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card is intended for a person who never met a pun he didn't like, no
matter how groan-worthy. It contains three pop-ups on two main pages
and consists of several separate mechanism each. The primary pop-up is
modeled on the archaeopteryx in Encycopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs by
Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. The secondary pop-up bird
on
that first page is adapted from another dinosaur but with significant
differences. The third pop-up is just a simple mechanism to complete
the cheesy pun. The cover is an ordinary penciled hieroglyphic bird that gives no indication to the nonsense inside. There is no explicit birthday message and no particular person named nor any personal message of warmth. It is unsigned and not dated. The card could be for anyone, in fact, it can be recycled. It is expected the recipient will understand the pun and that the card is meant for his birthday, as it's addressed directly to the recipient and its timing coincides with his birthday. Although it's its possible that might go wrong, I'm trusting that it won't. (The birthday also coincides with Christmas.) The pop-ups depict insane looking birds flying off, twisting, crashing, feathers fluttering, basically they're flapping. The second page depicts two Hasidic Jews that stand up when the page is turned. The letters on the first page are written on individual flaps, the lettering on the second page are cut out and pasted. They read: "flappy birds day -- two Jews. I can only hope that the ridiculous birds devoid of any appositeness with birthdays combined with the jolting non sequitur of Hasidic Jews drawn in black just to complete a groaning pun, and the whole effort that went into producing nonsense and to mail it as if it were serious, is as funny to the recipient as it is to me. Pages will be added at the end as I get around to them to point to the preliminary sketches, prototype models, and construction process in case anyone's interested in that mess. |
flappy birds prototypes here
flappy birds construction page here