Now Me

This is a really simple, ridiculously cute idea: find a photograph of yourself as a child and then take a photograph of yourself now in which you mimic as closely as possible that early look - pose, clothes, background, all as similar as you can make them. Firing up Photoshop is not the point. Here it's ingenuity that counts.

Like so many of our Idle favourites it has an illogically fascinating quality: 'Why should I care about someone I've never seen before trying to look like their five-year-old selves? Dunno, but I'm just going to look at one more set of these images, then I'll get back to work. Really …" To see other people's efforts, or post your own, go to the goof-off site ColorWars2008.

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