Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Buffalo to build the biggest ice maze EVER. By Phil Fairbanks


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Ice blocks arriving for world record ice maze

News Staff Reporter

We don't need no stinking Super Bowl trophy.

Or for that matter, a Stanley Cup.

No, we will build the world's largest ice maze instead. And then have Guinness World Records Ltd. make it all official.

On the steps of HSBC Center, dozens of volunteers are unloading and stacking 300-pound blocks of ice with the hope that, come Friday, they can boast of total and absolute supremacy in the world of outdoor ice mazes.

Their goal?

To build a nearly half-mile-long maze of ice with an open center shaped to look like a buffalo and filled with sparkling ice sculptures.

It will be, weather permitting, a puzzle big and beautiful enough to break the current record held by our cold-weather nemesis to the north.

Think of it. What better sequel to Team USA's win over Canada in Olympic hockey than stealing away Toronto's world record?

"The Guinness rep will fly in Thursday, and we'll have the coronation Friday," said an optimistic Jeff Empric of Roaming Buffaloes, one of the groups organizing the record-shattering event.

Coronation? In Buffalo?

It's all part of the first Buffalo Powder Keg Winter Festival, and the world's largest ice maze is just one of the attractions.

The two-day festival, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, is an attempt to exploit Buffalo's harsh winters, not apologize for them.

"This seemed like something that could boost Buffalo," said Ted Nitterauer of Clarence, one of the 20 or so volunteers who showed up Monday to move blocks of ice.

While the maze takes center stage, there is more to the event, including a transportation first: tubing down the Seneca Street off-ramp from the Skyway. The ramp will be closed Friday as workers prepare it for the tubing.

And if that's not enough, there will be a snowman-building contest on the plaza of HSBC Center, broom ball tournaments in a parking lot near Pearl Street Grill and Brewery and open snow tennis along Main Street.

The festival also coincides with the annual Buffalo Pond Hockey Tournament on man-made rinks at nearby Erie Basin Marina.

Of course, all of that may pale in comparison to the Great Ice Maze, the only attraction so big that it may set a new global standard for mazes.

The ice blocks, all 2,200 of them, will continue arriving over the next few days, carried by 16 tractor-trailers making their way, first from an ice-making plant in the Bronx and, more recently, a warehouse outside Rochester.

"I think we started making them the day after New Year's," said Raymond Tortorice of Arctic Glacier, the company hired to produce and deliver the ice blocks.

The first of those blocks was put in place Saturday, and by Monday afternoon, the first walls of the maze were starting to take shape.

By Thursday night, Empric is predicting an ice creation so big, it will surpass the current record holder, the 2005 Pontiac Ice Maze and its 1,940 blocks of ice in Toronto.

If there's one wild card, it's the weather.

A few days of above-freezing weather is not a big deal, said Tortorice, as long as it dips below freezing each night.

For Empric, the biggest headache Monday was not the temperature but the rain.

"It's going to be a time constraint," he said, as the wet stuff alternated between rain and sleet. "It's going to pinch our windows [of opportunity]."

He noted that volunteers are always needed and welcome. They can simply show up at the HSBC Center plaza to help out.

The two-day festival will include a beer tent, music stage and pancake breakfast for those who prefer the indoors. It starts at 8 a.m. Saturday and ends at 6 p.m. Sunday.

pfairbanks@buffnews.com


Portait maze of albert einstein

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Monkeys in non mazes, by Yonatan Frimer (2005)

Monkeys Playing Poker - knock off of "Dogs Playing Poker"
Monkeys Playing Poker, By Yonatan Frimer and RSL
Monkeys Playing Poker By Yonatan Frimer 2005

Team of Monkeys . com The World BEST monkey teams, by STOM Research

Want more works by Yonatan Frimer, such as Mazes and Portraits:
Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoons
Ink Blot Mazes - Maze Art

- Also Click on this image to enlarge - Team Of Monkeys Pit Crew for Race car
Pit stop for STOM Research, Team of Monkeys . com by Yonatan Frimer and RSL
- Click to enlarge -

