Get your paper camera here, comrade!
By James Grahame
As a child, I once covered all ten digits of both hands with dribbles of glue while attempting to put together a model aircraft. Things didn't get much better with age, so my desire to glue together a working camera from cardboard will remain nothing more than an unfulfilled dream.
The Dirkon paper camera was originally published as a set of plans in Communist Czechoslovakia, presumably as an evil plan to encourage teenagers to glue themselves to tables instead of rising up in rebellion. Recently, someone took the time to make the original instructions available on the web in Adobe Acrobat format. This little pinhole camera accepts 35mm film and takes dreamy pictures that will look suitably pretentious in art galleries everywhere.


