Mag Pi

by coleh

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Oct 23 '07

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by coleh

My first threadless submission

Mag Pi - 1 for sorrow, 3.14159 for joy

Willish on Oct 23 '07

At present the bird looks too much like a sparrow to me but I do think it is a clever idea.

DesignerMom1956 on Oct 23 '07

shouldn't the beak be bigger?

and the tail longer?

and it is hard to see the eye...a dot of white, maybe?

i like the image but it does sort of look like a sparrow with a long tail

coleh on Oct 23 '07

thanks for comments.

the magpie was taken from a photo of a European Magpie (pica pica) so blame the magpie for the tail length. appreciate comments on beak and eye though - an ornithillustrator am clearly not :)

unstyled on Oct 23 '07

I'm glad to see you took my advice and submitted it to Threadless, definitely a big five from me (although the above comments do seem fair).

Fingers crossed for you mate!

Chelaine on Oct 23 '07

I like this idea... for sure...

GraveMurrain on Oct 23 '07

Nice Counting Crows Reference.

coleh on Oct 23 '07

Think Counting Crows song is reference to ye olde Medieval rhyme - I've certainly known it since childhood.

Variations at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Magpie#The_Magpie_rhyme

ehrady on Oct 23 '07

i thought this might have been going for some sort of Magnum P.I. joke, but the more obvious explaination soon came to me...

biol-nerd on Oct 23 '07

haha, magpies exist all over the world and can look quite different from each other, you should see the huge ones we have in Aus! So i wouldn't pay much attention to the physiology, i think people will get it anyway!