Politcal Maze Cartoons for Publication, By Yonatan Frimer

For immediate release -

May 31st, 2010 -

The link below contains 5 (five) maze cartoons on this weeks headlines that you may freely publish in your newspaper and/or website. They are pretty funny and each one is also a maze. Check it out...

http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

This week's maze cartoon topics:
* Politicians and lie detector.
* Sarah Ferguson and bribes.
* Arizona immigration law.
* Turkey-Iran nuclear fuel swap.
* Dow Jones.

Again, the link to get these at is http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

Maze cartoons are an "interactive" way to entertain your audience, even on a printed or static page. The cartoon aspect captures current events, while the maze aspect captures the reader to interact with the image for a few moments. Try it for no cost and watch how your audience loves it.


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URL for this weeks cartoons: http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Released Monday, May 31st, 2010

You may print or publish these cartoon mazes.

• Each of these cartoons is also a maze, entrance/exits marked by arrows.
• Links to printable version and the solutions are under each cartoon.
  
• Please attribute to Yonatan Frimer and RSL.
• Yonatan Frimer is available for hire as a freelance cartoonist, fore more info click here.

Cartoon Maze Lie Detector Electricity, by Yonatan Frimer

Cartoon maze of Sarah Ferguson thinking about taking money out from a bear trap which is labeled "News Of The World" and says, "I am going to try and grab it, Hopefully it's not a trap." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Cartoon Maze of Sarah Ferguson taking bribes.

Cartoon maze of Sarah Ferguson thinking about taking money out from a bear trap which is labeled "News Of The World" and says, "I am going to try and grab it, Hopefully it's not a trap." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Editorial Maze Cartoon on Arizona Immigration laws.

Cartoon maze editorial bunch immigrants sneaking into America. Leader tells them "We are almost there folks, make sure you have plenty of water and get your fake birth certificate from Sanchez before the border." As they stand near a road with a sign that says, "Arizona 50 Miles." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Editorial Maze Cartoon on Turkey Giving Iran Nuclear Fuel Rods.

Cartoon maze editorial of a turkey reading the newspaper with the headline, "Turkey to supply Iran with fuel rods." The turkey has a sad face and says, "Lets hope I can make enough nuclear fuel rods by Thanksgiving." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Editorial Cartoon Maze on a Dow Jones Airline, by Yonatan Frimer

Cartoon maze editorial of an airplane, labled Dow Jones that has sand bags on its wings and tail and the sand is leaking out an labeled, "Glitch, EU, Greece and Reform" the co-pilot exclaims, "Sir! We are losing altitude! We gotta keep above 10,000 to avoid a crash!" Created by Yonatan Frimer
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'The Mirror Maze' Review – Ow, My Brain Hurts

'The Mirror Maze' Review – Ow, My Brain Hurts

posted by Eli Hodapp on May 25th, 2010 4:34 AM EDT in $0.99, Games, Puzzle, Reviews, iPhone games, iPod touch games

Re-posted by Yonatan Frimer

Last weekend, Assyria Games' unleashed The Mirror Maze [$1.99] on the App Store. Like any good puzzle game, the entire premise of The Mirror Maze can be explained in a single sentence: Control a red and a green ball, and get each of them in to their matching color zones on the other side of the screen.

This goal is accomplished by touching where you want the red ball to go. The green ball then goes in the opposite direction. The first few levels are very easy, and it doesn't take you long to understand the remarkably simple concept of the game. This is the exact moment that The Mirror Maze starts throwing increasingly difficult mazes at you which require a surprising amount of brain power to complete once the levels advance to the point of not being symmetrical at all.

Not only do the mazes become completely asymmetrical, but they eventually start being composed of both moving barriers and the warp gates seen above which act like little portals warping your ball between them. All of these obstacles must be successfully avoided using a single input for both balls, and it's really surprising how much thought goes in to figuring out the movements of both balls using a single touch input.

