The Wild Standard is a small Austin-based business designing, producing, and marketing handmade, limited-edition, minimalist art-flags. Their one-sided, black-and-white designs and emphasis on hand-lettering would not work well in the normal context for a flag: flying in the wind atop a flag pole. However, as home decor hung vertically or horizontally on an interior wall… Continue reading The Wild Standard
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Flags Buried Alive
The artist AA Bronson returned to his New York home after the 9/11 terrorist attacks: What I found there is inscribed indelibly on my brain: a thick chalky dust of glass, concrete, paper, asbestos and human flesh that covered everything; and American flags, everywhere. Within a month I had purchased my first flag on eBay. I… Continue reading Flags Buried Alive
Proposal for a New American Agriculture
Claire Pentecost is an artist/activist focusing on food, soil, and bio-engineering; and a professor of photography at SAIC (the School of the Art Institute of Chicago). For Proposal for a New American Agriculture, she placed a US flag in a composting bin in her basement in Chicago, removing and photographing it after worms had transformed most… Continue reading Proposal for a New American Agriculture
Edith Dekyndt’s Transparent Flag
Artist Edith Dekyndt was born in 1960 in Ypres, Belgium. She lives and works in Tournai, Belgium and Strasbourg, France where she investigates methods of perception and phenomena on the verge of the invisible, via installations, video art, drawings and photography. (From the artist's bio at http://zerogravity.empac.rpi.edu/dekyndt/.) This transparent flag was part of her video… Continue reading Edith Dekyndt’s Transparent Flag
What’s that Flag? (from VexTab #33)
By Patrick Genna Originally published in The Vexilloid Tabloid #33, April 2012
Heart Flags
Happy Valentine's Day! Update: Here's another heart flag, inspired by the New Directions space probe to Pluto.
Flag Mnemonics
From MemeCenter
Mother of Flags
From We Know Memes - an example of "rage comics".
Polandball
Here's another flagmeme from 2009 that has demonstrated some staying power: Polandball. From Know Your Meme®: Polandball is a cartoon character drawn in the shape of a ball with the color schemes of the Polish flag (white & red). It was originally featured in the multi-pane comic series that became popular in /INT/ (international) board… Continue reading Polandball
Paul The Octopus
Here's a cephalopodic flag meme from 2010. Paul the Octopus was a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) that lived at the Aquarium Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, best known for successfully predicting the outcomes of Germany’s 2010 World Cup matches. In a divination, Paul would “predict” which team would win a match by choosing to eat a… Continue reading Paul The Octopus
