Ted Kaye reporting on PFA's last meeting in VexTab #49: David Koski is experimenting with repeating designs derived from flag images, using various transformative algorithms. Every one is based on a component of the full flag. Here are examples based on the United States flag. David has also developed versions based on the Union Jack… Continue reading Flag Wrapping Paper
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San Francisco’s Hayes Valley Flag Wall
More from Bay Area Flag Report by Ted Kaye, in VexTab #49: In San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, Joe Theisen spruced up his building at 540 Laguna St. with 33 holes in the façade and first famously displayed the flags of all 2014 World Cup countries (plus Ireland). In September new flags went up. Now… Continue reading San Francisco’s Hayes Valley Flag Wall
What is the Most Patriotic Color?
...asked Time Magazine in its “Answers Issue”, Sept. 8–15, 2014. After downloading images of 196 national flag from Flagpedia.net, Time added up the number of pixels of each color, simplified them, and grouped them into categories of white, black, red, blue, green, and yellow using a simple algorithm. Time thus determined the frequency of colors… Continue reading What is the Most Patriotic Color?
License Plate Slogans Flag
From Bay Area Flag Report by Ted Kaye, in VexTab #49: In Sausalito, Hanson Gallery Fine Arts offers owner Scott Hanson’s American Flag with License Plate Slogans. Made from real license plates and 100-year-old barn wood, and measuring 52” x 84”, it sells for $17,500.
How did Portland get such a nice flag?
Our very own Ted Kaye sat down with popular design podcaster Roman Mars to talk flag design and tell the story of the Portland flag: how a good design was botched by bureaucrats, and many years later -- with some activist vexillology on the part of its designer Douglas Lynch and the PFA -- ultimately restored. For this work, Lynch received… Continue reading How did Portland get such a nice flag?
We’re in Italian
Roberto Breschi, who runs the site "Bandieri Passato e Presente", has kindly included us in his list of vexillological associations and their flags. Check it out: http://www.rbvex.it/interpag/societa6.html
John Hood 1934-2011
Everyone who drove on S.E. 39th Avenue opposite Laurelhurst Park knew the Flag House. Portlanders enjoyed the changing daily display of three flags—all flown for some special reason—by John Hood. There, with his long-time companion Vivian Jackson, he built a collection of over 600 full-size flags and enthusiastically shared them with passersby based on a… Continue reading John Hood 1934-2011
Notes on the September 2011 meeting
We had another lively discussion, this time in the somewhat hard to find Tupelo Alley "Eco-Lounge". We had decent attendance, though we particularly missed John Hood, who was unable to attend due to health issues. Here are a few highlights, each with an illustration! Scott Mainwaring and Ted Kaye gave a brief report on their… Continue reading Notes on the September 2011 meeting
Rainbow flag foolishness in Antelope Valley (Cal.)
Apparently the organizers of the Antelope Valley Fair in the California desert inadvertently chose to festoon their venue with LGBT rainbow flags. A local blog documents the official and community reaction: ordinary-gentlemen.com/burtlikko/2011/08/19/that-flag-means-what-now/ Underscores the need for more widespread flag education, this does.
Half the Oregon flag on a stamp
There was a ceremony in Salem today to announce a new USPS stamp featuring the Oregon state flag. (Actually, only one side of the state flag -- the obverse -- leaving what some would argue is the better side hidden.) See: Elida S. Perez, "Oregon state flag is featured in latest Forever stamp", Salem Statesman… Continue reading Half the Oregon flag on a stamp
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