Category: numbers

seven seven movies for 7/7/7

Today is July 7th, 2007. As in 07/07/07. A freakin’ cool date. Inspired by sevens, I had to put together a list. (My urge is to put together several lists. Seven, even. But I doubt I’ll have time.) This list is of movies. Seven movies. Seven seven movies.

seven movies featuring seven

  1. The Seventh Seal/Det Sjunde inseglet (1957)
    Ingmar Bergman’s classic drama of Death.
  2. The Seventh Sign (1988)
    These would be signs that the end of the world (as we know it) is near.
  3. The Seven Samurai/Shichinin no samurai (1954)
    Akira Kurosawa’s classic film with samurai (7 of ’em) who aid a village besieged by bandits.
  4. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
    The Seven Samurai reinterpreted as a western.
  5. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
    The image of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate with her dress blowing up may be more famous than the movie it came from…
  6. Se7en (1995)
    A thriller about a serial killer who takes his inspiration from the seven deadly sins. (I don’t believe itching is one of them.)
  7. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
    Doc, Dopey, Sneezy, Sleepy, Sleezy, Happy, Bashful and Grumpy. Oh, wait. That’s eight.

picturing some numbers

Want to see some really amazing photos? Check out this link, sent to me by a friend.

Here are a couple of numbers learned from this site:

  • 60,000 (The number of plastic shopping bags used in the U.S. every 5 seconds)
  • 1,140,000 (The number of brown paper grocery bags used in the U.S. every hour)

The numbers are staggering, but abstract.

Photographer Chris Jordan has taken numbers like these, and created large-scale works of art that really show the numbers. To give us the sense of the scale of 60,000 plastic bags.

You really need to see the photos to get a sense of them. So, come on. Click on the link…

5 5th things

Here’s a list of 5 things of the 5th persuasion. Want to know more than that? I take the fifth.

Five fifths

    5. Fifth Business, a novel by Canadian author Robertson Davies. Part of the Deptford Trilogy.

    5. The Fifth Dimension. An American band from the 60s known for songs such as “One Less Bell to Answer” and “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”. (Also amathematical abstraction.)

    5. a fifth interval. A musical abstraction. A difference between two notes in (Western) music theory. A perfect fifth is 7 semitones.

    5. The Fifth Element. A movie by director Luc Besson.

    5. The Fifth Elephant. A book by Terry Pratchett.

(Note: I was going to submit this as part of the //engtech 5 things contest, but noticed that I missed the deadline. I have trouble with deadlines. But what the hell, I’ll post away anyhow. I like lists, I like things, and 5 is as good a number as any. And way better a number than 4.)