For the past three months Philadelphia-based vexillologist and redditor Simon Joseph, aka SimonTheCannibal, has been hosting weekly podcast about flags titled The Vexillogicast. Topics have been wide-ranging, as you can see from the episode list: 000: Pilot 001: Five Early American Flags 002: German Flags 003: Flags of the United Kingdom and beyond. 004: An interview… Continue reading The Vexillogicast
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Helly Luv: Revolution
Kurdish performer Helly Luv (Helan Abdulla) shot the music video for her single Revolution in a village near Erbil, Iraq, during fighting between ISIS and the Kurdish peshmerga. (During the shoot she fired upon ISIS militants herself.) The video is an oxymoron: a pacifist plea to "Stop the Violence" that glorifies the anti-ISIS Kurdish armed forces. It… Continue reading Helly Luv: Revolution
Documenting the Redesign of the New Zealand Flag
If you're interested in the goings on in New Zealand as they select a new flag, you should be reading Dan Newman & Co.'s fantastic blog FLAGDESIGN.NZ: Documenting the Redesign of the New Zealand Flag. And if you are interested in flag design, you should be interested in New Zealand's process, as it provides great… Continue reading Documenting the Redesign of the New Zealand Flag
Flags and the Apollo 11 Launch
Gregory Cecil has a nice piece today in Spaceflight Insider on symbolism and the first moon landing, commemorating the 46th anniversary of launch of Apollo 11. Two NASA photos in the piece feature flags. The first is a famous double-exposure showing the ascending Saturn V and the American flag: The second shows Johnson and Agnew amidst a sea… Continue reading Flags and the Apollo 11 Launch
Plutonian Flags
In celebration of New Horizons' fly-by today of Pluto, some hadeocentric symbols and flags:
Happy Bastille Day!
From www.histoire-image.org/pleincadre/index.php?i=546, via Google Translate: Establishment of National Day Before the building of the Republican majority in the 1879 elections, the royalist MacMahon, discouraged, resigned from the presidency of the Republic and is replaced by a moderate Republican old Jules Grevy (1807-1891). Now all orders of power, the Republicans take symbolic measures simultaneously transfer of the… Continue reading Happy Bastille Day!
Come to Ontario this October for North America’s Flag Conference
We'd like to pass along this invitation from NAVA's Ken Reynolds. (And please note that early-bird registration ends in less than a month.) Hello everyone, I hope that each of you will consider attending NAVA's 49th annual meeting from October 16-18, 2015. It's been a dozen years since the Association held its annual meeting in… Continue reading Come to Ontario this October for North America’s Flag Conference
Aboriginal Flag First Flown 44 Years Ago Today
From Ausflag's page on the (Australian) Aboriginal Flag: The Aboriginal Flag was designed by Harold Thomas, an artist and an Aboriginal, in 1971. The flag was designed to be an eye-catching rallying symbol for the Aboriginal people and a symbol of their race and identity. The black represents the Aboriginal people, the red the earth… Continue reading Aboriginal Flag First Flown 44 Years Ago Today
Ted Kaye on the Confederate Flag’s Design
Ted Kaye was interviewed as part of Corinne Segal's piece yesterday in PBS NewsHour Art Beat, What the Confederate flag's design says about its legacy. Some excerpts: In 1861, the National Flag Committee of the Confederate States of America wrote its official guidelines for flag design: A flag should be simple, readily made, and capable of… Continue reading Ted Kaye on the Confederate Flag’s Design
Need More Confederate Flag News and Commentary?
In addition to looking at old NAVA publications (see above), and perusing Richard Gideon’s American Vexillum™ compendium, you should also check out the Confederate Flag section on Flipboard. Here are some postings that appeared there yesterday: Sophia Tesfaye in Salon, 8 July: A staggering number of Republicans support the Confederate flag, new poll finds Jenny Jarvie in the… Continue reading Need More Confederate Flag News and Commentary?
Portland Flag Association 