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Vexilloid Tabloid #77, August 2019 Portland Flag Association 1 ISSN 2474-1787 Portland Flag Association “Free, and Worth Every Penny!” Issue 77 August 2019 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: ICV 28 Report ICV 28 Report 1 By Max Liberman 2 July 2019 Flutterings San Antonio, Texas, hosted the 28th PFA Inspires ICV 28 Paper 5 International Congress of Vexillolo- Unofficial Bohemian Flags 6 gy in July, welcoming around 90 Roundup 7 vexillologists from over 20 countries, Variant Flags of Puerto Rico 8 Flag Display in Baker City, Oregon 9 including Ted Kaye and me from The PFA flag stands among those of Flags and the B-17 10 the PFA. I had the privilege of fellow FIAV members. The Flag Quiz 11 representing the PFA at the General Portland Flag Miscellany 12 Assembly of FIAV (the International re-elected Graham Bartram as Next Meeting 12 Federation of Vexillological Associa- secretary-general for congresses. tions), alongside delegates from 45 www.portlandflag.org other flag-studies organizations. FIAV also considered the bid to hold ICV 30 (2023) in Beijing. This At the General Assembly, FIAV spurred a debate about academic admitted new member organizations freedom, as the prospective hosts from Chile, China, and Macedonia, indicated that some topics would elected Željko Heimer as president be politically unacceptable. The bid (succeeding Michel Lupant) and was eventually approved by a vote of Bruce Berry as secretary-general 38–11. The Flag Research Center (succeeding Kin Spain) and also will co-sponsor ICV 30 and publish the proceedings outside of China. Congress attendees were treated to presentations on vexillological topics at the luxurious St. Anthony Hotel. We toured the Dixie Flag Company, the Texas state capitol, and Whitney Smith’s vexillological collection at the University of Texas. We ended the week with a closing banquet at the former Sunset railway depot, I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the bidding farewell to friends and Mexicans under Santa Anna — ... Delegates to the FIAV general The enemy has demanded a surrender ... assembly vote on the admission of looking forward to the 2021 congress I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from new members. in Ljubljana, Slovenia! the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat. ... Victory or Death. — William Barret Travis, Lt. Col., If you wish to compliment the editor, or to contribute in the future, contact Ted Kaye Commanding the Alamo, Feb’y 24th 1836 at 503-223-4660 or [email protected]. If you wish to complain, call your mother. 2 The Vexilloid Tabloid July 2019 Flutterings You Need to Know In our July meeting, hosted by Ted Kaye 12 PFA members enjoyed an evening of flags and conversation. Ted moderated the discussion. We welcomed Brittany Vega, a recent PNCA masters graduate with a special interest in Americana and the meaning of flags. Patrick Genna unfurled the flag of Swaziland with a handout about its David Ferriday exhibits an image of a Roberta Krogman describes flag- history and meaning—especially Croatian-themed sweatshirt. related folk art. relevant because the country recently changed its name to David Ferriday, in full downsizing described a wooden pallet she eSwatini. mode, gave away a number of recently saw painted as a folk-art Max Liberman summarized the U.S.-flag-themed folk art items, U. S. flag. upcoming FIAV general assem- and shared several articles and Fred Paltridge explored the recent bly’s agenda (to be held at the ICV cartoons, including an image from controversy over our hometown in San Antonio), soliciting guid- a Croatian-themed family reunion. sportswear giant withdrawing its ance on how he should vote as Roberta Krogman marveled at all new sneakers bearing the “Betsy the PFA delegate on applicants, the flag lore she has absorbed and Ross” flag, and shared a Portland officers, and host country bids. Tribune photo of Mayor Ted Wheeler speaking in front of a Portland flag. Patrick Genna explains the meaning Max Liberman discusses the issues to Fred Paltridge shares a flaggy Port- of the Swaziland (eSwatini) flag. face FIAV at its GA in mid-July. land Tribune item on Mayor Wheeler. August 2019 Portland Flag Association 3 Enthusiastic members examine and choose flags and ephemera from the collection of PFA founder Don Klett. New member Brittany Vega ponders Ted Kaye announced that Ginny presidential flag use. Klett, the widow of Don Klett (a founder of the PFA in the 1990s), Brittany Vega, describing flags as had asked that his flag materials go a new passion, led an interesting to good homes. He shared two discussion of recent presidential boxes of flags and ephemera and flag use, focusing on flag choices every member attending took in the décor of the Oval