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Fred Benenson. Fred is currently a General Partner at TwentyTwo, investing in early stage technology companies. Previously, he held a key role as Kickstarter’s second employee and VP of Data for over six years, and worked at Y Combinator team as an engineer and admissions manager.
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I came across a new ‘industry initiative’ called Arts + Labs...
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I’m on the board of Rhizome.org, a great non-profit focused...
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Fred Benenson. Menu. Category: Law. by Fred - January 18,...
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Fred Benenson. Menu. Category: Music. by Fred - June 28,...
- The Data Behind My Ideal Bookshelf
by Fred - Data - December 5, 2012. The Data Behind My Ideal...
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ARTS & CULTURE. Text Me, Ishmael: Reading Moby Dick in Emoji. Why someone would translate Herman Melville’s classic into emoticons. Christopher Shea. March 2014. Courtesy of Fred Benenson....
- Popular Science: What Originally Got You Into Working with Emojis?
- Do You Like Them earnestly, Or Is There A Little Irony to It?
- What Do You Think Emoji Use Is Going to Look Like 10, 20, 50 Years from Now?
- Do You Think There’S A Difference Between Emoji as Communication Versus Art?
Benenson:Apple supported emoji in Japan before they supported it in America. This was very intriguing to me; there are very few cases where you can’t get access to something anymore based on where you live. I had a friend who had a Japanese friend and they had figured it out and you could send emoji to people, but if they didn’t have the keyboard t...
I genuinely like them a lot, but I’m not afraid to criticize them and observe idiosyncrasies and wonder why there are two camel emojis, and why there’s a pager and a fax machine emoji. There’s all these weird things about emoji that come from Japanese culture, so it’s this international set of icons, which is supposed to be universal, actually bein...
It’s a really great question, because I think a year or two ago, a lot of people were like, “The emoji set is too constrained! You only get these?!” Some people were proposing lots of additions to emoji and a lot of people are building their own apps that will let you choose custom emoji. Facebook and Skype all have their own weird custom sets of e...
In a lot of ways, I think of Emoji Dick as an art project rather than a true translation. And I’m much more comfortable with it being considered a work of art rather than a work of literature. What I was trying to communicate with Emoji Dickis this new language and its opportunity and the nature of distributed work, and maybe a little bit about lit...
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Feb 20, 2013 · Much like Captain Ahab, data engineer Fred Benenson embarked on an ambitious journey with his re-imagining of the 200,000-word epic. He hired Amazon Mechanical Turks to translate the book, and...
Sep 6, 2016 · Fred Benenson is an emoji aficionado, who self-published the first entirely emoji translation of a classic novel, Emoji Dick (a charming pun on Herman Melville's original title). He works at Kickstarter, where he leads the data team, as well as being on the board for Rhizome, a non-profit organization focused on technology and art.
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