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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Air Force JROTC Guidon



Delaware Nature Society Pennant


The Delaware Nature Society is based in the state of Delaware.  The are committed to helping maintain natural habitats, clean water programs, and educating the public on the vast resources.


https://www.delawarenaturesociety.org/

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Cursor Vexilloids - from Google Docs

A unique kind of digital vexilloid was created in Google Docs, cursor vexilloids.  Cursor vexilloids indicate who is contributing to a document, when there is a team of people working together to make a document.  They were so designed to just happen to look like flags.  They can be of various colours, and are marked with the given name of the user. The original names demo-promo run of Google Docs uses less than diverse names to exhibit its properties.  No doubt more updated versions, a reboot will illustrate their use with diverse names as below.

Due to 2020 being a cultural inflection point for the Anglo-Saxon Oriented Communities (which speak English and are required to Study Shakespeare), Google will likely reboot the sample-demo ware with more diverse names than the plain old Tom, Pam or Kim.

This is new ground ground for the authorship of any document, since each character encoded can be recorded.  Consequently, data can be collected to see who contributed the most and how they contributed.



Demo-cursor vexilloids are oriented towards a Euro-centric axis, with no representation for other cultures

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Galaxy Quest 1999 flags

Star Trek was a series that just cried for a spoof.  There have been so many, and many more to come.  From Saturday Night Live to Youtubers.  Spoofing Star Trek is a sign that this franchise is indeed a cultural institution.

However, a unique sentimental spoof made fun of the show and fans and yet, was able to capture that warm glow trekkie glow...Galaxy Quest 1999.   Several banner and flags appear in the movie.  During the convention-meet and greet the stars of the show- a purple Galaxy Quest pennant can be seen on the wall with the Saturn-like planetary logo.

Before he was cast as Snape, Alan Rickman, was a funky scientific alien with a flag swearing vengence for his fallen comrades.


Sunday, July 12, 2020

Captain Harlock's Flag from Galaxy Express 999: キャプテンハーロックの旗—銀河鉄道999


 
The Star Trek of Japan is Galaxy Express 999 or rather the 'Ginga Tetsudo Sureenain' of the USA is Staru Tureku?  One key character is Captain Harlock, who flies the pirate ensign on his Galactic Voyager. 

Galaxy Express 999 was an animated show with many adult themes.  It was basically a star trek across the span of the Milky Way to Andromeda Galaxies.  Themes of life, love, death, war, broken dreams, immortality, ghosts, greed, capitalism, work and the social contract of cultures were its mainstaty, explored in each episode. 
KIRK = Tetsuro てつろ星野 鉄郎
SPOCK = Maetel  メーテル
SCOTTY = Shasho-san "Conductor" 車掌しゃしょう

Friday, July 10, 2020

Valley Forge US Monument Flag



Makeshift Flaming Flag from the movie Arctic 2019

A vexilloid was made by our hero who crash landed in the Acrtic.  He made a makeshift flaming flag to get the attention of a helicopter in the distance.

Flags of this nature can only be used once, and the fabric varies from a hodgepodge source of materials.