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New-born Toynbee? March 25, 2011 |
Can you imagine how surprized I was to see THIS? I'm pretty sure that this is new, or recently uncovered. I don't know if I'm allowed to say exactly where this is located? I do know that I was shocked to see it in a place that I have passed-by many times before. I have waited for the 505 NJ Transit bus within feet of this spot before also. It stuck-out like a sore thumb to me, so I'd have to guess that it has only been visible for a few days-if that.
It looks-like the real thing to me, like one-of the originally-placed tiles, not the imitators, so I feel very fortunate to have found this. I am not an expert of course, and I'm not sure if I have ever seen one in person before, but I have studied them online and it was like seeing an original Monet, or Warhol, or other recognizable artist's work for the first time, in a museum. Except that this was embedded into the ground!
Unlike what I have heard about Tiles in Philadelphia, this one is in a fairly busy place, but it is in a fire-lane/bus-stop, (The NJ Transit 505 rides-over it many times, daily), so it doesn't get a lot of vehicle-traffic upon the surface of the Tile.
Below is a larger view of the area. I took these photos on my cell-phone camera at about 4pm in the afternoon on March 25, 2011. I have not read the entire message yet.
The photo above is the original as it was emailed to myself. Below I will re-post in a larger view, to try and make it easier to see what the words are. I can go back and take better photos with a different camera.
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Enlarged Ventnor City Toynbee |
Left Side:
"Toynbee IDEA
Movie 2001
Dead
JupiTER Right Side:
lay tile
Movie
-FEDS-
Events
Convey (or Concept?)<--(cannot decipher)
of FBIs
500 year
Don't exist in
Christian Heaven
They Only Exist
in Christ
Shlf <---(??-cannot decipher)
Hell"-(photographed in Ventnor City, NJ, March/2011©)