Category archive: travel

April 24, 2013

This Is Not A Drill. Should I Teach The Kids The McCrew Dance?

Alright, so we know that McDonald's Japan has made this McCrew Dance video to virally recruit the Kids Of Today to work there. This is not my concern. But there is also a McCrew Dance instructional video. Which makes...
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April 15, 2013

Il Faut Que Tout Parte! Except This Hotel Crillon Kids Robe

So the Hotel Crillon on the Place de la Concorde in Paris is closing for a gut reno, and they're auction off basically everything, floor to ceiling, that might be worth more than the cost of hauling it to...
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April 10, 2013

Belligerent Hustling Muppets Take Manhattan

After another reported assault by violent, tip-hustling muppets, the NYPD and government officials said that sorry, there was really nothing to be done. "It's very challenging legally because dressing up in a costume and walking around Times Square is,...
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April 3, 2013

Tokyo Street Art Coloring Pages By A Small Lab

Gaijin-turned-Edo-ko anthropologist Chris Berthelsen has spent years documenting the stickers, stencils, tags and graffiti of various neighborhoods around Shinjuku and Shibuya for his Tokyo Street Art Research Project. Until now the best way to see the fruits of his...
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March 7, 2013

It Was An Ancient Randonneur

I've had a draft for a post about this 1940s randonneur in the style and meter of Coleridge's "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" half-written for so long, the unsold item listing has disappeared from French eBay. Which is...
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February 26, 2013

There's An ADO Speelgoed By Ko Verzuu Exhibition In Apeldoorn Until March 17.

Wow. You remember that amazing digital archive of ADO Speelgoed at the CODA Museum in the Netherlands? Well, there's an exhibition, too, and it runs through March 17. CODA (Cultur Onder Dak Apeldoorn) is in, obviously, Apeldoorn, in central Holland,...
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February 20, 2013

DTQ: Should You Go In The Family Security Line At The Airport?

Dulles Airport, by Eero Saarinen, photo: Ezra Stoller, 1964 Dulles, I love you, but you're bringin' me down. Let's just start by agreeing that after 25 years of construction and $190 billion, the new underground security screening & train...
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February 15, 2013

Sundance Onesies

It's that cold, snowy time of the year when we bring the kids to Sundance for a little skiing/snowboarding/grandparental facetime combo weekend. And whoa, the Sundance store has had a kid-friendly makeover. There is an entire wall of baby...
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January 15, 2013

Follow The Crab

Alright stay with me on this one, mkay? From eBay, a vintage Creative Playthings Crawlie Crab pulltoy that wobbles around when you pull it. In "like new" condition, "gnawable plastic. Extemely hard to find." From Bloomberg--and this is really one...
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January 10, 2013

Ja, FRA: Lufthansa Loaner Stroller

I've been busy dealing with the blowback of leaving my kids on the school doorstep at 5AM--YOU AMERICANS ARE SO UPTIGHT!--which means I'm only just starting to work my way through my photos from our recent European Family Vacation....
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January 9, 2013

DT's Top One Tips For Kids & Jet Lag

A kid's first big accomplishment after being born is learning the difference between day and night--and that night is for sleeping. And then you bundle'em up on a plane to visit Omma and Papa in Zurich or wherever, and the...
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January 8, 2013

The Impending Destruction Of The Planet, Or Chicco Rocking Eggplant

Your mind is altered a bit by traveling abroad. Also by getting up at 4AM, so you can get yourselves and two little kids to the Nice airport--two boxes set at opposite ends of a sadistic, disastrous traffic labyrinth--by...
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December 26, 2012

Daddy Types European Vacation

I hope everyone out there is having a happy holiday season. The clan and I are just setting out to the airport for a 3-hour tour of France, a 3-hour tour. I'd say what could go wrong, but the last...
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November 30, 2012

If You See Something, Play Something

Just in time for the holidays, a couple of Brooklyn fellas have debuted Commute, a giant, playable pegboard subway map of New York City. It's made locally from local, sustainable, blah blah blah plywood and stuff, and it looks...
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October 2, 2012

Don't Bring A Kinder To A Massfight

image: dpa/spiegel Der Spiegel reports that the number of lost children so far at this year's Oktoberfest is 93, compared to 56 in 2011. Also:"Happily, there were no attempted killings during the first half of the festival, and no...
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August 30, 2012

Long Live The Wagon Queen Family Truckster

You weren't supposed to want one in the first place, but after this, it shouldn't have even mattered, right? There just were no Wagon Queen Family Trucksters to be had. No. There is another. Apparently one Truckster survived the...
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August 3, 2012

