Steve Weinik displays the tar paper cover removed from a freshly laid Toynbee tile. When asked who had seen the film, a large portion of the audience raised their hand. The crowd at the library consisted largely of tile enthusiasts. (For my 2011 review of the film, see On Technology and Media, “ Uncovering What Lies Beneath.” For my interview with director Foy, see “ Building a Mystery: The Toynbee Tiles and Jon Foy’s Filmmaking Quest.”) The trio’s search for the tiler and their quest to decipher his message is documented in the 2011 film, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, directed by Jon Foy. The tiles’ creator and their ultimate meaning are largely unknown, although Smith, Weinik, and Duerr believe they have identified the person behind the majority of the tiles. The main message is sometimes accompanied by additional side text containing tirades against various organizations (particularly the media and the “feds”) or mandates to create more tiles. Most of the tiles contain some variation of the message: A distorted Toynbee tile with additional “side text” below.Īlthough many of the tiles are roughly the size of an automobile license plate, they have also been found in other formats, from narrow strips about an inch tall to large configurations of multiple tiles. cities, including Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., and three cities in South America.
The tiles in question are linoleum rectangles that began appearing in the early 1980s inlaid in the asphalt surface of the roadways in more than a dozen U.S.
#Toynbee tiles update
Toynbee tile investigators Colin Smith and Steve Weinik, along with surprise guest Justin Duerr, provided an overview of the history of the mysterious tiles and an update on recent developments. and elsewhere, were illuminated at the Whitman Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Yesterday evening some of the mysteries surrounding the Toynbee tiles, the cryptic messages embedded in roadways of cities around the U.S.
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