Bottom line: I'm retiring my personal website, wizzard.com, tomorrow after 3 decades and more than a million visitors. (If you want to visit, a screen bigger than your phone is suggested.) ****** The longer version follows here: 30+ years ago, in a down stairs store in Palo Alto, CA we were

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans or others who celebrate it! My wife and I dropped off small gifts to our favorite farmer yesterday and he loaded us up with veggies from his greenhouse. As in the past he also used the occasion of our visit to trim off some #food #Thanksgiving

Glass Maps 21: 99.9% done This is the second to last update in this chapter of the building of glass world maps. (I've already printed a smaller map for the next chapter.) Yea; after many delays, re-gluing Hawaii 2 times when I'd bump it trying to clean the map, similar issues #art #sculpture

From No Kings rally and march today 18oct25 in Chico, CA. Looked a lot bigger than the first one to me. #no kings #Chico, CA

Glass Maps 20: more showing off. One more video at the Reveal party. (See previous post) #Art #Sculpture

Glass Maps 19:the Reveal My wife & I bundled up Map B and drove it to Galena, Illinois where we met my brother & his wife who came from the Philadelphia area. My other brother joined us from Michigan. Shortly after we moved our suitcases into a B&B, my brothers brought #Art #Sculpture

Art tour continued. As we left House of Balls (see previous post), Allen's wife told us we should visit another outdoor art sculpture nearby in St. Paul, MN. Raspberry Island Park features #sculpture #art

Art tour! When visiting the outdoor sculpture walk yesterday and then talking to the sculptor Wayne about my art at burningman and otherwise he told me YOU HAVE TO GO SEE ALAN! Alan has a studio space in Minneapolis called House of Balls (his early art involved carving bowling #art #sculpture

Close encounters of the second kind? Stopped by to see a couple well known chunks of rock, a very large woman and an impressive collection of sculptures in a long drive in South Dakota and figured I should share them. The first stop was made famous in a SciFi film. #travel #geology #sculpture

Posted an image a Buffalo while in Montana. Today on Buffalo Wyoming, we had a sasquatch sighting! I love traveling in the west! #travel #roadtrip #wildlife

Passed through Yellowstone yesterday and almost ran into one of the fuzzy cows. Good boy! #buffalo

Makin' candied ginger Bought, peeled and sliced about 10 pounds of ginger into 1/8th inch slices yesterday. Today I boiled the pot completely full for 90 minutes or so and then dumped out the water. While still hot and wet, I dumped in about 6 pounds of sugar and returned to the stove at #Food

Glass Maps 18 Map b is packed for travel! My stress levels have dropped. I've yet to show this map completed from the front because I want my brother and his wife to be the first people to see it that way. I'll send the first photos after we have the unveiling. #Art #Sculpture

Today's memories of Burningman are from 2008 when the theme was "The American Dream". My first thought was how much of that dream was lost in our reaction to the 911 attacks. Somehow a 20 foot tall The End sign was my best response. #Burningman #Art #Sculpture

Today's memories of Burningman go back to 2014. Our Santa Cruz burner group decided to build a regional art project on the desert. After several meetings we decided it had to be a surf wave. In the week until the next meeting, I built a prototype seen in the first image to #Burningman #Art

Today is my wedding anniversary! 12 years ago Gwen and I were married at burningman under a three legged arch that I built for the occasion. The wedding was at sunset attended by a few friends and a ton of passersby who saw something going on. Since we were so well known in the #Burningman #Art

In my previous post I should have included this youtube video from the event that went viral with over 13 million views in a couple days. #Burningman Check out this video from this search, mayan tricycle share.google/QMq4wps5E9xw...

As the event is still going on without me again this year, today's burningman memory is from 2012 when the world was supposed to end because the Mayan calendar was resetting to zero. I designed, raised money and collected a team including an awesome main builder to #Burningman #Art #Sculpture

Today's tribute to that thing out on the desert is the 2007 burning man project I called "Global warming" that was a 7' diameter hallow wooden sphere that I eventually painted like a globe prior to rolling it into the blazing fire at the base if the collapsed man. I'm into spheres so #Burningman

I'm not going to burning man this year but in 2004 I designed and lead the team that built "Pagoda of infinite reflection" at the event. I hope the desert rains don't negatively impact the fun of those attending this year. #burningman #Art

Glass Maps 17: Delivering map b Since the previous update, I've only spent a couple hours on map b after waiting over a week letting the glue dry. There are a few things to fix on map a, but I've been unmotivated to start partly because of space & time limits. Meanwhile, I'm #Art #Sculpture

Burning Man 2026 is open, and my first attempt at a post about it was tagged for Adult Content because you could see my butt. Too much I guess. Instead, let me plug 'my movie' to anyone who would like to know more about this amazing event. I'm one of 3 artists #Burningman #Art

Makin' raisins Our fridge and countertops have been covered with tubs of grapes lately with many bunches still collecting sunlight out in our little vineyard. When you have bunches of grapes, 100 degree sunny days and some backyard tables; RAISINS. #food #fruit #garden #harvest #abundance

Glass Maps 16: Maps b DONE! With my wife's help in the final final cleaning, I just permanently sealed map b into its glass box! After more than a month of tedious cleaning and polishing excess bits or smears of silicon glue, I called it as clean as I could make it and time to #Art #Sculpture

