Images with words and numbers #photographs
Explore Posterous
Search posterous
Search all posts and users. Type a name, type a favorite song title, whatever! See what comes up.
More posterous blogs
Here are posterous posts filed under numbers...
Chances are: You're a more sophisticated Internet user than most teenagers
Maybe it's an artifact of the native-adopter digital divide. Maybe it's merely a blind spot to our own complex behavior. Whatever the reason, what most of us think about how teens use the internet is wrong.
Myth #1: Teenagers are much heavier users of the internet than "we" are.
Fact: Even when you take out our work lives, adults 25 - 44 are the heaviest users of the internet. It's not our kids who are online all the time, it's us. Just at home, we're browsing ~34 hours a month, compared to 10 for the teen set. Even when it comes to relatively new behaviors, like watching video online, adults consume significantly more.
Check out these numbers from recent Nielsen research:
Myth #2: Teenagers are much savvier users of the internet than "we" are - connected around the globe, loose in social networks, generally leading the charge into a brave new world.
Fact: Just because technology has changed doesn't mean being a teenager has.
This is a sketch I shared at work recently about the profoundly different ways that "grownups" (us) and teens use social networks and media. Teens are much more likely to have a closer-in world view, to be cautious when putting themselves out there, to be worried about how they'll be perceived. While we're out boldly networking with everyone from our high school sweethearts to someone we met at a conference the other day, they're typing with the same people they sit across the lunch table with.
N is for...
Not too many words this week - well... it is all about numbers!
Plenty of images though - showing numbers being used as decoration, their representation in print and some objects in which numbers are an integral part.
This charming children's book is a collection of number rhymes & finger games.
How many of these do you remember?
This mouse one's a teensy bit sad - it ends with no little mice left!
All illustrations by Denis Wrigley taken from One Two Three Four first published in 1970.
We picked up these wooden printing blocks some years ago, and have a large tray of them mounted on a wall. They have a really sculptural quality and we love the way light & shadow fall across its surface.
We found this lovely pack of old playing cards in a mixed box auction lot the other day.
When you think of items that require numbers to function, clocks would be top of most people's list. Here are some nice examples that H is for Home currently has in stock or has sold recently.
We love these early pocket calculators with their red or green displays. They seemed so space age at the time!
Not forgetting telephones - push button and dial versions.
And then there are numbers used as pure decoration. The main photo at the top is a 1960s fabric design. And there's this Carltonware money box, again from the 60s. We love the 'groovy' treatment that numbers got during this decade. 
Hope you enjoyed today's blog - we don't think it's going to be too hard for you to guess what 'O' will be for next week!
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
:: 
