“Let’s Gang Up and Keep Making Fun of Optical Physics!” Dear Friends and Fans, A couple decades ago, a just-divorced, financially strapped mom had a dream. It didn’t start as her dream. It started as a simple idea to create affordable optical...
The most exciting interactive art today in public and private spaces – hands down – is anamorphic art – in all its variations! Google alerts show it’s spreading across the globe like wildfire! Anamorphic art inspires with its ingenuity. The...
Displayed in a BART station under San Francisco is a 3-D total-immersion optical illusion tunnel wrap of Utah’s Delicate Arch. Watch as commuters experience the astonishing merging of a glorious Utah desert panorama: Delicate Arch...
So what if you can’t afford standard art supplies! All mediums are huge these days! Draw with cast shadows! Check out these ingenious art works. Every example makes me pump my fist, “Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about!” Use what...
When I was a kid we called these delightful little Cracker Jack prizes flip-flop toys or wiggle pictures. A one-inch plastic square embossed with two different images. Tilt the square up then down and a secret message is revealed! Enchanting stuff to an eight year...
Moiré effect optical illusion A moiré effect optical illusion results from two static transparent patterns sliding across each other – like layers of shear nylon fabric. As the overlapped layers move independently, new patterns form. The GIF on the left shows...
Mind-Blowing 3-D Video Mapping The following is quoted from an article by Chris Jablonski, Emerging Tech reporter for zdnet.com. “For decades, artists like Krzysztof Wodiczko have created large-scale video projections on architectural facades and monuments. These days...
On schedule, July 16, 2011. A grassy 3-D slant anamorphosis optical illusion globe entitled “Qui Croire?” (“Who to Believe?”), designed by French artist François Abélanet to focus attention on environmental issues, was to have been removed...
Ambigrams. Rotate the art 180° and it still reads the same! Remember the Angels & Demons logo for Dan Brown’s book and film? John Langdon created it. John and I met 15 years ago when we were both exhibiting at a big trade show in New York City. We were...
Joseph Egan and Hunter Thompson are first year Graphic Design Communication Students currently studying at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London. Exploring the relationship between graphic design and architecture, they learned about master artist Felice...
Spinning tops are one of the oldest recognizable toys found on archaeological sites. They originated independently in cultures all over the world – doubtless due to a basic human fascination with things that spin and teeter and balance. (Good old physics!)...
“SOS: Save our Supplies” is a video for DOC2DOCK, “a non-profit organization that saves usable medical supplies from being discarded in the U.S. and sends them to hospitals in the developing world.” The silk screened words on Kraft-faced...
Gutsy enough to send corrections to a dictionary or encyclopedia? What do you think of people who do? Are they just “smarty pants”? Well, meet Smarty Pants Me! Decades ago I sent a note to Webster’s New World Dictionary about their strangely illustrated abacus. As...
Optical illusion lovers, there’s a delightful surprise behind Seattle’s Safeco Field ballpark. If you’re beside the chain link fence, it looks like someone randomly shoved ping pong balls into spaces. But seen from a distance, the fence merges into an ingenious...
In Frederick, Maryland, there is a bridge painted with trompe l’oeil murals and slant art. I visited the bridge to see its optical illusions. I came away with the story of its creation – a profoundly moving tale of community achievement. In early 1993,...
This mind blowing PhotoShopped image was sent to me by a friend who shares my passion for optical illusion art. I Googled the photo credit and was blown away (fortunately, not like the guy below) by Worth 1000’s creative photo contest entries. Check ’em...
“Yuan yang” is a typical Hong Kong beverage mix of tea and coffee, and also a symbol of marriage and love. Sculptor Tsang Cheung-shing united both concepts in an ingenious ceramic work in which tea and coffee poured from separate cups flow together in a...
Sunday evening, I joined my dearest friends for a sense-sational candle-lit birthday dinner at Salty’s overlooking Elliott Bay. Seattle skyline party lights rippled across gentle waves. Reflections of our candle flames and balloons danced in the dark picture...
As Chief Morphology Officer at OOZ & OZ, I have decided to create this blog to share with you my passion for mirror art and toys and other optical illusions. Optical illusions, inventive images, mind-challenging toys thrill and fascinate me. They tickle my gray...
