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francobolli aka Simon Massey di Vallazza is a 25.39 year old boy, has been a member since April 7, 2006, has scored 6052 submissions, giving an average score of 1.65.

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Sep 19 '08 by francobolli

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Wasn't quite sure what to call this... but looking at the design, the sum of every symbol represents a common ideology, despite the different traditions they originate from, hence the title.

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Symbology, with its uses and meanings within different traditions, really intrigues me and consequently this was inspired by readings about a variety of different symbolic references from, but not limited to, Alchemy, Wiccan, Pagan, Egyptian, Masonic, Norse (Asatru) and African traditions. You may notice that main frame work is the "Squaring the Circle": an alchemical glyph (17th c.) of the creation of the Philosopher's Stone - the top hemisphere representing the spiritual world, the bottom representing the material world. Looking closer you may recognise many more symbols that make up the image, including the Eye of Providence, pentacle flower, ouroboros (serpent eating its tail), and elemental symbols, to mention a few.

It's surprising to learn just how many traditional symbols are strewn throughout society without us realizing it. This is just a little tribute to the underlying traditions, philosophies and meanings that often go unnoticed.

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Jebbie on Sep 19 '08 at 8:15pm

i read the title as

all fourtyone and fourteen all.

shirtflirt on Sep 19 '08 at 8:18pm

speaking of symbols

in the EXXON logo there's a double cross
which was an old, old, christian cross for awhile

FRICKINAWESOME on Sep 19 '08 at 8:19pm

I heard Exxon was the first company name created out of thin air from a computer program to mean nothing offensive in any language. I wonder if that was true.

shirtflirt on Sep 19 '08 at 8:22pm

totatlly true!

francobolli on Sep 19 '08 at 9:46pm

Yeah, there are a lot more old tradition symbols in modern design than we recognise. I suppose some of the most common examples would be The Great Seal of USA and the USA Seal of the Senate, both containing Masonic / Freemason and occult symbols within them.

I don't doubt that, Frickenawesome... surely with all the deviant minds around, someone could make something offensive / perverted out of it though. Let get our EXX on... ok, maybe not... :-/

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francobolli on Sep 25 '08 at 11:12pm

up for voting now. hurrah. :-)

Andreas Mohacsy on Sep 25 '08 at 11:14pm

nice

Jellyes on Sep 25 '08 at 11:29pm

francobolli on Sep 26 '08 at 12:05am

cheers. that must be one of the kindest things i've ever heard from the hitcher... normally he slashes one way, he slahes the other, he slashes diagonally... he's like Connect Four in dagger terms!

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Andreas Mohacsy on Sep 28 '08 at 5:50am

do you like that boy, cockney urine all over your face...

what can i say boy, i enjoy the fusion of old and new, it's like a Lilly Allen with a Victorian twist...

it's enough from smashing your head in with the lid of the Johanna!

for now!

evercurious on Sep 28 '08 at 7:20am

your title has lodged the theme tune for Dogtanion in my head...

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jess4002 on Oct 01 '08 at 1:54pm

1 more days!

francobolli on Oct 01 '08 at 7:22pm

EELS! . . . EELS! . . . EELS! . . . EELS! . . .

Indeed, only one more day. I wonder if the completely underwhelming number of responses will be overcome by a flood of cheer...

KBShakedown on Oct 01 '08 at 7:33pm

I don't think that Exxon thing is true. I did a paper on Raymond Loewy, the guy who created the Exxon brand and logo, along with an extraordinary amount of other iconic brands. Exxon was a redesign/replacement of a previous brand, Esso.

francobolli on Oct 02 '08 at 6:14am

Thought Wikipedia may provide some answers...

Exxon formally replaced the Esso, Enco, and Humble brands on January 1, 1973, in the USA. The name Esso, pronounced S-O, was a trademark of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and attracted protests from other Standard Oil spinoffs because of its similarity to the name of the parent company, Standard Oil.

In order to create a unified brand, the company changed its corporate name from Jersey Standard to Exxon, rebranding all its U.S. stations under the latter title in the summer and fall of 1972 after successful test marketing of the Exxon brand and logo in late 1971 and early 1972 at rebranded Enco/Esso stations in certain U.S. cities. The company initially planned to change its name to Exon, staying with the four letter format of Esso and Enco, but at some point in the planning process, it was noticed that the governor of Nebraska was named James Exon. Renaming the company after a sitting governor seemed ill-advised and the second "x" was added to the new name and logo.

The rectangular Exxon logo with the blue strip at the bottom and red lettering with the two "X's" interlinked together was designed by noted industrial stylist Raymond Loewy. The interlinked "X's" are incorporated in the modern-day ExxonMobil corporate logo, but the original Exxon sign continues for marketing efforts and station signage. It can be argued that the two X's are a modified version of the Cross of Lorraine. Exxon was a sponsor on one of the cars in the film Days of Thunder.

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