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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Happy Analemma Day 2016!



Happy Analemma Day 2016!

It's that time of the year when the sun retraces its one footprint in the sky.  Coincidentally it is also when the new school year begins in the United States.  How synchronistically quaint!?

The Analemma is that odd design on many, but not all, the globes you see in classroom across America.  It can usually be found in the South Pacific nearer to South America on a globe.  Yet this astronomical phenomena is NEVER explained.  The longest night, longest day, equal times a daylight and nightlight are easy to explain, but not Analemma Day.  Maybe it is because a discussion of the Analemma in the classroom would lead to some low brow Beavis and Butthead comments from the peanut gallery.  Move over Uranus, the Sun has an Analemma.

In simple terms this is where the sun appears in the same exact spot in the sky for one day.  Every year the sun appears at this location at about April 14th, but then returns to this point at about August 31st.  Thus the last day of August when the sun is aligned to one day in mid April, keeping the cosmos in order.  For the rest of the year the sun appears in a unique original position, except for on the last day of August...Analemma Day!

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Flags in the Video - Can't Stop This Feeling by Justin Timberlake: Official Song for the Summer of 2016



Mr. Timberlake does it again!  It's official the theme song for the Summer of 16' is ruled by Justin's Can't Stop This Feeling!  In the video sale feather flags can be seen in front of the Wash shop.  The official video features a number of talented and folksy Americans strutting their stuff in the song for all to enjoy.

This song has saturated the American Airwaves, and will pull us back to 16' when its 2026 or 2036. 

Before the Just Beaver, their was the Just Lake of Timber.  Although the Beaver has cut some timber, Timber stands tall and strong by the lake.




Monday, August 29, 2016

Shia LeBeouf - Rob Cantor Video with Red Dancing Vexilloids 2014


Exquisite, artful, and passionate silliness reign in red vexilloids in the video for Shia LeBeouf by Rob Cantor 2014.  New kinds of excellence parody, a groovy beat that showcases several art forms to perfection in this video.  It features a chorus of youth and a chorus of age, male and female dancers, an orchestra, and finally...a  modern beat. 

Long red rhythmic flags are twirled in excellent detail.  It is a six ring circus of delight, centered on the movie star of Transfomers - Shia LeBeouf. Amazing artful, silliness that just expands the mind.



Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Fire Hydrant Flag Marker

A new trend with fire hydrants is to add a flag.  Not a normal flag, it is a hard plastic trapezoid on a red and white metal pole.  It is supposed to help visually ID more quickly where the hydrant is located.

You can see "HYDRANT" upon the hard plastic vexilloid.

Friday, August 19, 2016

Life Guard Flags at Ocean, City NJ

 Green marker beach flags are used at beaches in New Jersey.  They indicate the safe area that swimmers should swim in between for life guard supervision.












 
     
These flags are currently made of a plastic material, which gives them a sturdy water proof aspect.  Red flag are the no swim zone, outside of the life guards view.

Ocean City, NJ Public Golf Course Flag


Golf flags come in a variety of colours and shapes.  At the Ocean City, NJ public golf course, 4 by 4 red checker flags mark the the target.

This course is a fun rookie to amateur course, worth ones while.  But remember to bring bug spray, since it is right on the bay by Bay Avenue and Tennessee Avenue.

Ocean City, NJ Golf Website:http://www.ocnj.us/index.cfm?fuseaction=content.pageDetails&id=6029&typeID=179

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Rhythmic Gymnastics, The Flag of Olympic Elegance



Rhythmic gymnastics has the athele use a flag more explicitly than any other sport in the Olympics.  In this case a long streamer is held by the athelete. This vexiloid is intergral to the performace.  Like always these experts make this sport look easy, when infact it takes alot of concentration and effort.

Here Natalia Gaudio from the host nation of the 2016 Olympic Games, Brazil, is struting her talent with this highest of elegant flags in this demostration of artistic excellence.









Another shot of this beautiful of sports that is part dance, part art, and part gymnastics.