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Monday, 14 November 2005

quote [ As we walked we saw more versions of the same design. While befuddled by the message, we were amazed by the technique, and avidly discussed how it might be reproduced. But a few blocks later, miraculously, we came upon the Rosetta Stone, a similar piece of the same material and text... except this one featured an additional block of small text: instructions! The words were old and badly damaged, but we could just make out the crucial sentence... ]

Perhaps you may remember Toynbee tiles from this post:
http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/24108

Or maybe you even remember them from this post:
http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/1850

Now you know how to make them!

[art] [by Phaedrine@7:46pmGMT] [+10]

Comments

KropperPrime said @ 8:02pm GMT on 14th Nov
They refer to the original author as a 'mystic', I say he is more a 'fuckin nut' who was probably sufering from schizophrenia or something similar.

Interesting fact tho, some of his plaques read : "... as media soviet ..." at the very end. Soviet propagandists used these tiles?

violence jack said @ 8:43pm GMT on 14th Nov
I would like to see my street covered with toynbees designed by madpride.

kylemcBitch said @ 8:45pm GMT on 14th Nov
Ten years in the future: What the hell is this on about? George W. WHO?

arteitle said @ 11:34pm GMT on 14th Nov
Some of the more complete ones end with "You must make + glue tiles! You!! As media, USSR, and fronts are against it"

arteitle said @ 11:35pm GMT on 14th Nov [Score:1 Informative]
This site has a ton of links, photos, and info. Apparently it belongs to filmmakers making a documentary on the tiles.

spazm said @ 8:07pm GMT on 14th Nov [Score:1 Informative]
I found this one quite helpful as well

thechicagonuwave said @ 8:48pm GMT on 14th Nov [Score:1 Insightful]
glass is not a liquid

Phaedrine said @ 8:59pm GMT on 14th Nov
I was kinda annoyed with that bit too... That is why I didn't quote that first paragraph.

graham said @ 9:01pm GMT on 14th Nov [Score:1 Informative]
or is it???

granitewitch said @ 9:13pm GMT on 14th Nov
It's an amorphous solid. Want to see another example of an amorphous solid? Look right under your fingertips. The keyboard you're using has plastic keys, right? Plastics are amorphous solids.

The fun thing is that if you supercool a metal, you can make a metal glass. Those have some extremely weird properties...

strangeffect said @ 10:26pm GMT on 14th Nov
Any practical applications for that? Sounds too nifty to be useless.

granitewitch said @ 10:57pm GMT on 14th Nov
Yup. Google for the phrase "metallic glass" and read a few articles. The stuff becomes stronger and more springy than the best steels. I remember reading about golf clubs made from the stuff that would about double a person's drive. The only thing was that after a while it would crack a little at a time until you swung at a ball and it shattered. Which would be a hideously expensive waste of a golf club, but it would look pretty fucking impressive...

There is also a professor who theorizes that if you made bullets out of the stuff it would be better for piercing armor, because instead of mushrooming like normal metal it would shear into sharp fragments as it hit, providing better penetration.

But even more fascinating to me is the newly discovered transparent aluminum...

f00m@nB@r said @ 10:41pm GMT on 14th Nov
+1 John Baez

arteitle said @ 9:14pm GMT on 14th Nov
I didn't remember seeing the original posts on Toynbee Tiles, but reading about them is interesting! And apparently there are or were several of them in my (not-so-big) city. I'll have to go looking for them.

JabberWokky said @ 9:31pm GMT on 14th Nov
I did a few in the greater Sacramento area. Contrary to this guy's writeup, vinyl tile works great (although I used white), and you can just splotch down a tile glued with rubber cement to tarpaper (to hold the letters in place) over the asphalt filler. Paper grocery bags glued together also work fairly well -- basically, you need something to mat it down and hold it together until it cures.

VCT is a great tool and medium... I have it over my work service, use it as a disposable acrylic paint palette and use it as panels for various small projects. If my work surface gets scarred up, it's a new 10 cent tile per square foot.