Convert your face into emoji

Laura Hudson 12:06 pm Tue Aug 18, 2015

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Like most humans with a smartphone and a sense of joie de vivre, I enjoy peppering my communications liberally with emoji. But until today, I could not actually be emoji. All that has changed, thanks to the Emoji Mosaic tool created by Eric Andrew Lewis.

Just upload a photo—any photo—and it will soon be reformulated as a color-appropriate composite of smiley faces, pig noses, and sentient poops. Lewis, who is also a web developer for The New York Times, posted a striking emoji mosaic of the album cover for Bjork's Post, wherein her face is primarily made up largely of Narutomaki fish cakes.

I give you Emoji Mosaic http://t.co/G3h3yVq5tf pic.twitter.com/uHeB37mACf

— glerf (@ericandrewlewis) August 10, 2015

Part of the fun of the Emoji Mosaic is zooming waaaay in, and seeing exactly which weird symbols have been substituted for your face. I have learned, for example, that the depths of my eyes contain not my soul, but rather a series of tiny little octopuses and pictures of rollercoasters. This knowledge will haunt my dreams.

Try the Emoji Mosaic for yourself here.

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