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How I was inspired by former street artist "Invader" to realize a mosaic with one of my favorite video game character, the
Bubble Bobble litle green dinosaur!
Some capitals such as New York, London or paris, are covered with a beautiful and quite hyper resistant street art
project called "Invasion", made by... "Invader". This consit in reproducing pixel-drawings (also named as "sprites" in the
video game industry) with mosaic and stick it on the walls, in the streets. invader has a simple technique : he is using a
glue that is more solid and resistant than the tiles itself, so any attempt to steal these pieces of street art remain
unsuccessful. Quite clever!
Knowing nothing about how to do tiles mosaic and where to by the stuff, I started to do some searchs on google image to
find an appropriate drawing to convert into mosaic. With a bit of luck I knew I could find one that will exactly fit my wills :
not too small, and not to large. A 25x25 tiles mosaic was my absolute limit as it's already involving 625 tiles.
I finally failed in google images, and before starting to convert a bigger image into a smaller one, I did some extra effort to
find an original sprite with the size I wanted (pixel design is so well done that I couldn't expect to get the same quality by
myself). I finally found the exact 18x18 pixels image I wanted, in a backup of a nintendo GameBoy Advance cartrige. I
had to extract the content and one particular design on a splash screen fitted my needs perfectly. I can't reproduce the
drawing here as it's strongly under copyright.
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didn't know at this time the choice of color i will have for the tiles. I ended up with 5 different colors, and one color for the
background. I had another version with two different greens but this one was working pretty well so I went for the
simplicity. I then decided to ad a 1 tile frame around the drawing and started to count the number of tiles for each color.
For my 18x18 mosaic I needed : 20 orange tiles, 26 yellow tiles, 16 black tiles, 63 green tiles and 36 white tiles. I also
needed 162 tiles for the background, for a grand total of 324 tiles.
I then started to look for the material. I did researchs, I found mainly the Briare's tiles in every shop, which are very
expensive ($180+ for the tiles), so after a few weeks i put the project in standby. One year later, I finally found the
appropriate materials at a decent price.
But let's forget the net, the glue and the paper and play with the tiles...
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Gently place your tiles on the net, helping you with a ruler and the net grid to let litle regular spaces between each tile: it's
very important that the glue or cement fill this space when placed on a wall, or the mosaic won't be that much solid and
resistant.
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Houdini
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