Album cover art as emoji — will it be the new craze?

It’s already got something resembling a cult following. That’s because even the most bored, cynical, and hungover observers can emerge with a smile twitching their lips after scrolling through a few of Wesley Stace’s emoji classic record album cover takeoffs. All the viral internet ingredients are there: rock music, emoji, and — what else do you need? Well, for one, it doesn’t hurt that the finger-tapping conceptual artist (using the term loosely) is a well-known musician and author, who back in the day, called himself John Wesley Harding. The Velvet Underground and Nico As noted in an interview with Fast Company, Stace came upon the…
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