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I meant to upload this before I disappeared into the blackout that is my parents house during the holidays. I didn't know that there would BE such a dearth of internet there.
This is my version of Rudolph and my belated happy holidays to everyone. So...good cheer and all that. :/
This is my version of Rudolph and my belated happy holidays to everyone. So...good cheer and all that. :/
Category All / All
Species Cervine (Other)
Size 800 x 768px
File Size 72.6 kB
Rudolph was "created" in my town of Chicago. We had a great story on a local channel about how the creator's character of Rudolph put all his kids through college, and helped pay the bills. But the greatest story of Rudy was that he was "created" at the creator's work site for an advertisement job, hence the creator really didn't "own" him. Then the man's job bequeathed Rudolph BACK to the man (in perpetuity)as a Christmas gift! All these years Rudolph has been a wonderful source of income for that man!
Now this version of Rudolph would stay true to the mysticism of St. Nicholas of the North, who was a Bishop. As the St. Nicholas story moved westward with the migrating people, he gradually evolved him into the Father Christmas-type figure of The British Isles. Our version of Santa comes from a Coca-cola advertizing scheme in the late 40's, I believe.
Now this version of Rudolph would stay true to the mysticism of St. Nicholas of the North, who was a Bishop. As the St. Nicholas story moved westward with the migrating people, he gradually evolved him into the Father Christmas-type figure of The British Isles. Our version of Santa comes from a Coca-cola advertizing scheme in the late 40's, I believe.
Well kick my butt!
Thomas Nast, early 1881, came up with the earliest description of Santa. Now that I should have remembered! Silly me.
Snopes.com also refutes it being Coco Cola. But it DOES say the Coca cola company went a long way in SOLIDIFYING the image that we know today:
"At the beginning of the 1930's Coca cola turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a more memorable figure, larger than life. Sundblom's illustrations were based on what had already become the standard image of Santa, as noted in the New York Times article published in 1927, FOUR YEARS before the appearance of Sundblom's first Santa-based Coca-Cola ad" Quote from Snopes. com:
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/chri.....a/cocacola.asp
Thomas Nast, early 1881, came up with the earliest description of Santa. Now that I should have remembered! Silly me.
Snopes.com also refutes it being Coco Cola. But it DOES say the Coca cola company went a long way in SOLIDIFYING the image that we know today:
"At the beginning of the 1930's Coca cola turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a more memorable figure, larger than life. Sundblom's illustrations were based on what had already become the standard image of Santa, as noted in the New York Times article published in 1927, FOUR YEARS before the appearance of Sundblom's first Santa-based Coca-Cola ad" Quote from Snopes. com:
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/chri.....a/cocacola.asp
That's more like it. Forget the gubbins about lighting the sleigh tonight. Rudolph does better as a creature of archetype, condemned to the knife-edge between ice and embers, bringing fire to men and frost to the Gods, warming and freezing the black Arctic earth in the wheel of the seasons, and setting flame to the Aurora as the sun sinks down.
Come to that, Santa could do with some bile and brimstone too. Maybe there's the germ of a story there.
Come to that, Santa could do with some bile and brimstone too. Maybe there's the germ of a story there.
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