By Max Liberman Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #30, October 2011
Author: SDM
Ethnography * Technology * Design
The Israel Flag at the Speed of Light
Posted to the Flag Art group on Facebook by Bill Trinkle. The website Artspace says about this artwork: About the work The Israel Flag at the Speed of Light highlights Rosenquist's interest in taking familiar signifiers and removing them from their expected context. This work features an image of the Israeli flag deconstructed and then pieced… Continue reading The Israel Flag at the Speed of Light
Brewvana
By Ted Kaye Originally published in Vexilloid Tabloid #34, June 2012 Portland’s Rock Bottom Brewery hosted the Portland Belgian Beer Challenge on April 10, 2012. It featured a taste-off between beers from Amnesia, Rock Bottom, Roots, Lucky Lab, BJ’s, Concordia, Hair of the Dog, McMennamin’s Crystal Ballroom, and New Old Lompoc—ten breweries in all. With… Continue reading Brewvana
Flag Adapters
For every official flag, there are unofficial adaptations. Some of these are just short-cuts, as when flag manufacturers and chart makers pretend that every national flag is the same shape (usually 3x5). There are also annotations, when a flag is used as the background for a written message. The US flag with its many horizontal… Continue reading Flag Adapters
Learning from Roman Army Re-Enactors
Condensed and adapted by Patrick Genna from http://www.legionxxiv.org/signum Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #33, April 2012 The website above, home to a Roman Army re-enactor group in Pennsylvania, has an extensive gallery of images of replica military equipment, including flags and vexilloids. The 24th Legion “defends the Frontiers of Ancient Rome in the Mid-Atlantic Province of… Continue reading Learning from Roman Army Re-Enactors
Flags and Occupy Portland (2011)
By Ted Kaye, revised by Scott Mainwaring Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #31 & #32, Dec '11 & Feb '12 Occupy Portland, the protest movement and encampment in downtown Portland, has used flags in interesting ways. Ted Kaye observed a march in late October in which the flags used included USA, Cascadia, Tunisia, and red (IWW)… Continue reading Flags and Occupy Portland (2011)
South Dakota Proposals (2012)
By Patrick Genna, revised by Scott Mainwaring Originally published in Vexilloid Tabloid #34 (June 2012) In February a South Dakota House panel rejected a proposal to change the state flag. Its design was first adopted in 1909, updated in 1963, and again in 1992. (There is a short YouTube video explaining the evolution.) Using the… Continue reading South Dakota Proposals (2012)
What If There Were No Third Flag Act?
Blog post by Scott Mainwaring On April 4, 1818 the US Congress enacted the following: An Act to establish the flag of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of… Continue reading What If There Were No Third Flag Act?
What’s that Flag? (from VexTab #50)
By David Koski Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #50, February 2015 Can you distinguish 12 national flags using only their average color? Email your answers to quiz@portlandflag.org, or wait for the solution to be revealed in the next Vexilloid Tabloid.
World Population Flags
By David W. Ferriday Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #31, December 2011 See also: United Nation News Centre: As world passes 7 billion milestone, UN urges action to meet key challenges. October 31, 2011. Seven Billion. National Geographic's year-long series on population Human Population Reaches 7 Billion--How Did This Happen and Can It Go On? By David Biello, Scientific… Continue reading World Population Flags
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