Glass Map 15: map b 99.5% done I've been cleaning the glass on map b with a white background of the tempate map for a couple weeks. Today I just completed the final cleaning of the box into which the map will be glued. It won't be touched until final assembly. The next step is to #Art #Sculpture

I went out to check if any of our figs were ripe enough to eat yet but no. Fear set in when I found a split fig humming a little tune and saying "feed me". I brought it in the house and gave it a bit of raw hamburger and wanted more. Maybe I can grow my own little shop of horror. #garden #horror

Grapes, bunches & bunches of 'em. #grapes #garden

Glass Maps 14: no update For the handful of people actually keeping up with my maps project, I'm exactly where I was 2 weeks or so ago; about 99% done with the hardest 1% still to go. I've spent those 2 weeks catching up on some of the outdoor projects that have been on hold as I #Art #Sculpture

planted late last fall sun and water and some soil summer onions dry #haiku

When DjTrump says "two weeks" he's really saying "i'm TOO WEAK to answer".

Glass Maps 13: about 99% done, hardest 1% to go. (My previous post about the No King protest yielded over 1k likes! Maybe an art post gets that much attention some day...) I'm finishing Australia and New Zealand on both maps right now. Maybe a day of fiddling around for each since #Art #Sculpture

No kings rally today in Chico, CA. Big turnout for a small town. #NoKing

No kings poster 4 I printed 4 posters for the no kings protest tomorrow. I picked the message on 2 of them, my wife on the other 2. See you on the streets tomorrow?

No kings poster 3 I printed 4 posters for the no kings protest tomorrow. I picked the message on 2 of them, my wife on the other 2. See you on the streets tomorrow?

No kings poster 2 I printed 4 posters for the no kings protest tomorrow. I picked the message on 2 of them, my wife on the other 2. See you on the streets tomorrow?

No kings poster 1 I printed 4 posters for the no kings protest tomorrow. I picked the message on 2 of them, my wife on the other 2. See you on the streets tomorrow?

Glass Maps 12: Southern Hemisphere at last I'm working on the southern half of the earth, the half with very little land area. I love this hemisphere! Yeh there are a lot of islands around Australia, but the other 2 continent areas are as simple as this process can be. Nice #Art #Sculpture #3D

Glass Maps 11: Crossing the Equators and focus. On the slightly smaller map (let's forever call it map b) I've finished from the Equator to the north pole! This version of the map includes Antarctica. I've moved the support for the Equator to the bottom of the map to work on that #Art #Sculpture

Glass Maps 10: what's the final goal again? Chatting with a new follower/followee, I realize that not everyone who has read a recent Glass Maps update has read all 10 or so previous posts. Therefore, here is a photo of the glass map I made decades ago but lost to a Wildfire. This is a photo #Art

Glass Maps 9 addendum: more than 1 sheet I went to my Glass shop today to get more 1/8th inch thick window glass because my pile of 3" strips has shrunk to the point where I'll run out in a couple more days! When I added up the amount of glass I've used so far it surprised #Art #Sculpture #3d

Glass Maps 9: Aleutians & parts far north It's been a while since my last update; I've taken days off letting my thumb and finger cuts heal at least partially. As I've tempted the sharp edges to do more damage, I've added a fair amount of glass to North America & Eurasia a little at a time. #Art

In past years, our well mixed neighborhood would have been alive with all night Mexican music in anticipation of Cinco de Mayo by now. My wife pointed out we may not hear the celebrations for a variety of reasons. I hope she is wrong and we can't sleep tomorrow night w/o earplugs.

Glass Maps 8: heading north, bloody fingers & stray glue. I've been making major progress moving into northern Canada & Eurasia and getting to the parts of the map where foot long pieces of glass can be added. I'm also approaching halfway done I'm guessing or close to it. As I remember #sculpture

Turkey update. She's back one or several times each day now. I'm sprinkling extra seed where I know she goes. She's training me well. #bird #turkey #spring

Glass Maps 7: Great Lakes & Mediterranean slowdown I just got to the Lakes around the state I was born & grew up in; Michigan, USA on both maps. #Sculpture #3d #glass #Art

Bloom with a view. A ladybug enjoying the morning sun from a high vantage point. #Flower

Flowers and bird update: The turkey keeps wandering through the back yard first thing in the morning to see how much bird seed I and my winged friends have scattered in a day. Scattered around the house are iris clumps i haven't managed to weed whack. This morning the purples were out. #flower

Wild turkey update 3: After cleaning the base of the Almond tree that had the worst tangle of grass roots & other weeds, it was 6" lower. I loaded the hole and base with top soil and some chicken manure and left it overnight. Next morning, yesterday, our turkey was making a depression to lay in.

Our wild turkey has been a daily visitor since I first posted a while ago. She uses a gap in our fence with a neighbor to walk between both yards when out for a stroll. I've not seen her fly, but we've seen her on high places she didn't climb. Her mate hangs out in the shadows the neighbor says.

Haven't had time for several days to work on my glass maps because I've been cutting grass & pulling weeds around our home. My long hair cat Buffy who is semi feral & lives outdoors much of the time keeps bringing in one of the nastiest seed/seed delivery system I've been fighting since #Cat