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Fred was the second employee at Kickstarter and their VP of Data. He’s also worked at Y Combinator, Creative Commons and taught at ITP, where he graduated in 2008. In 2010 Fred published Emoji Dick, a emoji translation of Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick. In 2013, the book became the first emoji book acquired by the Library of Congress.
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"This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!" (Moby-Dick193) A book. Its author, Herman Melville (1819-1891). Its title, Emoji Dick; or, The Whale (2010), only instead of the words "the whale," picture an enlarged and therefore pixilated emoji — the spouting whale — a version of what m...
"If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold" (110). The year after Moby-Dick was published, Commodore Perry arrived to "open" Japan to the West, or so U.S. history has always flattered itself. When Perry published the official accoun...
"I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans" (136). My students have observed that half the fun ofEmoji Dick is saying it. They like the word dick, yes, but there is pleasure in the whole title. The word emoji, like the word perestroika is an untranslatable. It functions as a "checkpoint," marking a historically specific zone of contac...
What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too? (398) Moby-Dick is a loose fish by the whaler's standard, which Melville explains in Chapter 89 ("Fast Fish and Loose Fish"). A fast fish (a dead whale) belongs to the ship to which it is attached, but a loose fish — a swimming whale or...
Fred Benenson is probably best known for his book, Emoji Dick, which may not refer to quite what you’re thinking. The project, born on Kickstarter in 2011, translated Herman Melville’s classic ...
Fred has worked at Creative Commons, Kickstarter, and Y Combinator in a range of capacities varying from VP of Data to Admissions to Outreach. He is currently working as the CEO and founder of Breadwinner, an IoT device designed to help bakers monitor their sourdough starters.
The book is the creation of Fred Benenson, a data engineer at the fund-raising site Kickstarter, who has been passionate about emoji since 2009, when he first activated the icons on his iPhone ...
Fred Benenson was the second employee at Kickstarter and their VP of Data. He’s also worked at Y Combinator, Creative Commons and taught at ITP, where he graduated in 2008. In 2010 Fred published Emoji Dick, a emoji translation of Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick. In 2013, the book became the first emoji book acquired by the Library of ...