The Mirror Maze has online leaderboards powered by Agon, and while there are currently only 36 levels included in this version of the game, the following gameplay trailer makes mention of more levels coming soon:

There have been a ton of maze games released on the iPhone, but few offer much variation on just getting a single ball to the end of a maze. It would be nice if there were more levels, and there is an odd pause as mazes reload upon each retry (of which there will likely be many), but The Mirror Maze is worth trying just to see how difficult it can be to not only avoid obstacles with the ball with regular controls but also constantly thinking in reverse while you manage the other ball.

App Store Link: The Mirror Maze, $1.99

Obama needs to wake up and smell the.... By Yonatan Frimer

Maze Cartoon Obama sleeping and ignoring the polls:

Editorial cartoon maze of President Obama sleeping as a hot cup of coffee marked "Polls" is next to him and a caption that reads, "Wake up and smell the....." Created by Yonatan Frimer.
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Barack Obama Sees Approval Ratings Decline After Pro-Abortion Elena Kagan

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama has seen has approval ratings decline in the aftermath of his selecting pro-abortion Solicitor general Elena Kagan for the open Supreme Court position. Obama's approval ratings are at one of their lowest points in the last month and heading back down to their health care-dominated levels. The Rasmussen Reports daily shows 45%...(read more)

Tiger Woods Cartoon Maze in the Gulf (golf) Of Mexico by Yonatan Frimer

Maze Cartoon - Tigers Woods in the Gulf

Editorial maze cartoon of Tiger Woods in the Gulf, the crewman apologizes for the mix up, says "We need a GULF clean up."

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Thanks, hope you've enjoyed this Maze cartoon of Tiger Woods Gulf Golfer. The entrance and exit of the maze is at the upper-right and lower-left corners of the image. A link to the solution of the maze is right under the image. Created by Yonatan Frimer

Maze Cartoon on theory by Albert Einstein on World War Four

Einstein's Theory of Warv
Editorial Cartoon Maze on Einstein's Theory that World War 4 will be fought with sticks. In the foreground an HTV-2 rocket flies off, a weapon that is intended to replace the atomic bomb.
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Maze cartoon of Obama's camaign promise of "Change" By Yonatan Frimer

The Promise from Obama Maze


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GDP grew by 3.2 percent in first quarter

By Ian Swanson - 04/30/10 09:18 AM ET

The nation’s gross domestic product increased 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2010, bolstering the Obama administration’s arguments that the economy is improving.

The jump in GDP was lower that the 5.6 percent increase registered in the last quarter of 2009, but still represents significant economic growth. It’s the third quarter in a row that the U.S. economy has expanded.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement on the figures from the Rose Garden on Friday morning. (Read More)


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Dream a Little Dream of Recall - Those who dream about mazes solve them better

Dream a Little Dream of Recall

As the sleeping brain builds memories it generates dreams about recently learned material

Posted: April 26, 2010

By Bruce Bower, Science News

People who have nap-time dreams about a task that they’ve just practiced get a big memory boost on the task upon awakening, Harvard researchers report.

Those who dream about anything else have no such enhanced recall, the team reports in a paper published online April 22 in Current Biology. Neither do those who stay awake, even if they think about the task.

“I was startled by this finding,” says study coauthor Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School. “Task-related dreams may get triggered by the sleeping brain’s attempt to consolidate challenging new information and to figure out how to use it.”

His new findings elaborate on research suggesting that sleep generally enhances memory and learning (SN: 4/28/07, p. 260).

Dreaming about a demanding undertaking doesn’t cause enhanced memories for that experience, Stickgold emphasizes. Rather, memory-fortifying brain processes during sleep cause the dreams, he proposes. During slumber, Stickgold posits, a structure called the hippocampus integrates recently learned information, such as how to navigate a virtual maze, while other brain regions apply this information to related but broader situations, such as how to navigate a maze of job application forms.

That’s a “tempting speculation,” remarks physiological psychologist Jan Born of the University of Lübeck in Germany. Stickgold’s idea has much potential for fostering advances in dream research, Born says.

