Youngme/Nowme is a Web site where people post recreations of childhood photos. Sort of like a before and after with many, many years in between.
Here are a few examples:
Think I may just have to ask my mom to dig through my old childhood photos and see if she can find one I can recreate.
Don't think I'll be recreating that one of me with the Cheetos up my nose. Especially since I just took that one last week.
Challenge: Let's see how many people here in Victoria can recreate their own photos. Come on Advocate readers and reporters, you in?
Post them on your blogs, or send them to me and I'll post them here on my blog for you.
In the meantime, I will look for a photo suitable for recreation; here are some from my photo album that I won't be using:
Ah, yes, the day every kid dreams of, the day they meet Mickey Mouse at Disney World. Except in my case this was the day I met Mickey in the parking lot of the local cable company. At night. Notice the look of terror in my eyes. A magical night indeed. This is the stuff memories are made of my friends.
Kurt Cobain ain't got nothing over this kid right here. I invented the grunge look way before Pearl got their first Jam and before Seattle began percolating. Oh, and that's my newborn baby sister next to me. Check out the bags under my eyes, looks like I just finished the night shift at the paper factory.
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vbb - It took a few years of therapy to help me cope with the nightmares. The ones that really messed me up where all the photos I have of the Ronald McDonald statue. I'll have to post those next.
April 20, 2008 at 4:01 p.m.I would think you would have had nightmares about Mickey stalking you at night choking the life out of you after seeing that picture!
April 20, 2008 at 3:24 p.m.I don't remember much from my early years, except everything had a distinct orange haze to it. Or at least it appears so on every photo of me from that time.
That E.T. game sounds familiar. Oddly enough, I was both terrified and fascinated by E.T. back then. That's why I wore that shirt all the time, even over my other clothes, because just the sight of it would give me nightmares. By wearing it I didn't have to look at it or worry about it coming out of my wardrobe and trying to choke me in the middle of the night. I had a very vivid and strange imagination.
Oh my, I hope no one does a photo of them in the bathtub or laying on some bear rug...
April 19, 2008 at 10:36 p.m.I love it! Those pictures bring back memories. The ORANGE wall and BIG floral curtains. "E.T. phone home!" Wasn't there an E.T. video game where E.T. had to gather up reece's pieces and then phone home? This was back on Atari or the other one...... help. Please, no one recreate their "naked baby" photographs!
April 19, 2008 at 9:41 p.m.