M.C. Escher Flag - Concave and Convex 1955

Escher Cube Flag

At the moment the artwork of M.C. Escher has hit a high note in classrooms across America - honored by art and math teachers. M.C. Escher takes two subject areas from opposite poles. Math is linear, objective as a matter of fact logical way pallet, while art is a limitless expression equated with the non-logical in the heart of the beholder.
What is it that teachers and young adults like about his mind bending artwork?


To the right is a close up of the flag from his lithograph Concave and Convex 1955. The flag features three blocks reminiscent of the old Q*bert game neatly placed in a 'hexagonal box.' However the blocks can shift position within the mind's eye. It can look like black blocks facing towards to top, black blocks facing towards the bottom, like a six pointed star in two dimensions? If you don't see it give it a moment.

Maurits Cornelius Escher is relatively modern artist from the 20th century who lived from 1898-1972.

Concave and Convex 1955
by Mauritis Cornelius Escher reversed


Is the flag hanging in under the archway? Or is it hanging over a road? I guess it all depends on your point of view.

Of vexillological delight is the hexagonal flag in the corner.







The "Escher Flag"














Wouldn't be cool game if they could combine Escher Art with Q*bert?

The Great Muppet Caper - Flags from the movie

UK Flag - Inside the Happiness Hotel
The Great Muppet Caper 1981













Kermit Dancing on the Bed - ready for his big date
notice UK Union Flag













Happiness Hotel from the outside












Rats cheering the Muppets with red pennants
during the Baseball Diamond event

Cool Flags in somebody's home brew video of Christopher Cross' Sailing Song

The unofficial anthem of modern vexillology.

The Dove, Yacht Ensign - film for young dreamers 1974

Hoisting the Yacht Ensign
The Dove 1974

In 1974 The Dove set sail into the imagination of American Youth. It is based upon the true story of Robin Lee Graham who sailed around the world starting from California at the age of 16. Loneliness, despair, romance, kittens, love and a little adventure were his constant companion on his voyage around the world.

The book was originally written in 1972. However Mr. Graham set sail back in 1965 from Southern California following the sun towards the South Pacific. He returned home back to Southern California in 1970.

This book is an must read for high school students perhaps at 10th grade as they can related to 16 year old adventurer.

BUT READ THE BOOK FIRST!

The Dictator 2012 flags - featuring Sacha Baron Cohen

The Dictator 2012
Sacha Barron Cohen as the Dictator

The flag features a horizontal partition of three equal parts. The middle is orange while the upper and lower are green.



The public waving his flag

A fun bag humornaut going were no giggle has gone before, crossing lines and hamming things up poking egos and eyes, no one is above the humorous reach of the Dictator.


The Dictator

Mr. Sparkle Farts lets one rip on the public that will surely tickle your gizzard with giggles and pungent punchlines.

Police and Fireman fallen on duty flags

For Fallen Police Officers
in the line of duty


The fallen officer in the line of duty flag matches in pattern to the fallen firefighter on duty flag. Both flags are horizontal tri-bars. The colour blue is commonly associated with the police. Likewise fire trucks are often coloured red - thus a red stripe.

For Fallen Firemen

in the line of duty

Police and firefighters are like natural extensions of the city.  They must accept the call whenever it occurs and have confidence and courage to act with bravery.  Typically they have excellent instincts matched with excellence of strength.  

Often it is people from firefighter or police families who make excellent military personnel. 

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Vexilloids - Bartertown Official Staff

Semi-religious official and
Spokesman of Bartertown

Long long ago, before the Hunger Games there was Mad Max and a Thunderdome...

In 1985 the third movie of the Max Mad trilogy came out - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome presents a clear and enchanting view of a post apoctylipic world. In the final quarter (1980s) of the Cold World the threat of a nuclear holocaust was real and present, every more so than terrorism.

But Mad Max presents a story where the world goes on. Things have changed, but the human drama stays the same. Politics and power struggles never go away.

Two Men Enter,
Once Man Leaves

But at Bartertown - disputes are resolved on an individual basis. Instead of a complicated legal system with lawyers - the community preaches that people with unresolved issues duke it out to the death and leave the rest of the community alone. People with disputes face off in the Thunderdome. The chant is "two men enter, one man leaves."



During the Thunderdome sequence a vexilloid makes an appearance. It features an elegantly fashioned black and white pole. The finial is a black ball topped with a silver wheel with wings.
Also note the Master of Ceremonies also has wears a Freemason pendant as a necklace.

Mad Max franchise is one of those odd series that arguable gets better with the sequels. But it is an Australian film after all and things often spin the other way down under.

