Creatures from Outer Space

Ace and I went on mission yesterday in search of Space Invaders on the streets of Kilburn and Notting Hill. A little background.... this French guy called 'Space Invader' buys lots of little mosaic tiles and sticks them to walls as space invaders. He came to London and stick up seven waves of invaders between 1999 and 2007 totalling 101 of these little artworks. And so armed with an A-Z went pottered through some pretty dodgy areas and some rather posh ones too as we made our from Queens Park tube station to Kensington.

This is number 001, the first he put up, still there to be seen by all in Kensal Town. difficult to get a close up on this one with a camera phone. I like the positioning though.


Some were easy to find, others much more tricky with a lot of back tracking and head stratching. Our aim was to find all the ones in this part of town, about 16 in all and all but one were found. Curse you 002! I will find you though!

Here's the remains of 045, it's seen better days.


Quite a few had been removed, a few more were just painted over, but it's good fun to go on a little treasure hunt to find these invaders, a good adventure.

This one is outside Notting Hill tube station.


Notice the Banksy tag, a nice little link to how we finished our day, Ace showed where this piece of urban decay was. A clue in the background!


Returning to the subject of creatues from outer space our wander through Notting Hill was interrupted by an opportunity for me to try my hand at becoming a member of the pararazzi. Here's my effort, once again on a camera phone.


And we saw Jason Orange from Take That too.