March 2009
122 posts
Why you should always check your children’s homework [DIYFather]
Well - I guess below is the ultimate reason why parents should always check their children’s homework before they hand it in. This was submitted by a first grade girl for a homework assignment:
After it was graded and the child brought it home, she returned to school the next day with the following note:
Dear Ms....
February 2009
76 posts
WatchRain Down From Above
Animation, Ivan Maximov, Russia, 2007 via: punnybop
Heights History: BBQing for BUG [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
From Poppa Fink’s archives comes this promo shot of former NYC Commissioner of Public Events/ Knicks star Bud Palmer BBQing atop a building somewhere in Brooklyn Heights circa 1971. The address of the BUG photo lab is stamped on the back of the picture: 195 Montague Street. According to Pops, the shot was used in Brooklyn Union Gas...
Wedding Proposal Is A Snap at LEGOLAND [Geekdad]
The foundation for a strong marriage might be a 2 x 6 plastic brick. Earlier this week, a Colorado couple were engaged at LEGOLAND in California. The proposal was the creative concoction of Troy Cobb, who worked more than a month to arrange for one of the park’s master builders to create a sign that was mounted on the Eiffel Tower located in...
How To: Hack a Walmart Crib Erin’s February Jumpstart Project 2009 [ohdeeoh]
Title: Our Crib W-Hack Name: Erin Time: 2-4 hrs. assembly (24 for drying) Cost: $125 + Crib A DIY solution for getting a custom boutique look from a big box crib. Click above for pics, below for the how-to and be sure to give Erin a THUMBS UP if you find this project helpful…. Tools: Tools: Drill (with...
Open House | Droog Comes to New York [the moment]
Ian Tong Studio Makkink & Bey designed the polyurethane-foam House of Blue to serve both as display for Droog’s products and as a product itself.
I confess that when I went to see the new Droog store in SoHo, I was worried. It’s high time that the 16-year-old Dutch design collective — known for producing iconic, witty...
Sneak Peek: Play All Day: Design for Children [ohdeeoh]
This one’s for all of you hardcore kids’ design junkies. According to the publisher, “Play All Day documents a collection of the most vibrant, stimulating and engaging design products and concepts for children.” Not limited to interiors, Play All Day promises to spotlight a wealth of innovative toys, playgrounds, and...
Oh, lord! Dan Zanes has found Jesus [The Brooklyn... →
Dan Zanes has gone Bob Dylan on us.
By that, I don’t mean that the internationally known kids crooner of Cobble Hill is putting out mediocre albums, mumbling his way through songs and living the life of a hermitic nomad like the former Robert Zimmerman is doing nowadays.
But Zanes has taken a page from the Dylan playbook: he’s now a born again zealot.
The man found God — and, Jesus, this album...
NYU Too Expensive? Move to Bushwick... →
So to the ten or so students now facing expulsion from NYU housing, I open Bushwick’s gritty doors to you. And please don’t worry — we’re not life-draining, history-destroying automata. But would we tell you if we were?
F train changes on their way [urbanite]
By Heather Haddon
Brooklyn F train riders: savor normal service while you can.
In 2011, the Smith-9th Street station will be closed for nine months because of construction, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority documents.
To get to that station, riders will have to get off the train and take a shuttle bus from the previous stop.
Also,...
Flushing in Grand Army Plaza [be in brooklyn]
No, the neighborhood in Queens is not setting up an annex, but a public toilet may soon grace the landscape in Grand Army Plaza with its presence. Not discounting the need for public toilets, these self-cleaning mechanisms are commonly used as shelters by the homeless in San Francisco. Will they be used for their intended purpose here? Permalink |...
A Sloop docks in Brooklyn [brooklynometry]
The Sloop Clearwater, a symbol of Hudson River conservation efforts, will now be able to dock in Brooklyn. Here’s the details from Chris Hunt, a spokesperson for the organization. We’re all really excited about the new dock opportunity in Red Hook - Clearwater has been trying to gain access to a dock in Brooklyn for a long time - it was...
