The Axtell "Notebooks"

The "Notebooks"
June 13 2009, 5:45 PM

On the Axtell Customer forum some folks have wanted to see some of my concept drawings of my ideas put out in a book called "The Art of Axtell". I don't know if my little doodles would be anything book worthy but..... I have always kept records of my ideas and activities since 1982 in spiral bound notebooks. I've logged well over 200-250 ideas and inventions....some I have patented, some I have made into products (Magic Drawing Board, Bird Arm Illusions, Off the Meter, etc). Add up all the things we've only put out and it might total 20 or 30 from those pages. So....right now I'm setting up a healthy R&D Dept with some new folks and we are going to be AXploding with new products over the next few years.

The death of Ron has caused me to think about a lot of things.... one of them is faith and mine is deeper now. Another is family, and I'm working on strengthening my relationships with Suzi and my kids. Another is to leave the world a better place. With the help of all of you entertainers who use Axtell puppets, magic and props, I can say that I am doing that in a small way with you. I got an encouraging email from a friend who reminded me of the rare position I am in that literally on any given day...thousands of people are laughing and enjoying watching my products entertain them through you. That just rocks!

So I'm going to be working with a little more focus toward releasing a mountain of this history of ideas into our new products. It is an exciting adventure. I don't know how many will eventually come out, but going through my old notebooks, and seeing all these 200 plus doodles.... is very exciting.

Ax