Want more works by Yonatan Frimer, such as Mazes and Portraits:
Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoons
Ink Blot Mazes - Maze Art

The Team of Monkeys Pirate ship. Where is the rum?
Pirates Monkeys Team Delta echo niner, by Yonatan Frimer and RSL

Want more works by Yonatan Frimer, such as Mazes and Portraits:
Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoons
Ink Blot Mazes - Maze Art

Team Of Monkeys goes to the Moon: Monkey Lunar Landing
Yonatan Frimer 2005

Monkeyed Mission to the Moon 2005 Yonatan Frimer and RSL

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Team Of Monkeys Maze: SWAT Teams and Invisible Monkeys by Yonatan Frimer

Mazes created by Yonatan Frimer and RSL
The arrows mark the entrance and exit of the mazes, enjoy.


Memoirs of the invisible monkeys - Maze

memoirs of the invisible monkeys
Click here to view the memoirs of the invisible monkeys maze larger
want to see more mazes like these, check out
http://teamofmonkeys.com - Maze Cartoons
http://inkblotmazes.com - Maze Art


Team Of Monkeys - Fly Swat Team
team of monkeys fly swatters
Maze of SWAT team monkeys, fly swatters

want to see more mazes like these, check out
http://teamofmonkeys.com - Maze Cartoons
http://inkblotmazes.com - Maze Art

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

If you’re looking for a puzzle game that makes Rubik’s cube seem easy, this is for you brainiac. The Superplexus is a 36 inch diameter sphere that holds a 300 foot long maze track around which you have to guide a wooden marble. Sure that sounds like fun, but you can imagine the frustration. The first frustration will be the price. $30,000. The true puzzle here is how you will come up with the money and why you would want to spend thirty grand on this thing.




Want some easier puzzles, check out these mazes


Click on the mazes to view larger:

Maze of Team Of Monkeys using hammer and nails

For more mazes, check out some of these websites and don't get too lost!
Maze Comic: Team Of Monkeys . com
Maze Art: Ink Blot Mazes . com

Maze of Team Of Monkeys loading a flint lock pistol
Maze of Team Of Monkeys at cash register, cashier

For more mazes, check out some of these websites and don't get too lost!
Maze Comic: Team Of Monkeys . com
Maze Art: Ink Blot Mazes . com
Click on the mazes to view larger:
Maze of Team Of Monkeys with RPG grenade launcher
Maze of Team Of Monkeys telemarketing
Maze of Team Of Monkeys flying a hotair balloon

For more mazes, check out some of these websites and don't get too lost!
Maze Comic: Team Of Monkeys . com
Maze Art: Ink Blot Mazes . com

Superplexus ultimate 3D puzzle drives me crazy just looking at it

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Very Cool Mazes by Yonatan Frimer

Awesome mazes by Yonatan Frimer

Vampire Maze
maze comic of team of monkeys changing a tire
Vampire Maze by Yonatan Frimer
Evan Rachel Wood Plays The Queen in True Blood, The Maze

For more mazes by Yonatan Frimer, check out these links:
Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoons
Ink Blot Mazes - Maze Art
Top Mazes


John Lennon Maze Portrait by Yonatan Frimer
Imagine All The MAzes
Imagine All The Mazes

For more mazes by Yonatan Frimer, check out these links:
Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoons
Ink Blot Mazes - Maze Art
Top Mazes


Maze of a Team OF Monkeys Ironing Created by Yonatan Frimer and RSL

Maze of Team Of Monkeys ironing a shirt

For more mazes by Yonatan Frimer, check out these links:
Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoons
Ink Blot Mazes - Maze Art
Top Mazes

Maze Kong
Maze Kong - 2006 Mazes Celebrity, artword, celebrities, portraits, famous,
King Kong of Mazes

For more mazes by Yonatan Frimer, check out these links:
Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoons
Ink Blot Mazes - Maze Art
Top Mazes