Thunderdome Fight Scene: Mad Max III 1985

Bartertown Imperial Guard Vexillums & Pigs = Power, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985

Bartertown Imperial Guard with Vexillum

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a part of the epic post apocalyptic series about the future of humanity after a nuclear war.

The film does not explain who was wrong, right or place blame - rather it illustrates a state of culture that changes to into techno wild-west mash up.




Whole Vexillum

Close up of Bartertown's "AUNTY ENTITY IMPERIAL GUARD RULE O.K." flag. All the imperial guard flags feature a portrait of the chief administrator Aunty Entity played by Tina Turner.









Pigs = Power Vexillum

The key resource of Bartertown is methane - which is extracted from pig manure. As it is now and in this imaginary future, allocation of energy resources are powerful aspects of power and politics.

May the 4th (FORCE) Holiday Fun - a flag from Return of the Jedi

Jabba's Sail Barge Ensign
from Return of the Jedi 1983

May 4th has become something of Star War holiday, due to the iconic expression "May the Force be with you" and its similarity to "May Fourth."

In honor of this American Original Holiday, it is appropriate to talk about Star Wars. Flags appear in the newer prequel episodes but the only vexilloid that remotely looks like a flag appears in the 'original pre-post-movies.' Bascially in the original 1970-1980s Star Wars movies.

A small flag appears during Han's rescue aboard Jabba's sail barge. Near the back end of Jabba's sail barge - we can see a small black pennant. The detail is difficult to make out, probably has something to do with Jabba the Hut. Maybe it is a personal coat of arms? Who knows?

Princess Leah at gun turret with
Jabba's Sail Barge Ensign

In the upper right hand side you can see the black pennant blowing the in wind behind the pole.

George Lucas is careful not to have any flags appear in the original movies. But it is the only one to be seen fluttering in the wind. It is one Star Wars prop worth a significant amount. It's probably sitting somewhere on someone's wall or forgotten in a dusty drawer bin.




Jabba's Sail Barge Flag with Boba Fett and other alien thugs

Lost Boy Vexillum - Mad Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985

Mute Shaman Boy Vexilloid

Several flags appear in the third episode of the Mad Max movies. This vexillum is seen in the room of the mysterious mute lost boy who apparently is something like a shaman.

The vexillloid is hand made with primitive tools. It features the face of the mute boy with black and white face paint. Perhaps due to his incapacity to talk, he is regarded by the others as a holy figure - perhaps with a highly developed sense of the intuitive mind.


Mute Boy with black and white face paint

The Lost Children are a group of kids who crash landed in the Australian Desert after a nuclear war and the adults have long ago all passed away. They grow up isolated from any adult culture. This results in a misinterpretation of their heritage and mutation of their language.

But they believe that someday 'Captain Walker' will come back. They interpret the arrival of Mad Max played by Mel Gibson as the cosmic return of the semi-legendary Captain Walker.

Forlorn Flag of the Orkney Islands & the Forlorn Nation of Scania

These two regions of Europe's would be 'Northern Mediterranean' sea have similar cultural flags that shout out - nation.


Scania is on the sourthn tip is Sweden that was hotly contested between Denmark and Sweden. It is in the 'be our best bud not theirs category' like Smolensk, Alsace-Lorraine, and during the US Civil War - Kentucky. Eventually dreams of a Danish tip on Scandinavia Major were extinguished. Likewise long long ago Danish ambition amongst the Orkney Isles was smothered.

The unofficial flag of the Orkney Islands is attached to the previously unofficial flag of Scania - recently made legal in 1999. The official flag of the Orkney Islands differs and is paired up another flag - the Aland Inslands.

The US state flags are ugly and should be changed?

Perhaps?


However there seems to be a reason for everything, at least most of the time.

It is easy to dismiss and scorn things that seem unusual. It seems to be a part of our nature. For example the Algol Star has a noticeable variability - thus the ancient mind in nearly all cultures assumed it was associated with the dark arts or evil. This variable star is the eye of Medusa in the Perseus Constellation.



Basically heraldic and humbly appropriate state seal flags are often judged in the modern eye as ugly. The key motive to change flags of this nature is rooted to personal taste. But this effort to create pleasing flags to today's view point obliterates historical value, and replaces it with the fluctuating flavors of the moment. Who is to say that in 50 years tastes wont change again?

A key argument to keep state flags as they are is that they illustrate the phenomena of Providence. Almost by 'accident' the 50 American State Flags show a pattern that echos of why things are and reveals a meta-vexillological structure.

The new paradigm is that flags exhibit a certain kind of dualistic pattern. A coherent pattern emerges with the 50 US state flags, when put in a certain order - two by two. This idea runs counter to the seemingly random order of flag creation. Who would've thought that each US state flag can be paired up with a similar looking flag? And are deeply tied together with parallel lines of culture, politics, and history?

