Every once in a while I’ll put tweezers to them. Then there was one time a barber shaved my unibrow with an electric shaver (that was uncalled for!), but otherwise it’s not something I’ve thought about much until recently when I noticed the new SAI Eyebrow Designer at the Diagonal Plaza shopping center.
I decided to give it a try and there I met the owner Suna Sapkota Subedi who’s from Chitwan, Nepal, near Katmandu, and practices the ancient method of hair removal called threading.
Suna received her license in Nepal at a school called Nil-Debit. She spent a year getting trained on eyebrows, sideburns, upper lips, chin and full faces.
She leaned me back in a chair similar to one found at a dentist’s office holding a cotton thread stretched around both hands and it looked like she was about to floss my teeth, but instead she plucked away at my brow using a twisting motion, which grabbed my eyebrow hairs between the thread.
“The difference between waxing and threading is there are no chemicals,” Suna told me. “This technique is popular in Canada, London, and the United States.”
The whole process took twenty minutes and when she brought the mirror to my face I couldn’t believe the difference two eyebrows make instead of one!
Coming out of Sai Eyebrow Designer, with model looks, was Grace, one of Suna’s customers. I asked her about her experience.
Grace researched eyebrow designers online on Yelp when she first moved to Boulder.
“And Suna came up and had great reviews, so I had to check her out.”
I asked if she found the threading process painful.
“I have a high pain tolerance so I don’t think so,” she replied “I mean beauty is pain… We (women) like to do it because it feels good.”
Eyebrows cost $14. Sona also does Sideburns, upper lips, chin, or the full face.
SAI Eyebrow Designer is located in the Diagonal Plaza shopping center next to the Boulder Drivers License office.
Visit Suna today at 2850 Iris Ave. Suite L, Boulder, CO 80301 in the DMV building. Plenty of parking.
Ron Fortier has been a professional comic book writer and author for almost fifty years, now.
The comic books he’s worked on are numerous and you’ve definitely heard of some of the super heroes he’s written comics for like The Hulk, Popeye,Rambo, Peter Pan, The Green Hornetand The Terminatorare just a few!
He spends a good deal of time now-a-days publishing independent comic books at his Airship27.com publisher site and let us tell you has has many, many books and comics published under his belt!
Ron is no stranger to Comic Cons and we at GoshDarnBlog caught up with him at the Fort Collins Comic Con in August 2022.
We asked Ron 4 questions so if you’re a fan of Stan Lee then you’ll really like Ron Fortier.
GoshDarnBlog asked him about his career and about how to do a Comic Con when you’re a newb.
Read on to find out below!
1. What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from Comic Cons? What advice do you have for someone who wants to be a vendor at a Comic Con?
“…For the first time, if they are sitting behind the table alright, as a creator, is have fun! Have fun meeting people, being social and talking to ’em okay? Don’t go with the mercenary attitude of “Oooh I gotta sell all my books, oh I gotta make a profit, blah blah blah,” … if you go in with that attitude it’s like I said it’s very mercenary, very cold, and it’s not what this fandom’s about. These people are here because they love Comics. The comics that you’ve written, illustrated or whatever, it’s an opportunity for you to meet with ’em and to share with them, okay, that love and that passion, if they buy something that’s icing on the cake… but trust me okay, even if they can’t the situation is they don’t have any money or whatever and they walk on they’ll remember that conversation they’ll walk away going that was hell of a nice guy and next time if I come back and have some cash I’m stopping over and getting one of his books. And it works all the time. It’s just being honest its liking people and having fun.”
2. When’s your next class at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins?
“We are starting it back up this September, once again It’s going to be an 8 week course at the front range community college alright it’ll be on Wednesday nights from 6 to 8 at night and um basically how to write comic strips and graphic novels.”
3. What’s your comic book series Mr. Jigsaw all about?
“Mr. Jigsaw is a comedy super Hero that myself and Hawaiian artist Gary Kato created almost forty years ago now when we were first breaking into the business and it was basically a series of short stories, 8, 10 page adventures of a character who can break apart like a jigsaw puzzle, alright, he lives in the state of Maine and operates out of the city of Portland Maine he’s a young fella he’s very naïve and he thinks his ability to break apart and then reconnect is some how very cool and so it gets him into all kinds of different problems and situations but the thing is he’s so likeable and has such a close circle of friends that they always come to his aid and in the end the good guy always wins that’s Mr. Jigsaw, Man of a Thousand Parts.”
