I get such a cheap thrill in found art, I love coming across artistic stamps in the city. Canadian artist Melanie Coles has just finished her thesis project that involves creating such found art in the city but for outer space. She took the whole “where’s waldo” game and kicked it up a notch.

Instead of hiding waldo on small book pages filled with crowded illustrated beaches and park scenes, Coles took the iconic figure and painted a large-scale version of it. She then placed it on a random rooftop somewhere in Vancouver, British Columbia. The goal is to get it photographed by Google Earth and thus turn it into a real life “where in vancouver is waldo?”. Until then, a coder from Chile has created a patch that overlays the actual image into Google Earth so that the game can start sooner.

What’s cool is that she’s made available the instructions for building your own larger-than-life waldo. You too can construct and mysteriously place a Waldo somewhere in your city. The only rule is that it has to be visible from the sky. She’s hoping this turns into a larger “Where on the earth is Waldo?”.