MNP Reviews: Opportunistic Architecture
Opportunistic Architecture admits in ita€™s opening sentence that the term a€opportunistica€™ typically has negative connotations - a€referring to the seizing of any circumstances regardless of principles or ethicsa€™. But how is one opportunistic when designing a building? LTL [Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis] argue that their particular approach to design - utilizing all the limits, constraints and restrictions typically associated with architectural projects [budget, site conditions, code/zongin, etc] as a positive driving force in their work - is an example of a€opportunistic architecturea€™ at work.
read the compete abstract now at arch
Posted: November 20th, 2007
at 11:33am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,architecture
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Freeway - Walk Wit Me ft. Busta Rhymes & Jadakiss
My Ninja, Please! 11/19/07: Ninjasaurus
There’s not much to say about this except, M.N.P.
A 110 million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones was unveiled Thursday, 15 Nov., at the National Geographic Society.
Found in the Sahara by Professor Paul Sereno, University of Chicago palaeontologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, the dinosaur is a plant eater known as Nigersaurus taqueti. Originally named by Sereno and his team in 1999 with only a few of its distinctive bones in hand, Nigersaurus has emerged as an anatomically bizarre dinosaur.
Wow… a bit racialist.
Posted: November 19th, 2007
at 1:32pm by Black Ock
Categories: myninjaplease,too good to be true,science
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Virgie Patton-Ezelle
MORROW: That’s another thing that struck me about your paintings. They are a nice balance between the figurative and the abstract, between realism and conceptual ideas, a post-minimalist form, not fixed on a rectilinear grid, but positioned within color fields.
PATTON-EZELLE: It’s a real struggle to find something of your own. It isn’t really until then that the work really begins to take on some importance. It’s making a statement of your own in art today that brings recognition. Most artists have to struggle with that: What can I do to call my own? And so, it came together that the balance between the real as you see it, the classical figure and the contemporary form, was a happy medium. I wanted something that would, in my own way, appeal to me as a subject matter: the female aspect. It was extremely important to do something that would be recognized as a contribution to contemporary art with a universal appeal. You know the figures are a representation of black women. Especially because of the different emotions.