Don't Take A Baby To A Tennis Fight

Seriously. Someone has a newborn baby at the Federer-Del Potro match at the Olympics. A crying baby. At a tennis match. At Wimbledon. And my mom tells me it's been there for a while, in other matches. so it's apparently...
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July 19, 2012

Playmobil Albrecht Dürer

I would like to think that this Playmobil version of Albrecht Dürer is just the first step in Playmobil's master plan to create tiny, beady-eyed, plastic versions of every artist, architect, and historical and literary figure on earth. And...
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July 18, 2012

Yes, But The Car Seat Is Economy Class

I mean, just-- what the-- I, just, seriously. On the one hand, we bought a beater $40 carseat to travel with, too. But that was because we'd fly commercial, and I was the one sherpa-ing it through the airport....
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July 12, 2012

'Summer Vacay Like a Kardashian!'

So literally, ten seconds after I finish my Single Laughing Dad post this morning, I check my email, see the subject line above, and it's a contest announcement from Poshbrood, which is offering one lucky winner the chance to "live...
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June 27, 2012

'It Was The Life Of The Times'

Because it's blowing my dadmind right now, here is an expanded quote from William Duckworth's interview with pioneering minimalist composer Terry Riley, who traded the VW Bus his young family was living in for a loft in SoHo:RILEY: [My] wife...
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June 15, 2012

Monaco Royal Family Cars

Long story, but I used to live in Monaco. Way early Internet startup days. Anyway, as the monarchs of tiny states are wont to do--the Sultan of Brunei comes to mind here--SAS le Prince Rainier liked to collect cars....
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May 21, 2012

Shibuya Hikarie Underground Breastfeeding Spa De Gozaimasu

Luxurious women's lounges in department stores are nothing new. But I still can't help thinking the six differently themed ladies' rooms on each level of the new Shibuya Hikarie complex, including the curtain-filled breastfeeding spa on B2, is the...
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May 14, 2012

Avocado + iPhone

Bkln hipster parents with a (lovely) 6mo old baby on my Paris-JFK flight fed her fresh avocado scooped out w/tiny spoon— Rich Mintz (@richmintz) May 15, 2012 Also when the baby cried they gave her an iPhone to hold and...
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April 19, 2012

Bouncy Stonehenge By Jeremy Deller

Seriously, they may not have been able to keep a drummer, but Spinal Tap did manage to hold onto the title of Best Stonehenge Model for a very long time. Until the day British artist Jeremy Deller's full-scale Bouncy...
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April 17, 2012

Rough Day For Kids On The Leashes

It's definitely kids-on-a-leash season in our neighborhood near the National Zoo in DC. But short of making up for your inability to keep a monkey from running into traffic, I still can't support it. The leash is learned behavior...
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March 31, 2012

Here, Via A Tumblr, Is A Sad Tweet About Skype

It's quite tragic when, using video Skype, your distant 2-year-old son thinks you are in the same room as him, and asks you to pick him up.— Huw Langridge (@huwlangridge) March 26, 2012 via the new aesthetic [tumblr]...
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March 19, 2012

The DiaperPod Is A Plastic Bag On A Diaper.

The DiaperPods is [are?] a "revolutionary new concept for disposable diapers" "[d]esigned with safety and sanitation in mind," that "controls odor and provides a convenient and sanitary disposal method, in the form of a disposable receptacle built right into...
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March 15, 2012

Antwerp Central Youth Hostel Bunk Beds By Vincent Van Duysen

You might think that, whether it's the kids or the dads, the Daddy Types demographic would be as far away from the subject of youth hostels as it's possible to get. I thought that, too, and no amount of...
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February 23, 2012

The Deam Guide To Airstream Living

You may remember Christopher Deam from such blog posts as "guy who created plexi-walled cribs for his twins" and "molded ply guy whose wife started Dwell." Anyway, he also has been doing Airstream trailer renovations, which look awesome, perfect for...
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Rocking Elmgreen & Dragset In Trafalgar Square

I'm so stoked for my boys Elmgreen & Dragset, who just unveiled their sculpture on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square today. Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 is a giant kid on a rocking horse, cast in bronze. It looks...
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February 7, 2012

Bisphenol A By Damien Hirst

image via sothebys.com, © Damien Hirst/ Science Ltd, 2012 Photography Prudence Cuming Associates There's a rather insane art exhibition on in the world right now, 331 of the existing Damien Hirst Spot Paintings are on view in all eleven...
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February 2, 2012

W[elsh] T[oddler] F Rockclimbing??

