I was in Paris a few weeks ago and came across several tile mosaics of what looks like the invaders from the old “Space Invaders” video game on the sides of buildings and other structures. Here are some pictures of a few of them:
The first of the above is on the side of a statue in a park. The second is on a building side. I saw a few others that I don’t have pictures of. (One was near the Odeon metro stop if that helps anyone.) They seem to be made from tiles and are a foot or two across. All of them are in quite visible locations and appear to have been there for a while.
Does anyone know what these things are? Some sort of art project or something? Anyone know anything about these?
That’s an individual who’s been adding these space-invaders shaped tiles on various monuments and buildings. He’s been doing so for many years, apparently, and also encourage people to imitate him (he even provides the tiles).
By the way, he has been doing the same in other cities and even in other countries. I’ve seen a picture taken in New-York, for instance, at the entrance of what appear to be a subway station (“Prince Street Station”). I can’t link to the picture since it stuck somewhere in a ling PDF file. He also added some in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong-Kong, London, Amsterdam, etc…
I don’t know if he sometimes get allowed to put his stuff. As far as I know, he isn’t.I doubt they would officially let him put it on a statue, but maybe the people in charge just don’t care, or find it funny, or didn’t notice…Why it has not been removed is anybody’s guess.
Wow. 42 minutes from question to solved. Merci beaucoupclairobscur!
Yeah, it’s weird. I spend a week visiting the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay, Notre Dame, Sacre Cour and other places, and the thing that is bugging me the most as I get on the plane is “what were all those darn space invader mosaics all about?”. :rolleyes:
And SpaceDog, thanks for the link. Interesting. Apparently there were a bunch of those things I never saw…