#Toynbee tiles license
All tiles are either a new, somewhat crude license plate size design, or highway style. My walk was targeted and I’m guessing there are still dozens of others still unreported.
Following clues from past patterns of distribution, I found 30 in a 3 hours. One gets the feeling that its author, more than anything else, simply wants to get. The most common messageToynbee Idea: In Kubrick’s 2001, resurrect dead on planet Jupiterhas no apparent relation to the locales in which it’s appeared. In 2014, I gathered reports of New York tiles and set out looking for more. The only way to remove a Toynbee tile is to pave over itand, even then, it’s still there. Since 2013, dozens of new tiles have appeared in Baltimore, Atlantic City, Wilmington, and New York. They referenced a close family member of TTT, accused him of some pretty awful things, showed his picture, address, and work ID. I won’t reproduce the handbill here, but the family connection, the voice of the message and some idiosyncrasies of the text (a lower-case “i” in the word CHRiST) all suggest that TTT was behind them. We don’t know if any tiles were produced in this time. While no tiles appeared, a series of handbills appeared in center city Philadelphia. A BREAK?Īfter TTT’s 3 most prolific years, 20 were quiet. Kensington and Wishart, Philadelphia, PA. The Toynbee Tiler (TTT) included his home address in a “lucite block” embedded below the primary text. These tiles were about the size of a North American license plate, and with a few notable exceptions, didn’t include ancillary tiles with side-text messages. Tiles in this style appeared from the mid-1980’s through the early 1990’s in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New York, Santiago, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janiero. TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUBriCK’s 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER EARLIEST TILESĮarly tiles were plain white rectangles of linoleum with the standard message: For more on the evolution of styles, read on. For more on the message, explore the WHY section of this site. This site is only concerned with the work of the original artist, and the messages he’s carved into tiles, and embedded into streets in North and South America (and possibly Europe).
Toynbee Tiles refer to a message and a medium invented by a Philadelphia artist in the 1980’s.
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