The Now & Then Gallery by Ze Frank

There’s a wave of nostalgia going around and being shared all over the internet. Among others there is the “My Mom, the Style Icon” blog (I wrote about it here), where you can submit way-back-when photos of your mom in stylish retro garb. And we’ve seen the endearing now & then pictures of best buddies in high school yearbooks. Now Ze Frank is giving everyone a platform to submit their before and after photos: the Young Me, Now Me website.

I can’t believe the effort some people went through to replicate the scene.

In the unlikely case that you don’t know Ze (pronounce “zay”) Frank, he is, according to my favorite source of information, Wikipedia, an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker (and a perfect enunciator, expressive, never-blinking cutie pie – but that’s not mentioned on Wikipedia) based in Los Angeles, California. He also delivers wickedly funny ranting videos, some under “the show with zefrank” series, a yearlong project of daily videos. Here’s a good one:

Let us know if you post your now & then photos. We’ll show them off here too.