{"id":120,"date":"2004-06-10T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T22:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-06-10T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T22:31:33","slug":"counterinvasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/counterinvasion\/","title":{"rendered":"counterinvasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt if anyone&#8217;s noticed, but there&#8217;s an invader on this page, just next to the Hollywoodland logo. Clicking it will take you to counterinvasion.com.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is this counterinvasion, you ask? Anyone who&#8217;s been following this blog knows that Sara and I have been sharing an obsession with the work of an artist who simply calls himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-invaders.com\">Space Invader<\/a>. His simple, attractive mosaics are scattered throughout the world in a sort of &#8220;global invasion.&#8221; There are 93 known installations in Los Angeles alone. Other invaded cities include New York, London, Lyon and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-invaders.com\/aus_map1.html\">Perth<\/a>, on the Western coast of Australia. In his hometown of Paris he&#8217;s installed a staggering 590+ invaders.<\/p>\n<p>Our own effort to track these suckers down began as a lark, but quickly turned into an obsession. Rather than clog this space (or my Buzznet pages, for that matter) with pics and commentary of all our sightings, I&#8217;ve decided to assemble a new website dedicated to the effort. There&#8217;s nothing there but a coming soon message now, but keep checking back. Soon, you&#8217;ll be able to follow along as we track each of these guys down&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.counterinvasion.com\/invader\/images\/02_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Invader #2: in front of Rocket Video,<\/p>\n<p>where it all began.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt if anyone&#8217;s noticed, but there&#8217;s an invader on this page, just next to the Hollywoodland logo. Clicking it will take you to counterinvasion.com. So, what is this counterinvasion, you ask? Anyone who&#8217;s been following this blog knows that Sara and I have been sharing an obsession with the work of an artist who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}