Brooklyn-based Afrocentric group X Clan released Return from Mecca in 2007. The music video for the single Weapon X features two flags: the green, gold, and red flag Ethiopian flag, and the red, black, and green Pan-African flag. X Clan: Weapon X. Directed by Dale "Rage" Resteghini. Uploaded to YouTube August 24, 2006, has 320,000… Continue reading X Clan: Weapon X
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Outkast’s Stankonia flag
OutKast are a celebrated hip hop duo from Atlanta. For their critically acclaimed 2000 album Stankonia, in what became an iconic image, they appear on the cover in front of a huge black and white variant of the US flag, with inverted stars. Paste magazine ranked it 21st in their list, The 25 Best Album Covers of… Continue reading Outkast’s Stankonia flag
Young Jeezy: Put On
This video for the Grammy-nominated hip hop song Put On by Young Jeezy popularized the monochrome, "black and silver" adaptation of the US flag. The song was on an album entitled The Recession, and the flag was used in the video as a symbol of the Great Recession. For most of the US, the recession… Continue reading Young Jeezy: Put On
Machine Gun Kelly: Raise the Flag
Hip hop has a thing about flags. This week, we'll look at some examples. Here is a music video by American rapper Richard Colson Baker, known as MGK (Machine Gun Kelly). The song is Raise the Flag (uncensored). Official video, directed by JR Saint. Published on Oct 14, 2014. Currently has over 3.8 million views.… Continue reading Machine Gun Kelly: Raise the Flag
What’s that Flag? (from VexTab #31)
By Max Liberman Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #31, December 2011
Angus Watt’s Festival Flags
By Scott Mainwaring Since 1994 British visual artist Angus Watt has been making elaborate flag displays for the annual international music and arts festival WOMAD (World of Music, Arts, and Dance). His work has since spread to other festivals around the world, including Mysteryland and the New Zealand Arts Festival. Often we think of flag… Continue reading Angus Watt’s Festival Flags
Flag Origami
A Japanese shop on Etsy, OrigamiLand Decorations, is selling a set of traditional folded cranes with designs adapted from the flags of 24 different countries: Japan, United States, Australia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Brasil, Argentina, Canada, Spain, China, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Thailand, Germany, Vietnam, India, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Malasia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, and Russia. Displayed together, they… Continue reading Flag Origami
Republic Day in India
India just finished celebrating Republic Day, commemorating the establishment of their constitution on January 26, 1950. Here is a sampling of patriotic images from the twittersphere drawing upon the Indian flag.
Mississippi’s Magnolia Flags
From Historical Flags of Our Ancestors Vexillologist Clay Moss has published a new essay about once and possibly future flags of the state of Mississippi. He writes: As the current Mississippi flag has been burdened with controversy, particularly through the last quarter century, there has always been the idea that Mississippi's Magnolia flag might again someday… Continue reading Mississippi’s Magnolia Flags
Historical Flags of Our Ancestors
Pete Loeser's website Historical Flags of Our Ancestors has grown over time into a wonderful resource for vexillologists and flag enthusiasts. It includes over 100 pages and over 3000 images, with a lot of original content (for example, see the "Short Papers and Vexillological Charts" section). The main site can be found at http://www.loeser.us/flags. In addition,… Continue reading Historical Flags of Our Ancestors
