We love flipping through old family photos and checking out the funny things we were caught in the act doing as children. We recently came across a new fun blog, Young Me/Know Me, cataloging people's attempts to recreate their own past (or that of their parents) and the results are really quite funny.
On Young Me/Now Me, artist Ze Frank is asking for your help in recreating photos from your youth. He's attempting to collect them to be released in a book down the road and we love the idea. It's a fun way to get your family active and doing something, plus it's an easy project for them to look at what was and come up with how to recreate it for a modern day photo.
Check out our favorites above and see the rest that have been submitted at Young Me/Now Me. Share a link to your favorite photo in the comments below!
(Images: Young Me/Now Me, via: Laughing Squid)
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Comments (14)
Some of the recreations are disturbing....
these are hilarious! i love the pic of the three siblings. precious!
I love this idea! How funny would it be to make a little book of these for our mothers?
My nephew just did this! It is positively hysterical. He even got sauce all over our sheets from linenplace.com but we fixed that in no time. The pictures are just as adorable as these.
I agree, hilarious!
This is too funny!
Is this Frank guy actually taking the now photos? Or is he just collecting them? And as far as the book goes, if he's not taking the photos will he be profiting from the book?
Just spent way too much time browsing through those pictures. Hilarious!
ChellyT - He's simply collecting them, he's asked everyone to send in their work for him to publish. I would assume he would be profiting from the book, yes.
I cannot stop laughing! Some of those are priceless. :)
I loved all of them except one.
Weird coincidence! Just yesterday I was suggesting to my husband that he try to recreate a studio portrait of himself as a preschooler, right down to the full-on plaid Herb Tarlick-style suit. I think this site might just tempt him to do it.
You're way behind on this one.... ANTM did this for their first photoshoot.... two cycles ago.
creepy and a little funny
I like the concept - I also like this artist who is doing something very similar:
http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/
She goes a step further with using great technique in lighting and post-process to make the photos actually look like they're from the same era.