#PHILADELPHIA TOYNBEE TILES MOVIE#

#PHILADELPHIA TOYNBEE TILES MOVIE#

Good Tile is entirely legible and shows little wear Fair Tile is mostly. Typically inscribed with the phrase TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOViE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER, the tiles were originally discovered in Philadelphia but have also been documented in. The Streets Department wants to save a few for posterity, before their slow resurfacing process destroys the few left remaining that have managed to survive years of city winters and SEPTA buses. This map shows the location and condition of known Toynbee tiles in Philadelphia. And with all signs suggesting the mysterious Tiler has left the city for good, the tiles are becoming ever more rare and in danger of extinction in their native habitat, Philadelphia. With Justin Duerr, Marc Duerr, Kevin Riley, Abby Miller. The tiles have inspired imitators and thieves alike, not to mention numerous news pieces and one award-winning documentary. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles: Directed by Jon Foy. The Tiles are at once part of our local lore and art known the world over, the product of a South Philly man with a tenuous grip on reality and a tremendous amount of creativity.

The city’s paving agreements stipulate that paving contractors must halt resurfacing and notify a Streets engineer if they come across a Toynbee Tile, those strange mosaic messages embedded into the pavement across Philadelphia. But in 2005, he was intrigued enough to drop out of film school in Texas and move to Philadelphia to make a documentary about the search for the person behind the tiles, which first began to attract notice in the early 1980s. The Toynbee Tiles - linoleum text squares embedded in pavement across the city - are a Philadelphia institution, and they're in danger of disappearing. Jon Foy, 31, who grew up in Willow Grove, came to the Toynbee tiles mystery relatively late.

Philadelphia toynbee tiles