Park Avenue and 51st Street
The mystery and adventure of Toynbee Tiles continues. I photographed several in Philadelphia, seen on the blog last week. The creator of the original style of tiles (for example, this one in St. Louis) is thought to be one James Morasco of Philadelphia, who died in 2003.
There was a new kind in Philly. The top line of all of them is "House Of Hades." They criticize journalists and the rich. Some of them have a new feature. clever images on the side. I particularly like the martini glass above. There doesn't seem to be anything on the web yet about this new artist.
Interest in the subject has been so great that a documentary film was released last year, Resurrect Dead - The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. You can get it on Amazon, at least in the U.S. My copy should arrive tomorrow.
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5 comments:
j'en avais vu , mais j'avais jamais fait le rapport. Une forme de walk of fame de l'artiste
Funny! Love the sentiments. :)
Gosh you certainly learn some new and interesting things when you blog around the world. How very strange these are Bob, although I do wish he'd spread himself a bit further afield!
I'm pretty sure I hadn't heard of these until you started mentioning them in Philly...
House of Hades has already been to St. Louis, i'm sure there are more
than just this one as well:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/deb-peterson/house-of-hades-tile-found-at-th-and-olive-streets/article_e283a9fc-ada4-11e0-8e6d-0019bb30f31a.html
I "caught the bug" and started researching these House of Hades tiles
a few years back.. they've been reported pretty much coast to coast..
nyc, philly, chicago, cleveland, cincinnati, indianapolis, boise,
portland, los angeles.. even one in brazil! And these are only the
ones that have photos on the internet, i'm sure there's a bunch more
that nobodies found.
http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2011/12/07/house-of-hades-toynbee-tile-spotted-at-ninth-and-idaho-streets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/topherhulett/6914408773/
I would say they've been pretty "afield", no? :)
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