Office. several items—a wonderful full- circle redistribution of a collection Joyce Gifford showed some of the begun more than 30 years ago. latest micro-patches developed by Don would be pleased. smALLFlags, challenging folks to identify an SOB U.S. state flag. William Gifford unveiled a newly- (North Dakota) Dakota) (North available product: a circular flag base holding 12 8”x12” flags and David Koski explains proportions in 72 4”x6” flags. He populated it new flag designs. with an assortment of flags, which members then tried to name. David Koski led a discussion of proportion in new flag design, remarking that while one designer prefers 1:2 for all flags, most trend to different proportions. This led to an explanation of the Golden Rectangle, the Golden Ratio (a/b = (a+b)/a = 1.6180…), the Fibonacci Series, and how most standard U.S. flag sizes match pairs in the series and how they converge on the Golden Ratio. Joyce Gifford tries to stump the crowd William Gifford shows a stand that can with a small U.S. state flag. hold up to 84 large and small flags. Continued on next page 4 The Vexilloid Tabloid Israel Núñez explains some of his new designs for country flags to Brittany Vega. Israel Núñez has developed new The late Don Klett and his wife, Ginny, show the Klett family flag in 1990. Symbolism: “K” for “Klett”. Two stars for Don and Ginny. Four hearts for designs for overly-similar national daughters, Laura, Karla, Carolyn, with a double heart for Donna and husband flags (e.g., Romania, Moldova, Dan. (4th power will be used for grandchildren.) Colors from the Portland flag: Chad, and Andorra). blue, yellow, green and white. Source: NAVA News 23:6 (Nov.–Dec. 1990) Michael Orelove described remind- We’re grateful to PFA members Our next meeting will be hosted ing PFA members to celebrate who open their homes and com- by Dave Anchel on 12 September Canada Day on 1 July, through a munity spaces for our bimonthly at his home in S.W. Portland. Ted letter enclosing a tiny Maple Leaf get-togethers. will deliver the PFA flag to him. Flag. He related flag stories from his recent travels (see p. 9). Michael Orelove waves the Canadian flag to commemorate July 1, Ted Kaye and Patrick Genna enjoy a large railroad flag, Canada Day. created by Paramount Flag Company of San Francisco in the 1980s. August 2019 Portland Flag Association 5 PFA Discussion Inspires ICV 28 Paper Mike Thomas, frequent quiz participant and contributor to the Vexilloid Tabloid, presented “Recognising flags by their Mean Colour” at ICV 28 last month. He opened his talk by acknowledg- ing the inspiration of David Koski, who introduced the idea of a flag’s “average color” at a PFA meeting in November, 2014, followed by a VT article in February, 2015. Mike Thomas recognizes David Koski and the PFA in his ICV 28 presentation. Mike proposed using the mean He showed “color-value” maps of (average) color as an identifier for red, white, and blue flags, further a flag for recognition purposes. suggesting that his method could He used over 50 flags to demon- be used to recognize a flag from a strate his algorithm and its effec- photograph. tiveness. For example, red, purple, A Flag Institute member based in and blue flags show that different Luxembourg (and a regular at color mixes can have the same ICVs), Mike retired from the EU’s mean, but the inclusion of the European Commission as a com- standard deviation of the color puter systems programmer, web- The foremost vexillologist of gives a suitable “color-value”. Luxembourg “means” business. master, and security specialist. Young Leaders Program Flags Flags of simulated states designed by participants in the Young Leaders Program, held at Willamette University in Salem in June. After training in flag design, high-schoolers in groups of 4–12 created and selected designs then made into 3’x5’ flags. 6 The Vexilloid Tabloid Unofficial Bohemian Flags By Krystof Huk nationalist initiatives have been A recent issue of Vexi-News gave working over the past decade to a link to images of a “Flag of the get hundreds of municipalities to Bohemian Kingdom”, an apparent fly it. fantasy by a Czech monarchist The Czech Vexillological Society political party. Living in Prague, has issued a press release on the I might be able to contribute some Bohemian Kingdom (unofficial). matter of the Moravian flag some information on the subject. It time back. It is unfortunately in It’s also very important to distin- appears to be a bicolor of the Czech but understandable once guish between that flag and other Landesfarben with a representation run via Google Translate. It can similar flags. Though perhaps po- of the Bohemian crown within a be found on the CVS website litically controversial, the monar- wreath of linden leaves.
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