Posts Tagged Emoji

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January 28, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Chef’s Kiss

I emoticon the shit out of this current situation, emoji for everyone – pluralise that motherfucker and fatherfucker too what good is language right now? (don’t answer that with anything other than a cave painting) what, no cave paintings for you? i’m sorry. what’s that? you have withdrawn? make peace with your fingers – throw […]

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June 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Picture Character: Film

Picture Character Directors: Martha Shane & Ian Cheney Submarine Entertainment / Documentary Edge Festival “Emoji” is Japanese for “Picture Character” – so this documentary takes a occasionally probing, mostly light hearted look at the world/s of picture characters that have sprung up and seemingly threatened to take over language since emoji creator, Shigetaka Kurita set […]