4. What’s coming up for you?
“I got a new six issue mini series it’s science fiction it’s called beyond the stars we just kickstarted issue #1 and I’m doing it with an Italian artist names Andrea Bermeda that I connected with online he’s a 30 year veteran from working in European comics so that’s the newest thing Ron forty (Fortier) has go on the shelf these days.”
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All For Yoo and Me
I have been to this wonderful restaurant more than once, now!
They have combo plates that are right up my alley with traditional Chinese dishes with fried rice and an egg roll for $10.95 to $11.95.
So far I’ve had the Mongolian Beef, Kung Pao Chicken (both spicy) and the Beef and Broccoli, which has become my “go to”. The egg roll is extra crispy and comes with sweet red sauce and you can get it in pork or vegetable.
A Traditional Boba for $4.95 at Tra Ling’s Cafe in Boulder, CO. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.
When there I also make sure I buy a Traditional or Green Tea Boba for $4.95.
They serve your dish fast if you sit down to eat there, which is what I do. Mostly in like five minutes or less!
The restaurant has ample space for customers. If you come here on a date you will find it comfortable and quiet. Red paper lanterns populate the ceiling and their is even a red heart theme happening on the light fixtures. I asked them if the red lanterns and hearts were used for Feng shui, but I was told the color red more represents “luck.”
I’ve sat in the restaurant a number of times by myself and I will say the the yellow walls remind me of Backrooms videos on YouTube, which is funny to me, but it’s no problem.
The restaurant is clean from top to bottom with lots of space between the tables and they have convenient electric plugs in the walls if I need it.
Ample seating at Tra Ling’s and Yoo and Me. GoshDarnBlog,com 2022.
Yoo and Me Noodle House is also a part of Tra Ling’s location. If you need a landmark this Chinese restaurant is in the DMV building off Iris in Boulder.
The hours are 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM Monday through Saturday and they’re closed on Sunday. You can order online for delivery or pickup.
If you visit their website you will see their menu is vast. They even have Vietnamese dishes.
Mongolian Beef at Tra Ling;s and Yoo and Me in Boulder, Colorado. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.
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Visiting this place was different
Terracotta now has a new location and a totally different theme. The miracle of nature is in full effect at this plant cafe because, ya see, it’s full of vegetation.
Shrub, greenery, flora… oh my!
When you enter look to your right and you’ll see a wall full of foliage and a wooden chaise lounge sitting at the bottom of it looking like it all belongs in an uptown community garden.
Looking at the hanging plants coming from down from the rafters I noticed one that looked like a large platter, holding two plants, not just one.
If you want to buy a potted plant, a hanging plant or a plant close to resembling an indoor jungle tree stop by here to browse. You can even order a plant like you would a pizza and get it delivered!
Potted vines sat at the top of coffee bar and hung down through lights. A double fountain of rough marble pillars, near the window, reminded me of what they found on the moon in the movie 2001, trickling water down into a rock garden.
What a great place to just be! I thought to myself, sitting there at one of the many small tables with a white marble styled top and one large iron leg resembling more the 1920s than the 2020s.
Off the menu I ordered the Geometry, bean coffee brewed just for me in one of those Chemex brewers.
The barista, who said he was also the owner, talked to me casually about how it was not sacred geometry, but I think with all the plants around this place you can always be reminded of fractals, can ya dig?
What else happened there?
A dog was asleep on a cot, napping under a table of plants for sale, not interested at all in greeting any of the customers. There were just a few patrons who browsed through the store carrying a small metal basket by their side where they could place their succulents to buy and bring home.
Hanging plant supplies, planters, pots, plant holders, plant tables, fabric plant skirts and even plant jars are some of the things you can find here. Postcards, stickers and mugs were sold at the cash register like most stores around here have been prone to do.
In the 1980s, growing up, my mom would take me to this drug store in Brooklyn Heights and there were lots of movie, rock, comic books, games and novelties sold there.
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And gives a big middle finger to Modernism
“I have,” he says with emphasis. “In that direction I have excelled everything.”
For George, painting is more about symbolism than anything else.
“Appliances or cars er (pause) I think they don’t have symbolism… Like a can of Coke has no symbolism. A cup has symbolism. A can doesn’t. For artistic purposes, if you put anything like that… just spoils your painting…”
I ask him if he knows what an NFT is and he replies, “Huh…What’s that?”
