The February 2015 edition of our newsletter, The Vexilloid Tabloid, is the fiftieth we've published! As always, it's available as a PDF file on this site. You can also get it and future issues delivered to your inbox by emailing your request to subscribe@portlandflag.org. VexTab 50 features: The Vexilloid Tabloid at 50 Issues (Ted Kaye)… Continue reading The Vexilloid Tabloid – 50th edition!
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Ethnography * Technology * Design
The Seal of the State of Jefferson
By Michael Orelove Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #31, December 2011 Kathleen Forrest and I recently drove from Portland to the San Francisco area and passed through the State of Jefferson (parts of southern Oregon and northern California). We carried a flag of the State of Jefferson on their trip. The flag bears a reproduction of the… Continue reading The Seal of the State of Jefferson
New Wave: Facts About Flags [book review]
By Ted Kaye Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #31, December 2011 Many of us like to give flag books as gifts to those who don’t yet fully understand why flags appeal to us. Here’s one that merits a place in the “present drawer”. New Wave is not the typical flag book—a compilation of flags of the world… Continue reading New Wave: Facts About Flags [book review]
A Flag for All Mankind in the 21st Century
By David W. Ferriday Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #31, December 2011 There are thousands of flags representing many different groups of people around the world. The United Nations flag and the Olympic flag are the most inclusive. But there is, I believe, a need for a flag that represents each and every one of us, as… Continue reading A Flag for All Mankind in the 21st Century
Delacroix and Charlie Hebdo
In Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix created what is arguably the single most famous depiction of any flag, and certainly of the French tricolor. The central figure, the personification of Liberty (and of the French nation), brandishing the flag in one hand, a rifle in the other, climbs over her fallen comrades urging "the people" on to victory.… Continue reading Delacroix and Charlie Hebdo
Randall Gray’s Flag for Oregon
By Ted Kaye; revised by Scott Mainwaring Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #30, October 2011 The PFA has honored Randall Gray of West Linn for his re-design of the Oregon State Flag, which received the most votes in The Oregonian's contest in 2008-09. In a celebration hosted in February by Mike Hale at Elmer’s Flag & Banner,… Continue reading Randall Gray’s Flag for Oregon
Fun with Flag [reblog]
Where does the word "flag" come from?
United Nations Flag Project
By Michael Orelove Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #30, October 2011 I have all 50 state flags, different historical American flags, some city flags, and various other flags, but very few national flags. I give flag presentations in schools and various community organizations and wanted to have additional national flags. Rather than purchase a full set… Continue reading United Nations Flag Project
Columbus, Ohio [reblog]
Columbus, Ohio a mecca of great ice cream? Who knew?
Burrito Justice: Flags of San Francisco [reblog]
The mysterious, prolific, and insightful Burrito Justice published this piece about his hometown’s flag way back in 2013. And as a kind of sequel, check out his flag celebrating SF asshattery from 2014.
Hey, did you know San Francisco has a flag?!? (I mean, other than the Castro flag.)
Lots of history behind this — the very wooden early San Francisco burned down many times:
1849: Dec 24
1850: May 4
1850: Jun 14
1850: Sep 17
1851: May 3
1851: Jun 22
While I love the IDEA of our flag, I don’t actually LOVE our flag. It’s kind of… meh, to be honest. And apparently I am not the only one. The all-powerful and knowledgeable Roman Mars noted the same when he moved to Chicago from SF. (A worthy podcast.)
So when I moved back to San Francisco in 2008, I researched its flag because I’d never seen it before in the previous eight years that I’d lived here. And I found it … I’m sorry to say, sadly lacking.
He even interviewed a vexillologicist, Ted Kaye, on what makes a…
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