Birdie Sanders
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Birdie Sanders! Trippy! - Mittens Meme Bernie and Acid trip not necessarily included.
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Birdie Sanders in Da House! - Well, technically he's more-so been in the Senate for quite a while now. But here at Just Say Gnome we're just starting to offer a sculpture of this most heroic avian Progressive Social Birdocrat!
He's available either painted or unpainted. And actually there's' even a couple of variations of how detailed his painting can be. And prices vary depending upon how detailed the painting is. Immediately below you'll find the details on all of that - and then, if you're interested, you can scroll a little further down to learn more about the Legend of Birdie Sanders! |
Prices for Birdie Sanders (subject to change for a little while - until I figure out how much work each one really takes anyway.:
Unpainted Birdie - just as cement - or all painted light-grey with outdoor quality paint - and with primer underneath. $ 77 + shipping.
Birdie Painted in full color - Except
with just gray-tones on his base and the letters. $160 + shipping.
Fully Painted Full color Birdie!
Birdie and his base-stand all painted in color: $184 + shipping
* Shipping will likely be in the $35 to $65 range (for domestic shipments) depending on whether or not you live close to Oregon - or are near a major shipping route.
The first painted Birdie Sanders figures should be ready to go in the next week or so. And more images of each version will be on here soon too!
Unpainted Birdie - just as cement - or all painted light-grey with outdoor quality paint - and with primer underneath. $ 77 + shipping.
Birdie Painted in full color - Except
with just gray-tones on his base and the letters. $160 + shipping.
Fully Painted Full color Birdie!
Birdie and his base-stand all painted in color: $184 + shipping
* Shipping will likely be in the $35 to $65 range (for domestic shipments) depending on whether or not you live close to Oregon - or are near a major shipping route.
The first painted Birdie Sanders figures should be ready to go in the next week or so. And more images of each version will be on here soon too!
Front View - of Birdie prototype!
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Left-side view of Birdie prototype!
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The Legend of Birdie Sanders!
Back in March of 2016 - not long after Senator Sanders had really started attracting national attention for his run for US President as a Democratic Socialist he had a surprising visitor during his speech at a huge rally in the Moda center here in Portland Oregon. Original Birdie had already been hanging out on the stage beginning to get attention from the audience - but then when Bernie noticed his little avian admirer and started talking about him, Birdie suddenly jumped up and landed right in front of Bernie on the Senator's podium - hanging out with him for a while before taking off! (check out the video of the real time event below)
- and though I'm not clear on what Birdie himself was tweeting [ here's Bernie's Tweet about the event ].
The incident of course inspired a minor but still impressive Meme storm. ( though it can't quite compare with the Bernie-in-Mittens meme - it was still quite something for that point in time in the early Meme Era.
[ - and just to be clear I or rather us here at Just Say Gnome didn't create any of these images. They're done by various talented artists whose work can be found through a basic Google search. I've just gathered them all up here for your edutainment. Some of the artist names are included in the image - and if anyone has anymore information about their authorship please feel free to pass that one to us and we'll include it as a caption under the image. Thanks ]
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- and while many creators of Birdie art memes embraced Bernie's interpretation of Birdie as representing the dove of peace - others took their memes in more militant directions:
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And then of course there was the whole Snow White / Bernie thing!
I really don't know quite what to say about that. but I like it!
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And Birdie became more of a general symbol of the Sanders campaign too: and as we'll see soon one particular Birdie image even became a standard icon on Senator Sanders' main website.
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Then there were the look-alike images. Apparently based on a real bird photo or two. and maybe some of them on imagination too. : )
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And I think these Bald Eagle - Bernie images were even from before the 'Birdie Event'!
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And then there were the cartoonified images of Birdie himself(?) - and as you can see there have been several versions:
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But ultimately the image that really stuck and caught on the most seems to be this - the classic 'Birdie' image. Bernie even seems to have adopted it as his official symbolic Birdie representation - featuring the image on the tab above the URL of his website!:
https://berniesanders.com/
So this modern classic image of Birdie is the one we mainly tried to stay true to in sculpting the Just Say Gnome version of Birdie Sanders.
* [ I haven't yet found who illustrated that classic image but if you know please do pass on the info so we can give the artist credit here too. Thanks! ]
https://berniesanders.com/
So this modern classic image of Birdie is the one we mainly tried to stay true to in sculpting the Just Say Gnome version of Birdie Sanders.
* [ I haven't yet found who illustrated that classic image but if you know please do pass on the info so we can give the artist credit here too. Thanks! ]
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