George is forty-eight years old, from Lafayette and drives into town almost every day to draw in coffee shops. He tells me his angle is “the coffee shop.” Since he was a teenager he’s been going there to learn art rather than a school.
The man sitting with me at OZO Coffee in Boulder, Colorado, is soft spoken and intelligent. In fact he’s so soft spoken I’m wondering if my recorder will pick up his voice over the funk music and the banging sounds the baristas are making behind the counter.
On this hot August day George is hunched over in a black t-shirt. His dark hair parted to the side. In the chair next to him is a weathered leather bag with a strap that makes him look like a professional when walking down the sidewalks of this town, but in his bag are pencils and paper.
He sold me two drawings for five bucks last week and I’ve been carrying them around in my laptop bag. We’d had a short conversation about visibility or how my blog doesn’t get any hits, like he wasn’t going to do the interview with me because of it.
I was introduced to him several years before Covid and saw some of his paintings hanging up at Avante Coffee on Walnut. He had nudes, which I thought were cool and something you don’t see often in Boulder.
Courtesy George Dessev “The Funeral of Robin Hood”
Another time I saw his self-portrait, a striking painting, but something every famous painter has done, like Van Gogh for instance. George’s self-portrait looked similar to portraits from several hundred years ago, like you would see on the walls whenever you visit a well-known museum.
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Mountains, tundra and more mountains are what you see when you drive into Boulder from DIA, Denver International Airport.
Known as the Flatirons; many a painter, artist and dreamer has viewed them with a creative eye, all in appreciation of beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
Need a quick coffee? We recommend starting your Boulder adventure at The Trident Cafe. Did we forget to mention this cozy coffee place has been here for more than forty years?
Here, you can talk intellectual with the locals or go inside and read your book.
Surf the net on your laptop and drink your tea from The Trident’s top shelf, an impressive selection of green, black, herbal, peppermint, hibiscus, red berries and more. Enjoy your tea iced during the summer (along with the coffee!) and even get a refill for just a dollar.
Trident has the location, location, location, so just relax, sitting at their outside tables and maybe watch the sun go down later. Hopefully you’ll get lucky and experience a summer breeze with light rain. The thunder and lightening crashing along the mountain range. Summers in BOCO on the street of Pearl as we like to call it (it’s really Pearl St.) can be quite magical and even un-predictable if you mindfully allow it to be.
The walking mall is center of the universe in Boulder!
Now, that your thirst is quenched maybe it’s time to get something colder like a Gelato Boy. There’s two locations of this tasty gelato shop on either side of Pearl St.’s walking mall and In-between you’ll even find a Ben and Jerry’s.
Psychic shopping and new age
Next to Ben and Jerry’s is a peculiar place where you’ll walk down the stairs and find a selection of occult, psychic, Buddhist, religious texts, essays and books–The Lighthouse Bookstore. You may spend an hour there wondering if you need to buy some incense or a small Buddha statue to take back to your altar at your mountain home, but there’s worst problems to have, we think at least!
The Show
By the time the afternoon rolls around the Court House lawn will be bustling with locals and tourists alike because it’s Wednesday and that means live music on the walking mall.
Every year Downtown Boulder brings a slew of local bands belting out their newest or even classic tunes each Wednesday Eve throughout the summer months.
Big Red has restaurants in town
Big Red F has acquired lots of new locations around town as of late, so you should try eating at The Post. Whether Happy Hour or not you will find the hardiest of fare. There’s a rumor going around that the staff flew around the country looking for authentic Americana recipes from other states, so you won’t find better fried chicken locally than here! Also try their Howdy Pilsner for a light beer.
Hiking in Boulder is easy
You’ll never believe this, but at the foot of the mountain on Pearl St., is a short trail where you can have fantastic view of the whole city (or hamlet as we’ve heard some people like to call Boulder!?). It’s called The Peoples’ Crossing and once you climb up the rocks and get to the top you can sit on a bench and take a rest. Soak it all in and take pics on your iPhone. Upload them to all your social media accounts and be sure to share this article, too! The social share button is at the top of this here blog post you’re reading, so click it, sista!
Recreational edibles for reals
On your way to The Peoples’ Crossing be sure to stop at Verde, a local rec dispensary, cuz weed’s legal here, bra!
