Ninjas on the ‘Net

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[Image: Map of the boundaries of every commune (municipality) in metropolitan France, stolen from Where]

For starters, allow me to say this: recessions suck. I mean, really suck. This is the first one since I graduated, and it’s a bitch. I’m luckily still employed at this point, but I’m already stocking up on reading material and video-games in preparation – I plan on re-defining lazy and useless if I get laid off [actually, AMNP would probably benefit greatly from my being unemployed...].

Moving along, I’ve rounded up my year-in-review selection for July through December of ‘the ocho’ [see my selections for the first 6 months here], and what I’ve noticed is how poor the quality of things has gotten around here as of late. I just wanted to make a point that I hope to remedy that fact – let’s all hope for the best.

July – Casa Kike

August – Artist’s Bunker

[also in August, our first featured Ninja of the Month, Ludens]

September – Danish Pavilion

October – Guest House in Girona

November – Bourbon Barrel Furniture

December – Why Do Architects Wear Black?

And, as always on Mondays, we’ve got some selected links from these here interwebs. To start them off, I’m relinking to an article in the NY Times about architectural excess, and a response from architecture for humanity [speaking of which - the Times has a brand new starchitect designed building]. It seems as if design is suddenly the most recent scapegoat in this economic clusterf@ck – while the media is clamoring to write BS articles about how design will have to pull back and cut the crap with its over-the-top excess, and individual designers will have to get over themselves as ego will rule no more. Meanwhile, the media isn’t taking responsibility? Architecture glossies and ‘Arts’ sections in newspapers have been encouraging this kind of design for a decade – and suddenly, as newspapaers and magazines are all going on the chopping block [your welcome, btw] they’re turning hyper-critical of ‘design’ as a whole. Classic.

- design needs a recession, via Icon

- end of the Bilbao decade, via Boston.com

- why design loves a depression, via the NY Times

Getting beyond design, architecture, and crappy economic times…

- the Architecture League of New York launched UrbanOmnibus

- a possible solution for unemployment? sell design tips for tips

- architecture is the sexiest profession? this is old – but new to AMNP

- living in a beautiful concrete box

- flexible computer screens [going to be too awesome]

- a [strange] list of the ‘weirdest’ buildings

- last but most definitely not least – don’t forget about the rest of the MNP [My Ninja Please!] crew: the parent site, MyNinjaPlease; MusicMNP; GreenMNP; PolitricksMNP; and RobotNinja.

- and that about wraps up this week’s Ninjas on the ‘Net – but don’t forget, you should also be clicking those sidebar links + buttons and checking out all of our blogging ninjas out there.

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Posted: January 12th, 2009
at 8:06pm by orangemenace


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