Three days ago, the new, easier-to-navigate OOZandOZ.com website went live! And two Saturdays ago, my daughter got married. As the only person with a station wagon, I was the default go-fer for cases of wine, ladders, seating, etc. What fun! What exciting beginnings!...
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...
Ingenious performance art from the old Tonight Show. I missed it the first time around not being a regular viewer. Thanks to Bernie DeKoven (Major Fun) we get to enjoy this delightfully timeless bit. [youtube...
“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...
Have to entertain a group of middle school kids? Believe it or not, rebuses can wow ‘em! I was a new art teacher at an affluent private school in Virginia. Three of us were assigned lunch duty to keep order in the cafeteria and police the area. Well, I remembered how...
The dictionary defines “redux” as “restored” or “brought back”. Here are two little stories about Easter eggs redux. Easter Egg Restored “It” happened the last time my daughter and I decorated eggs. “It” was completely my fault. I accidentally...
Graphic artist Erika Iris Simmons works in wonderfully unconventional media. She likes to take things- random things – like you would find at a garage sale or in a thrift store – and make them into composite art. “Most of my pieces become portraits...
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...
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...
