The Best Power Outage Ever

November 4, 2008

Last night was our first local autumnal rainstorm, and it got dark early thanks to the dastardly end of daylight savings time. At 6:30 or so in the evening, right after my friend Mike arrived to study verilog with Mr. Pencil, our electricity went kaput.

I had just started getting ready to redistribute some type from a letterpress project and realized that electricity was entirely superfluous for that hobby, anyway. David and Mike ran to the liquor store for brandy (it seemed appropriate) and I lit up a forest of candles. Then I went to work all old-school Ben Franklin style.*

Candle, Composing Stick, Type, Furniture

Candle, Composing Stick, Type, Furniture

Sydney and Me With Candles and Fire

Sydney and Me With Candles and Fire

Printing Room by Candlelight (Long-ish Exposure)

Printing Room by Candlelight (Long-ish Exposure)

* Coincidentally, Ben Franklin was a (letterpress) printer by trade and also reputed to have dreamed up the notion of daylight savings time to save on candle usage.

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