Monday, April 23, 2018

Bluntman and Chronic vs Cocknocker: the Emblems - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001



The Hemp Knight, also known as Bluntman, is an off the wall superhero who appears in the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001.  The emblem of Bluntman has a yellow pentagon with a five leaved plant on top.   The colours of his suit are black, yellow, green, and purple.  His side kick is Chronic whose emblem features an irregular shaped disc with a cigarette of some sort in the middle.  Chronic's superhero colours are grey, red, and black.

The nemesis of Bluntman and Chronic is Cocknocker, who uses the colours blue, yellow and black.  Cocknocker has an oversized right hand and carries a flaming sword. 







Sometimes you hit the lottery, and sometimes the lottery hits you.  Never mind, since Kevin Smith was able to beat the system and become a trailblazer for the next generation, often ignored by the powers that be.  Smith smashed opened the gates of Hollywood and was able to bring a voice to the hometown underdogs of New Jersey, the original Hollywood of America. 



Mooby Flags - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001


Mooby's is a fictional company in the Jay and Silent Bob universe.  It is burger joint that has the colours of violet and yellow.  Somewhat based upon American fast food restaurants, its feature role was from the movie Dogma 1999 as the place of the 'Golden Cow.'


Friday, April 20, 2018

US Flag in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001


US flag at Leonardo, NJ in the 1970s in front of Quick Stop Groceries - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001.  Jay and Silent Bob were a new type of campy and edgy comedy that the Big Wigs in Hollywood overlooked.  However director Kevin Smith was able to rise to the top and showcase the life of people outside under the radar of Hollywood lights.  Today such comedies are a mainstay.  People always say, they should make a movie about "this and that".  Well, Kevin Smith scrounged up the balls to follow through, and became pathfinder for a new generation.

The US flag makes a clear centered appearance 'during the filming of Good Will Hunting II - Hunting Season.'  Here a snobby person is getting 'hunted' for being so arrogant.




You can just barely see a reversed American flag on the plexiglass sticker next to the clerk, Dante.  It was the movie Clerks 1994 that started the launch of the legendary unsinkable duo: Jay and Silent Bob.

A celebration of crass, raunchy, yet honest American humor of the likes of George Carlin would love and did love... Jersey Style.  Although seemingly stupid at times, it is also deeply intelligent when you look at it from the proper prospective.




Sunday, April 15, 2018

Goonies II Shield - Nintendo Game

 
Fratellis Shield of Arms - Goonies II
 A coat of arms appears on the knight in the Goonies II game for Nintendo. The arms are hard to make out but you can see it on the enemy shield.  There was a Goonies I video game, but it was not released for the Nintendo console in the USA.  It was released in Japan!  However an arcade version of the Goonies I video game was made public in the USA.

A Goonies II movie is still possible!  It's one reboot that I'd pay to watch.


Operation Wolf - Trooper Insignia 1987


In 1987 the movies featuring Hollywood actors spilled over into creative Cold War atmosphere of coin operated video games.  Gun video games are an old thing, but perhaps the best original game that came with two buttons was Operation Wolf  by Taito.  This game was truly one of the first first person shooters to hit a high mark in the 1980s.  Although the standard thumb game controller is the main item of now, a controller that looked like a real life weapon was used in Operation Wolf.

Of vexillological consequence are the insignia upon our hero.  A coat of arms appear as patch upon his beret in the first cut scene.  It has dark green field with a three striped yellow sinister bend.

Our hero gets a new hat because the patch changes direction.  In the later cut scene the beret arms patch changes unto a sinister yellow and red dexter bend. 




Thursday, April 5, 2018

Space Cobra Adventure - Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend 1991


In Matthew Sweet's song Girlfriend 1991, the Anime series from Space Cobra Adventure is in the background.  Of vexillological significance is the triangle insignia from the series.

Sweet wrote this sweet song, that just opened the feels of the 1990s, distinct from the 1980s.  Goodbye hair metal, rock took on a more soulful grunge character.