I hate this kind of story, or at least posting about it, because it feels like the only point is to provoke WTF outrage. And also because people are already freaking the hell out all over the Facebook, and the...
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January 31, 2012

'Pregnancy Is A Choice, Not A Medical Condition'

After reading Dina Bakst's NY Times op-ed about pregnancy discrimination, political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow took a bit of the shiny, happy glow off of Jet Blue with these tweets. Pregnant and Pushed Out of a Job [nyt via @tomtomorrow]...
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January 9, 2012

The Best Dr. Seuss Movie In, What, 20 Years? 40?

A video version of Dr. Seuss's Oh The Places You'll Go shot entirely at Burning Man? If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Surprisingly, it lacks most nudity. Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man! dir....
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November 23, 2011

The Secret Google Road Trips Of Desk Toys

On the one hand, Address Is Approximate, Tom Jenkins' stop-motion animated short film of a lonely desk toy going on a Google Street View road trip, is poignant and touching. On the other, that's just how the robots would...
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November 22, 2011

Vegas For Breeders: I Could Go On

What happens in "Vegas with kids?" blog comments does not stay in Vegas with kids? blog comments. This comment, left on a nearly six-year-old thread about which casinos ban strollers, is sort of the platonic ideal of drive-by parentblog commenting....
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November 20, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Selfish Edition

Oh there is so much to freak out over already, I'm not sure ruining one weekend will be enough: Day care in the US runs from awful-to-deadly, those are your only choices. [tnr] Which is too bad, because there's no...
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October 31, 2011

Flying First Class

This tweet by Waxy's Andy Baio reminds me how rarely I'm bothered by screaming babies on planes anymore. I find that any annoyance they cause is far outweighed by the relief of knowing I'm not on the hook to...
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October 21, 2011

Kiddie Art Cars: Kinderspielplatz By Rosemarie Trockel

For her entry representing Germany at the 1999 Venice Biennale, artist Rosemarie Trockel created three films, including a "Brughellian" playground-as-world idyll called Kinderspielplatz, in which kids romping and roding around in eight tricked out toy cars represent our entertainment-...
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October 15, 2011

Frieze, Baby

I deeply don't like Kiki Smith's work, but this photo of someone's twins with Smith's sculpture is the best one in The Art Newspaper's set of kids hanging out at the Frieze Art Fair in London this weekend, so whatryagonnado?...
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September 22, 2011

Dad Warps Fragile Little Minds With Photoshopped Ewoks

Star Wars, I wish I knew how to quit you. Now that Lucas has opened the floodgates, all Star Wars-tweaking hell has broken loose across the Empire. And so it is that Anthony Herrera decided to Photoshop some ewoks into...
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September 9, 2011

Poshbrood Reports, You Decide

Dear Celebrity Parents, Don't be shy, please let the marketing folks know the unvarnished truth: how awesome was your family's comped trip to the 1,500 acre Four Seasons resort in Puerta Vallarta really?...
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August 26, 2011

Ostalgie's Rainbow: Dresden Rocket Slide

Beth from the awesome indie label Lemon Cadet was traveling in Germany when this vintage postcard jumped off the rack and screamed "Achtung, Daddy Types!" at her. So she had to get it and send it to me. [The...
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July 27, 2011

Jason Rohrer And The Game Of Life

There was a moment on the plane yesterday where the kids had all the iPads, and I was left to read Hemispheres Inflight Magazine. Which had a nice but kind of bewildering profile of awesome independent video game developer Jason...
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July 24, 2011

DTQ: Co-Sleeping On The Road?

I fear I discovered DT reader Brett's email too late to help them on their trip, but maybe someone else can still benefit from some advice from experienced traveling co-sleepers:Our family is going on a trip soon. Staying at relatives,...
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July 23, 2011

Enterprise Rodeo Contestant Name Roundup

We took the kids to the Enterprise Rodeo last night, a 3-night, old school, amateur rodeo held in the tiny farm town of Enterprise, Utah [pop. 1,200 or 1,700 or so]. It was packed, and awesome, and it's completely turned...
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July 7, 2011

Big Cat Sleeping Bags For The Road

Last night we had some station wagon-loving, old-book-loving friends over for dinner, and so of course, I had to pull out the Ford Treasury of Station Wagon Living. Volume 2. And I guess I hadn't noticed before, but the...
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July 5, 2011

Velo Papà da Milano

Mister Mort interrupted his coverage of PItti in Firenze to post some coverage of the Spring/Summer 2012 mens shows in Milano. And then he interrupted his coverage of the fashion minstrels to post this awesome photo of a Milanese...
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June 26, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: CDC WTF Measles! Edition

Congratulations, vacctivists, for ruining your kids' weekends by causing them to get the measles! The Centers for Disease Control has issued an official health warning as the number of measles outbreaks in the US has reached its highest level since...
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