Startup Puts Artsy Spin on Your Facebook Profile Pic

A new startup is turning Facebook into a showcase of personal expression

Selfless Portraits, created by Jeff Greenspan and Ivan Cash, gives strangers the opportunity to artistically recreate each other's profile pictures. In short, it's your chance to become a stranger's muse

The entire process is "extremely intimate," the creators tell Mashable

"It is asking people to do a lot of work, but it makes you very vulnerable," Greenspan says. "It's about looking at another human being, stopping for a moment, going offline and interpreting their image. It's a really powerful experience."

The idea was sparked almost a year ago when Cash realized the tangible emotion connected with simple snail mail, and how that same intimacy is often stripped away in the social networking world. Cash and Greenspan set out with producer Luis Pena and developer Rally Interactive to help bring some of that pre-21st-century charm back to a profile page.