STORK BITES MAN

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2012-02-03T15:11:00.003-05:00

Dear Son,

2012-01-23T11:43:00.007-05:00

Just a few words on the eve of your great adventure for which you have trained yourself and anticipated for so long — to let you know that we all share it with you, vicariously...

To M. Scott Carpenter (Letters of Note)

Alone Together

2012-01-19T15:12:00.002-05:00

Pottery Will Get You Nowhere (via Weird Friends)

13-year-old sees a vinyl record for the first time —

2012-01-19T14:16:00.002-05:00

Athena vs. the LP (whatever via kottke.org)

define your freedom. leave room for opportunity and experiences. sell your crap. —

2012-01-18T16:55:00.000-05:00

via Jennilee

L.B.

2012-01-13T11:10:00.004-05:00

Louise Bourgeois, The Woven Child, 2003
Six pages, each 11.25 x 9 inches

There and Now —

2012-01-11T14:09:00.007-05:00

Linus Bill, 2007
Please Merry Me
Published by Nieves

Linus Bill, 2011
Portrait of the Artist
Silkscreen on paper

linusbill.com
nieves.ch

Thinking about New York —

2012-01-09T09:12:00.003-05:00

NYC by Jessica Williams

Prince of Peace

2012-01-06T14:14:00.002-05:00

Nanna —

2012-01-05T16:35:00.007-05:00

Nanna mobile app was created privately for a family in Los Angeles. The app was tailored for 4 nannies, 7 kids and 5 parents to communicate and exchange alerts and updates. The parents can track categories such as pickup/dropoff, calendar, medication and finding playmates. At the end of the day, nannies can summarize all the entries and send to the parents in a formatted email. As part of my research, I spent 3 days with the family to observe in their natural environment rather than in a formal research setting.

Whoa. Nanna Project by Jackie Ki.

Bunker Hill House

2012-01-05T15:59:00.003-05:00

VILLA SANDBERG by Bunker Hill

A 140 m2 house for a familly with two children. Pine and polished concrete floor on the first floor. (Länna, Sweden, 2005).

T

2012-01-05T10:56:00.000-05:00

via Design Community

SCHOOL DAZE (1977)

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On the other side of me was a line of pale Puerto Rican boys wearing identical white T-shirts, dark workman trousers, and black hair greased into ducktails. They were small and compact and gave the impression of stillness, and as I stared at their uniformity my heart quickened to realize they were girls. Eyes on the floor, shoulders hunched, they filed past, except for one, who pushed her hands into her pockets and gave me a look I had no way of categorizing, other than to know it made me jumpy and breathless.

From The Queens of Montague Street by Nancy Rommelmann.

DAZE

2012-01-01T19:22:00.000-05:00

Lullaby

2011-12-12T21:59:00.002-05:00

She's Gotta Have it —

2011-12-02T09:58:00.001-05:00

If this baby comes today, we'll name it Mars.

GOODBURGER

2011-11-29T11:46:00.003-05:00

Wanted: a royal blue Oilily dress from about 2003. It had a crazy cheeseburger pattern all over it. Can't find an image anywhere.

The Sierra Range

2011-11-21T09:35:00.002-05:00

This 1990 poster by Charley Harper is available three ways:

$85.00 from this etsy seller
$50.00 from charleyharperprints.com
$10.00 from bookstore.gpo.gov

I Need All The Friends I Can Get (1964) —

2011-11-18T14:18:00.007-05:00

Happy Birthday R$.

Some names from the deep branches of my family tree:

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Miles Green
Wilkerson James
Adkin Christopher
Thomas Wesley
Jack Ervin
L. S. Silas
Hamp Cleveland
Ruby Mae
Maude Mae
Sampson Davis
Jasper Tillman
Ada Lou

Thanks Mom!

Related: The Peregrine White Cradle

The kid stays in the picture

2011-11-13T20:35:00.003-05:00

Book looks at Karma's shop at the ICA.

★

2011-11-10T10:21:00.004-05:00

via jennilee

HOME OFFICE —

2011-11-09T11:56:00.004-05:00

Coyote watch. Photos by Ben Ferencz.

