After the hearing in Clarkston, Michigan, Manson - minus his trademark white painted face - signed autographs for fans before queueing to pay off his fines.

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Walking to the site, thousands of face-painted, flag-waving, colorfully-dressed sports fans are met by an army of purple and red-clad volunteers dancing, joking and welcoming them.

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The color scheme carries over into a few explosion-style graphics painted on the face.

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The lifelike recreations are designed to startle: Out of nowhere, passers-by happen upon the hand-painted cutouts of the immigrant workers placed in near in-your-face positions on sidewalks and parks.

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They gave workers a five-euro note, folded into the origami version of a little shirt, plus a two-euro coin painted with a smiley face.

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The sitter's face emerges from a gorgeous, swirling, gold-painted mosaic.

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"Unlike Greenspan, Bernanke has a beard, so you can't see his whole face, " says Erin Crowe , who has painted more than 50 larger-than-life images of the Fed chairman, several of which can be currently seen at her "Goodbye Greenspan" exhibit at the Broome Street Gallery in downtown Manhattan.

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Its face is a large disc, painted dark blue, with what looks like a red-hot explosive force emanating from the centre.

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Ogilvy in Toronto developed "Dove Evolution, " a one-minute clip of a conventionally attractive woman getting plucked, painted and digitally altered until she becomes the packaged face staring down from a billboard.

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