Piet Hein Eek Tree Trunk Kids Furniture [daddy types]
“It’s important for children to realize that wood comes from trees,” said the Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek to the New York Times in 2007.
And the Piet Hein Eekiest way to do that? Kids furniture made from tree trunks, of course.
At EUR232/chair, plus EUR1105 for the table, The awesome, Nakashima-esque wood slab furniture...
Free Pancakes at IHOP Tomorrow [serious eats]
As part of National Pancake Day tomorrow, February 24, participating IHOP restaurants will be giving out free short stacks of buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.—no coupon or purchase necessary. IHOP patrons, however, are asked to donate the price of the meal—or more—to a local childrens hospital or charity. To find an IHOP near you, use the...
Trunki suitcase keeps toddlers entertained during flight delays [parenthacks]
Marlene’s travel tip for easing the pain of airport delays:
A lesson learned from a recent doomed trip which included nine hours of waiting in the airport with sleep deprived children (3 years old and 11 months): The three year-old was thoroughly entertained by our newest travel buddy - Trunki. This is a small...
Look! There’s a Hole in the Fence Where the Kids Get In [ohdeeoh]
One of the luckiest things you can have happen to you as a kid is to have fun neighbors your age. No playdates or transportation to arrange - just come on over! We got a tiny thrill when we saw this intentional hole in Claire’s (aka Loobylu) fence. “Now the kids next door suddenly appear at my elbow while we are...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Death Vessel (16)
M. Ward (14)
The Mountain Goats (13)
Andrew Bird (13)
Calexico (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Something for the Kids on Sunday: Gustafer Yellowgold Live [OTBKB]
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Somthing to do with the kids on a cold Sunday afternoon at Southpaw sponsored by Park Slope Parents. Doors open at 1 p.m. Show from 2 - 4 p.m.
Date: Sunday February 22, 2009 Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
DOORS OPEN AT 1:00PM
Location: SOUTHPAW, 125 Fifth Ave. ( Sterling and St. Johns )
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Photo by Wes Verhoeve
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Maine Lumber Company Switches To Toys : NPR →
A friend worked with them to design their Original Ultimate Spinner. Listen to this NPR story of a company reinventing itself in the face of competition, check out this review, then go get a Spinner!
Robbins Lumber watched the market for its clothes-drying racks and other wooden housewares disappear to China. So the 125-year-old Maine company began making wooden toys, hoping to find favor with...
Dalton School Suicide: The Aftermath [Momlogic] →
“He had 512 Facebook friends.” A new metric to cite when reporting on the paradox of teen suicide.
Who is Poster Boy? [NYPress] →
Henry Matyjewicz says he’s part of an art revolution that’s bigger than one person. In his first interview since his arrest, he talks to MATT HARVEY about what Poster Boy means as a movement.
3-Year-Old Rides The Subway Alone [OTBKB]
I read about this in the New York Times this morning. Good New York story.
Apparently a 3-year-old boy Queens boy left his mom at a Roosevelt Avenue McDonalds, got on a subway train and rode alone for seven stations until he was tracked down by police.
The boy apparently walked to the Main Street stop of the No. 7 line at Roosevelt Avenue. There...
Graphic Scandinavian poster for kids room [meta-dad]
With so many cutesy things for kids out there, peculiar and unusual are not adjectives typically used to describe baby toys and decor. But not “Our Children’s Gorilla Children Unite!” poster at Huset. Just as it’s name might lead you to believe, this Swedish company’s designs border on the nonsensical, but in a good way..
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Recession-Proof Brooklyn [brooklyn based]
When Park Slope writer Lisa Selin Davis asked friends to contribute to her Facebook list of fun, cheap stuff to do in NYC, it inspired a lot of Brooklyn-centric deals (like the $6.50 Tuesday and Thursday movies at Cobble Hill Cinemas and free shows at BAMcafé). So we decided to steal her idea (thanks Lisa!) and start a list just for our home turf. BB...