Upon the shoulder of one of the tech guys is circular insignia with two stripes indicating his allegiance and rank.

Here is another guy with a triangle insignia upon his hat. The insignia is gold with a small circle near the right side.


Sunday, April 1, 2018

Flag of a United Timor - Timordonesian Flag


The United Ethnic Timor flag combines the flags of Indonesia and East Timor.  Often it is after fierce political separation that painful horrors from yesterday are passed down to the next generation.  Sometimes the hard memory increases with intensity and sometimes it dissolves.  Yet, the time will come when a boy from East Timor should fall in love from a girl from West Timor.  Consequently souls born of this union have the right to fly this flag.

You can't control it, love happens, and knows no boundaries.  Black women fall in love with white men, Christian-Germans fall in love with Jewish-Israelis, Baptist men from Texas sometimes take Muslim wives from Arabia, and every once and a while a meat and potatoes Republican will marry a sexy Democrat. Love happens.

Some may not like it, but love is a slow kind of gravity that overcomes the other with a healing grace.



Flags from The Red Tent - 2014; the story of Dinah


Happy Easter!

There is a good thing about the Old Testament, or rather the Original Testament.  Basically all Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Bahia's, Mormons, Babs, Catholics, Moonie, Shia, Protestants, Druze, Sunni, Seekers, Copts, Samaritans, and Jews can all agree: that the Original Testament is of a divine nature.  Ergo the Old Testament is a divine document. 

Such a powerful document, the Original Testament has enchanted the tribes of the world and has cut itself across the ocean of time.  It is a timeless, collective memory for half of humanity.   In contrast, persons of the Hindu-Buddheic and Jain path have been totally circumcised from this holy text, as they have no familiarity with Adam, Eve, Abel, nor Noah.   Usually, peoples and nations 'non-circumcised' to the original Patriarchy of Abraham have no concept of the story of Manu and great flood.

In 2014 Lifetime Television retold an Old Testament story about Dinah, the only sister from the founding fathers of 12 tribes of Israel.  Not only is Dinah from the Old Testament, her story is in the first book of Genesis. Lifetime took the original source material and adapted it wonderfully for a modern story for the ages.  Dinah is the singular founding mother of Israel. Lifetime takes a few liberties but adds a bit of 21st century lore.   In the end, an elegant and honest story about love, hate, race mixing, national rivalry, and faith are presented.  

Of consequence to vexillology are conjectured flags that may have been flown some 3,333 years ago.  Flags appear when  Dinah visits the royal family at Shechem.  These flags are long and have yellow tassels at the bottom.   Additional violet flags appear when she visits the Hebrew Oracle.

The story of Dinah will be retold, over and over, and with each new generation they will add their own version, twist and interpretation to this timeless tale of one of the founding mothers of faith.





(For Ishmael)


أعلام من خيمة الأحمر - 2014. قصة دينة



هناك الشيء الجيد في العهد القديم، أو بالأحرى العهد الأصل. أساسا كل المسيحيين والمسلمين والسيخ، باهيا، والمورمون، بابس، الكاثوليك، مونى، البروتستانت والدروز وطالبي والأقباط والسامريين واليهود يمكن أن نتفق جميعا : أن العهد الأصلي هو من الطبيعة الإلهية. ولهذا العهد القديم وثيقة إلهية.  هذه وثيقة قوية، وقد سحرت العهد الأصل قبائل العالم وخفضت نفسها عبر المحيط من الزمن . إنها، الذاكرة الجماعية الخالدة لنصف البشرية. في المقابل، فإن الأشخاص المسار الهندوس و Buddheic وجاين تم ختان تماما من هذا النص المقدس، وليس لديهم الإلمام آدم، حواء، قابيل، ولا نوح. عادة والشعوب والدول "غير الختان" الأصلي آلى البطريركية إبراهيم ليس لديهم مفهوم قصة مانو والطوفان العظيم. في عام 2014 مدى الحياة التلفزيون