IT TAKES TIME —

2011-11-09T10:57:00.002-05:00

In the 60s and 70s, you could get by on very little money. And, so, people had time. I mean it was kinda like a bubble or just a brief passage in time when there was so much prosperity in America that if you lived simply you could survive on very little. So people had time to explore things and learn new things.

Lloyd Kahn from this video.

2011-11-09T10:50:00.001-05:00

c. 1982

Small Victories —

2011-11-08T11:49:00.006-05:00

"Where are we going?" he asked as I helped him put on his shoes.

"Nowhere, "we're just walking."

Read "Small Victories" on Heading East (via Daddytypes)

SIGNS

2011-11-07T15:18:00.001-05:00

Photo by/via: Eric Kvatek

SUPER GOOD DEAL

2011-11-01T12:02:00.002-04:00

A few years before I was born, my dad placed this classified ad to sell his car. My mom reports that "he actually paid $1400 for it, and when we sold it for $1600, we thought we made a good deal."

ELSA AƧ⅃Ǝ

2011-10-31T11:22:00.002-04:00

THE BOOB (TOP)

2011-10-28T16:22:00.004-04:00

Wearing and weaning at Gravel & Gold.

via myself (Reference Library)

WAFFLISH WAFFLE

2011-10-27T13:53:00.009-04:00

I picked this up at Wafflish Waffle. Photo/via: Bird & Banner. (Antonio Vitali coat hanger; one of three picked up on eBay a few years ago.)

= Baby boy Beach coming soon (!)

Is that an alien in your pocket?

2011-10-25T13:59:00.001-04:00

Melissa Ip: Aliens (Ooga Booga Store)

JUMP ROPE + POPCORN + MAGIC WAND =

2011-10-24T16:08:00.000-04:00

OO

2011-10-24T12:36:00.002-04:00

Chocolate googly eyes by Mary & Matt

I hope this kid wins —

2011-10-18T12:39:00.003-04:00

TMNN

2011-10-18T10:46:00.004-04:00

Li'l Wayne's Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses (tumblr)

LA ENDURO

2011-10-17T12:21:00.003-04:00

COCO-0191

Exceptionally cool kid's bike. Cantilevers on 22" knobbies. We put on new tires, tubes, saddle, some cables, tuned it up. Very cool. No matter how cool kid's bikes are, they just don't sell. This is half the size of an adult's bike but is the same quality and much rarer but we will have to wait a long time to get $150 for it. Unless you are a very discerning parent...

Coco's Variety
2427 Riverside Drive
Los Angeles, California 90039
Email (323) 664-7400 Map

WORKING (TOGETHER) —

2011-10-13T16:02:00.014-04:00

We visited Lucas and Kaori at Knee High's office located in a converted house in Shibuya as they were winding down for the new year holiday. They have the rare good fortune to possess a garden where they cultivate herbs and vegetables and relax under maple and persimmon trees where the noisy mejiro, a lovely white-eyed green bird, feasts off the last of the year's fruits. We were especially interested in listening to their experiences as partners running a small business in Japan.

We met up with Mike and Yuri at their shop in Kyobashi, a sober, no-funny business neighborhood wedged in the shadow of Ginza, Tokyo's commercial bright star. The shop is a fully-realized distillation of Postalco's elegantly utilitarian sensibility... The contrast in settings between shop and studio seems to highlight a good balance in their approach to work: their ability to unify what they want with what they do and to craft a lifestyle that works. It's nice.

Watch and read more about the husband-and-wife teams of Knee High Media and Postalco: here (Tramnesia)

Links: Knee High Media and Postalco

2011-10-13T10:34:00.003-04:00

KID'S PACKERS

2011-10-06T10:47:00.005-04:00

I like Kid's Packers backpacks and shoe bags.

And I don't know whether I'll do another book or not. I might. It doesn't matter. I'm a happy old man. But I will cry my way all the way to the grave.

2011-10-05T15:45:00.006-04:00

Listen to: Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air (NPR)

GOTTA BE SWEET

2011-09-20T15:20:00.000-04:00

via Weird Friends

LYREBIRD!

2011-09-19T14:11:00.001-04:00

via kottke

Pharoah Pin

2011-09-07T11:59:00.006-04:00

Made by and available at: Birds of Prey.

