A wonderful video of a toddler playing hide and seek with a baby gorilla is available for licensing across all platforms. It's probably being ripped off and reloaded to Facebook as I type this. Toddler playing Gorilla Toddler at...
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August 2015 Archives
August 31, 2015
Get In On This Viral Toddler-Gorilla Video Early! Just 26,000 Views!
August 27, 2015
I'm Sorry, Baby Naming Rights??
I just, I mean, I, I, what? WLS, ABC7 in Chicago is reporting:Chicago rapper Chief Keef has named his son after his record label in an effort to promote his latest album, according to a statement from the CEO of...
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August 24, 2015
The What?? Fiberglass Magic Cradle By Stauffer Reducing
A few days ago DT reader Nathan spotted this amazing-looking vintage cradle on eBay in St Louis. [Turns out it's also on craigslist.] "Had this been up a year ago," Nathan wrote, "I would have considered it for our...
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August 22, 2015
For Sale: Onesies, Lightly Used. At The Peter Brant Family Flea Market
The artist Rob Pruitt has been selling all kinds of his own random clutter on eBay for a couple of years now. This summer, he's turned his Rob Pruitt Flea Market into a Brant Family Flea Market, by setting...
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August 18, 2015
Piet Klaarhamer Rolling Cradle
Look what I found while surfing around the website of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, looking for more info on Piet Klaarhamer, Gerrit Rietveld's mentor and De Stijl collaborator. It's a cradle! More importantly, it's a cradle on wheels,...
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De Stijl Kids Room In The Hague
The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague has the largest collection of Mondrians in the world, and one of the largest collections of art and furniture from the broader de Stijl movement. Hometown favorites, I guess. Anyway, this boys bedroom design...
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Speaking of Amazon
Oh right, how could I forget to mention in that previous post that Amazon is one of the main sources of revenue for Daddy Types via its affiliate link/kickback program. Also that it's apparently a family-hostile quant-obsessed corporate hellcult? Perhaps...
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Watched Over By Hacked Machines Of Loving Grace
So this guy Ted Benson [who named his kid Everest, great move] just posted about how easy it is to hack Amazon Dash buttons, those ridiculous little gadgets Amazon wants you to put around your life so you can...
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August 13, 2015
The Letters H, B, And O
via @TheRyanParker RETWEETS EQUAL ENDORSEMENT UPDATE: @peterme Reality is there's a TON of quality educational teevee thanks to Netflix and Amazon Prime. SESAME STREET is for nostalgists, yo.— Peter Merholz (@peterme) August 13, 2015...
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August 12, 2015
Big Kid Bed: Station Wagon By Paul Frankl
One good thing about leaving the toddler bed behind is that you're back in real furniture land again. And in that real furniture world, twin beds are usually discounted pretty heavily. Like the 1940s-1950s Station Wagon series Paul Frankl...
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August 11, 2015
Rugrats Dads
every white guy in bk looks like one of the dads from rugrats— Ayesha A. Siddiqi (@pushinghoops) June 11, 2015 Twitter is a gold mine today, a freakin' gold mine. Siddiqi is the editor of The New Inquiry, which just...
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You May Say I'm A Dreamer/ But I'm Not The Only One
this is the saddest dream a parent has ever dreamed pic.twitter.com/9jNciVtmTn— Lisa McIntire (@LisaMcIntire) August 6, 2015...
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August 7, 2015
Daddy Against Patriarchy T-Shirt
I think these Daddy Against Patriarchy t-shirts are designed by the artist Nayland Blake. What I do know is that they are available only for a limited time--less than two weeks--so if you want to bring down the patriarchy...
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August 6, 2015
Kidpost Upgrade
Kidpost was created by some awesome, web-savvy parents to share photos with less plugged-in relatives and friends. It solves a small but real challenge, and it does it very thoughtfully. And now they have upgraded. Read co-creator Khoi Vinh's...
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August 3, 2015
Don't Trust Anyone Over 8
The first generation of kids to watch Teletubbies are now in college, and they are paralyzed with anxiety and inadequacy. And their OG helicopter parents have already called all their professors to discuss it. Kids these days aren't getting enough...
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Anthony Caro Sculptowers
Anthony Caro, Child's Tower Room, 1983-84, image: anthonycaro.org Relentlessly experimental British sculptor Anthony Caro was interested to make a sculpture that was also architecture, and a sculpture that had no inside or outside. And so in 1983-4, he made...
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