Hard News: Not yet standing upright
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I’m thinking this Tintin tinged one
could be more apt for Key & Co’s NZ:
The Blue Lotus
Nothing sticks to this…(with apologies to the Jianwei Nationalist State )
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David Hood, in reply to
Brazil seems to do ok even though their flag breaks all the rules
and the number of stars on it change
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Which is kind of cool, especially as they're actual stars in a proportionate position and magnitude.
The US added a star for each new state, the EU/Council of Europe does not - it's always been 12.
I like these Canadian suggestions, especially the Beatles one.
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Evan Yates, in reply to
Ok. I give up. What is the creature hidden in the stereogram? I can see it has two legs but the rest is unclear. It looks a bit like a Kiwi with beak down to the left, looking for insects, but with a stoat sticking out of its butt (going up to the right).
...or is it a mutant kangaroo? ...or a T-Rex?
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
ocular, jocular, albinocular…
…a mutant kangaroo?
…or a T-Rex?dunno!
can’t get it to stir a jot, meself.file name is dino.jpeg
so I’m going for your latter fancy,
as it were…where do you look to coalesce limbs?
focus & focal length?
does the background disappear?I feel so excluded already…
sob...
My eyes are physically ever so slightly off ‘factory parallax’
- literally a past ‘head-desk’ interface,
as it were, again.as you were…
;- )
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velociraptor .... really old kiwi
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
.or is it a mutant kangaroo? ...or a T-Rex?
It looks more like a Kangaroo to me but it seems to have a horn on its head so not a T Rex but that could be an ear so...
I am good at these things, I used to do the same thing with the patterns on the backs of the school bus seats, thought it was just me.
Anyway, as Ian says the file is Dino.jpg so the artist meant it to be a dinosaur but isn't that good at drawing them. ;-) -
Steve Barnes, in reply to
pupils at Ngaio School
That flag would be offensive to the Welsh. Sometimes you just can't win.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
I feel so excluded already…
Scratch 'n sniffs were a bit like that. Even the sticker that graced the sleeve of Peter Tosh's Legalise It. While it was presumably supposed to smell like herb, the best noses I submitted it to could only detect printer's ink.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
where do you look to coalesce limbs?
focus & focal length?
does the background disappear?I feel so excluded already…
I find it easiest to look "through" the image, focusing in a point beyond the 2D surface, a point where similar shapes overlap and create an illusion of depth.
It is a 2 stage process. First you get the depth illusion then the image gradually emerges. Once you get there it is sometimes hard to not see it without looking away.
Hope that helps.
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David Hood, in reply to
It can also help if you have a window that is darker beyond it, that you can reflect the image off it (not entirely practical on a desktop screen), because then you can quite literally focus through the picture.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
It can also help if you have a window that is darker beyond it,
Or a mirror. The picture would be backwards but...
Once you get the looking through bit its a piece of piss, as they say in Wandsworth. (apparently)
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Helps to go cross eyed first for me
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I like the Red Peak flag because I interpret the white stripe as a long white cloud, which is important for a country named Aoteoroa.
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Red Peak is the business!
How do we get the flag panel to change their minds?
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simon g, in reply to
We don't. They were voted in by an electorate of one, and they have done what the voter wanted them to do. Nobody else had a say. The illusion of a say, yes, but that's all it ever was.
We could get the voter himself to change his mind, it's worth a shot. But I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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Katharine Moody, in reply to
Red Peak is the business!
How do we get the flag panel to change their minds?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/71768480/support-for-red-peak-flag-on-the-rise
A spokeswoman for the Flag Panel said that the shortlist was final.
"The flag consideration panel were appointed to make a decision, and cabinet has approved those four alternative flags for the referendum"
Who wants to bet there will be a flip flop: the Flag Panel will do a mea culpa (because the PM's pollsters are actually the ones in charge) - and Red Peak will get a look in as a fifth option.
Face it, Key couldn't give a stuff what the new flag looks like or represents for that matter - he just wants to be able to say that the flag was changed under his "rule".
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chris, in reply to
he just wants
to keep the proles occupied with trivialities while TPPAing it and selling off the homestead, we are putty.
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simon g, in reply to
There's zero chance of a change to the four options before the first referendum.
A change afterwards (by Parliament, i.e. on Key's instructions to his caucus) is very unlikely, and will probably depend on the first referendum having a very low turnout, and/or the Hypnoflag winning.
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Just for fun, I’ve done a very CGI take on the matter, and here’s a WIP so far. Shall I get some virtual beauties to wear these, or could that open me up to getting sued?
I actually asked Graeme Edgeler about this, and he says NZ parody law applies, even if a next-level image is hosted on an overseas server.
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Steve Braunias' Secret Diary of the Flags hits the mark with an uncannily accurate portrayal of Maurice Williamson and a powerful ending involving our PM.
Damn, I love Steve's work.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Just for fun, I’ve done a very CGI take on the matter, and here’s a WIP so far. Shall I get some virtual beauties to wear these, or could that open me up to getting sued?
I had no problem with mentally inserting St Richie's image into all four. Thanks to your visualisation, hypnokini's the clear winner. It's the only one with symmetry.
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Alfie, in reply to
Shall I get some virtual beauties to wear these...?
Just ask yourself, what would Maurice do?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Shall I get some virtual beauties to wear these,
Refugees? Lyndon Hood's depictions are very poignant, yours could be too.After all John Key finds the flag more important.
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semaphore play…
I see this thread has made the news in The Guardian…...commented Mikaere Curtis on the left-leaning Public Address blog. “Screw that, I’m voting Hypnoflag followed by Keep The Existing One, I want a proper process not this farce.”
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