Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 19, 2009.
Hi guys,
I just got a heads up about another Moby-Dick-themed Kickstarter project which is a card game based off the book, called "Moby Dick, or, The Card Game":
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/827765657/moby-dick-or-the-card-game
I figured you might be interested! I backed it :)
Fred
Greetings backers,
The Library of Congress acquisition of Emoji Dick stirred up quite a lot of interest in our little project.
So for posterity, I wanted to pass along links on places where Emoji Dick was written up over the last couple of months:
It also made an appearance on the Today Show:
Thanks again for all your support over the years!
Fred
Just a quick reminder, because this little project is getting some more attention these days that you can still buy Emoji Dick over at http://www.emojidick.com/.
Ok folks, so its been a while since you’ve heard from me on Emoji Dick. I hope you’re still enjoying your copies -- thanks again for believing in this crazy project.
I’ve got some updates from the world of emoji.
First, Emoji Dick was selected as part of a gallery show at the Chelsea art institution Printed Matter. This is kind of a big deal because I think it means Emoji Dick can now be considered a work of art.
The show was called HELP/LESS and was put on by Chris Habib. Emoji Dick was one of many works on display:
Thanks to my brother Alexander for snapping the above picture of Emoji Dick on display, and Chris for curating it and buying a color copy for himself!
Second, and just as exciting, I recently heard from the Library of Congress and that they wanted to acquire Emoji Dick as the first emoji book in their collection. So as of very recently, Emoji Dick is now officially part of the Library of Congress' catalog:
Here’s the permalink to the official catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/2012454709
You may also remember that while I was working on Emoji Dick, I did a version of the New Yorker’s famous “Eustace Tilley” cover in Emoji. I didn’t actually submit it to the cover contest that year, but this year I did:
While Eustace Emoji didn’t win the cover spot, it did get selected as one of 2013’s winners, and got a nice write up on the New Yorker’s blog, as well as coverage on ABC news, and Gizmodo. You can checkout the full version of Eustace Emoji here.
And finally, last month, I wrote a piece for Esquire’s blog on how to properly use emoji. Here’s an excerpt:
Ok, thats it for now, thanks again for being part of this project!
Fred
If you're a proud owner of Emoji Dick, you probably read the awesome intro by Paddy Johnson, the founder of the NYC art blog, Art Fag City.
They're hosting a killer benefit party tomorrow night (full disclosure, I'm on the benefit committee), and I wanted to make sure you guys were invited. Its called the:
Here are the details:
Thursday February 23rd, 2012
6:30 – 10 PM
Where:
Site/109
109 Norfolk
New York, NY 10002
Here's whats happening:
Funding period
Sep 19, 2009 -
Oct 19, 2009
10 backers
and receive a PDF of the translated book, and the raw data results of the Mechanical Turk tasks.
22 backers
and get your name and an emoji sentence of your choice in a 'Thank You' appendix of the book, a PDF of the translated book, and the raw data results of the Mechanical Turk tasks.
16 backers
Limited edition archival frontispiece signed by author, the PDF of the translated book, and the raw data results of the Mechanical Turk tasks.
23 backers
and receive black and white soft cover copy of the book, a limited edition archival frontispiece signed by author, the PDF of the translated book, and the raw data results of the Mechanical Turk tasks.
9 backers Limited (1 of 10 left)
and receive a limited edition hard cover color version of the book signed, dated and numbered by me, a limited edition archival frontispiece signed by author, the PDF of the translated book, and the raw data results of the Mechanical Turk tasks.
