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b-shots: Warning! The world’s been invaded!

// November 5th, 2009 // b-street // Kara

Fear not though, Space Invaders are friendly creatures decorating many streets around the world – they’re very retro and they don’t bite (not that we know of anyway!)

Space Invaders are the brainchild of French Street Artist Invader who pastes up characters from and inspired by the Space Invader game, made up of small coloured square tiles that form a mosaic. He does this in cities across the world, then documents this as an “Invasion”, with maps of where to find each invader.

He started this project in 1998 with the invasion of Paris, the city where he lives and the most invaded city to date – and then spread the invasion to 35 other cities in the world. We found this invader just under the train bridge next to Southwark Cathedral on Borough High Street.

Space Invaders are a little bit Pokemon – gotta snap ‘em all!