Previously/related: Mobiles (11/2007)

Out Getting Ribs

2011-09-07T09:47:00.000-04:00

King Krule (Zoo Kid)

Beach Clowns

2011-09-02T11:00:00.002-04:00

Fun, fun, fun via Mary & Matt

PURPLE CUPCAKES

2011-08-27T15:13:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday Astrid!

PLAY —

2011-08-24T14:46:00.001-04:00

Creative Playthings, 1964

(\\\) (\\\)

2011-08-23T16:00:00.002-04:00

Paper Rad, 2004
untitled (Homer Simpson)

Lot 225: Wright (9/15/2011)

BOUNCY CAMERA

2011-08-22T15:50:00.002-04:00

Sugru kids camera (youtube via daddytypes)

PAINTING WORKSHOP

2011-07-27T10:14:00.001-04:00

By Yokoland

ROOM FOR FIVE +

2011-07-24T13:34:00.002-04:00

Video by youtube user bcmoore63.

TIGERS

2011-07-22T16:31:00.004-04:00

via Sweet Juniper

enfant prodige batterie

2011-07-21T14:00:00.002-04:00

Let us sing the praises —

2011-07-20T15:04:00.012-04:00

What if J.K. Rowling would have written the books from the perspective of Hermione?

So, before she goes away for good, let us sing the praises of Hermione. A generation could not have asked for a better role model. Looking back over the series -- from Hermione Granger and the Philosopher's Stone through to Hermione Granger and the Deathly Hallows -- the startling thing about it is how original it is. It's what inspires your respect for Rowling: She could only have written the Hermione Granger by refusing to take the easy way out.

For starters, she gave us a female lead. As difficult as it is to imagine, Rowling was pressured to revise her initial drafts to make the lead wizard male. "More universal," they said. "Nobody's going to follow a female character for 4,000 pages," they said. "Girls don't buy books," they said, "and boys won't buy books about them." But Rowling proved them wrong. She was even asked to hide her own gender, and to publish her books under a pen name, so that children wouldn't run screaming at the thought of reading something by a lady. But Joanne Rowling never bowed to the forces of crass commercialism. She will forever be "Joanne Rowling," and the Hermione Granger series will always be Hermione's show.

Read/more: by Sady Doyle (via kottke)

Google image search results for:

"Harry Potter" ....... 95,600,000
"Hermione Granger" ... 1,010,000

"Daniel Radcliffe" ... 39,700,000
"Emma Watson" ........ 19,600,000

;-P

2011-07-20T15:00:00.002-04:00

Photos: Dina Oganova

2011-07-18T21:29:00.001-04:00

Car Theft for Kids

For kids ages 8–14 with an adult
Offered Wednesday, July 20 – 1-3 pm
Thursday, July 21 – 1-3 pm and 4-6 pm
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Info: here

Join us for a hands-on workshop for parents, children and teens where participants will learn to break into a car, hotwire it, and escape from its trunk.

For most kids (and adults), modern cars are simply these gleaming, aggressive-faced jellybeans that house air-conditioning units and MP3 players while they idle in traffic. But underneath their shiny surface lurks all manner of exciting machinery that needs some demystification. That’s where we come in. In this class, we’ll focus on a few key aspects of cars while learning a bit about the physics and mechanics behind how it all works. This is a hands-on workshop, with an actual car to break in and out of. Taught by car historian and inventor Jason Torchinsky, who has already successfully guided at least six children in Los Angeles towards future grand theft auto. Pre-registration required; call 612.375.5812.

Groovy

2011-07-18T20:51:00.000-04:00

via Matt Connors

CAN'T LOSE

2011-07-14T10:25:00.006-04:00

It's about time.

FSC GIF

2011-07-13T07:44:00.004-04:00

FSC Spring/Summer 2011 Lookbook

Photographed by Tim Barber
Previously: LOLZ (FW 2010)

To Whom it Concerns —

2011-07-12T11:14:00.002-04:00

To Whom it Concerns by Darlene Conner (via Teenage)

PROMPLANK

2011-07-09T18:47:00.001-04:00

via pootee

"Meeting Cy Twombly Changed My Life" —

2011-07-06T23:02:00.005-04:00

As I was standing there, marking the many differences between an actual painting and a slide lecture, a tall, elderly man came out of a set of doors to my left, and joined me in looking. I looked at him briefly, and then the painting. And then back at him, because he was looking unexpectedly familiar.