This idea may seem like a 'strange red pill.' But perhaps you need to see and it for yourself - watch the videos below.



This idea is big and has the potential to change the way we look at America and the international order. It is a strange and lonely feeling to be at the spear head of a new idea. Lonely because we are the first to come up with a new idea, and strange because this idea invokes the power of synchronicity and Providence.

And going out on a limb...any civilization similar to our own that has nation states populated with equivalent flags will, I strongly theorize will also exhibit this matching vexilloid phenomena.


A question often asked after meeting people who 'get this flag paring phenomena' is 'How does this happen?' My current answer is that it points to Providence and or synchronicity. Providence and synchronicity essentially describe the same phenomena but with slightly different qualifiers.


Washington spoke a lot about 'providence'
which is synonymous to 'synchronicity.' He never spoke
of synchronicity because it was not yet coined!

Providence was one of George Washington's favorite adjectives for the footprint of the divine. The key to understanding its meaning only comes with time and experience. To know Providence is to know falling in love. Providence is a deep loving feeling in conjunction with a logical or non-logical thought.

The questions of 'How come?' 'Why did it happen that way?' and judgement of a situation as being good or bad fortune become moot with a heartfelt experience of Providence. Providence is the call sign to the non-linear reality that permeates our logical centers of mind.

With Providence regret no longer feels like a harsh burden but seems to take on a semi-solid shape, acting as a barrier in the best interest of your own protection. Overall Providence is a very comforting Yoda like Jedi Knight feeling.

Synchronicity is a relatively new baby boomer word that became official in 1951. Before the rise of scientific objective reality, Providence was shadowed with a heavy spell of superstition. With the advent of the industrial revolution and modern 'objective' point of view - the enchanting rhythms of Providence went to the way side.

But Dr. Carl Jung's scientific investigation brought new life into the perceptible non-linear heart felt personal experience commonly known as synchronicity. His work resulted in a modern reformation of Providence into the word "synchronicity." Providence was presented in an academic manner, palatable to the hard nosed modern scientific academic establishment.


The key difference between Providence and synchronicity is that synchronicity has a non-religious connotation while Providence has an overtly spiritual-divine flare.

Basically synchronicity is Providence cloaked in 'Western academic mumbo-jumbo,' or rather Providence is synchronicity is covered with divine-love.

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PHOTO CREDITS - SOURCES

Man Reading New Paper Picture/Blog sight "CT Scenic: We Totally Live Here" - http://ctscenic.blogspot.com/2010/07/ct-scenic-announces-new-print-edition.html.

dolphin picture source -"Time, synchronicity and evolution" Bojan Gorjanc on March 13th, 2009http://www.proetcontra.com/2009/03/13/time-synchronicity-and-evolution/
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Texas & North Carolina
Iowa & Missouri
Kansas & Montana
Russian Federal Subjects
Japanese Prefectures

VIDEOS THAT SHOW FLAG SYNCHRONICITY IN ACTION















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Missouri Territory Heritage Flags for Missouri Territory Alumni States

Missouri Flag

Several states once had part or all of their land run under the administration of the territorial government of Missouri. In honor of that period when the great plains were ruled by Missouri - here are Missouri Territory Heritage flags created in that honor. The key is that all flags are horizontal tri-bars, just like Missouri and often feature their state seal.

Missouri-Wyoming Heritage Flag
"Missouroming Flag"











Missouri-South Dakota Flag
"The Missouthakota Flag"











Missouri-Texas Flag
"The Missourexas Flag"











Missouri-Oklahoma Heritage Flag
"The Missourklahoma Flag"












Missouri-Nebraska Heritage Flag
"The Missorbraska Flag"











Missouri-North Dakota Flag
"The Missorthdakota Flag"











Missouri-Minnesota Heritage Flag
"The Missourisota Flag"











Missouri-Kansas Heritage Flag
"The Missoukansas Flag"











Missouri-Iowa Heritage Flag
"The Missourowa Flag"











Missouri-Colorado Heritage Flag
"The Missoulardo Flag"











Missouri-Arkansas Heritage Flag
"The Arkanassouri Flag"

For all the Americans who were born, married and died in Missouri Territory 1812-1821.

Washington DC-Virginia Heritage Flag

Washington DC-Virginia Heritage Flag
"The Virgilumbia Flag"

This flag represents the common heritage between Virginia and the District of Columbia. This flag is to be flown over the region of Virginia that was once a part of the 'Federal City.' For 47 years a small part of modern Virginia was Washington, DC.

The colours of this flag are based upon the colours of the clothing found on Virgina's Flag - sky blue and purple. The woman dressed in sky blue with an exposed breast. She is Virtus dressed like an Amazon and standing on a tyrant dressed in purple.

