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176 Original Emojis Join Van Gogh and Picasso At Museum of Modern Art (latimes.com)
If you happen to walk through the Museum of Modern Art in New York between December to March of next year, you may see 176 emoji on display next to Van Gogh and Picasso. On Wednesday, the museum announced that Shigetaka Kurita's original pictographs would be added to its collection. Los Angeles Times reports: Nearly two decades ago, Shigetaka Kurita was given the task of designing simple pictographs that could replace Japanese words for the growing number of cellphone users communicating with text messages. Kurita, who was working for the Japanese mobile carrier NTT Docomo at the time, came up with 176 of them, including oddities like a rocking horse, two kinds of umbrellas (one open, one closed) and five different phases of the moon. He called them emojis. An estimated 74% of Americans now use emojis every day, nudging the written word to the side in favor of a medium that can succinctly and playfully convey emotions in a society often more adept at texting than talking. That marriage of design and utility prompted the art world to take notice. Museum officials say emojis are the modern-day answer to an age-old tradition of communicating with pictures. "Emojis as a concept go back in the centuries, to ideograms, hieroglyphics and other graphic characters, enabling us to draw this beautiful arch that covers all of human history," said Paola Antonelli, a senior curator at MoMA. "There is nothing more modern than timeless concepts such as these."
I might be old school, but I loathe any software that auto-converts text-based emoji into pictures.
Luckily, writing them "left handed" usually keeps them plain text:
:-) => (-:
:-P => d-:
:-O => O-:
"There is nothing more modern than timeless concepts such as these."
Sorry Paola, you've set a very low bar for what qualifies as art. Better than a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine, but not by much.
The appearance of Mayan emojis coincides with the downfall of the Mayan civilization! Don't repeat the same mistake! Stop emojis while we still can!
Ezekiel 23:20
Nope. Yet again the fucking "authorities" get it wrong.
Thomas Edison and other telegraph operators has an entire sophisticated language of this kind of thing. They had long distance discussions straight out of 4chan. And since most of them were teenaged boys or young men, most of them kinda solitary techie types, the subjects and jokes and language were about the same.
Hacking, cracking, geek culture, and memes all predate Henry Ford.
Anybody unable to handle that should go the fuck back to AOL and leave reality for the rest of us.
-perfessor multigeek
You have a time machine, a gun, and two bullets. What do you do?
Go back and shoot Shigetaka Kurita.
What about the other bullet?
Go back and shoot Shigetaka Kurita again.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That would be van Gogh. And BTW, it's pronounced fan gock,
-- Make America hate again!
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Idiots.
Pax Vobiscum
I remember using AIM in the late '90s, and it had built-in support for graphical smilies. They don't count? I always thought graphical smilies were considered a subset of emojis... that's certainly how they're handled today.