Stickgold’s group focused on dreams that occur during non–rapid eye movement, or NREM, sleep. Previous studies found links between chemical and electrical activity in the brain during NREM sleep and better learning by rats and people. Neural activity sparked by recent learning has not been observed during rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, which often includes especially vivid and bizarre dream elements.

In the new investigation, 99 college students age 18 to 30 spent an hour practicing a virtual maze task on a computer. In a series of trials, volunteers navigated through a complex, three-dimensional maze, starting from a different spot each time. They were instructed to remember the location of a particular tree in the maze.

For the first 90 minutes of a five-hour break from practicing, students were assigned either to take a nap or to engage in quiet activities such as watching videos.

Nappers’ electrical brain activity was monitored with scalp sensors. Experimenters questioned the students about their dreams just before they fell asleep, after one minute of continuous NREM sleep and at the end of the nap period. Volunteers who stayed awake recounted their thoughts at the start, middle and end of the 90-minute session.

After lunch and a period of quiet activity, participants reentered the virtual maze at random spots and were asked to find the tree that they had previously tried to remember.

Those who had dreamed of the experimental task — four of 50 nappers — found the tree much faster than they had in initial trials. These individuals described dreams such as seeing people at particular locations in a maze or hearing music that had played in the lab during testing.

All of the volunteers who dreamed about the maze had performed relatively poorly during pre-nap training, Stickgold notes. Memory processes invoked by the sleeping brain may respond most strongly to challenges perceived as difficult and important to solve, he suggests.

Stickgold’s group is now designing a more exciting maze task intended to elicit task-related dreams in a larger proportion of volunteers.

The researchers also plan to examine whether people who have REM dreams about a maze task during a full night’s slumber navigate that maze better the next day.

Can of Whoop Ass for Iran - Editorial Cartoon Maze by Yonatan Frimer

Can Of Whoop Ass for Iran - Maze

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Editorial Cartoon Maze of a can of whoop ass for Iran with Israel and the USA debating opening it or not.

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JFK vs Obama: Editorial Cartoon maze by Yonatan Frimer

Editorial Maze Cartoon - JFK vs Obama on NASA

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Editorial Cartoon Maze contrasting JFK to Obama on the issue of travelling to the moon and NASA.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Editorial cartoons on the middle east, Obamacare and Iran

***For Immediate Release***

April 19, 2010 - Tel Aviv, Israel - Cartoonist Yonatan Frimer has released a handful of editorial cartoons to help drum up publicity of his upcoming book. These cartoons may be published for no charge for editorial purposes.

Each of the cartoons is actually also a solvable maze, making them one of the few "interactive" forms of media that can be printed in traditional newspapers.

The cartoons can be viewed and downloaded at http://teamofmonkeys.com/press

About Team Of Monkeys
Team Of Monkeys is a cartoon created by Yonatan Frimer and RSL, two highly creative professionals that have made a living by poking fun at the ironies of society. In addition to carrying a complex message within the cartoons, each of the images is also a solvable maze, a feature that makes them ideal for reversing the declining market share of traditional newspapers. Both Frimer and RSL are based in Israel and have conflicting political views, making them able to cater to both the left, center and right political leanings.

Contact:
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Maze of Optical Illusion happy face, by Yonatan Frimer

Happiness is an illusion, Maze by Yonatan Frimer

Maze of an optical illusion of a smiley face. Created by Yonatan Frimer

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Editorial Maze Reform: Political mazes by Yonatan Frimer and RSL

Political Maze on Health-care Reform

Political Cartoon Maze - Obamacare
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Political Maze Iranian Regime Puppets

Political Cartoon Iranian Regime
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Political maze cartoon of the Iranian supreme leader Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i using his team of monkeys to control a puppet baring the likeness of Mahmoud ahmadinejad, the current president of Iran.

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Political Maze Cartoon of Gaze Situation

Political Maze Cartoon of Gaze Situation

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Monkeys depicting the Palestinians aim arms, guns and rockets at a giant sleeping monkeys marked as Israeli. The overall message of the cartoon is that the Palestinians are going to wake a sleeping giant.


