OK.
I confess. I put them there after I graduated from college in '89.
I didn't have a job, and had all this left over material from my grandfather's contractor business. It's this sheet plastic/rubber that you heat up and stick to the road. Used for lines in parking lots, etc. You are supposed to embed those little reflective glass beads in it, but I didn't have any of those. I pulled the quote together from a dream I had about the book 2001, which I had just finished reading. Don't ask me about Toynbee. I don't want to go there. I had a lot of crazy ideas back then.
You will find my work (What's left of it) in D.C., Philly, and New York. I've heard of other copy cats, but they weren't mine.
I have a job now, and a real life, so I've abandoned them.
I was trying to become the next Cool "Disco" Dan, but didn't sign my work. So it never really caught on.
Application was easy. I had use of my grandfather's contractor's van. He had the orange cones, and the torches for heating up the material to make it stick. I was visiting friends in Philly and New York, and did those when I visited them. They can confirm my story. We did it together. I did DC myself.
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