This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars

So a quick announcement before we start earlier this year. I went to the TED conference in Vancouver and I gave a talk about flag design

It was an incredible experience and even though there was a

little bit of skepticism when I started the talk, you know when everyone learned that it was

really going to be about flag design, The talk totally won over the crowd and I got a standing

ovation. It was a real highlight of my career and last week the video was finally released. So I really hope everyone who

listens to the show will go watch it and share it.

You're gonna dig it.

The cool part is that let me perform the talk like a radio piece instead of the normal

TED Talk, I'm sitting down and playing audio clips and talking

over music and for once you get to see my face while I do it.

If you've been listening to 99% invisible for a while, you know that one of the thorns in my side is the city

flag of San Francisco. If you're not familiar with that flag you'll see it in the

video it's not good. Anyway 99 p.I. has some fans at the company Autodesk and if you don't know Autodesk, all you need to know is this.

If the thing you're looking at exists in three dimensions in the real world that object was probably designed on

Autodesk software. So Autodesk has this big office in San Francisco and they saw

the TED Talk and suggested that we partner together to help plan a redesign of the

San Francisco Flag. I'm really excited. We have a website, San Francisco Flag.com. You can watch the TED Talk there, sign up, learn more, get involved. That's

San Francisco Flag.com. Please visit it, watch the video, share the link. I am trying

to get my TED Talk to become the most watched TED Talk in history,

so we just need 33 million more views to get there. So if each of you who download the show, watch the video between 60 and 70 times, we can make it,

or you can just share it a lot and make your friends watch it.

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