We are on a road trip, and have spent the last week visiting with family in Orange County, Newport Beach, to be precise. Which has presented many opportunities to explain to the kids that Rolls Royces and Bentleys used...
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June 2015 Archives
June 28, 2015
Made Like They Used To: Rolls Royce Silver Shadow Shooting Brake
Children Standing Around Playgrounds Photobook
I'd seen the link to this before, but hadn't clicked through until dt reader Erik sent it along tonight. Photographer James Mollison has traveled the world to show what playgrounds look like, or more precisely, to show what masses...
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June 25, 2015
Dad Shows Dodgers How Interference Is Done In Chicago
Basically this Cubs fan's catch of a side-retiring foul ball was so awesome that while the Dodgers were demanding a player interference ruling, the crowd was going wild reviewing the tape. He and his 7mo accomplice were allowed to...
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June 23, 2015
Confederate Flag Diaper Wipes
Are not out there yet, but they definitely should be. Someone get on it please. LOL there goes that million-dollar bizness idea. As the URL shows, when I first linked to this Fusion story, the headline was "Confederate Flag Sales...
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June 20, 2015
Renate Müller Playsculpture At Design Miami/Basel In Basel
Renate Müller is still alive and awesome, and for the last few years R&Co. in NYC has been bringing new creations by Müller alongside her pioneering East German-era designs. This is a play sculpture R&Co. are showing at Design...
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Riley Curry Wins NBA Championship
riley curry the g.o.a.t. pic.twitter.com/saQdNiFD9D— Jeff IRL @thecultureofme, June 20, 2015...
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June 16, 2015
Hate-Buy The Poky Little Puppy Today!
I've had Gabe Roth's Slate smackdown of perennial crap kids books like The Poky Little Puppy in my tabs for a couple of weeks now, and it is brutally on point. It is also apparently instrumental in boosting the...
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June 12, 2015
Mad Max Fury Road Ponies By Kelsey Wailes
Speaking of clay, here are some Mad Max Fury Road My Little Ponies. Mad Max Fury Road Ponies [savethewailes via dt reader jp]...
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June 11, 2015
Pourquoi Pas? Make A Barbapapa House
Barbapapa, the iconic and friendly French Jabba The Hutt, lives with all his ancillary characters in some kind of Pierre Cardin-lookin' bubblehouse. Which you can buy, but why would you, when you can make your own Barbapapa house out...
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June 9, 2015
These Vintage WTF Baby Ads Never Get Old
Many of these old-timey ads have been circulating on the webWTF for years, but they're always worth revisiting. And I hadn't seen this Black Flag DDT ad before. Or the thalidomide ad either; that is one for the history...
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June 7, 2015
play / Ply: 1960s Toy Exhibition In London
An exhibition of 1960s modernist toy designs by Roger Limbrick. Patrick Rylands, Fredun Shapur, and Ken Garland, has opened in London. "play: toys, sets, rules" includes some "extraordinarily generous, humane and beautiful objects" which grew out of their designers'...
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The Sounds Of Spring By Lullatone
Lullatone, the Nagoya-based music family of Yoshimi and Shawn James Seymour, have released the final EP in their seasons-based set, "The Sounds of Spring." It's as great as ever. Until I read this little interview, I'd forgotten that Seymour...
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June 2, 2015
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Unaccountable Surveillance Society Do You See?
I'm still fighting off the chills from reading a review of Bill Martin & Eric Carle's childhood classic, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, which was posted only yesterday, while the world was distracted by Caitlin Jenner.If...
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