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Two years ago, one man began an epic journey. Now, the efforts of Fred Benenson have finally come to fruition: Emoji Dick, a translation of the great American classic Moby Dick into Emojis, is complete and available for purchase. And believe us when we say it’s an epic: Benenson raised more than $3,500 on Kickstarter for the project, and employed a host of strangers to translate every sentence of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel. Each line of the long, long book was translated three times, using a different range of Emojis for each version. Finally, another group of strangers-for-hire voted on the best versions of each sentence, and the winning lines made it into the final version of Emoji Dick. They don’t call it a great American struggle for nothin’… (Read More)

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... (Read More)

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:... (Read More)

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/.  (Read More)

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... (Read More)

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... (Read More)

I just posted this to Hackers Party Kickstarter, so apologies to the 10 of you who backed both projects -- you can ignore this. :) For the 73 other of you: in case you haven't heard, the Internet is being threatened by a piece of legislation called... (Read More)

In case you want to order another copy, order them here: http://www.emojidick.com/ Thanks again for all your support, Fred  (Read More)

7:30pm, Fish Bar, East Village 237 East 5th Street, b/w 2nd and 3rdhttp://maps.google.com/maps/place... For everyone that RSVP (and prepaid for a book), I'll have them for you! See you tomorrow, F  (Read More)

Hi Everyone, So I decided Fish Bar would be an appropriate place to have the Emoji Dick party. I have everyone's copies who responded to the Doodle Poll: MSG mk Oliver alex Marc10 Songul Aslanturk nbs AndyM Noneck Martin But RSVP here in the comments... (Read More)