Personally, we like the brand called Wyld and they come in 10 mg’s per gummy in a pack of 10, 100 mgs total, which is more than enough for even a space-is-the-place-cannabis-veteran, but be forewarned — edibles are strong like Hercules, so don’t blame us if you start to feel funny! This is normal anyway and lots of times a 911 call is not needed.
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Free pool hall games
The day’s winding down but the fun is not over. Find free pool tables at the Sundown Saloon until 10pm and also visit Press Play, where children are allowed to play arcade games until dusk, when it changes over into a full on club.
But if bars are not your thing try…
Two museums in town
If you’re bored the Muse Museum and also BMOCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art are two places you can go to. They have events, programs and exhibits promoting only the localist of artists for you to learn about. There peruse their paintings, sculpture, mixed media or immersive art.
On a Thursday, Friday or Saturday (or almost any day, really) you will see large crowds and families with children wading in the Boulder Creek.
Near the Boulder Library you will find all types taking advantage of these natural Creekside pools of water. Sometimes you can see green headed ducks having a nice time in there as well.
The park is where it’s at!
Wade over to Eben G. Fine Park and walk down the steps that lead directly into the creek waters. Almost right at the the head of the mountain, here you can find hiking trails, green grass to sun tan on and an opportunity to “Wim Hoff it” and do a cold plunge in the creek water. For better health we’ve heard three minutes is all you need in the icy cold waters to get a full body effect. Warm yourself up after by jogging down the trail and toweling off in this spacious park.
Nightlife in town is on fire
There’s another view that’s great in this cozy little mountain town and that’s the nightlife. There’s too many places to mention, so just follow your ears to where the techno is blaring out the front doors, but if you need a different scene, bluegrass and bands can be found at places like The Velvet Elk Lounge or try the venue right off Pearl St. called the Boulder Theater. Even the Trident, which we mentioned earlier, has events every night outside in their back patio area.
Need a quieter time?
Boulder attracts lots of Buddhist types and you can find plenty of lectures and talks about new age stuff. For meditation look up The Shambhala Center,Naropa University and even the Unity Church off Folsom St. Otherwise check out the Boulder Psychic Institute for interesting and far out classes.
Boulder’s got lots more than all this going on, but these ideas should keep you busy when you venture onto Pearl St. to see what’s going down during the hot summer months! What do you like about Boulder?
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When Joshua Stevens was eleven years old he walked up to musical saw player named Jim Turner, who was playing for tips on “The Hill”, the nickname for Colorado University’s college neighborhood, in Boulder. Joshua asked Jim if he would teach him how to play. He said he would for three or four dollars an hour. Joshua then went out and got babysitting jobs and mowed lawns to pay for his lessons.
Lucky for Joshua, he learned from the best. Jim Turner was a renowned saw player and known for the album “The Well-Tempered Saw” in 1971.
Nicknames like the “psawchologist”, “musical sawyer”, the “saw-ist” were given to Jim Turner during his heyday. He played with the Boulder Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra on his album playing masterpieces like J.S. Bach’s “Bourree”.
Jim Turner was able to draw a plethora of musical sounds from the saw’s two-octave range. He fashioned his own techniques, which people still learn from today.
In 1969 he was a musical guest on both The Steve Allen and The Tonight Show. Joshua believes his name was mentioned when Johnny Carson asked Jim if had any students. He replied Joshua Stevens was his only one.
Showtime
Joshua may have never have been on The Tonight Show, but he has been on “The Gong Show”.
Joshua lived in Hollywood from 1977 to 1980 taking classes at the Beverly Hills Actor’s Workshop. He wanted to be on the show so he called them up and got on to play his musical saw.
He played “Miss You” on The Gong Show in 1978.
“I did it with a live orchestra behind me,” he said.
Joshua even has a copy of the Gong Show contract from 1978 to prove he was there.
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An Artist to Boot!
In 1979 he had an acrylic of the state bird, the lark bunting, hung in the Denver Capitol building. Then, the same year, an aide to Jimmy Carter saw the painting and requested one of the purple martin bird. The painting hung in the oval office.
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Some Saw History
The musical saw or “singing saw” may have originated 300 years ago due to it becoming widely available through the manufacturing of commercial steel saws. Early priests and monks used musical saws for their churches because they didn’t have access to musical instruments.
In 1928 a German musician named Kleiber played a saw solo in the Berlin Star Opera. In 1938 Louis Gruenberg played a melody on a song called “Rima the Bird Girl”, the radio version of “Green Mountains.”
