I don't believe it! An ad from the 50s where the DAD handles the 2 a.m. feeding? I'm really pleasantly surprised right now.
I know, I was BLOWN AWAY.
I sincerely hope you bought the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. When you start teaching Juniper to drive in 13 or 14 years time, it'll be the perfect vehicle to do it on. If she stalls, no-one will even notice.
I love the mental image of Juney driving the weinermobile. And the fact that she thought you just might buy it for her if she asked nicely.
Also pleasantly surprised by the ad... wow.
Dutch, I loved the alexander calder mobile in the design sponge photos of your house. 
when the next baby comes around (what? we're not planning a group pregnancy, are we? are we?) i would like your solemn promise that you will re-create that ad for us. i mean, for you.
we went to college in a small town that celebrates "hot dog day" as it's annual spring festival. the revelry of drinking, eating and smoking your weight's worth of hotdog, etc. was never complete until the visit from the weinermobile. jesus christ i miss college sometimes. you could take juniper- i think it's this weekend.
It is always amazing how kids get so excited about different things. Though, I think I am with Juniper on this one. I have fond memories of the only time I saw the Weinermobile as a kid. Also,train and airplane mueseums are awesome.
Oy, kids and museum minutia. I've grown accustomed to speed-walking through exhibits and only stopping at stuff that 1) I'm reeeeeallly interested in or 2) has some measure of kid-appeal. I always get dirty-slash-pitying looks from the leisurely-strolling set, but what can you do.
I'm strangely transfixed by that Eames ad. It's so casually progressive, and still rocks the standard '50s visual rhetoric, like the wildly splayed, plaid-berobed dad. Amazing.
One summer I drove past a weinermobile on the highway between two small towns in the Cariboo region of BC. It was a surreal moment.
That's a great ad. I'll echo the poster above in the hopes for reinactment of the ad when number two comes along.
Oh, I wish I lived closer to Michigan! I'd love to see that exhibit.
I recently watched "901: After 45 Years of Working" and cried through almost the entire thing. As an artist married to an artist, I cannot fathom the layers of connection that must exist between two individuals to not only build such an impressive body of work, but to build a marriage along with it. Incredible.
That ad was just totally surprising.
That picture just made my day -- I just came from a lunch where I was ranting about general role stereotypes and family. Thank you Charles Eames (or at least the adversitising company who represented your beautiful chair).
Damn. I always have typos when I post comments ... GENDER roles. Not "general" roles. Good grief.
I can't believe how easy it was to find out your real names with all the clues you left.
wow, m, that's really creepy.
I can't believe how easy it was for me to look at your IP address and figure out you live in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
umm....my last comment may have come out wrong. I didn't mean it badly. I am sorry.
man, we have that chair too...dying in our garage cause we have failed to re-upholster it...we are lame, i know.
that ad...awesome!
m- I understand, I thought your e-mail address was a fake. I am a little jumpy this week because it's weird putting pictures of your house on the web.
Am I the only one who thinks the dad and infant look rather, uh... dead? That baby is in some serious need of some head support!
How bizarre that the Herman Miller company could foretell your future. That is, if you own a pair of polka dotted pajamas. (That's the reason you left out your closets, isn't it?!?)
Uh, and I mean that in a non-creepy, I-don't-care-who-you-really-are-or-what-you-have-
in-your-closets way.
We moved from Madison, WI this last year thereby leaving the homebase for the wienermobile behind. It drove through Portland a month or so back and my hubby and I squealed like schoolgirls.
I was pleasantly surprised by the ad too. Also, re putting pics on the internet, you have quite a fan in my daughter, who is around Juniper's age. I clicked on your flickr slideshow one day when I got sick of her asking for the website that shows nothing but pictures of cats in sinks (yes, it's out there). She calls it "babynobaby" because some photos show a baby, and, well, some don't. Now she's actually asking me for "babynobaby".
I LOVE your home... wow, and you sure keep it clean.
thanks for putting it on the internet for all of us to oogle
Dad's are awesome - seriously, we need more positive dad representations today. Sitcoms are the worst - if one more fat man acts like a buffoon with manners/common sense less developed than their children I'm going to scream! (This means you, Kevin James.
I know someone who DROVE the Wienermobile for an entire summer! I think it was even some kind of internship ...
Sheila, I was thinking the same thing!!
I absolutely need to see an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. I think that would probably be one of the crowning moments of my life, like dancing with the Geico Gecko that one time (a memory I will always cherish).
I have not only seen the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, but also a car that looked like Ronald McDonald's big shoe, and a long truck that looked like a tube of toothpaste! Just driving down the street - not at a show or anything. Sometimes you just see crazy things.
First, I love your home. I would love to find a contemporary home like that when we purchase our next house. All the windows and the simplicity are lovely. Second, the more I learn about Detroit, through your blog, etc., the more I want to visit the city. My husband was recently there for a chemistry/science conference and was surprised how much he liked it.
Cheers!
Unrelated, but - Alexander Calder was on the back of my cereal box this morning, with (I think it was) 1 red, 4 black, x white. It explained who he was and talked about how you, too, can make a mobile.
the kids are alright...
I just discovered your blog and am really enjoying reading your archives! Man!
Also, I can't imagine trying to get into the museum groove with such a young side-kick. You're a brave soul!
FYI, Apartment Therapy's San Fran site just linked to Design*Sponge's story on you guys in their 'Slinks' section. Neato!
That is a weird site of a dad in the middle of the night. Is that child's head supported at all? The chair is cool!
Sounds like a great place....I just found you from Maya's Mom...Nice to meet you.
Your pictures of your Juniper are beautiful. Thank you for sharing...
another one following a link from MM
I *need* that chair. I want to go round and round, too.
My dad loved his chair like that, I remember it vividly growing up. I think my brother now has it. I remember spinning around in it watching cartoons!!!
Hey Dutch,
I grew up with a chair like this. Have you seen the documentaries:
Films of Charles and Ray Eames
They're pretty cool.
happened upon your blog and have been stopped in my tracks reading your archives as a woman who grow up in MI it makes me homesick and wishing I could take the G man to that art exhibit...
Good music to spin the gal around in the Eames ear chair?
A band called The Eames Era from Baton Rouge, LA.
They might dig it.
The Abraham Lincoln chair is the actual one that he was sitting in when shot, but that's not blood on it. (I thought it was too the first time I saw it.) As it turns out, it is hair oil that has saturated the fabric and changed the color. They used to let people sit in the chair and have their pictures taken.
Did you get a chance to check out the modern show in Southfield last weekend?
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