Make a Pair of Paper Aperture Glasses

Instructables user art.makes has a tutorial on how you can make a pair of paper iris glasses with adjustable apertures. You could definitely build upon the idea to make each side more like a camera lens (e.g. adding barrels, f-stop values) — perhaps as part of a geeky Halloween costume?

Here’s a demo of the iris opening and closing:

The tutorial isn’t exactly easy — he estimates that the project takes between 3-6 hours to complete…