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Editorial Maze Cartoon of Gaza Guns and Butter

Guns and Butter in Gaza

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Monkeys depicting the Palestinians aim arms, guns and rockets at a giant sleeping monkeys marked as Israeli. The overall message of the cartoon is that the Palestinians are going to wake a sleeping giant.


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Maze of Monkeys on a Dog Sled, By Yonatan Frimer and RSL

Dogsled Monkey Maze By Yonatan Frimer

Maze of Monkeys on Dogsled

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Phoebe Network of Trust hosts teen maze

Phoebe Network of Trust hosts teen maze

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ALBANY, GA (WALB) – All the choices you make each day, may make you feel like you're wandering through a maze. The choices you make today will impact your future. That's why 7th Graders from Dougherty County schools were led through the Get a life teen maze at Albany State Wednesday.

It's an interactive life simulation where students are shown the positive and negative consequences of their behavior and life choices. Some can lead to STDs, some to death as this casket represents, but good decisions can help them cross the stage at graduation and be rewarded. We found one group of students in a jail cell.

"I used a fake ID to buy alcohol for the party so I got sent to jail," said Dajah Washington of her experience.

Jazmine Mace said, "I think it's good to make the right decisions now, because what you make now in your teen life will always follow you."

Organizer Eddie McBride said, "Once you make the decisions here, it's in a safe atmosphere, but just like in real life, if you make a decision, you can't undo the decisions you made in real life."

The teen maze was coordinated by Phoebe's Network of Trust and community partners.

Robert Cross Middle Magnet School students “go to jail” for a poor life decision while participating in a “Get a Life” teen maze at Albany State University Wednesday.

Lindsey Vonn crashes in World Cup giant slalom, Tina Maze takes it

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Lindsey Vonn is still in the overall World Cup lead, however her lead over Maria Riesch was cut today, 1571 to 1406. Lindsey crashed out of the giant slalom course early on, and may have injured her knee. She was able to ski down the rest of the course, but was clearly favoring it. We'll let you know her status when we have more info.

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Maria Riesch had a strong race, ending up third on the podium, her second career podium in this discipline. Tina Maze took the vibes from her strong Olympic performances (two silver medals) into this race and took the top spot. This is her first win of the season. Coming in a close second was Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl.

"It was really close, I knew that already," Maze said after the race. "The course is really flat. It's easy to ski, you just had to attack. It's always close, the last races were so close. [Winning an Olympic medal] was my goal," Maze continued. "But this year I still [hadn't] won a race, so it's great to end the season like this. It couldn't be better."

Hoelzl won the GS overall (seen kissing the globe in the picture) - the first of her career - with 471 points, followed by Kathrin Zettel (ninth Thursday) with 394 points and Maze with 372.

Julia Mancuso didn't have enough overall or giant slalom points to compete today. She and Lindsey Vonn tied for 28th in the giant slalom standings, and they will both race in tomorrow's Super G (granted Lindsey didn't hurt her knee).

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Team Of Monkeys - Fly Swat Team

Maze of SWAT team monkeys, fly swatters

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

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Ice blocks arriving for world record ice maze

By Phil Fairbanks

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

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

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Memoirs of the invisible monkeys - Maze

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King Kong of Mazes

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'Intelligent' oil droplet navigates chemical maze by Colin Barras

'Intelligent' oil droplet navigates chemical maze by Colin Barras

There's some humbling news from the chemical world for anyone who has ever found themselves lost in a garden maze. A simple droplet of organic solvent can find its way through a complicated labyrinth with nothing more to go on than a slight pH difference.

Bartosz Grzybowski's team at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, used a common polymer to fashion a two-dimensional labyrinth some 2 centimetres on each side. They then flooded the maze with strongly alkaline potassium hydroxide solution, before placing a hydrochloric acid-soaked chunk of gel at the maze exit.

