How often do you hear someone say something about raising one's freak flag and letting it fly? But how many people, even those inclined to raise their freak flag, actually have a freak flag? Here's where I'd step in.
You can't just go to the store and buy a pre-made flag and call it your freak flag. No matter how freaky that flag is! It's somebody else's freak flag that you bought into. Is that particularly freak? What's freak about it, really?
I mean, I guess you can just pick out and buy a freak flag if it's just sitting there, already perfectly capturing your own deepest freakness. But what are the chances? What are the chances? I ask you. And if that did happen - wouldn't that be a little too freaky?
But so anyway. People would come to me, and I'd give 'em a questionnaire that would lead me to a good understanding of what kind of flag stuff they'd like to have in their "freak flag kit." Some like stripes, some like crosses and stars, some like swirly "I got punched in a cartoon!" symbols, or skulls or a million other things. Anybody so creative and crafty that they could come up with all that stuff from scratch doesn't need my services! But for those who do, I'd take the questionnaire and think hard and freakily, and I'd put together and send them a full freak-flag kit. A kit to help them not only to get their freak on, but to help them get their freak on their flag.
Included would be a base flag in the shape and background color they chose, a wide band suitable for vertical or horizontal application in their backup color, and a good assortment of symbolic elements and heraldric elements (it's "heraldic" I know, but it really should be "heraldric") in complementary (or clashing, per preference!) colors, that they can put together into the final freaky layout that best bespeaks their own particular freak!
Then they can raise it high.
6 comments:
I LOVE this idea!
I know!! Isn't it a great idea? And I'm mad now, at me, for having it. Because it's depressing to me how far beyond my crafty skills the project itself is. I could totally design the awesome skulls and stars and symbol choices, but turning ideas into cloth is more than my fumble-fingered scissors are capable of.
I could design the questionnaire.
Heck, if we wanted to get super duper on it, for those freaks who don't want to hand-assemble their own flag, the "kit" could be a webpage where the flag-savvy freak could do all the color choice, symbol/design element choice, and click-and-drag layout personally. And then what they'd get sent is a finished flag.
But that still leaves me with no production arm.
I'd wrap my freak flag around my head, and if anyone tried taking it, I'd tazer them.
That sounds like some freaky superhero m.o.!
Eyeholes in the flag, one presumes. Or perhaps its fabric is gauzy or transparent enough; or you have special blind-senses that kick in when you're flag-enwrapped.
I hope my last post went through. My internet is screwing with me...our neighbors went in on splitting our internet connection with them, and we're regretting it. They download constantly using BitTorrent, and they seed everything they download because they don't watch what they're downloading or when things are done downloading...it's just a mess. And they keep complaining about viruses...geesh.
Uh-oh - this comment is the only one I saw!
I don't quite understand the tech woes, but I glean enough to be able to tell THAT SUCKS. I didn't realize sharing a connecty-field could mean a free viral-roam environment between the two link loci!
I don't even want to think about the implications. I am sorry to have lost seeing your post!
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