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Thursday, March 19, 2015

South Australia New South Wales Heritage Flag

If New South Wales is the Alpha Dog of Australia, then South Australia is the Gamma Dog.  South Australia is the third state to be born out of New South Wales the same year Arkansas became a state - that was 1836.  South Australia was around to remember when New Zealand was still an adjunct area of New South Wales.

The design of the flag is based on fusion of flag: New South Wales and South Australia.  




Northern Territory New South Wales Heritage Flag

For 75 years from 1788 until 1863 Australia's Northern Territory was a part of New South Wales.  In honor of the period, here is the Northern Territory New South Wales Heritage Flag.  The design is based upon a fusion of the Northern Territory flag with the flag of New South Wales.




New Zealand New South Wales Heritage Flag


The New Zealand New South Wales Heritage flag is a post modern creation that honors the history of Australia and New Zealand.  Although New Zealand and Australia are two completely different nations that have distinct cultures and accents, they were once united as one political entity for quite a while.  New Zealand was a part of New South Wales for 52 years from 1788 until 1840.  Thus in honor when New Zealand was attached to "Australia's Virginia", this flag commemorates their mutual heritage.  

The design is a fusion of the modern New South Wales flag and popular New Zealand Fern Flag.  The Lion has changed colours to white and the stars have been altered as double coloured Kiwi stars. 


Tuesday, March 17, 2015

ST. PADDY'S DAY PLUS FLAG


Happy St. Patrick's Day 2015! 

 Although many people compare the Irish flag with the Italian Flag, it's natural partner is the Ivory Coast Flag, which is the Irish flag upside down, or rather the Irish flag is the Ivory Coast flag upside down - depending on your point of view.  

Additionally India and Niger also use the orange, white, green patter like Ireland but have their stripes perpendicular.  So in honor of these nations that all come together under similar colours here is the multinational St. Patrick's Day Plus flag for people all over the world.  Note the symbols have been slightly modified.  The four leaved clover represents Ireland, the Crescent Tusk represents the Ivory Coast, the green loom wheel represent India, and the orange sun disc represents Niger.   

Monday, March 16, 2015

Republic of Trumania Flag from the Truman Show - 1998


A distinct and original vexilloid makes an appearance in The Truman Show 1998, starring Jim Carrey.  When Truman becomes aware that his life is not so ordinary, he acts in a silly fashion in front of his bathroom mirror.  He uses soap to writes on the mirror a flag pennant with a letter "T" upon it.  Truman then proclaims the planet for "Trumania of the Burbank Galaxy."

Trumania Flag, by Jim Carrey
Coincidentally in 1998, the Internet was in its infancy before social media, blogs, and youtubes.  "Reality television" was upon the verge of becoming a real media, which would later launch the careers of some fairly odd but ordinary people. But in the Truman Show, Truman was adopted from birth and is unaware that he is the star of the fictional Truman Show. Everyone else from his point of view is just an actor or actress.

The amazing and hard to do aspect of the Truman Show is that it conveys deep and comical messages simultaneously.  Jim Carrey walks that thin and delicate line between humour and thoughtful pondering.  The Truman Show was a one of kind film, that was made perfectly before the dawn of the 21st century, as a kind of pre-science of things to come. 

The Truman Show is perhaps the best utilization of a show within a show, that totally imbibes and carries the story, much like the theoretical moon of a moon - making this show a favorite of mature and philosophical thinkers and critics.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

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Geographic Latitude-Longitude Flag Key

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 August 13, 2018 
Newer Version 
Corrected Colour Order

Reading longitude below 100° (values 0° E/W to 99° E/W) the hoist bar is the 10s value and the fly bar is the 1s value.  And the central bar has no value, and will being white.  Thus 45° East will be a tribar, as read from the fly, of green-white-cyan with central star with a yellow core.  Also note for the tens/teens value of longitude (10° to 19°) will have a white stripe upon the coloured areas nearer the center.    

Friday, March 13, 2015

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Natural Geographic Meridian Flag

The Natural Geographic Meridian Flag takes its colours from official flag from the National Geographic Society Flag.  It represents a "Natural Prime Meridian" which is based upon the the highest point of the equator. This longitude is at about 77 to 78 Degrees West.  

Sunday, March 8, 2015

New Face Card - The Peasant, The One of Spades

The One of Spades, The Peasant

Finally a number one card - the Peasant.  The Peasant is a kind of paradox. It is the lowest numbered card yet also a face card. Peasants must get their due respect since their role in the Kingdom is vital to the livelihoods of Kings, Queens, and Jacks. Even the Jokers must live off these "lowly" ranks. Otherwise there would be no royal suits or kingdom to speak of. One may be a low value, but peasants can hold their ground against Aces.  The Peasant ranks above The Pawn, and below the duce.  However, they tie against Aces.  Unlike an Ace, the Peasant can never rank above its value of one.  Thus if you get to two 'ten' cards and one peasant, you will have Blackjack.  Or if you are playing with an 8 deck Blackjack shuffle, then you could theoretically get 21 peasants to also get a Blackjack! Or One Ace and 10 peasants.

(10 clubs + 10 hearts + 1 peasant) = 21 black jack
four aces tie four peasants
four 3s  beat four peasants


Saturday, March 7, 2015

Lower Makefiled Township Flag, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA



The Lower Makefield Township flag in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA consists a divided field horizontally of green and yellow.  Yellow on top and green on the bottom.  In the center is the township seal, which recycles the Pennsylvania State seal with different colours.

