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maniacalmonkey

3/20/2007 4:19 PM

Go ahead, punk!

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Hello friends, A couple of days ago during a chat with Mongoose, I recalled an artifact of old that I still had tucked away in my museum: As the old geezers may remember, the majestic pelican was the symbol of the Community during the first DGame, and featured prominently on our national flag (which, alas, I have not been able to recover). The challenge is as follows - create a flag for the Community, featuring the Pelican. A high-resolution version can be found here. Everyone is invited to participate and discuss designs. We can have a poll on which flag we like best, if there is no consensus. Bonus points if you also create seals for the President, Senate and Supreme Court!
-- Edited: 3/21/2007 3:10 PM by maniacalmonkey

Bismarck2990

3/21/2007 2:24 AM

Bismarcko' Magnifico

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There's my submissions as far as the flag is concerned. I will work on more seals later on when time permits.
-- -Of course we must all fear evil men, but there is another evil that we must fear more… and that is the indifference of good men. -New term started, $1,425 (US) for classes, let's see how much books will run up to. MEH. Edited: 3/21/2007 3:20 AM by Bismarck2990

Bolan Longpants

3/21/2007 7:06 AM

Like the hair cut?

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wow, very nice Biz. BTW did you guys notice we started at a lake again?
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maniacalmonkey

3/21/2007 8:13 AM

Go ahead, punk!

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Nice work, sir! I'll admit that I was thinking of something a bit more... Sedate - but they look pretty awesome! Bolan Longpants (3/21/2007) wow, very nice Biz. BTW did you guys notice we started at a lake again? Yup, and it seems we'll be trading gems again too
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Comedy Dave

3/21/2007 8:42 AM

G'day

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This is nothing in comparison with Biz's contribution, but here's something I knocked together...
-- C3C Emperor C4BTS Prince "You can't stop the world from spinning around. You'll never stop the rain from falling down." - St Paul, The Rembrandts "You may be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the Reaper." - Grim Reaper, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey <<--- click me!

Leo

3/21/2007 11:34 AM

General

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Not too bad (says the lurker/nonparticipant) and I LOVE the 'approved' stamps...but the flag is a bit ...much for a flag. Unless the world you live on does not have the rules for heraldry. I think I have the old national flags somewhere...maybe I can find them...I did a lot of heraldry work for the old game. Beautiful work...truly. Just hard to see at a distance when your troops are fighting in a haze of black-powder smoke.
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Bismarck2990

3/21/2007 12:16 PM

Bismarcko' Magnifico

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I suppose, I could agree that the Flag I proposed is mainly for show.. I felt distinct color schemes with Celtic patterns in the background would serve well. Then again, as far as being able to see it on some battlefield under the shower of bullets, I'm no solder. I'm also skeptical of the text, as I feel it only clutters the flag and detracts from the distint blue/green/red. I appreciate the comments thus far.
-- -Of course we must all fear evil men, but there is another evil that we must fear more… and that is the indifference of good men. -New term started, $1,425 (US) for classes, let's see how much books will run up to. MEH.

jerm

3/21/2007 1:55 PM

Elite Pathogen

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Okay here's one. I'm not great at color so feel free to suggest a better color scheme.

Addit: BTW, great graphics Biz, though I agree on the simplicity issue. A flag should be pretty 2 dimensional. I think you may be along the right lines for the seals though. I'll post my celtic rendering of the pelican in it's basic form if anyone wants to mess with it:

Addit2: Man, why are my images messed up? They were working earlier for me. My photobucket account is messed up so I had to upload them here and link them but now I can't see them. If you click on the attachments though it seems to work. wierd. I'll upload them once the photobucket issue is resolved.

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