Drawing with fire
20 August 2006 @ 23:00 in Media
When we were on holiday, we discovered some ancient indoor sparklers stuffed into a suitcase. They were lying in our hallway tonight just before we retired for the evening, so I decided to try to muck about with the old 'drawing with fire' technique you see above. It took a while to find the right balance of settings, and a few of the sparklers were dud, so we didn't manage to capture anything jaw-dropping, but I think we'll be investing in some more sparklers soon. There are a few more of our experiments on Flickr.
In other news, the often-interesting Microsoft Font Blog has an interesting article on how creating new ligatures was once thought a practical way to save time and money.
