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NinjaFuel | Readings for the Urban Ninja (10/01/10)

“In the olden days, ninjas would develop their strength by wrestling with dogs, playing video games, and just plain hanging out. Fortunately, not much has changed.“ (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 fav tunes, and general Ninja related goodies.

Interesting spottings:

• Exhibition: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum runs from February 12-April 28, 2010. Art trap was recently featured over at BLDG BLOG and looks like an amazing submission. Submissions were received from all over the world from a wide range of artists, designers, and architects, including emerging as well as established practitioners.
• Inhabitat asked some big thinkers to share their Green Design predictions for 2010!Alan Chochinov Editor-in-Chief of Core77 looks forward to 2010 as the year for social change.
• Jack Self from Millennium People rounds up his top 20 moments from the last 10 years. Including the Britney + Madonna kiss.
• In another round up, anArchitecture recaps the decade in architecture 2000-2009.
• Marco Casagrande builds a  bug dome. “The cocoon is a weak retreat for the modern man to escape from the strength of the exploding urbanism in the heart of Shenzhen”.
• A very revealing article by Owen Hatherly claims that Sustainability is a dangerous mirage. “Even in Dubai, the language of greenwash is used to distract us from the real design issues.”
• Plans for barangaroo, Sydney are released. Critics have dubbed the worst of ”Dubai architecture”.
• Worst Archiecture of the last decade goes to Daniel Libeskind’s addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, titled “both ugly and useless.” Not sure this is the worst?

Ninjas to follow on twitter:

• @Jack_Self is the editor and founder of Millennium People. He investigates Architecture, City, Psychogeography and Landscape. I am a regular reader and love his fist full of links section.
• @marcustrimble is the founding architect of Sydney-based firm Super Colossal. His blog is highly influential on a local and international spectrum. With 2009 officially over we can see if his predictions correct? Indeed 2010 will be better.

Blogs you should be subscribed to:

• My favorite blogs were recently featured in the ‘Top 9 Ninja Characteristics of Awesome architecture blogs’ you should defiantly subscribe to the following: Arch Daily, AMNP, A Daily Dose of Architecture, Inhabitat, Super Colossal, Designboom, BLDGBLOG, City of Sound, Dezeen.

Hilarious Videos:

• ‘Sexist’ and ‘incestuous’ Toyota Yaris advert was dumped from Australian TV. Never the less a funny video which was taken a little too seriously.

Tunes:

• The View – Superstar tradesman
• Steriophonics – Mr Writer
• Jebediah – Military Strongmen

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! e: [email protected]

Sensei Linda *bows*