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Maze Mania
Garden City, SC
'This is a large fence maze located south of Myrtle Beach, SC. The maze changes daily, so the solution is always different. Customers are timed as they go through, and prizes are given if you can beat the posted time of the day. Tickets are good for unlimited admission throughout the day. There is also an observation deck where you can cheer (or heckle) your friends as they try to make their way through.' -- Roadside Attractions
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Visit Walter's Maze Mansion
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The Shining: Hedge Maze
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'Daniel Weber made a huge maze spanning his entire house. Constructed out of cardboard boxes, duct tape, and 300 bolts. The maze spans two rooms and a hallway. A fog machine completely fills maze with fog, making it very very difficult to navigate with a single glow stick.' -- Make: Zine
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Chucky's Funhouse Maze
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'The home of Isabelle de Beaufort and Bernard Ramus in Cordes-sur-Ciel, France has an innovative yet ancient security system in form of a complex hedge maze intended to keep criminal types, religious soliciters, and fair weather friends away from their door and possessions. They estimate the amount of time it would take a stranger to reach their house upon entering the maze at anywhere between two and a half and four hours, and they claim the quickest they've been able to negotiate their own security maze at twenty minutes at a brisk trot.' -- Designrelated.com
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Stick Figure Death Maze
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The Book Report
Here is a random maze I have generated by Monte Carlo. Can you find the way out?
In reality, a random maze would be much more convoluted than the above example. Such mazes are less pleasing to the eye. In the case above a maze consisting of walls that spiral from the origin was generated, and then subjected to a Monte Carlo simulation for a short time (before the maze would randomize completely).
Random Tree:
A maze is a special kind of random tree: in particular, it is a spanning tree of a square in the square lattice (such a maze would have only one way out from the center). Below is a random tree in the square lattice.
If the number of edges in the tree above should be multiplied, while the length scale is shrunk appropriately, a limiting random tree will be seen. In the picture below there are 10000 edges, each too small to be seen here, in a lattice tree generated by a Monte Carlo program. The tree begins to appear like a fractal object. The existence of a scaling limit is known in high dimensions (above 8). There is general consensus that it also exists in dimensions below 9.
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Marsh Maze
Kent, UK
'Haguelands Farm has recently acquired the tremendously fun and popular Marsh Maize Maze moving it from its previous site at Honeychild Farm to our farm village in Romney Marsh. Walk into the square on the NW corner of the swamp, and you will find yourself in a swampy maze. Each part of the maze is connected by magical mud: specific spots on the map has mud that forms a mouth and waits for your command. Say 'slurp' and it takes you into the next connected part of the map. Head for the SE corner of the swamp, and you will find yourself at the base of the Wizard Tower in the swamp. Note that you cannot actually enter through the door because the key does not exist anymore; but you *can* use Dimension Door to get in.'
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Team of Monkeys
Team Of Monkeys started out many years ago as a half baked idea of Yonatan Frimer and RSL. While there are areas of dispute in this specific matter, the agreed upon facts are that Team Of Monkeys is a division of STOM Research, which is a fictitious multi-conglomerate that has the most advanced scientific achievements. One of their more famous achievements is the well trained team of monkeys and the maze comics are their marketing material.
Flower Power Maze
Maze of Andy Warhol
Maze of Mohammad Ali K.O. George Foreman
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Mouse in VR Maze
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The Petrin Mirror Maze
Prague
'The Petrin House Mirror Maze, located in a mock-Gothic castle in the hills of Prague, was originally the Pavilion of the Czech Tourists Club at the Jubilee Exhibition at Stromovka, from where it was transferred in 1892. It is a reconstruction of the Vyšehrad Gate called špička from the time of Charles IV. Inside, at the end of the maze, is a diarama depicting the fight of the people of Prague against the Swedes on Charles Bridge in 1648. It is the combined work of Karel and Adolf Liebscher and Vojtěch Bartoněk.'
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Bestmaze Trail of Terror
Webberville, Michigan
What is expected of you: You will be staggered out in small groups as you enter. Walk through the trails and stay on the path. Anyone going off the paths or onto a fenced off trail will be removed by maze cops – no refund. We will not tolerate any rough contact with actors; destruction of fencing; buildings; corn; or throwing of any objects. No alcohol allowed onto paths. Drunks not allowed to enter.
Age for participants: While the Trail of Terror will have intense scares it will not be a disgustingly gross production. We take the gross out of some of the well known plots and present “the scare or terror”. Not recommended for kids under 12.
