Infinity Chamber 2017 - Prisoner Badge

 

Classical science fiction is a rare item these days.  Most of the time explosions and karate chops steal the center stage of things Sci-Fi.  But in 2017 the Infinity Chamber came to be; it was Sci-Fi to the max.  Carried by a plot line and on the mark acting and directing, it is something of a quirk in today's cartoony Sci-Fi.  Infinity Chamber takes points a finger at the potential pitfalls of power, combined with AI and sheep society. 

It says a lot on a shoe string budget, and the depth is something the young and stupid will find boring.  A dash of 12:01 pm, a bit of the Matrix, and "Vawallah."   

Of vexilological interest is the arm band of the inmate.  It resembles a flag or is could just be a bar code.  We really don't know, the movie never explains, and this is okay.  Since it is on the arm badge/flag position it could have any meaning: type of prisoner, jail unit, listed crimes, etc.  The badge also appears on the collar, but at 90 degree angle.  It could easily be mistaken as military uniform.  

AI in the workforce is a common theme in many movies, but we are already there and it will continue to expand.  Someday much of the prison staff will be replaced by Alexa or Cortana. In 20 years, one can only imagine how much smarter AI will become.  

The Republic of Ezo Seal - 蝦夷共和国 : a short lived nation, 1869 Japan

 The Republic of Ezo existed from about 2 Mercury Years, that's six months for you Earthlings.  From January 17, 1860 until June 27, 1869 this Northern Japanese Republic made an effort to break away from the Imperial Clan of Southern Japan.  Its capital was in Hokkaido Island in the city of Hokadate.  French Republicans were a key Western catalyst to help create this forlorn nation.  

In the second half of the video below you can learn about it, and about how this Japanese Civil War is connected to the US Civil War.

蝦夷 共和国    は  約 2   水星年    から 存在    しました。

Ezo kyōwakoku wa yaku 2 suisei-nen kara sonzai shimashita. 

それは  あなたにとって  地球人    にとって   6ヶ月です。

Sore wa anata ni totte chikyūjin ni totte 6-kagetsudesu.  

1860年   1月      17日     から1869年      6月27日まで、

1860-Nen 1 tsuki 17-nichi kara 1869-nen 6 tsuki 27-nichi made,  

この   日本    共和国あるい   はむしろ  北日本  は、  南日本    の

 kono Nihon kyōwakoku, aruiwa mushiro Kitanihon wa, minaminihon no

帝国      一族   から   脱却   する ため の  努力  を  しました。

teikoku ichizoku kara dakkyaku suru tame no doryoku o shimashita. 

首都   は 北海道   の 函館   に  ありました。フランスの  共和党員は、

 Shuto wa Hokkaidō no hakkodatte ni arimashita. Furansu no kyōwatō-in wa,

 この国  を   作る   のを   助ける  ための 重要な 西洋  の   触媒でした。 

 kono kuni o tsukuru no o tasukeru tame no jūyōna seiyō no shokubaideshita.  

 下    のビデオ の 後半で   は,それ に  ついて、そしてこの   日本の

 Shita no bideo no kōhande wa, sore ni tsuite, soshite kono Nihon no  

内戦   が  米国   の   南北戦争   とど のように  関連して     いるか

naisen ga Beikoku no nanbokusensō todo no yō ni kanren shite iru ka 

について学ぶことができます。 

ni tsuite manabu koto ga dekimasu.

Lancaster County Flag, Pennsylvania

 Lancaster County flag feathers a Conestoga Wagon on a seal within an outline of a red heart.  Over the wagon are two long guns and the outer wing ring it is written: 

                                       • County of Lancaster ~ Pennsylvania • Founded May 10, 1729

It looks like there is some corn cobs laying infront of the wagon. 

Lancaster was the 4th county carved in William Penn's Colony of Pennsylvania.  Besides the Connestoga Wagon, Lancaster is famous for Shoefly Pie, and abundant Amish community.

 Note that Lancaster City has its own flag, nonetheless Lancaster City can fly the Lancaster Conestoga County flag, Pennsylvania flag and the national stars and stripes flag.

