Thursday, February 12, 2015

1F602 (face with tears of joy)

wiki- emotional tears

tracker:1
iemoji


most w/teeth



Circular, Upper Circular Arc, Lower-SemiCircular/ Teeth
Slantly-Depicted Tear/Both Eyes
[Tear], [Widely-Opened Mouth]

McCloud's joy + sadness?? or extreme joy?

(the cliche is a beauty contest winner)


1F601 (grinning face with smiling eyes)



tracker:15
iemoji


'smiling eyes' are arched?
'grinning' means showing teeth? "he he he"



(the teeth are sort of scary, if you look at them)

Circular, Upper Circular Arc, Lower-SemiCircular/ Teeth [Smiling Eyes], [Teeth] "As the name WITH GRIN suggests, utusisi (or usshishi) represents a toothy smile (shaping the mouth to pronounce /shi/). Therefore, the mouth should be revised into the mouth of lower semicircular with bare teeth."

cf







Wednesday, February 11, 2015

1F5FF (Moyai)

wiki:Moai
A 'moai' is one of 887 rock carvings from Easter Island, made between 1250-1500CE.
The tallest was almost 10m (33ft) high and weighed 82 tons.
They were carved from 'tuff' (compressed volcanic ash).

wiki.jp
The 'Moyai' depicted in this emoji is a unique modern statue about 6ft tall, resembling the moai, facing the southwest exit of Shibuya Station in Tokyo, donated by the people of Niijima Island in 1980. 'Moyai' is a pun on 'moai' and means 'work together' in Japanese.



In 1979, Sergio Rapu Haoa and a team of archaeologists discovered that the hemispherical or deep elliptical eye sockets of the moai were designed to hold coral eyes with either black obsidian or red scoria pupils. Some also appear to have had 'tattoos' carved on them.





Tuesday, February 10, 2015

1F5FE (Japan)

wiki

6,852 islands
about 1000mi diagonally
population 126M

National Foundation Day: 11 Feb 660BC







1F5FD (Statue of Liberty)



wiki

real female statue (cf male? moyai 1F5FF)
real things: Tokyo Tower, Brooklyn Bridge?

place:  Liberty Island, New York Harbor, New York City, New York State, United States

date: dedicated on October 28, 1886
also 1886: 1st speedboat
also Oct 28: chocolate day

Base to torch: 151 feet 1 inch (46 meters)
Ground to torch: 305 feet 1 inch (93 meters)


may include: face, crown, arm/torch, green skin

motifs: cold, untouchable, distant, heroic

in Ulysses: Bloom's goddess statues

movie settings: IMDb, top ten



Monday, February 9, 2015

1F5FC (Tokyo Tower)

wiki

Tokyo, Japan
steel
332.9 metres (1,092 ft) 3X height of Statue of Liberty
opened 23 Dec 1958
white and orange