Maze of the Week #34 - Bok Tower Gardens Maze

Maze of the week #34 features the Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida, and specifically the Bok Gardens Tower. It has a long and interesting history and you can learn all about the gardens and plan a visit by visiting their website. It hosts events and can be rented for weddings.

Here is a photo of the tower:

Kathy Stocker flickr

The maze: I went with black and white. I have considered colorizing it, but decided against it because of the individual shade each brick has. I like that the bricks made for a nice grid construction.

Bok Gardens Tower Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Downloads of the maze are available.

Coming next week:

A maze of a museum !

Maze of the Week #32 - The Louvre Maze

I am excited to present my maze of the week #32, The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world in Paris, France. I was fortunate enough to visit it for many hours one day and it is huge and completely worth your time. It is home to the Mona Lisa (smaller than you think) and the Venus de Milo. It originally opened its doors on August 10, 1793, thus the launch on the site this week. Happy Birthday.

There is a lot to say about this museum and if you want to find out more, Wikipedia The Louvre or visiting the museums website in English would be a good start.

How about a quick tour of the museum in 4K?

You can find many photos of the Louvre so I will assume you know what it looks like. Let’s get right into the mazes:

The Mazes: My first version is a standard black and white version:

The Louvre Maze

And my second and third versions are something new, mixed media mazes using a version of my maze overlayed on a photo of the Louvre. I could not find the photographer to properly attribute them as this photo is found on many websites. This version also is wide angle to showcase more of the wonderful nighttime photo. I did 2 versions, a white background and one that uses the reflection of the buildings color.

The Louvre Maze - mixed media version

I hope you enjoy the mazes. Downloads are available at the mazes permanent home.

Coming next week:

A sign maze.

Maze of the Week #31 - Ponce De Leon Lighthouse Maze

Our Maze of the week #31 features the Ponce de Leon Lighthouse and Museum located in Ponce Inlet, Florida. Apparently this is one of the tallest lighthouses in the US, so now you know. What really attracted me to this particular lighthouse was the vibrant color. When you see a landscape photo or video of the lighthouse you’ll notice it can be seen from far away and in looks great against the lush green hues on the ground.

Here is a great place to learn about the Lighthouse. Maybe you are wondering why I am featuring the maze this week ? Well, It was designated as a NHLD (National Historic Landmark District) on August 5, 1998.

I love drone footage…

A photo of the lighthouse:

Steven Martin , flickr

The Maze: the beautiful color was difficult to get just right, but this is where I landed. Depending on the photo you look at and the lighting this is probably right a few times a day just like a broken clock ! Is it orange ? Is it pink ?

Ponce De Leon Lighthouse Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Downloads are available on at mazes permanent home.

Coming next week:

An extremely famous building that is known by people all over the world ! You are going to like this one !

Maze Comic Book Review - Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (2007) AMZN

from Vertigo, 221 Pages

by MIKE CAREY (Author), GLENN FABRY (Author), Glenn Fabry (Illustrator, Artist)

This is a comic book version of Neil Gaiman’s novel. I must say that having read this fantasy story that deals with so many colorful characters and interesting places, it makes for a perfect comic adaption. Sure, we can get into the age old discussion of how the book is better than the movie or vice versa, but in this case the illustrations of the world (Neverwhere, or London below) and it’s people make up for any narrative that is lost from the book. After all, taking 400 written pages down to 221 and adding pictures you are bound to lose some of the story.

As far as that story goes, well it is a wonderful quest story that takes place between the London Above that we all know and love (do we all love it?- I’m a big fan) and a magical city called Neverwhere that is below London. The main characters are Door, who can open all types of doors to anywhere, and from London above, Richard Mayhew who I can best describe as a completely ordinary guy. And then, one day, his life will never be the same. And we get a quest that includes needing to navigate a maze to reach their final destination. But as is the case in many mazes/labyrinths it is guarded by a beast, which may or may not be a minotaur ? What do you think ? Whatever it is, this is not something I would want to meet.

This is an excellent story. Read it. 8.5/10 !

This story was also made into a television mini-series in 1996 that received ok reviews (7.2 on IMDB) split into six 30 minute episodes. I think it would be a perfect story for an update in the age of streaming. You can currently find the entire series streaming on YouTube. Here is episode 1 to get you started.

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