Developer Arturo Castro becomes Paris Hilton, Chairman Mao, Vladimir Lenin, and other beloved American folk heroes using realtime face substitution—a magical thing he created using FaceTracker (an API developed by Australia-based research scientist Jason Saragih) and the ofxFacetracker add-on (developed by Brooklyn-based developer Kyle McDonald). Your fantasies about looking just like your favorite celebrities might come true after all, and you won't even have to pay a plastic surgeon for the privilege. [Vimeo, via The Daily What]