Before revision: When his work began garnering attention from the press, Oblong began wearing "thick clown makeup and a bulbous, red plastic nose" in public places and by now was referring to himself as "Angus Oblong" (namesake of a shape of the rectangle and his mother's former last name), a practice he has continued into 2010, when LA Weekly named him one of the L.A. People 2009.
After revision: When his work began garnering attention from the press, Oblong began wearing "thick clown makeup and a bulbous, red plastic nose" in public places and by now was referring to himself as "Angus Oblong" (namesake of a shape and his mother's former last name), a practice he has continued into 2010, when LA Weekly named him one of the L.A. People 2009.