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NinjaFuel | Readings for the Urban Ninja (24/08/09)

“Ninjas fly all the time…not like birds, but more like hovercrafts….“

(excerpt from: Real Ultimate Power : The Official Ninja Book)

NinjaFuel is a theme for posts that will keep you and your Ninja senses alert. NinjaFuel combines recent spottings in the vast online space, funny links, links to my favourite tunes, and general Ninja related goodnness.

Interesting spottings:

• Rethinking the public toilet > A Public Toilet, according to the Architects
• Three young German architects are designing skyscrapers out of living trees > New Branch of Architecture: Grow Your Own Skyscraper via Super Colossal
• Ever wondered what a Ninja’s den looks like? Check out the AMA studio, inspiring! > The studio for Andrew Maynard Architects
• A running wheel for humans? Only in New Zealand! > The Shweeb – Pedal-Powered Monorail
• A festival celebrating the creative spirit of Architecture & Design > Architecture & Design Film Festival
• “Why wait for the phone to ring? Architects, society needs your help! Act now! (And hope to get paid later.)” > Unsolicited Architecture
• Creative interpretation of the traditional house with a nice response to surrounding typologies > Perforated House Gallery
• Iceland most likely to be the first Hyrdrogen society > Harvesting Iceland

Ninjas to follow on twitter:

• @AndrewMaynard – Tasmanian born Architect based in Melbourne. Check out my interview with Andrew Maynard
• @3RRRFM – Melbourne Independent Radio 102.7FM, www.rrr.org.au

Blogs you should be subscribed to:

• cityofsound [RSS] – cities / design / architecture / media / music
• InfraNet Lab [RSS] – infrastructures / networks / environments

Hilarious Videos:

• The top 10 clips from Flight of The Conchords – Season 1 < Season 2 is also great, if you want to know what New Zealanders really think of Australians.

Tunes:

• Streetlight Manifesto – Down, down, down to Mephisto’s Cafe
• The Filaments – No Part
• Millencolin – Low Life

This semester at university I’m working on a commercial building at Martin Place in Sydney. If anyone has any cool precedents or  ideas for the direction of property development in Sydney be sure to send me an email, would love to hear from you. In currently in the concept stage and will keep you updated on my progress : )

That is all for this week from the Archi-Ninja dojo. I always love hearing from my readers with guest contributions or suggestions to include on Archi-Ninja. If you have a suggestion, any ideas, or feedback please e-mail me! [email protected]

Sensei Linda *bows*