In America it originated in the Appalachian Mountains in the 19th century and became popular in Vaudeville.
Clarence Mussehl perfected the manufacture of the instrument in 1919. He developed a special steel which gave more sustain and vibrato and it could produce sixteen to twenty notes. He started selling them commercially in 1921. During the instruments peak in popularity it averaged 25,000 sold a year.
Saw 2
Joshua owns two musical saws, a Mussehl and a Stratavarious, which plays lower notes.
Joshua Stevens learned to play the saw in his lap between his knees and often he endured ripped pants and scratches on his nose from the teeth of his saw. His brother in-law worked at a cutlery and shaved all the blades off the saw for him for a birthday present one year.
Recordings
He played both of them at the same time in 1988 on “Won’t Somebody Fill the Void”, a song from the album “Beneath the Uber-Putz”, by Little Fyodor (http://www.littlefyodor.com) from Denver. Little Fyodor does spoken word in the song, his voice resembling Primus or even The Dead Milkmen, while the musical saws make sci-fi, spacey sounds.
The best way to describe the sound is like that of a Theremin. Punk musician Little Fyodor (http://www.littlefyodor.com) from Denver recounts his first encounter with Joshua Stevens.
“I first met Joshua when he was improvising on the saw in an avant-garde duo that I featured on my experimental radio show, Under The Floorboards, which airs on KGNU. I thought, wow, he gets some crazy sounds on that thing! Only later did I realize that he was also completely adept at playing melodies on it. As with a Theremin, a good player can hit all the notes he or she intends to, and that only helps you get wild and wacky when you choose to, too. And Joshua’s sure has command of his saw. Since my own music often straddles those two sides of music, I asked him to overdub on a piece of mine called “I Can’t Relax” on my album “Beneath the Uber-Putz”, and he did a fabulous job alternating between doubling the underlying guitar riff and then getting way out there to express the out of control angst of the piece. Last time I saw him play his saw, he was playing in a Gypsy jazz combo in a north Boulder eatery….”
Bob Story (http://www.martianacres.com), a guitar singer, songwriter, and teacher of songwriting remembers when he first met Joshua in 2013. “Everyone was singing along to a Beatles song and Joshua pulled his saw out of his back pocket and just joined in. Everybody loved it. Anytime he plays he turns it into something cool…. It’s an unusual instrument to hear.”
Playtime
Joshua has played alongside lots of musicians. Bands like Elephant Revival, the Samples, Left over Salmon, Big Mann, and Architects Office. He’s also played with Jean-Marie and Mark Klagstad, Holly and the Husbands, Lela Roy, Freebo, Martin Acres, Christina Ingham, Chuck Pyle, Bob O’Conner, Michael John, and saxophone player Fred Hess.
In the past he played with Nicky Hopkins, a famous pianist and organist who is most known for the album “Let it Bleed” by the Rolling Stones.
Another notable name he has played with is Beth Quist, who is known for working with Bobby McFerrin, singing on his album “Circlesongs” and touring with McFerrin as part of his “Voicestra”.
Joshua has also played his saw at a slew of recognizable venues over the years. He’s been no stranger to Red Rocks, the Boulder Theater, the Fox Theater, and he’s played live on KGNU, Boulder’s community radio station.
Joshua also graced the stage at the Chataqua Theater and main house, the NCAR at NOAA Flagstaff Amphi Theater Concert Series, Colorado University’s Mary Rippon Amphi Theater, Macky Auditorium and Old Main.
Other venues include places like the Front Range brewery in Lafayette, the Louisville Downtown Street Fair, the Pioneer Inn in Nederland, the Lyons Blues festival, the Gold Hill Inn, and the Colorado Festival of Taste in Denver.
One of Joshua’s most interesting musical saw stories goes like this
This one took place in Philadelphia during the bicentennial in 1976. He was going to see his brother get married and family and friends told him he should meet a street musician in Philadelphia and maybe make some cash for his trip while he was there.
He walked downtown and met the musician, who played his piano on a truck bed, at Written House Square in Philadelphia. As Joshua was auditioning for him a news team recorded his performance and it ended up being on the five and ten o’clock news. Joshua became a local celebrity overnight and was recognized all during the week of the festivities.