Virginia Flag

The new federal capital was selected and surveyed under the Washington administration with particular interest from the president. However in 1847 Virginia became a proverbial 'Indian Giver' and took the land back that was donated.

Columbia District Flag

The perfect diamond chosen by George Washington was shattered under political ambition for pride and profit. It would also foreshadow cultural shattering of the Union during the Civil War.

Virginia is the only state to have had two 'National Capitals' arise and disappear on its soil - the USA from 1800-1847 and CSA from 1861-1865.

Johnston Island Flag

Flag of Johnston Island

It is a horizontal tri-bar - from the top its blue, white in the middle, then blue along the bottom. In the central white part are four blue stars that represent the islands Akau, Hikina, Sand, and Johnston Island. The yellow portion has the outline of 'double' bird with its beak next to the top stars facing the hoist. Accidentally the yellow portion can be perceived as a two bamboo shoots bending in the wind facing towards the fly.

Johnston Island was formerly a semi-top secret hi-tech space age weapons testing facility with the capacity to destroy a continent. But now its been 'cleaned up' and turned into a peaceful national wild life refuge - returning to its natural state as a bird turd island.

Johnston Atoll is on par on the latitude of with Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and Da Nang, making Johnston Atoll just south of the old Vietnamese DMZ. With respect to the American Hemisphere it is parallel to Roatan Island, Honduras which is due south of Nashville, Tennessee.


A great sight about Johnston Island
http://www.johnstonmemories.com/

Unofficial territorial would be "State Anthem"
a fitting unofficial anthem for an unofficial flag - as of 2012

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http://www.johnstonmemories.com/

Flags from the movie Prancer - 1989

US Flag in the movie Prancer 1989
Prancer has fallen

Merry Christmas! It's the 25th after all and the Christmas Spirit has gotta' be somewhere?

The US flag makes a short appearance in the charmingly realistic film Prancer 1989. A plastic Prancer falls from a holiday display, and the town is too strapped and stressed to fix it. A little girl is witness to the event and later runs into a lost and injured reindeer.

She connects the dots in a non-linear and innocent way - that the fallen plastic prancer was a message - heralding the lost reindeer.

The movie strikes a realistic bitter-sweet chord as the Jessica Riggs' family slugs though hard emotional and economic times, since they might loose the farm and be broken a part. The playful world of childhood is beautifully portrayed against the backdrop and contrast of the serious busy bee money money rush rush adult point of view.

Little Miss Jessica Riggs lost her mother, but finds comfort in helping an injured animal and a poem that reveals the invisible unseen and unmeasurable spark of the divine within the Spirit of Christmas, Santa, and the heart of childhood.

The Spirit of Christmas Shines On...

Dungeons & Dragons - animated 80s cartoon

Dungeons & Dragons Ride Entrance
1983-1985

In the early 80s a cartoon loosely based upon Dungeon & Dragons was made. The cartoon series was based upon a ground breaking role playing board-reading-dice game that combined acting, storytelling, and imagination first published in 1974. Like the game Monopoly - the Dungeons & Dragons format was copied and adapted and made into hundreds of different role playing games.


Car Emblem for D&D Ride
white castle turret on red

The adventure begins when six kids from the normal world who are transported to magical earth like universe. Though cooperation, various riddles, puzzles they make their way.
When the kids enter the magical earth like Dungeons and Dragons universe they are assigned a role - Hank becomes a ranger, Diana an acrobat, Albert a magician, Shela a thief, Bobby a barbarian, and Eric a cavalier. Their guide is a short person - Dungeon Master. Finally a unicorn joins their their team with a special fondness for Bobby - Uni the unicorn.


Eric the Cavalier
Notice Arms on his shield

The arms of Eric the Cavalier are an orange shield with black disc with the head of white eagle or Phoenix facing sinister. Eric the Cavalier was originally a rich snooty kid who provides comic relief to the group. But he is also the most human with a realistic outspoken desire to go home and often times finds himself complaining - like most regular kids. However hidden under all the showy wannbe' leader he often protects his friends from harm with his magic shield.

Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan - Fraternal Twins of North Western Asia

Flag of Azerbaijan

Located in the heartland of Central Asia - they are similar yet very different nations. Both nations use the similar colours of green, Turkish Blue, green, red and white. The Azeri and Uzbeki people are both Turkish peoples with different tilts. Azerbaijani are Turks at Europe's twilight while Uzbekistani are Turks at the edge of China's afterglow. During the Cold War they were drafted into the Soviet Union. And 700 years earlier they were annexed into the Mongol Empire. Islam of the domestic Sunni temperament. Nothing like Russia, China, India or Arabia they are the cultural monkeys in the middle.

Flag of Uzbekistan