinect is running a giveaway for Tiny Modernism, the architecture-themed onesie sublabel of Alex & Kaori Walter's Belly Sesame kids clothing collection. To win, all you need to do is, by Dec. 8, "tell us which dream combination of...
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Smokey And The Bandit Kiddie Car
As the entire plot of Smokey and the Bandit revolves around the Bandit picking up Sally Field, who is the runaway bride of Sheriff Buford T. Justice's son, and this Smokey and the Bandit go-kart has but one seat,...
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