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Nup, I do believe you have some wedding invitation...

2009-06-09T11:18:25.026-07:00

Nup, I do believe you have some wedding invitations to be working on. Now is not the time for paper cameras, my friend.

Dang you for posting such cool distractions... I ...

2009-06-03T23:59:53.544-07:00

Dang you for posting such cool distractions... I have a wedding to be working on and can't get sidetracked... but paper toys... and paper cameras...

yeah, that paper camera looks really cool... must focus (hey, that is also a camera term - a sign that I should just do it?)

My first homemade pinhole was a cardboard kit that...

2009-06-03T16:36:16.449-07:00

My first homemade pinhole was a cardboard kit that you rubber-banded onto the front of a 126 cartridge, pretty much like this one. I can remember being slightly nonplussed at the results at the time (late 1970's) but what do kids know?

Verify word: hylowit. Hi-low-wit? Yeah, that's me, a roller-coaster of wit.

I'm slowly building up the requisite confidence to...

2009-06-02T11:25:23.387-07:00

I'm slowly building up the requisite confidence to make a paper camera.

Here is version 2 of the Pocket Mod web site. It d...

2009-05-30T06:48:32.605-07:00

Here is version 2 of the Pocket Mod web site. It doesn't seem to get updated very often, but it is a cool little tool.

http://pocketmod.com/v2/

Here's a link to Wikipedia's article on the origin...

2009-05-29T15:52:12.253-07:00

Here's a link to Wikipedia's article on the origination of the "Hipster PDA," by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA

And here's a link to Nick Dvoracek's instructions for making your very own Populist 35mm pinhole camera:

http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/populist.pdf

~Joe

2009-05-29T15:49:06.007-07:00

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The Pocket Mod is so cool, a reinvention of what h...

2009-05-29T15:43:16.021-07:00

The Pocket Mod is so cool, a reinvention of what has been termed the "hipster PDA", implying a custom-made pad of paper or notecard that you carry in your hip pocket. I ended up buying a leather holster for my hipster PDA, then finally decided the note cards were too small to write with. I'm too wordy, can't make brief notes. One reason why I don't Twitter; my tweets would end up being truncated at letter 140 in mid-sentence.

As for paper electronics, I'm always making goofy comments when strolling through furniture stores about the faux cardboard big-screen TV sets and VCRs that are used as decor props. Perhaps I should get one of those big cardboard TV sets and just listen to vinyl records and typecast. It'd be more entertaining than watching the tube.

As for papera cameras, I should mention Nick Dvoracek, who invented the "Populist" pinhole camera, a template made from paper or cardboard and used to house a 35mm film cannister, including the advanced "clicker" feature with which you count spocket holes for accurate film advance.

Thanks for the cool post.

~Joe