Digital Publishing Creativity Blog Post 3
This week, I did a creative exercise found in the book:
"CAFFEINE FOR THE CREATIVE MIND" by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. The exercise is on page 66.
Instructions: "I Was Told There'd Be No Math:
Ever wonder where numbers came from? Okay, maybe not, but there is some mystery to these magic characters. Ever wonder how we would count if there were no numbers? Okay, again, maybe not. There is a lot of security in numbers. They never lie. There are no double meanings. There's no past sense, present tense, participles or conjunctions. There are only ten usable digits, and every number is made up of some collection of them. Then there are things like Roman numerals, an alternate system of numbers. Your task today is to create a new set of "numbers." Your only restriction is that they can't be numbers, and they can't be Roman numerals. Invent another writable, countable method for representing numbers. "
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