Giving old cameras new life

Leonard Goh | Mar 04, 2008

What can we do with retired old cameras? Well, instead of chucking them into a corner of your cupboard or turning them into paperweights, Minnesota artist Debra Dresler has tweaked the vintage Kodak Brownie into a fully functional clock.

One look and it brings back memories (that is, if you are old enough to have owned a Brownie) of good ol' days when you had to tinker with actual knobs to snap a picture.

Display this in your living room and we bet the clock will make a great conversation piece. It's just too bad Dresler didn't think to add shutter sounds to announce the time, much like a Cuckoo clock would. Plus take note as well that the flash unit is non-functional.

As this is handmade, owning a piece of nostalgia comes with a relatively steep price tag of US$165. Polaroids next?

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