Coat of Arms - Order of the Couch

[theoldwolf]

Much back-and-forth over at The Confusion Couch about a coat of arms, a motto, something that will represent our camaraderie and flights of fancy.

Bmonk has given us a crest to work with; his description: "Black shield with a white couch, and a jagged green border. Above the couch a gold star. Green = Pibgorn’s color for her world. Jagged border (“dancetty”) for the dance of the fairies, but also to indicate confusion. Black for the darkness of the confused surrounding the couch, and also for the faithfulness of the couch crew despite being in the dark. The gold star for the “favorites”, but also for the enlightenment that eventually comes to us."

I took the liberty of gussying it up a bit, with a cauldron for a helm, signifying all the good recipes we share, and Pib and Dru rampant, because I like to look at them. So there. No other reason. Motto: Omnes me confundit - "Everything confuses me".

Here's a place to gather together any and all suggestions. No sign-in is required to post a comment. No idea will be considered foolish, or too loony. Comments will be screened, however, and may take until the next morning to become visible if they are posted late in the evening.

Once we have something that everyone is either pleased with or can live with, I'm going to see what can be done about formalizing it.

Ready? Go!

Comments

Re: the star

[(Anonymous)]

I noticed a bit of confusion (what else?) about the star. In my mind it served two purposes: as the "favorite" icon, and as the illumination that comes to the couch -- eventually. Bmonk, instigator.

[(Anonymous)]

From Baslim:

I have not read all of the suggestions but I have one for the motto which will need some translation to latin.

In Confusion, Good Company

The Fedora is nice but,
A book perhaps? (Borgia Cantata comes to mind)
A plasma bolt? perhaps crossed with a dandelion seed?

Escher Couches

[(Anonymous)]

Skulker here:

I just finished a couple of sketches/rough drafts of two Escher Couches for your consideration: One is a regular straight couch and the other a semi-circular curved couch. There is room "under" either couch to add some squirrels. The perspective and scaling are a bit off but they clearly show the concept.

I must say that I am a bit pleased with myself: I thought it was possible to draw an Escher couch and I was right (for once!). Since they are simple line drawing they still show the Escher/Penrose/Reutersvald "impossibility" aspect, even when scaled down. A good artist could take this concept and make a nice symbol for the COA.

Click on the Escher couch names to view and tell me what you think:

   http://www.box.net/shared/q7onf5ee0e

I also uploaded a number of other possibilities and ideas for consideration for symbols for the COA:

Although I was able to create an Escher couch, that doesn't symbolize the infinite expandability. One concept that might is to take Escher's Moebius strip and replace the ants with squirrels.

Another idea is to take Escher's waterfall and expand it for the OTC pool. Maybe even having a water slide instead of a downspout.;-)

The impossible triangle made from blocks also shows a star in the center (albeit six pointed), which would show up nicely if colored.

The open frame star might still show enough detail to work at a smaller scale. It definitely would with color coded sides but that would probably violate some color rules for COAs although only need two different colors or shades.

Drawing squirrels running around the tall impossible columns could symbolize three things: our confusion, the squirrels and Brooke himself.

BTW, I see no need to rush to a final decision on the COA. It has been a number of months since the idea was first proposed. A bit more time for other ideas to generate won't hurt. Just my 2 ¢

I have been doing a bit of research and found a couple of very large "Impossible" drawing galleries and some interesting Escher sites:

   http://impossible-world.blogspot.com/
   http://imp-world.narod.ru/english/index.html
   http://members.lycos.nl/amazingart/E/42.html
   http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/

Heraldic Phuddy-duddy (I'm not creating an account here, sorry)

[(Anonymous)]

Putting the cauldron on the shield just doesn't look right. I agree with the "contrived" statement. I think it really works atop the fedora, but having something a bit more appetizing than boiling lime jello might be cool.