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Kaomoji on a Japanese NTT Docomo mobile phone A Kaomoji painting in Japan. Kaomoji was invented in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using text characters in Japan. It was independent of the emoticon movement started by Scott Fahlman in the United States in the same decade. Kaomojis are most commonly used as emoticons or ...
Wakabayashi Yasushi is a Japanese designer, known as the creator of the first Kaomoji.He used (^_^) to replicate a facial expression. Despite not creating the design until 1986, a number of years after the American Scott Fahlman, it is believed that the concepts evolved completely independently of each other. [1]
Eastern emoticons generally are not rotated sideways, and may include non-Latin characters to allow for additional complexity. These emoticons first arose in Japan, where they are referred to as kaomoji (literally "face characters"). The base form consists of a sequence of an opening round parenthesis, a character for the left eye, a character ...
Shigetaka Kurita (栗田 穣崇, born May 9, 1972, Gifu Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese interface designer often cited for his early work with emoji sets. [1] [2] [3 ...
[99] [100] The animated The Emoji Movie was released in summer 2017. [101] [102] In January 2017, in what is believed to be the first large-scale study of emoji usage, researchers at the University of Michigan analyzed over 1.2 billion messages input via the Kika Emoji Keyboard [103] and announced that the Face With Tears of Joy was the most ...
Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 neo-noir [4] mystery film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe.The picture is based on Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as Murder, My Sweet in 1944. [5]
Knowing (stylized as KNOW1NG) is a 2009 science fiction thriller film [4] directed and co-produced by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage.The film, conceived and co-written by Ryne Douglas Pearson, was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists.
Who Knows may refer to: 'Who Knows?, a DVD by Andrew W.K. Who Knows? (Va savoir), a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama; Who Knows?, a 1959 Canadian television panel game quiz show "Who Knows", a song by Avril Lavigne from Under My Skin "Who Knows", a song by Natasha Bedingfield from N.B.