"Excuse me, but are you Cy Twombly?" I asked.

"Yes," came the reply.

Read Meeting Cy Twombly Changed My Life by Greg Allen.

Family Retreat

2011-06-30T13:44:00.002-04:00

The Marcel Breuer Cottage
634 Black Pond Road
Williams Pond, Wellfleet, MA

Photos: Walter Sanders for LIFE

IF MAMA AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY. ---- ALSO ---- IF DADDY AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY.

2011-06-27T09:59:00.009-04:00

FREE all ages dance party, rock show and soiree!

Debut event, featuring: Lucky Dragons, DJ Jimi Hey and savory and sweet melon snacks and drinks from Eden Bakti’s Herbal Eden. Conveniently scheduled between afternoon nap and bathtime, this intergenerational mixer aims to let moms, dads and friends get loose, and for baby to do her thing!

More/facebook: I.M.A.H.A.N.H.

Sunday, July 3, 3-7pm
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

The children's names are in the tile —

2011-06-23T10:04:00.004-04:00

The bath room in George Nakashima's house.

Photos: Paul Soulellis (flickr)

STONED E.T.

2011-06-21T10:42:00.003-04:00

By Andrew Jeffrey Wright; Part of the DFW window in conjunction with Down For Whatever Forever at THIS Los Angeles. Photo: Isaac Lin

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Margaret Kilgallen: Summer/Selections
June 23–August 5, 2011
Ratio 3, 1447 Stevenson Street, San Francisco

Barry McGee and Asha Kilgallen-McGee
Photo by Ari Marcopolous (via Jennilee)

Junior Gaultier Maternity Top

2011-05-31T10:06:00.002-04:00

via UO Blog

Buy me some peanuts and a Phan-a-tic...

2011-05-26T04:30:00.000-04:00

I'm taking her out to the ballpark today.

MOTTO

2011-05-18T23:18:00.002-04:00

Picked up a good one in Brimfield.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

2011-05-08T03:00:00.001-04:00

TOAST

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Toast with Jam + Toast with Moldy Jam

Her small age is past —

2011-05-04T23:23:00.006-04:00

Nita Quintero at her Sunrise Dance (Na'ii'ees), White Mountain Apache Tribe, Arizona. Photo: Bill Hess, National Geographic, February 1980. Nita is now one of the members of Apache 8.

STOKED

2011-05-02T15:16:00.012-04:00

"I recently did a few photo shoots for some brands. I like working on commercial work when i can, it pays the bills and creates a whole new set of challenges that I wouldn’t ever experience when working on my own stuff. For these shoots we used street casted models (regular people). They can have a good look but sometimes they are mad stiff because they are not used to being photographed. In an attempt to loosen some of the guys up I asked them what their best memory was. One kid said he can’t remember anything because he smokes a lot of weed (5 to 10 spliffs a day). I also learned that he eats fast food for almost every meal. Another kid who grew up in philly said he didn’t have any good memories. He actually got more and more frustrated through out the course of the day because he literally couldn’t think of any. Another had seen the Wu Tang Clan live in 2004 just before ODB died and that was his. Mine happened when I was 16. I was in a mountain bike race in Boulder, CO. It was called Ride the Rocks, it was a tough race and I was doing pretty good. At one point in the race only the first 10 riders would be left to continue racing and would have to do an extra lap around the course. I was in the top 10 so was my best friend at the time, his name is Dylan. Anyway, i was riding as hard as I could through all of the dirt and dust on the course. I was climbing a hill and looked up and saw my dad there. He was all alone (away from all the other spectators), and he said “C’mon Peter, you are doing really good man!” I could see it on his face that he was genuinely stoked, and he passed the feeling on to me. That moment is my best memory. I kept riding and soon flatted and couldn’t finish the race. My friend Dylan finished the race and was and was semi-crying from exhaustion and his front teeth were caked with dirt. have a good weekend, p."

