I may have just found my new favorite Web site/time-suck : www.yearbookyourself.com.
This incredibly addicting site lets you upload a picture of yourself (or someone else) to see what you’d look like with classic (read: ridiculous) hair styles and outfits in various high school yearbook photos from 1950 – 2000. As an added bonus, it plays music that coincides with each year.
After discovering this ingenious site/time machine (and then promptly spending entirely too much time on it), I looked into its background and found out that apparently it was first introduced last fall by Taubman Centers, a national mall development company, and has just recently been reintroduced – just in time for the new school year. This makes perfect sense considering the site also offers discounts from a variety of retailers at Taubman malls across the country. The new version also offers Facebook integration that allows you to post your photo directly to your Facebook page.
To Taubman and their agency (Minneapolis-based Colle+McVoy), kudos on the ingenuity behind the site and the ’09 edition! To anyone who hasn’t already yearbooked themselves, beware and enjoy. It’s seriously awesome.
Feel free to share your best (or preferably worst) yearbook photos online - we’d love to see them! Or if you’d rather email them to me, perhaps I could create a commemorative 50th anniversary Mixed Nuts yearbook for a future post…
Here’s a random sampling of some MSI nuts (well, the PR team + Christos for now) throughout the decades…
Gaelen Bell
MaryAileen Bell
Maureen Brennan
Mandy Meszaros
Christos Ellis
Emily Towey