![]() At one time, there was a set of tiles at the intersection of Meridian and Georgia but it was destroyed by city employees installing new sewers in 2005. One set of these tiles is embedded in the cross-walk at the intersection of Meridian and Maryland streets in Indianapolis (across from the Hard Rock Café) and another rests in the crosswalk at 9th St. Obey.” Some of the tiles contained lengthy, paranoid rants about the news media, Jews, and the Mafia.Īlthough identifying the locations and photographing these Toynbee tiles has become an Internet obsession, I know of only three locations in Indiana where these mysterious tiles have appeared. They vary in color and arrangement and are all made of an unidentifiable hard substance, and many had footnotes as strange as the message itself, such as “Murder every journalist, I beg you,” and “Submit. A few of these tiles also feature cryptic political statements or urge readers to create and plant similar tiles of their own. These colorful pieces of modern art are usually no larger than a license plate and lie flush with the surface of the pavement. ![]() Toynbee was a British author whose works examined the rise and fall of civilizations. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel,” and the ideas of historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee. This cryptic message seems to form some strange connection between Stanley Kubrick’s movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Arthur C. Scattered throughout the roadways and crosswalks of more than two dozen cities in the United States and South America are hundreds of mysterious homemade tiles arranged jigsaw style bearing the cryptic message, “Toynbee Idea: In Kubrick’s 2001, Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter” in varied styles. ![]() This article was first published in March 2010.
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