This is so great - I envy your 'shop skills. (psst - wanna do another freebie album cover type-thingy? I need an enterprising and talented soul to help me do up my promos for my new radio show, The Slumberland Gap. Interested?)

Very! Send me info, plz.

Very cool!

Wow that looks really good, taz!

That is so rad.

Not nearly as creepy as you made it out to be in your title... I think it is very ... you know what? -loving. You took that miserable little pic from times past and gave it a touch or two... You made that lady happy. Very nice!

Taz -- I would line up to see an exhibit of a bunch of those. Not even that they'd need to be celebrities -- just the transformation of a human face from another time into someone that looks believably of our own time.

It's an excellent way to break down the sense of different-ness people feel about the past. Since I am involved in public history for a living, I'm always trying to get across the idea of the regular, everyday, understandable humanity of people who lived before us. Many's the time I've seen a modern person utterly transformed by costume, makeup, and hair into someone convincingly of the past -- it's awesome to see the process in reverse, and a great way of illustrating the profound superficiality of fashions.

Very cool, taz, and nice work. Also, what Miko said.

Taz -- I would line up to see an exhibit of a bunch of those.

Ditto, too. That's exactly what came to mind. It'd be fascinating seeing the before and after; the old and new, etc.

Me too! That's a really interesting idea, taz.

Yeah, what Miko said! This is a really neat idea, and the results are so cool. Could you do more? We'd like to see them.

Well, thanks! I'll look around and see what I can find for source images in large enough sizes... If y'all come across anything likely, send 'em me!