Time Out shops Cobble Hill [cobble hill blog]
Time Out’s latest issue features a “Provision Quest” in Cobble Hill, where Chef Brad Farmerie (of Public and Double Crown) shows where to get the best food in the neighborhood. He’s got some pretty good tips and info, and loves “the funk of G. Esposito & Sons’ primary artifact—hot and sweet Italian links, spiced, stuffed and aged on premises”...
FASTRONAUTS: Action Figures Powered By Play [inhabitots]
One of fifty inspired entries in this year’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition, Fastronauts was one of our favorite entries. Fastronauts are a dynamic trio of power-packing superheroes that aim to make renewable energy accessible to eager young minds. Each eco-friendly action figure is powered by play: the more you charge your little...
Daptone Records robbed… [brooklyn vegan]
Friends and associates,
As you may have heard through the grapevine by now, Daptone was broken into last night. Unfortunately, there was a lot of equipment (mics, pre-amps, monitors, turntables, guitars, amps, computers, etc.) stolen and damaged. It is going to take us a while to go through everything and take full stock of what was stolen, and...
Will Van Brunt Street be Home to a New Restaurant Row? [Gothamist]
Last month, a Brooklyn Paper article mentioned that coming to Red Hook is “a Frankie’s cafe, serving a similar menu to the popular Court Street eatery… Permalink | Leave a comment »
Marty: Cortelyou “the new Smith Street” [ditmas park blog]Somebody had to say it, and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz put it in his State of the Borough Address:Ever wonder who started the new restaurant boom in Ditmas Park West? It’s Gary and Allison Jonas, whose Farm-on-Adderly, Pomme de Terre, and Sycamore have turned the Cortelyou road area into the new Smith...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-15) →
They Might Be Giants (18)
Billy Bragg & Wilco (17)
Beck (13)
Burial (13)
Damien Jurado (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Hello New York!
Chelsea Brewery Tours [Free NYC Events]
Ian The Chelsea Brewery Ambassador gives free tours of Manhattan’s only active brewery this afternoon. Tours are every hour on the hour (max 40 people) and be sure to bring your ID for some free samples. Tour participants also receive $4 discount beer tickets so you can sip suds while discussing the wonders of yeast afterwards. There’s also a...
Time Lapse Week: A Little Bit of Brooklyn Country [gowanus lounge]
[YouTube Video]
The creator of this vid writes: “Tme lapse video in Brooklyn from my third story apartment. One picture every thirty seconds. Starts around 2 am and goes until sometime the next day. Music is Pop a Top by Jim Ed Brown. All those cars clearing one side of the street is because of street cleaning.” Located by...
Love Bugs [altjapan]
Celebrate Valentines Day the Japanese way: with chocolates shaped like kabuto-mushi beetles! Dating an entomologist? Trying to introduce a little entomophagy into your relationship? Namco’s Namja Land in Ikebukuro has your back. 4,500 yen for a set of four: one Hercules beetle, one stag beetle, one male rhinocerous beetle, and one female rhinocerous beetle. For the...
The Horror [altjapan]
Three words for you. Super Deformed Anthony Perkins. Wait, that’s four. Oh, yeah, and it’s an eraser. I need this. And a Nosferatu? Wait, is that the “head crab” from The Thing!? And… holy shit… Is that Tor Johnson!? Think about that for a minute: Super Deformed Tor Johnson. What kid WOULDN’T want to bring a tiny effigy of Tor to...
WatchTour the Brooklyn Navy Yard [Gowanus Lounge]
Contemporary Art Coloring Book [droolicious]
Feeling the need to venture beyond cartoon character coloring books? Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists, $20, is a compilation of work from over 50 cutting edge contemporary artists that include Vito Acconci, Rita Ackermann, John Baldessari, Sol LeWitt, Laura Owens, Kenny Scharf and William Wegman. Your little...