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You are here: Home / Arts & Culture / Those Asphalt Tiles Downtown

Those Asphalt Tiles Downtown

December 18, 2005 Natalia

You know those asphalt tiles along Smithfield Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh? These ones?

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Ever wonder who did that? And how they’re made?

Well, we can’t answer the first question. But we can answer the second!

Some DIY folks have posted a neat little article with their story of how they stumbled across the Pittsburgh tiles, how the artist made them, and how you can too. (Originally from Recipies for Disaster: the anarchists cookbook.)

And it’s one of the most popular articles on the site.

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Comments

  1. old pgher says

    December 22, 2005 at 3:43 PM

    yeah, they're found all over. the local people in your link are friends of mine. google: toynbee plaques.

  2. young pgher? says

    January 2, 2006 at 9:22 PM

    they're all over the country – here's a (poorply updated) list of their appearances – http://www.toynbee.net/

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  1. UnSpace - There is a hole in your mind… » Driveway Artwork says:
    December 27, 2005 at 8:43 PM

    […] Driveway Artwork By Rob Here are the instructions for asphalt mosaics. I found it via iheartpgh, which explains those decorations in some of the downtown crosswalks. […]

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