سرده لقصة العهد القديم عن دينة، شقيقة الوحيد من الآباء المؤسسين من 12 أسباط إسرائيل. ليس فقط دينة من العهد القديم، هي في الكتاب قصتها الأول من سفر التكوين . عمر استغرق مصدر المواد الأصلية وتكييفها انها رائعة للقصة الحديثة للأعمار. دينة هي أم تأسيس فريدة من إسرائيل. عمر يستغرق بضع الحريات ولكنها تضيف قليلا من العلم القرن ال 21. في النهاية، يتم عرض قصة أنيقة وصادقة عن الحب، الكراهية، خلط السباق والتنافس الوطني، والإيمان.   من ذلك إلى علم الرايات والأعلام التخمينية التي ربما تكون قد نقل جوا قبل نحو 3333 سنة. تظهر أعلام عندما يزور دينة العائلة المالكة في شكيم . هذه العلامات هي طويلة ولها شرابات صفراء في الأسفل . تظهر أعلام البنفسجي إضافية عندما تزور العبرية أوراكل.



سيتم سرده قصة دينة، مرارا وتكرارا، ومع كل جيل جديد أنها ستضيف الخاصة بهم نسخة ، وتطور وتفسير لهذه القصة الخالدة باعتبارها واحدة من الأمهات المؤسسين الإيمان للبشرية .



(For Issac)

דגלים מן האוהל האדום - 2014; הסיפור של דינה



יש דבר טוב על הברית הישנה, או ליתר דיוק את מקור בברית. בעיקרון כל נוצרים, מוסלם, סיקים, באהיה של, מורמונים, באבס, קתולים, ומונים, פרוטסטנטי, דרוזים, מחפשים, קופטים, שומרונים, ויהודים יכולים להסכים: כי בברית המקורית היא בעל אופי אלוהי. Ergo בתנ"ך הוא מסמך אלוהי. 

מסמך כזה חזק, בברית המקורית הצליחה להקסים השבטי בעולם קצץ עוצמה מעבר לאוקיינוס של זמן. זהו זיכרון נצחי, קולקטיבי עבור מחצית מהאנושות. לעומת זאת, אנשים של נתיב הינדו-Buddheic ו Jain נימולים לחלוטין מהטקסט הקדוש הזה, כמו שאין להם היכרות עם אדם, חוה, הבל, ולא נח. בדרך כלל, עמים ואומות "הלא-נימול" למקור הפטריארכיה של אברהםאין מושג של הסיפור של מאנו ו שיטפון גדול.

בשנת 2014 חיים טלוויזיה שסופר סיפור התנ"ך על דינה, אחותו רק מן האבות המייסדים של 12 השבטים של ישראל. לא זו בלבד דינה מהתנ"ך, סיפורה הוא בספר הראשון של בראשית . חיים לקחו את מקור החומר המקורי והתאימו אותו להפליא לסיפור מודרני עבור הגילים. דינה היא האם המייסדת הייחודית של ישראל. חיים לוקח כמה חירויות אבל מוסיף קצת הפולקלור המאה ה -21. בסופו של דבר, סיפור אלגנטי וכנה על אהבה, שנאה, ערבוב גזע, יריבות לאומית, ואמונה מוצגים.  

השפעה על הסיפור space מרווח הם שיערו דגלים שייתכן טס לפני כ 3333 שנה. דגלים להופיע כאשר דינה מבקר את משפחת המלוכה בשכם. דגלים אלה הם ארוכים ויש גדילים צהובים בתחתית. דגלים סגולים נוספים מופיעים כאשר היא מבקרת אורקל העברית.

הסיפור של דינה יהיה שסופר, שוב ושוב, ובכל דור חדש הם יוכלו להוסיף גרסה משלהם, טוויסט ופרשנות לסיפור הזה נצחי של אחת האמהות המייסדות של אמונה.





The Universe gives Love, yet often that Love is never returned, except for moments like this...