All our cities

Text messages as signal flags...

Some images of popular text abbreviations rendered as signal flags for the Artship Olympia project...

IMO (in my opinion...)

OMG (oh my God...)

POS (Parents over shoulder...)

TBH (To be honest...)

WTF (What the f*ck)

Another avenue for this is still to use the old signal flag code books to compose a story of some kind. I have begun to try my hand at a pre-colonial form of writing from the Philippines called Baybayin...I think it would be interesting to have a subtext in that script...

Manilla Location flags with Baybayin subtext...

Where in the world?

In in the International Code of Signals (1917 version), there is an extensive index of four-flag codes for locations...I am thinking of using them as I hone on on the text for the banners that will be on the Olympia this summer...

Boston 

Los Angeles

Manilla

Philadelphia