Numbers

[squirmelia]

Searching for numbers became my hobby the evening before last after seeing that pylons had requested photographs. Initially, Adam and I were going to take a right turn if we photographed an even number and a left turn if we found an odd one, but after a few steps abandoned that idea. It was concluded that house numbers were too easy and car number plates too dull.

In areas with new blocks of flats, it was mainly telegraph poles and drains that were numbered, but some areas seemed devoid of numbers entirely. In other streets, the wheelie bins had been personalised with scribbled numbers. Burnt pieces of newspaper, panelled fences, stones stating when a place was built, and slightly creepy plaster packaging, were all found to be sources of numbers. Eventually, we ended up amongst shops and the numbers began to spring out at us, one after another, the flow of numbers becoming more and more rapid, until there were just too many numbers to look at.

Comments

[tubewalker.livejournal.com]

Your number pictures are fantastic, and they are all secreted away awiting random pickage. That is odd, the more accustomed to looking for numbers to photograph , the more appear until you are swamped. I've found that too.

[mad-gemma.livejournal.com]

what's your favourite number then? :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Subconsciously, it must be the number 4, since that was the number I seemed to take the most photos of.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for giving me something to photograph that evening. :) I was going to use an experimental travel suggestion, but numbers ended up being quite interesting.

[tubewalker.livejournal.com]

23 seems to be the most photographed so far for some reason...

[tubewalker.livejournal.com]

Oh that'll be why then... (http://community.livejournal.com/phroogle/90895.html)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia entry: 23 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_%28numerology%29).

[tubewalker.livejournal.com]

Marvellous! I might attach the Wikipedia entry for each number on the project.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

There do seem to be some random facts in the Wikipedia about numbers!

[azaraphael.livejournal.com]

Try doing accountancy, numbers become objects. A cheque for £23.28 isn't 2328 pennies. Its a block, just £23.28.

[renegade-badger.livejournal.com]

Car number plates... too dull? Surely not when spotted as part of consecutive number plate spotting (http://www.richardherring.com/cnps.php). All the cool kids are doing it!