Toy Inventor’s Blog Serves First Course: Stove-top Illusions
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,...
View ArticleHow Cracker Jack Changed My Life
August 1950. A magical month for 8 year-olds at the Jersey Shore. We got 25₵ each day to spend anyway we wished, on comic books (10₵) or candy or games at the arcade! Our best fun adventure, though,...
View Article…there are tops, and then there are TOPS !
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...
View ArticleA Funny Thing Happened at the Faire.
Remember the Marilyn Monroe morph in my July 4th post? Remember when I said that on average about 1 person out of every 7 people can instantly identify Marilyn Monroe without using a mirror decoder? I...
View Article2011 Best Toys Guide, 2011 Top Toys List …….. Sez Who?!
You’re busy. Money’s tight. You want the best toy for your buck. Being smart, you turn to sources who’ve done the hunting for you. Sometimes that’s friends, mommy bloggers or Best Toy Guides and Top...
View ArticleIt’s official! We’ve launched Our Indiegogo campaign!
“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...
View ArticleBainbridge Boys & Girls Club Was Feelin’ the Oohs & Ahhs!
… and gettin’ the giggles, gasping “whoa!” and calling Morph-O-Scopes activities “Awesome!” Kids 5 to 12 were all totally engaged and delighted, as you’ll see. And so was the staff! What a terrific...
View Article2014 Academics’ Choice BRAIN TOY Award Winner!
Morph-O-Scopes “Sports of All Sorts” Kit Wins 2014 Academics’ Choice Award for Mind-Building Excellence SEATTLE, WA (May 1, 2014) – OOZ & OZ is pleased to announce that its Morph-O-Scopes “Sports...
View ArticleNegative and Positive: Optical Illusions and Anamorphosis
I adore negatives that are also positives – anything that can be seen more than one way. I grin like a fool at two-toned silk fabric, figure/ground logos, mowed baseball fields, vacuumed-patterned...
View Article“Coloring meets funhouse mirror magic”– A Review
The following review of Morph-O-Scopes Kits appeared in the September 2010 CoolMomPicks. We learned of it only recently! The review is reprinted here with permission of Liz Gumbinner, Publisher,...
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