After about 40 seconds they placed a droplet of mineral oil containing hexyldecanoic acid at the maze entrance. The oil, which cannot mix with the potassium hydroxide solution, sits on the surface. But it remains still only for a matter of seconds – it soon begins tearing around the maze at speeds of up to 10 millimetres per second, sniffing out the shortest path to the acid-soaked gel, and solving the maze in the process.

"In the movie files you can see the droplet makes decisions," says Grzybowski. "It goes left along the wrong path, decides there's something fishy with that and so it reverses. It looks almost alive."

Primitive intelligence

But while Grzybowski says the droplet displays behaviour that might be called "primitive intelligence", there's a simple chemical mechanism at work.

The droplet leaches its acid into the surrounding solution, losing hydrogen ions in a process known as deprotonation – a process that affects the surface tension of the droplet itself.

"But to the front and rear of the droplet [the surrounding solution] has a different pH," he says, because of diffusion from the acid-soaked gel at the maze exit. Those tiny pH differences affect the amount of deprotonation that happens at the front and rear of the droplet, and this asymmetry sets up a surface tension gradient that forces the droplet into motion. "I would say the droplet is self-propellant," he says.

Grzybowski's team thinks that the behaviour could have implications for cancer treatments. They would like to develop micelles – aggregates of molecules such as balls of lipids – that can navigate pH gradients in the body. "A good reason for that is cancer is more acidic than the rest of the body," Grzybowski says.

Slime mystery

But the chemical behaviour could also offer an explanation for the apparently intelligent behaviour of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum, which 10 years ago was shown to possess similar maze-solving abilities by Toshiyuki Nakagaki, now at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.

"The [new] finding is interesting since it gives an insight of possible physical mechanisms for Physarum to find a path in the maze," Nakagaki says.

Journal reference: Journal of the American Chemical Society, DOI: 10.1021/ja9076793

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Hallucamazenic Maze-A-Delic - Ink On Paper, Winter 2006,

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Maze of the Statue of Liberty - 2009

Maze of Liberty - 2009 - Yonatan Frimer

Which maze of the statue of liberty do you like better. The psychedelic one or the line art one? Answer with care down bellow in the comments. Thanks

Psychedelic Liberty Maze

Maze of the Statue of Liberty


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Marketing and Dog Walking Monkeys - Team Of Monkeys Comics By Yonatan Frimer

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Maze of Team Of Monkeys Putting Up Billboard

Maze of Team Of Monkeys Putting Up Billboard
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Life Guard Monkeys? Team Of Monkeys Maze Cartoon by Yonatan Frimer

Maze of Team Of Monkeys life guards

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By Yonatan Frimer and RSL

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Maze of "Kung fu monkeys turn tables on trainer" Created by Yonatan Frimer

Maze of Team Of Monkeys Kung fu Fighting

Maze of Team Of Monkeys Kung Fu Fighting


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This maze was made after reading this very interesting story, found here:
http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_3602542.html

Kung fu monkeys turn tables on trainer

A Chinese man who trained monkeys martial arts to entertain shoppers was shocked when they turned the tables on him.

Lo Wung's taekwondo monkeys have become a regular feature outside a shopping centre in Enshi, Hubei province, where they were trained to show off their martial arts skills on each other.

But one quick-thinking monkey saw his chance when Lo slipped - and caught him with a perfect flying kung fu kick to the head. The rest then joined in the affray.

Hu Luang, 32, who caught the incident on camera, said: "I saw one punch him in the eye - he grabbed another by the ear and it responded by grabbing his nose.

"They were leaping and jumping all over the place - it was better than a Bruce Lee film."

At one point the monkey trainer grabbed a staff to hit the monkeys, only to find himself facing a stick-brandishing monkey that cracked him over the head.

Lo only managed to get the monkeys under control by tangling them up in the rope that had been used to stop them running off.

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Eminem and Simon & Garfunkel mazes by Yontan Frimer

Simon and Garfunkel Maze created by Yonatan Frimer

Simon and Garfunkel Maze

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Eminem Maze Portrait - Marshal Mathers



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Maze-A-Delic 2006





Maze of Grant Wood's American Gothic