How to build giant Space Invaders as public art

I asked Jason Torchinsky, one of my favorite makers/artists, to describe how he built his gigantic Space Invader sculptures for the IndieCade Festival (the international conference festival of independent games taking place October 7-9 in Los Angeles). Jason used the original space invaders shapes as templates and scaled them up to one pixel per square foot. Here's how he did it.

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• [bcsizemo]

  I want to see Ignignokt and Err as giant art installations…

  -While it’d be in bad taste, if Ignignokt could be doing it as hard as he can, it’d be a nice touch.

  • [Lobster]

    Last time someone did Ignignokt as an art installation, people called the bomb squad.

• [flowergardenslayer]

  Very cool!  Only change I would make would be to put in a steel re-inforcement to allow for the non-touching pixels.  Thus you could eliminate the slight overlap you see in the “mandibles” in the bottom of the pictured invader.

  Also using gator board instead of plywood, since it’s super strong, and much lighter!

• [Nagurski]

  I love the way the MAKE article is a tutorial on how not to do it.

• [destroy_all_humans]

  This is happening at Indie Cade and their website does an effective job hiding it’s location: http://www.indiecade.com/index.php/2011/where/

• [peromyscus]

  I lol’d at “tree meat”. Don’t tell Lady Gaga or she’ll want a dress made out of raw wood. 

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Don’t tell Lady Gaga or she’ll want a dress made out of raw wood.

    Chances are that she already has clothing made of cooked wood.

• [koopapoopas]

  Reminds me of the Apple Icon Garden from the good old days:

  http://icongarden.jory.org/cgi-bin/icongarden.pl?lang=en&curpic=7

  http://www.quora.com/History-of-Apple-Inc/Where-did-Apples-icon-garden-sculptures-go-after-the-garden-was-decommissioned