Lower Makefield borders New Jersey along the Delaware River and is sometimes referred to as Yardley, but that is a separate Borough within Lower Makefield. 


Really close up, this is what a galaxy looks like.  Remember you too are a part of the Laniakea Superdooper Cluster.  You are just as beautiful from a distance as close up!












Thursday, March 5, 2015

Laniakea Super Cluster Flag - The Super Dooper Galactic Cluster Association Flag


The Laniakea Super Cluster is an association of galaxies that form a network in the cosmos.  The common feature to this galactic association is gravity.


Tuesday, March 3, 2015

New Holland Australia Heritage Flag


What might have been?  What if the Dutch would have invested some of their Indonesian Riches to establish a colony in Australia?  Perhaps New Holland would have been the name of the 6th continent instead of Australia.

This flag commemorates that fact that Australia's maiden name was New Holland before she was married to the UK and get her 'proper' name - Australia.  From the early 1600s until about 1828, the Dutch had a tenuous foothold on The Sixth Continent, but by 1829 all Dutch dreams of nation down under were dashed.




Sunday, March 1, 2015

Red Hero Flag of Rhonda Byrne 2014


 The Hero Flag as portrayed in the Rhonda Byrne book Hero is a red pennant.  Here it is artistically positioned onto of a mountain.





Magic Eye 3D Flag


In the 90s the Magic Eye became a hypnotic phenomena.  In this picture here you can see a race car cross the finish line and more importantly you can see a flag being waved.  If the 50s had the hoola hoop, and Rubik's cube was it in the 80s, then the Magic Eye was it of the 90s.

Does your brain have background OS?  If you can see the flag here, they you do! 




 

http://www.magiceye.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye



Saturday, February 28, 2015

Central Asia Solo Flag

The Central Asia Solo flag is a geographic flag.  It can be flown anywhere in the longitude in between the most eastern point of Europe and most western point of Australia.

Eurasia Solo Longitude Flag

The Eurasia Solo Longitude flag is a geographic flag.  It represents the longitude where Asia and Europe overlap, beyond the east coast of Africa.  It is a narrow band and its definition depends.  The western boundary is the most eastern point of the African continent, while the eastern boundary is set by the most eastern point of Europe.




Friday, February 27, 2015

Asia, Africa, Europe equal longitude overlap flag - The General Trinity Zone Flag

The General Trinity Zone flag is a geographic flag.  It represents the longitude where Asia, Africa, and Europe all overlap.  Essentially a time zone of itself of the United Continents of the Old World - UCOW.  Green represents Asia, blue represents Africa, and yellow represents Europe.

Note Africa and Europe do not touch, but Asia touches both Europe and Africa.  This fact is represented  through the green triangle.  The red portion represents that no matter where a person comes from their blood is still red.

This flag can be flown anywhere between the most western point of Asia and most Eastern point of Africa.

    

Geographic Equal Latitude Flag for Asia, Africa, Europe and North America

The General Cycladic Belt flag can be flown anywhere from a latitude of 36 Degrees 00 Minutes North unto 37 Degrees 32 Minutes North.  This is due to the fact that at this latitude Asia, Africa, Europe and North America are all parallel to each other.  Thus the four triangles represent the four continents seeing eye to eye at this latitude.


Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Tassels from The Time Machine - 1960


 The granddaddy of time machine movies is based upon the story by Hubert George Wells, the Time Machine.  Before the Hot Tub, the flying DeLorean, or Skynet, there was the chair with a spinning disk, originally built in 1899. 

Tassels are often official parts of the flag, yet less ignored but when flags are in full dress the colour and length of the tassels are important.

The common theme in this film as with all good time travel films, is the timeless transcendent spirit of love, friendship and loyalty that connects the future to the past.





UDF command Flags - 2014

Unique movie flags appears in the Edge of Tomorrow 2014.  The UDF is a fictional defense alliance created after the arrival of aliens who have the capacity to travel trough time and act as one entity.

The Edge of Tomorrow effectively takes the 12:01pm theme and makes an awesome movie.  The other successful movie of the 12:01pm was Ground Hog Day in 1993. 


The Conan Texas Hot Tub Time Machine Toaster Republic Flag


A unique comedic Texan flag appeared on the Conan O'Brien show on February 19, 2015.  When sexist trouble arises during the interview with stars of Hot Tub Time II Machine, they become determined to fix things.  On their second jump back in time, they accidentally cause the rise of Texan Toasters to rule the world.  The flag of the Texan Toaster Flag is strikingly similar to the flag of Texas, except for the seal of the master race of machines who are apparently sentient toasters.

 See the Episode Here:
http://teamcoco.com/video/full-episode-thurs-2-19-the-cast-of-hot-tub-time-machine-ronda-rousey-and-musical-guest-hanni-el-khatib?playlist=x;eyJ0b3RhbCI6NCwidHlwZSI6InRhZyIsImlkIjo5fQ

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Flags in Jobs 2013 movie, about Steve Paul Jobs

 

In 2013 the US peace canton flag appears in the movie Jobs, which was about one of the Apple founders Steve Paul Jobs.  The US peace flag uses a peace symbol on a field of navy blue for the canton.

Another flag also appears during the scene, is the US Ecology flag.  It is composed of the colours green, white, and yellow.  The field has green and white stripes.  In the canton is a yellow theta letter on a green.