Add me to the list of people who didn't know designer Paula Scher wrote a kids book in 1973, which was illustrated by Village Voice cartoonist Stan Mack. The Brownstone's a fable of OG city living, where the landlord...
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January 2016 Archives
January 24, 2016
The Brownstone, OG City Living Kids Book By Paula Scher
#WheresRey's True. All Of It.
For my kids Star Wars was last month. But sexism springs eternal. And the attitudes about what boys do or don't or will or won't play with that come up in Michael Boehm's account of #WheresRey are girl problems...
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January 19, 2016
Godspeed, Your Uncle James
At the marathon #MLKNOW commemoration of Martin Luther King at The Riverside Church yesterday, Chris Rock read James Baldwin's "My Dungeon Shook." As the subtitle says, it was written in 1963 as a "letter to my nephew on the one...
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January 18, 2016
Do You Want To Build A BB-8 Snowman?
C'mon Dad, let me play If you let me I could make you one It would be fun what do you say? [@fupottek via @camcavers]...
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January 13, 2016
David Bowie Narrates Peter & The Wolf
Meanwhile, I was surprised to realize that David Bowie's classic rendition of Prokofiev's "Peter & The Wolf" was not on DT already. Fixed now. Shop around for David Bowie narrating Peter & The Wolf on cd, vinyl and vintage...
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Sitting In A Tin Pram
I just remembered this was here. Alas, David Bowie, who was always David Jones to his family, is not. Previously: Glam Rockers' Kids Always Have The Nicest Names, Songs, Palazzo Pants Photo-ops Space Oddity: The Children's Book, as imagined...
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January 6, 2016
Rocking Horse Rattle By Antonio Vitali
Design scout Aaron Cohen's finds have been on Daddy Types before, but this 1960s molded plastic rocking horse rattle by Antonio Vitali is the first I've seen anywhere. It's from Otto Maier Ravensburg, the German board game company that...
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January 1, 2016
Mid-Century Kids Sofa & Table By Sim Bruce Richards
Sim Bruce Richards was a San Diego modern architect who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, and who designed this sweet kid-sized sofa and table, probably in the fifties? The table has a "milk-retaining edge," but given the unmarred finish,...
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