Invader homepage: <a href="https://www.space-invaders.com/home/" rel="nofollow">https://www.space-invaders.com/home/</a>
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.<p>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.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.space-invaders.com/flashinvaders/" rel="nofollow">https://www.space-invaders.com/flashinvaders/</a>
Invader features early in this extraordinary street art documentary by Banksy:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/IqVXThss1z4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/IqVXThss1z4</a>
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 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.
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.<p>Still seems like a good idea tbh.
Tangentially, Fleet Street has some other space invaders in the form of a plaque.<p><a href="https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/4-st-dunstan-s-court-space-invaders" rel="nofollow">https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/4-st-dunstan-s-cou...</a>
There is/was a space invader about 50m from my door in Budapest when I lived there.<p>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.
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.
Tangentially related,<p>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 <a href="https://alternativeldn.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://alternativeldn.co.uk/</a><p>Coming from SF the ride was blissfully flat and easy and our guide (the founder) was exceptional in every respect.<p>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 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?"<p>Made me feel very old indeed!
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, ...<p>(;
We saw these is Ravenna