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THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

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Central Ljubljana recently: I want to believe!

If you’ve noticed some space invaders or other video-game characters in Ljubljana, it’s because the invader landed there recently. According to this profile in LA Weekly, he’s been doing this for ten years now and has put up hundreds of these damn things.

Here’s a few pictures of the invasion de Ljubljana.

(Thanks Cornelius!)

Posted on Monday, April 2, 2007 to Slovenia

Comments

  • 1

    Is this real? Because both pics look photoshopped to me. :oops:

         by Sunshine on April 2, 2007 at 6:32 am

  • 2

    Sunshine, that’s what I thought aswell when I saw the picture above. However, I can’t visit the invader-Homepage at the moment, because it’s blocked in my office.

         by Dietmar on April 2, 2007 at 7:37 am

  • 3

    I’ll have a look at it in the afternoon and will report back…

         by pengovsky on April 2, 2007 at 7:57 am

  • 4

    I never noticed the Tromostovje Invader, but I have seen some around. One is close to the Dragon bridge, next to the Horseburger place, and the other one I saw is on the building adjacent to MaÄ?ek. Haven’t seen any more, but the site says 30 pieces scatteres across Ljubljana…

         by Cornelius on April 2, 2007 at 8:31 am

  • 5

    Yeah, the Metelkova and Macek ones were there last time I checked, also the ones that are pictured side by side (but I can’t remember where I saw those). I have a pic of one on the base of the statue of Gregorius of Knin in Split, Croatia. They’re everywhere! They even used to sell kits so you can do them yourself (maybe still do, haven’t checked), but why you’d spend money on a kit when you can go to a store that sells coloured tiles, for much less $$$, is beyond me. Sorta defeats the inherent diy aspect of graffiti.

         by lisa on April 2, 2007 at 10:52 am

  • 6

    If I caught the guy doing that I would glue the tiles on his face.

         by Mirko T on April 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

  • 7

    Now that would make an artistic statement.

         by lisa on April 2, 2007 at 6:13 pm

  • 8

    This is wonderful but I totally prefer the indigenous graffiti, i.e. “Fack the USA.”

         by Patrick on April 2, 2007 at 8:27 pm

  • 9

    I think putting graffiti on beautiful old buildings like they have in Ljubljana is totally really tres gauche!

         by Katja on April 2, 2007 at 9:21 pm

  • 10

    On the other hand, it doesn’t bother me if they go up on bleak grey commie-blocks.

         by Katja on April 2, 2007 at 9:21 pm

  • 11

    Patrick, I once saw a quite funny message in bogu za hrbtom Murska Sobota: “black Gringos”… for whatever that means :-)

         by Dietmar on April 3, 2007 at 12:06 am

  • 12

    thats the football teams supporters there.

         by Mirko T on April 3, 2007 at 8:09 pm

  • 13

    But by definition a Gringo can’t be Black and a Black can’t be a Gringo, well at least most of the time. A Gringo is either a Scottish or Irish American, it came from songs that had as refrain ‘Green Grow the rashes oh’ or ‘Green grow the lillies oh’ My Meksikanski friends will find this most amusing, that there are Black Gringos! :)

         by Katja on April 4, 2007 at 4:43 am

  • 14

    Hm, interesting to hear about where “Gringo” comes from, although I thought I heard that it means some sort of white persons. But to call a football-team like that - ts ts. One could call their ball “round cube”…

         by Dietmar on April 4, 2007 at 9:01 am

  • 15

    its all real. last summer there was also one of Aboves arrows hanging over preseren trg. www.goabove.com/ but it got cleaned during x-mas preparations. and on the subject of graffiti superstars in LJ, there is also some stuff by the London Police www.thelondonpolice.com/

         by gandalf on April 4, 2007 at 11:49 am

  • 16

    So you don’t class Scots or Irish descent people as White?
    I remember reading in Harper’s Magazine, I have some EXTREMELY old copies of them inherited from my late step-father, seeing a joke where the punchline was that an ‘Irishman wasn’t nothing but a N***** turned inside out’
    Many racial theories existed to proclaim Irish inferior, but Scots superior, samen damn people basically! Language differes a little if you are refering to Scots Gaelic v.s. Irish Gaelic, and religion differs for historical reasons, Catholic mostly v.s. Protestant mostly, but to a Mexican all annoying white folk that aren’t say Spaniards, are ‘Gringos’

         by Katja on April 4, 2007 at 6:51 pm

  • 17

    I do, maybe it would have been clearer if I’d have written “I’ve already heard that… (but wasn’t that sure)” - that is the result of sitting in your office at 9am, half asleep… But interesting anyway.

         by Dietmar on April 4, 2007 at 7:17 pm

  • 18

    I saw some of these things in Paris in 2003. They were on the side of the Picasso Museum.

         by Marinka on April 8, 2007 at 12:44 pm

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