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“I would be walking down the street with my saw in my bag and people would walk out of bars and invite me to come inside and have a drink with them… women were giving me their phone numbers… everywhere I went people recognized me and the funny thing was I had no idea I had been on the five and ten o’clock news and didn’t know what was going on. “
He was invited to a big party on July 4th and only then, while the fireworks were exploding , was he told about the news airing.
“We were making like forty to fifty dollars a day in tips and people would walk by as we played together saying I saw you on the news I thought they were talking about the pianist on the truck, but they were talking about me!”
http://www.SawLady.com – Natalia ‘Saw Lady’ Paruz lectures about the history of the musical saw (starts at 2:32) after she plays J.S.Bach on a musical saw :
D D Stewart has sixty-one mazes scanned into his computer. Apparently he has hundreds more at his disposal, just waiting for the privilege of becoming digitized.
I sit with him at a booth in a Boulder, Colorado Denny’s. If the restaurant allowed smoking we would both be partaking. He seems like he is anxious to step outside and have a cigarette. He has not touched his “Grand Slam-which.”
Then I start to ask him questions about mazes.
What was your first maze like?
“The manager was twenty-one and hired a staff of eighteen-year-olds. Somewhere in middle of this crazy atmosphere, in a dead mall with no customers, I sat at the counter and drew this trippy maze. That was the first one I ever did. Not enough sleep… and working in a dead mall.”
How many mazes have you done all together?
“Several hundred since I was 18. I’ve been doing it for fifteen years.”
Do you “do” mazes? Do you play them?
“I collect maze books. I’m able to go through mazes with my eyes, without a pen or pencil… I have to go through every single one of my own mazes because to draw a maze you have to go through it. The way is not the path from beginning to end, but it is to go through every path and make sure there is one way through it.”
What’s the definition of a maze to you?
Kulsiz.com
(There’s a long silence as D D sits across from me in the booth.)
“A beginning and an end and there’s an intricate path between… I’m able to do these in a lot of different mediums. When I started doing mazes I would start with pencil and then outline it with permanent marker. Then I would take white-out and make it look all pretty. Next I would take it to Kinkos and make copies of it. Then I copied that and redid it again and again. I would make like six versions of one maze. I’ve spent a lot of time at Kinkos just copying designs and redo-ing them with white-out.”
Currently you’re making mazes that serve as stand alone art pieces that hang on a wall?
“Now-a-days I do mazes in different mediums. Pencil, pen, permanent marker, on computer software… Currently, I’m working in ‘Paint’ on Windows and making straight, pixilated lines and the end result is an optical illusion because I’ve situated lines into certain patterns. The medium itself creates the complicated design. It’s the background I create that’s the focus now. It’s what I do before I draw a maze that creates the maze now. I’ve designed simple walking mazes before and it is something I would like to do again. A museum, an amusement park, a Halloween event; there are lots of places I could design something really neat if the right people were involved. I had a lot of fun at an Art Walk one year, putting down an eighty-foot by twenty-foot maze on the sidewalk in front of Stonebridge Games on Main Street. You could enter on either the North or South side, find your way to the store entrance, and then back out the maze the other direction. Kids and adults both had fun trying to find their way in and out.”
Above: A scale model of the walking maze design by D D Stewart with two entrances on the sidewalk that lead to the entrance of a store.
“In the future I would like to find someone who can invest a lot of money into a restaurant with three floors. Before you get to the entrance of the restaurant you have to journey through two floors of mazes. I’ve even figured out the proper fire codes to adhere to for this project.”
D D sees promise in looking for newspapers and magazines to publish his mazes. He also likes the idea of making a book to sell online both digitally and physically.
“A big one, you can put it on a coffee table in the living room even. Maybe selling it in other countries is a possibility, too.”
He also likes the idea of using mazes as Brain Therapy.
“Thinking therapy… Brain therapy… Mazes are complicated and have to do with problem solving. Mazes could be marketed to people with brain injuries or for brain training.”
Interview originally done back on 6-12-2015.
Photo Selfie: D D Stewart
Update 2018:
Visit www.kulsiz.com or buy D D’s maze books off Amazon as “Print on Demand” here.
Also, a while ago Treaphort and I worked on a remix. You can listen to it below.
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Internet Protocol addresses (IP) Types of browser Internet Service Provider (ISP) Date and time stamp Referring and exit pages Number of clicks
All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable.
This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on 1/22/2020. If you have any questions contact: evanationAThotmailDOTcom.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics Who we share your data with How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
