Secret Messages 28 May 2013 | 02:11 am

The Ventures store at Seattle’s Pike Place Market often invites me to come demonstrate my eye-boggling optical illusion art & science kits. For customers to see Morph-O-Scopes secret images, their cor...

Optical Illusion Dance 24 Mar 2013 | 07:25 pm

It’s universal, our delight with things optical illusion. On 8 марта (March 8), International Women’s Day in Russia, these ladies performed a clever little optical illusion number to the delight of th...

I Wish I Had the Time These Guys Have! 7 Mar 2013 | 11:11 pm

I’d just sit and watch the clock all day! I’m even fantasizing about flying to Dubai to do it. That’s where Stockholm-based designers Bastian Bischoff and Per Emanuelsson are exhibiting this utterly b...

Love in the Shadows 5 Feb 2013 | 11:19 pm

For this woman (and I’m not alone) receiving chocolates and a dozen long stemmed red roses on Valentine’s Day is a total yawn.  So conventional.  No effort involved.  But some lucky gal’s guy (or guy’...

Love is an Optical Illusion 24 Jan 2013 | 01:08 am

Ambivalent feelings this Valentine’s Day? Read the black letters then read the pink to see the opposite. Ambigrams are extremely clever exercises in graphic design that play with optical illusions, sy...

Early Holiday Gifts from Brusspup 29 Nov 2012 | 09:42 pm

One of my favorite optical illusionists, Brusspup, is at it again with his latest anamorphic tricks.  I understand he shoots photos of simple oblects like those in the photo below, skews the images in...

Eye Don’t Think So…. 14 Nov 2012 | 11:03 pm

Is it a mermaid surfacing out of sea foam? A frog peeking through bubble spawn? Barbie having a shampoo? None of the above. It’s an optical illusion of an eye-shaped whirlpool, inadvertently captured ...

And for After All that Sugar – Halloween Skull Art #31 31 Oct 2012 | 09:13 pm

This clever, healthy snack of apple slices, mini marshmallows, and peanut butter… Courtesy of Toms River Dental Care

What to Put into Your Halloween Skull – #30 30 Oct 2012 | 09:07 pm

Finally, 4 More Skulls by Orosz – Halloween Skull Art #29 29 Oct 2012 | 07:00 pm

Please visit my blog every day in October to enjoy images of some rather ingenious skull carvings and drawings I collected over the past year. By Halloween you’ll be up to your own eye sockets in skul...