Peter Sutherland (via Jennilee)

Bathing Beauty

2011-04-27T13:48:00.002-04:00

My Grandma, taking the stage in a 1933 beauty contest.

Digging

2011-04-04T17:10:00.007-04:00

Elsa (top, in Point Reyes) making a smily face; and Max (bottom, in Cornwall) making a Hexagonal Pewter Stool (video still via aapc).

Previously/related: Cypress Hill

Goats hair mohair and Josef Frank fabric —

2011-03-28T21:03:00.004-04:00

Nalledoktorn teddy bear at Mr Mudd and Mr Gold.

ACNE JR.

2011-03-25T14:41:00.001-04:00

More: Acne Jr.

TEENAGE

2011-03-21T14:02:00.004-04:00

TEENAGE
A film by Matt Wolf, written and based on a book by Jon Savage.

teenagefilm.com

Thanks Mary!

Something soft for your butt:

2011-03-01T11:53:00.000-05:00

by Doinky Doodles

It's not as easy as it looks —

2011-02-23T15:29:00.004-05:00

via jennilee

SOLO

2011-02-09T11:50:00.005-05:00

Elsa's portrait of Azaria and the PS22 Chorus.

Making Muppets

2011-02-07T20:37:00.001-05:00

Jim Henson on Making Muppets (1969, Iowa Public Television)

AZARIA

2011-02-04T21:37:00.006-05:00

More: PS22 Chorus (youtube)

ROCKIN'

2011-02-04T10:20:00.001-05:00

via Rock Hammer Hard On

Challenger — 1/28/86

2011-01-28T10:24:00.010-05:00

I remember this like it was yesterday. I was nine years old, in Mrs Faling's fourth-grade class. It was the year I wrote the love note that was intercepted and read in front of the entire class; the year I won the city-wide spelling bee; the year I was a "millionaire monster" for Halloween; the year I got real nerdy. We all knew about the shuttle launch because the teacher was on board. Right before lunch, we were told the news of the explosion and from the first row, Keith P. said... "awesome". Our teacher wasn't happy. Ten minutes later, our student teacher rolled in the TV cart and while Mrs Faling was out of the room, we watched and he told us that it was in fact kind of an "awesome" event. Then he explained what the word meant. He always leaned on the podium almost bent in half. It seemed like he was always tired. I think he was even a little bit mean, but he tried to turn everything into an opportunity to teach something.

Six of my favorite books

2011-01-27T21:00:00.004-05:00

Ox-Cart Man
Donald Hall (1979)

Buy-em-now: eBay

Previously: Five of my Favorite Books

2011-01-25T16:07:00.003-05:00

By/about Shel Silverstein (1972)

"They sold poorly" —

2011-01-25T12:01:00.010-05:00

"These Cubismo blocks were commissioned by the magazine as part of a series featuring toys designed by American artists. My idea was to produce a cube made up of 64 plastic blocks. Each plane of sixteen blocks contained a different design motif. Most of the blocks were designed so that, placed together, they produced a variety of continuing patterns. The educational premise was to expose the child to the idea of producing a series of changeable images without a naturalistic framework. They sold poorly." —Milton Glaser

Above: I ♥ MoMA Cube Puzzle on daddytypes (almost four years ago!)

Elephants

2011-01-18T12:07:00.004-05:00

"It's okay if it's blurry; they are running fast."

BABY LOTION

2011-01-17T20:58:00.003-05:00

2011-01-14T20:20:00.003-05:00

Sean (1970) Directed by Ralph Arlyck.

Cute, but how about that vertriloquist whistle?

2011-01-12T15:35:00.001-05:00

LOLZ

2011-01-08T21:03:00.008-05:00

FSC look book:

Photos by Tim Barber. Almost as good as early FYM.

ELSA'S FIRST POLAROIDS

2011-01-05T12:32:00.001-05:00

On Monday I came home to a chocolate cake —

2011-01-04T11:01:00.003-05:00

No reason; just radness.

AVL x DOC

2010-12-21T16:24:00.002-05:00

Cell furniture from ATD-American Co. (Public Collectors)

2010-12-16T14:58:00.000-05:00