Invader Weekly Roundup #10

Invader Weekly Roundup

This week: Paris closes out its latest invasion wave with two fresh mosaics (PA_1569 and PA_1570), while hunters mourn losses in Fontainebleau, New York, and London. The street keeps giving, and the street keeps taking.

Paris Caps Off a Wave

The big news this week comes straight from the capital: the spotter feed confirms the addition of PA_1569 and PA_1570, described as the last two Space Invaders of the current Parisian series. There's a real sense of occasion to a moment like this — the closing punctuation on a wave that hunters have been chasing piece by piece. Paris already dominates the global map with roughly three times the activity of any other city, and these two new tiles push that lead even further. If you're planning a Paris trip in the coming weeks, your checklist just got two entries longer. Meanwhile, the same feed logged a status update on PA_1275, a small reminder that even the older pieces are living, breathing things in the database — conditions change, and the catalog moves with them.

Three Cities Lose a Piece

It wasn't a clean week. Fontainebleau lost FTBL_36, New York lost NY_176, and London saw LDN_129 degraded — three separate strikes across three countries in a matter of days. None of these are surprising in the abstract; ceramic on a street wall is always negotiating with weather, construction crews, taggers, and the occasional collector with a chisel. But each loss lands a little harder when you've flashed the piece yourself, or planned to. NY_176 in particular feels notable given New York's relatively modest count of nine documented events on the global map — every Manhattan or Brooklyn loss thins the herd more than a Parisian one does. For anyone with a trip to London or Fontainebleau on the calendar, it's worth checking your local maps before you walk a route built around a piece that's no longer fully there.

The Wider Conversation

On the press and fan-source side, the curated feeds at MyArtBroker (both the artist page and the evergreen Top 10 Places to Find an Invader Original guide) refreshed this week, alongside the official Invader Instagram and the ever-essential invader-spotter news page. The MyArtBroker guide remains a solid primer for anyone new to the hunt — it leans heavily on Rue Monge in the 5th Arrondissement as a pilgrimage spot, which feels especially fitting in a week when Paris is the story. Open-web crawls also resurfaced GraffitiStreet's coverage of the nineteenth London wave and Artnet's piece marking Invader passing 4,000 mosaics — useful context as the project keeps barreling past its own milestones.

The Rhythm of the Game

Two added, three lost or degraded, one status update — a net-negative week on paper, but that's the deal we signed up for. The pieces aren't supposed to last forever; they're supposed to be found, photographed, argued about, and eventually replaced by something new on a wall somewhere across town. PA_1569 and PA_1570 are out there right now waiting for their first flashes. Go look up.