Maze of the Week #83 - Pro Football Hall of Fame Maze

Maze of the Week #83 takes me to the city of my birth, Canton, Ohio with this maze of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I have been past this building hundreds of times and had the opportunity to visit a few times. If you get a chance you should plan a visit. And I have also had a chance to meet many hall of famers who are attending the festivities. Really cool.

Photos: Erik Drost, flickr. Must have been taken during the holidays.

Pro Football Hall of Fame - Erik Drost, flickr

The Maze: I went with black and white. This is a candidate for coloration at some point.

Pro Football Hall of Fame Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Maze download is available on the homepage. Don’t forget to check out my YouTube channel where you can watch this maze being made and solved!!

UPDATE: I made this into a full color maze !

Case Study#8 - Improving Previous Mazes

Coming next week:

A maze of a museum.

The Scorpion King 2 (2008) Movie Review

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008) IMDB AMZN

The Scorpion King 2 is a prequel to the first Scorpion King movie showing how Mathayus, originally played by Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), became who he was. It is also as noted on IMDB:

This film is a prequel to a prequel of a sequel of a remake. That is, it is the prequel to The Scorpion King (2002), which is a prequel to The Mummy Returns (2001), which is a sequel to The Mummy (1999) which can be considered as a loose remake of The Mummy (1932).

So there is that. But there is no Dwayne Johnson in this movie. We do get a former wrestling/UFC star with Randy Couture though. Overall this is not a very good movie. The acting is sub-par and the story is just ok. The movie centers around a quest to retrieve the sword of Damocles that is found in the underworld so Mathayus can avenge the death of his father. While completing this quest they enter a labyrinth and must defeat the minotaur. Should I have said spoiler ? Other things happen, more quest, there is fighting, blah blah blah, bad acting, skip it.

I give it a 4/10.

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So What Do You Think of Mazes as Art ?

I stumbled upon this article by 538: Americans Disagree On The Definition Of Art. If you don’t want to read it (but you should), here is a summary with some commentary.

• Americans disagree about Art ? Americans disagree about everything. That’s all my commentary.

• The post was written based off of a YouGov poll. According to the poll 49% of people considered themselves at least somewhat artistic. Really ? And 85% of them think they are above average drivers. What can a somewhat artistic person make ?

• In general Americans do not think Modern art is art. A majority of Americans think they can replicate some specific modern works of art, and that means it isn’t art to them.

That brings me to the purpose of this website. Is there such a thing as maze art ? I think there is and one day would like to open a maze museum. I used Starryai to create some possible photos of it, here is one example of what it might look like:

What I do have a problem with is defining it. Here are my 4 possible definitions from my blog on how to make maze art.

Maze Art - A solvable maze of a subject that is good enough that someone would consider hanging it on the wall as an art piece.

Maze Art - A piece of art that just so happens to contain a solvable maze.

Maze Art - A solvable maze made to look like something that is not a maze, like an object/thing/person/place/landscape.

Maze Art - A solvable maze made to look aesthetically pleasing or interesting and not just to be solved.

What do you think the definition of maze art is ?

Back to the original article. Do readers think they can maze the mazes I make ? I think some of you certainly can. And if you do reach out ! I love to be inspired.

Happy maze-ing !

Maze of the Week #82 - Mexican Door Maze

Maze of the Week #82 is a bit different than my typical maze because it deals with a scene, specifically a scene of a door in Mexico. You may or may not know that I have spent a few Winters in Mexico to get out of the cold. It’s wonderful. This particular door was made as a conglomeration of many different doors I have seen around the country. My reference pictures came from Querétaro and Oaxaca where I have spent the most time. The main picture used was from a house in Oaxaca. This is my 5th maze from Mexico and my 2nd “scene” in the country:

Part 1 - Chichen Itza

Part 2 - Museo Soumaya

Part 3 - QRO walking street

Part 4 - Templo de Sangre de Cristo

Photos: The main door used for the structure of the maze (Oaxaca). A little bit of brick, concrete, stones…typical for Mexico.

Flowers typically found on the sidewalks crawling up the building (Queretaro).

Colorful door with window used in the maze (QRO).

My old neighbor. One version of the electrical you find in Mexico (QRO).

A typical rooftop Water tank (OAX)

The Maze: I changed the colors many times and am still not satisfied…anyway here it is (for now). Start and Goal are in yellow (INICIO and META in Spanish)

Mexican Door Maze

I hope you enjoy the maze. Maze download is available on the homepage. Don’t forget to check out my YouTube channel where you can watch this maze being made and solved!!

Coming next week:

A maze of a museum in the news this week !