Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London(londonist.com)
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Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London
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Invader homepage: https://www.space-invaders.com/home/
There is also an official app [1] that you can use to photograph and track the mosaics you encounter. It also confirms if the design is indeed done by Invader.
I'm not competing on the leaderboard, but it's still a fun incentive to go instreets I don't usually go through to see if there is a design I haven't encountered yet.
[1] https://www.space-invaders.com/flashinvaders/
I'm not competing on the leaderboard, but it's still a fun incentive to go instreets I don't usually go through to see if there is a design I haven't encountered yet.
[1] https://www.space-invaders.com/flashinvaders/
Oh that's awesome, I never knew about this app! Walking around NYC it always feels like an easter egg when I randomly notice an Invader somewhere.
Invader features early in this extraordinary street art documentary by Banksy:
https://youtu.be/IqVXThss1z4
https://youtu.be/IqVXThss1z4
Tangentially related,
one of the best things my family did visiting London last summer was to take a private bike tour of the east end street art scene with Alternative London https://alternativeldn.co.uk/
Coming from SF the ride was blissfully flat and easy and our guide (the founder) was exceptional in every respect.
It's one of the two things we tell people going to not miss... the other being, mudlarking for Victorian pipe stems [guaranteed find] and maybe something more magical [rare but happens, a local showed us an Elizabethean coin and mediaeval pin she'd found]. We went, across the river a bit west of the Tate Modern, IIRC.
one of the best things my family did visiting London last summer was to take a private bike tour of the east end street art scene with Alternative London https://alternativeldn.co.uk/
Coming from SF the ride was blissfully flat and easy and our guide (the founder) was exceptional in every respect.
It's one of the two things we tell people going to not miss... the other being, mudlarking for Victorian pipe stems [guaranteed find] and maybe something more magical [rare but happens, a local showed us an Elizabethean coin and mediaeval pin she'd found]. We went, across the river a bit west of the Tate Modern, IIRC.
I was in Marseille last week and saw a pixel art of a seagull carrying an invader and was wondering about the story behind it. I love it, thanks for sharing.
There is/was a space invader about 50m from my door in Budapest when I lived there.
It was pretty subtle and I’m sure most people walking by it didn’t even notice. I really liked it, especially the fact that it was impossible to know whether it was a Genuine Space Invader or merely a space invader.
It was pretty subtle and I’m sure most people walking by it didn’t even notice. I really liked it, especially the fact that it was impossible to know whether it was a Genuine Space Invader or merely a space invader.
Tangentially, Fleet Street has some other space invaders in the form of a plaque.
https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/4-st-dunstan-s-cou...
https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/4-st-dunstan-s-cou...
Many years ago I had an idea for a mobile app that would effectively be an interactive tour for street art. Just a map with all known instances of public art, whether murals, quality graffiti, public sculptures, etc.
Still seems like a good idea tbh.
Still seems like a good idea tbh.
I don't live in London, but was there a few weeks ago and walked right by one of the buildings featured and didn't notice. Goes to show that you should always be looking up.
I had a pair of official Space Invader sneakers that would leave pixelated Space Invader stamps and ONE POINT footprints behind.
There was an Invader alien somewhere around ground zero prior to the attack. His website used to have a picture of it.
I was in Switzerland on holiday and noticed some of these. Pretty fun, non-destructive and interesting.
Yikes, I can remember when turn of the century meant something different to what it does today.
My wife's student asked: "Is it ok if I quote a few papers from the end of the last century?"
Made me feel very old indeed!
Made me feel very old indeed!
I always use 'last millennium'. Makes it feel even worse.
Meh - I'd say the previous one was much more important. Napoleon upending Europe's political & social order, similar in China as the Qing put down the White Lotus Rebellion, Volta inventing the electric battery, ...
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You mean the previous previous one?
Yeah, I guess so. My memory just ain't so good as it was, back in the day...
We saw these is Ravenna