Cool Stuff in Paris. By Manning Leonard Krull.

Monday, November 22, 2010

A gallery of pixel art tile mosaics all over Paris

If, in your Paris wanderings, you've perhaps glanced up once or twice, you've probably seen a few pixel art mosaics, usually in the form of little low-res aliens, like something out of a 1980s arcade game. I've always really enjoyed spotting these things, mentally cataloguing my favorites, pointing them out to friends, et cetera, so a couple years ago I started taking pictures of them whenever I happened to notice one. The trend was popularized in the 1990s by a French street artist artist who goes by the name Invader. But he might not be the first guy who ever... Read more
 
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