Note: It was not our maze that left people stranded alone in a huge maze after dark This happened at a local maze & haunt on Sept 20, 2008. We have had a system in place for years of sweeping through our maze at end of each night. Even if we have no cars in the Bestmaze lot we still sweep through the maze in case a few kids were dropped off and parents went to Mc Donald's. Michigan Screams.
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3D Monster Maze Vid
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'In 2001, Gregor Schneider won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale when he exhibited his childhood home, Totes Haus u r (Dead House u r) in the German Pavilion. But this was no ordinary suburban dwelling: visitors walked up to an inconspicuous brown front door, the kind found on any German street, only to be admitted in to a house of horrors. The place was a maze of fake partitions, lead-lined rooms, makeshift sleeping quarters and a kitchen encrusted with mould. The most disturbing aspect was the basement, whereunder a low ceiling, amid the dirt and dust, hung a disco ball. Schneider is at his most gruesome when he alludes to sex and death, and more than anything this small prop suggested something sordid in the house of Schneider, as horrific as the nefarious activities of Fred West or Josef Fritzl. Although Schneider would argue (possibly disingenuously) that any associations we make concerning his art are constructed from our own ghoulish imaginations.' -- Guardian.co.uk
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p.s. Hey. I guess that's probably a characteristic, nutshell DC's blog post if there ever was one or something. So, I'm up early enough today to do one of my rushy (apologies) p.s.es and catch up. Things continue to go really, really well here. The book we're working on is going to be amazing, I think, if I don't say so myself, and we're having a blast otherwise too. Okay, ... ** Saturday ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Got your email. Sorry to be slow, but I'll write to you very soon. ** 灑瀟, Hi. Lovely words on Jarry, and thank you very much for the Butor link. What a boon! I'll head over there. ** Alan, Hey, man! Thank you once again retrospectively and now. Such a terrific post. That must feel so great: the speed at which the new novel is happening. That's very exciting! I'm very happy with how my novel-in-progress is going. It's slow but steady, and I think what's happening in it is reaching somewhere I haven't gotten to before, which is always what I need to keep going. Wonderful to see you! ** Bill, Hopefully the lag is a yellowed, crinkled memory by now. Yeah, 'Amour' has been on offer on, I think, the last four flights I've taken, strangely. ** Brendan, Hi, B! I was like, whoa, Brendan, knowing what was coming next, aka your life in photos. Nah, I'm only vaguely following the Dodgers, et. al. It's too hard to get as engaged as I want to be over here. A novel! Seriously? Detective-y? Go for it, duh. Do send me stuff to look at, please. ** Steevee, Hi, man. I wonder what Pere Ubu is like live at this stage. I don't even know who constitutes them now other than Thomas. ** Martin Bladh, Hey. I'll write back to you re: your most recent missive soon. Take care. ** Tosh Berman, Morning, maestro. ** Sweettomb, Hi, Trinie! Sucks to see you after so long on a day when I need to scramble through the p.s. but, hey! I miss you! The trip is being both fun and greatly productive, thanks. Sweet about the dog and especially the guy. Nicely named fella. No, I won't be there for 'Jerk'/Redcat, sadly. It's so great that you plus the classic others are seeing it! I might get there for Halloween or thereabouts. I'm trying. I think of you with all kinds of love all the time too! High five. ** David Ehrenstein, Morning, sir. ** _Black_Acrylic, Fingers crossed for whatever length is necessary. ** Rewritedept, Hope the recording went really well. That launch sounds like something I'll kick myself for having missed. Parties, me? Nah. I don't really like parties. I think if I liked alcohol more, I might. ** Sypha, Seriously glad about the steady finishing of your book. And, duh, I'm real glad you found your way into AR-G's pleasure center. ** Monday ** David Ehrenstein, Hey. I didn't make it back 'tomorrow' but close enough? ** Bill, Loire treats us very well. Found another crazy great castle/ grounds here that we are buying for ourselves in our wishes and are returning to today. It could be worse, you bet. Feel better if you haven't yet. ** Brendan, Ha ha ha. ** Gary gray, Hi. Wow, okay, here's where my need to speed along takes its toll. You seem okay with having committed yourself, or that's the tone I'm getting. I don't know. Man, I hope you're okay. I hope it was helpful, and that whatever proceeds is as well. My dear friend/muse George Miles tried to stab himself to death when he was 15, and I'm getting an intense reaction to that. Man, yeah, I'm sorry to not say a lot more, and know that I'm thinking about you and sending a ton of love and concern and wishing. ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. ** 灑瀟, Hi. ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul! So very great to see you, and thanks! So happy to hear about the building momentum. I might be back in Tokyo/Japan in January. Very strong possibility, yay! ** S., Hi, buddy. Stack! Everyone, at long last, a new stack from the deviser galore of stacks with Emo intoning. Meet Brocaine. Theoretically very cool new short story. Is it in the works now? ** Tuesday ** Tosh Berman, It's so crazy that we were at so many gigs together without knowing it. If I wasn't speeding, I'd shoot the shit with you about most of them. ** Rewritedept, Dude, you've seen a lot of shows, and some very hot stuff in there. Again, I'd ask you all kinds of questions about some of them if I didn't need to get out of here and back to work so imminently. But, yeah, whoa, impressive. ** Ken Baumann, Ken! Such a sweet thing to see you in this realm. Coolness on your list. You good, better, best? ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris. Great seeming gigs there. I got semi-beaten up at a Melvins show. High five. Trip goes fantastically, thank you. No, you're super awesome. ** Gary gray, Hi, man. I envy a bunch of those shows you saw. How was Prurient live, for instance? ** Rudyd, Hey, welcome! I'm really glad you delurked, and I apologize for not being able to be as talkative and inquisitive as I wish I could be during this first meet and greet between us, so come back. We were at some of the same shows, and you saw some other doozies that I wish I had. Thank you a lot! ** Bill, Hi. Seven Seconds! Crash Worship! Very nice. Thanks, Bill. ** Thomas Moronic, Hey. Yeah, I read your great interview with CJC yesterday. Kudos! Everyone, here's a DC's d.l. doubleheader of serious note for you: The one and only Thomas 'Moronic' Moore interviews the equally one and only Jeff 'Chilly Jay Chill' Jackson about his new novel 'Mira Corpora' at the yet again one and only Fanzine right here. A must see on so many levels. ** Lee Vincent, Hi, Lee! Very happy to see you, man! Sexy shows are a rarity, I think, or, hm, maybe not, now that I think more about it. I've hardly seen any shows this year, strangely. My mind is a blank, but I've got a few in the offing. The trip I'm on has taken me to the Loire Valley with my best friend/collaborator Zac for the reason of working on a book to do with a recent-ish trip we took to Scandinavian theme parks and to film two local Fujiko Nakaya fog sculpture pieces for a doc. film we're making about her work. Take care! ** Hyemin, Hi. I envy you having seen C. Spencer Yeh. ** Pilgarlic, Whoa, hey, man! Thanks so much for stopping by. You know, I don't remember that drunken intro live although I know it well from the SD box set, but I think it must have been the same show since I think SD quit doing gigs soon thereafter. How are you, buddy? ** _Black_Acrylic, That is news of the big nature. Everyone, you can now explore the myriad wonders that constitute _Black_Acrylic with a single push. Get thee there. Looks beautiful at first quick look, Ben. I'm anxious to explore in full. ** Casey McKinney, Casey! Dude, so many great shows we saw in tandem for fucking sure. Ha ha, yeah, I just mentioned the Melvins melee back up above a ways. Awesome that you found Dwight Twilley! One of the true unsung greats, if you ask me. The first two Dwight Twilley Band albums are kind of genius from top to bottom. Miss you in the real and over there too to the max! That said, some to Paris! ** Rudyd, You came back. Awesome! ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. I'm not so into horses. A couple bucked me off when I was smaller. Live and let live is my horse-related attitude. New shoes, nice. Photo? ** Chris Cochrane, I have yet to hear a peep of the Body/Head album, but it's in the queue to be sure. I'm into Rico for sure. ** Wednesday ** David Ehrenstein, Greetings! ** Steevee, I look forward to reading that. Everyone, here's the great word- and thought-smith Steevee on the 'excellent' film 'The Last Time I Saw Macao', which means click that blue 'here's' ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Good question. He's been known to return after a long absence before, so we can only hope. ** Robert-nyc, Hi, man. I don't know why you know that, hunh. From memory, yeah. Weird, right? You've seen some awesome shows. Wish I had the time to make direct queries about a bunch of them. I'll try to use my apparently good memory and ask you later on. Best to you! ** Right. I'll go back to my fun and work now. And I'll see you soon, don't know when, do know where.