The Goodwin-Baylor Line Flag: a flag in Membrance of the Sacrifice in New Mexico Territory

 

The Goodwin-Baylor Line flag is based upon a fusion of the old Maine flag with the Kentucky Orphan's Brigade.  Since the first Territorial Governor is debatable. 

On August 1, 1861 John Robert Baylor became the first Territorial Governor of Arizona as recognized by the Confederacy.  And carved out a south bound Arizona out of New Mexico Territory such that Arizona would have hogged the border with Mexico, spanning the distance from Southern California to West Texas.  

However in 1863 the Union government divided New Mexico Territory along the 107th  meridian.  In the northern, and subsequently official case, John Noble Goodwin became the 1st official governor of Arizona Territory on December 29, 1863.

Since Goodwin was born in Maine, we have to old Maine flag that had a pine tree.  Since Baylor was from Kentucky and fought for the Confederacy a few design ques were taken from the Orphan's Brigade of Kentucky.  

As one reckons with a proper orientation of map to flag, the blue quadrants are where the Union and Confederacy agreed that this area would become Arizona and New Mexico, but along the buff areas are where they didn't see eye to eye.  

 

 

 map credit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Arizona#/media/File:Map_of_the_United_States,_and_Territories_Together_with_Canada_From_Mitchell's_New_General_Atlas_Philadelphia_SA_Mitchell_Jr_1861.jpg

QR Code for this Website-Homepage

 

Remember homepages?  What about upgrading your phone?  The internet changes so quickly.  Someday the QR Code will be just as quaint.  In any case this is the QR for this ホームページ.

Algeria Tennessee Tilt Flag

 

Here is the second version of Algeria's Tennessee Tilt flag.  What is a Tennessee Tilt?  Basically when a state, nation, or county is on par with latitude of Europe and Africa, but it has certain tilt towards Africa, that is a Tennessee Tilt.

NAVA Interest Area Meeting: online, Flag Design Gauntlet▬ hosted by Joe Gorman

The first presentation for the Area Interest Meeting; Flag Design Gauntlet was by Russ Adams.  Adams gave an insightful presentation of his proposed flag for NAVA 55.  His proposed flag played a clever trick by turning the V in the NAVA flag into a Roman numeral V and adding a white L along the hoist and bottom.  Unfortunately Adam's flag was not chosen.  One observation was that it looked too much like the NAVA flag. 

To the left are several other flags that were proposed to represent NAVA's 55th meeting.  Ted Kaye also shared a simple memory trick as to know which NAVA meeting is next.  Just think of the most recent Superbowl.  NAVA meetings are providentially synced to the number of the Superbowl.  NAVA's first meeting and the first Superbowl took place in 1967.  Ergo Superbowl LIX and NAVA LIX will take place in the year 2025. 

The second presentation was by about the recently adopted (99.98% official) flag for Yorba Linda, California.  It was graciously presented by a former Mayor of Yorba Linda — Beth Haney. Haney was also on the committee that led the process for the adopted a flag for this municipality.

To Beth's surprise her submission nearly became the official flag of Yorba Linda, as a runner up.  However the official is the one with a yellow star on navy blue with an uneven, curved, white division towards the fly.  There were several submissions for the flag and much of the community was engaged.  The winning design was slightly modified,  the original designer had the yellow star towards the fly.  So in a way the flag of Yorba Linda is a  syncretic design, where more than one person is responsible for the design.

Mayor Haney also presented some the submissions by children.  This flag was been digitized to the left.  Perhaps if this submission made into a 'crisp  computer' version, it could have become the official flag of Yorba Linda, California? 

In the third presentation the winner of the Official Flag for the City of Old Town, Maine was given by our talented host, Joe Gorman.  In the center is a red canoe on horizontal tri-bar of green, white, green. 

This flag was so poplar that it inspired heraldic organizations to create coats of arms and other versions of the flag. 

Finally our host Joe Gorman gave presentation by proxy for Brian Cham.  Cham is graphic designer in New Zealand and has taken a special interest in designing a new flag for state of Massachusetts.