I'm on the board of Rhizome.org, a great non-profit focused on technology and art. We do an event every year called Seven on Seven where we pair seven technologists with seven artists.
Saturday was the fifth anniversary of the event, and this year one of the teams paired NYT writer and author Nick Bilton with artist Simon Denny.
Around 5pm on Friday, I got an email from Nick offering to pay me $5 for an emoji version of the White House's report on Big Data:
The entire report is 85 pages, but they asked for a summary of page 55, a chart showing how federal dollars are being spent on privacy and data research:
Here's what I came up with (click for a larger version):
I'm particularly proud of my emoji-fication of homomorphic encryption:
I highly recommend watching the whole event, but Nick and Simon's presentation of the other reports they solicited begins around at the 3 hours and 25 minute mark of the live stream:
Nick, I know you said you'd pay cash, but I'd really prefer to accept the $5 in DOGE.
Please send 10,526.32 DOGE to DKQJsavxSdF381Mn3qZpyehsBzCX3QXzA2. Thanks!
[…] a single GIF,” says Fred Benenson, who is responsible for emoji translations including part of a White House big data report and Moby Dick (his version is called Emoji Dick). He doesn’t discount GIFs, though: “Good […]
[…] a single GIF,” says Fred Benenson, who is responsible for emoji translations including part of a White House big data report and Moby Dick (his version is called Emoji Dick). He doesn’t discount GIFs, though: “Good […]
[…] a single GIF,” says Fred Benenson, who is responsible for emoji translations including part of a White House big data report and Moby Dick (his version is called Emoji Dick). He doesn’t discount GIFs, though: “Good […]