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Physical Graffiti: Space Invaders Walk Among Us
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 The Hollywood Sign is protected by high chain-link fence and, supposedly, a phalanx of web-cams watching for would-be vandals, suicides and other culture-spoilers.
So you've gotta love the audacity of a French artist who cements mosaic-tile pictures of Space Invader aliens onto public edifices, and has placed 100 around Los Angeles since 1999 - including six on the Hollywood Sign.
This map purports to show the locations of every one of Invader's stealthy "installations" (he seems especially fond of Park LaBrea and Melrose) ...
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Since 1999, he's slapped up hundreds of invader mosaics in Paris, New York, Manchester, Perth, Tokyo, Rotterdam, Lyon and a half-dozen other cities and produced elaborate maps of each invasion.
Not-too coincidental to this latest spotting (courtesy of blogging.la), Invader is opening a show of sculptures made of Rubik's Cubes at sixspace on June 11.
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 08:47 AM
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