Saturday, December 16, 2006

On the construction of holiday elves:



Basic recipe:
One part 1950's fashion (holdover from Hermey)
Two parts incredible attentuation (long fingers, skinny pants--for small workspaces and chimney-plumbing purposes)
Healthy dash of Dick Van Dyke

Flavor according to taste--
-High class toymakers--prim, tidy, classic reds and greens
-Shackled elf--nervous and lined from life under perpetual deadline
-Jack Frost--smirking, weather-damaged skin, cracked and bleeding fingers

3 comments:

Scott said...

Aren't they usually associated with merry, mirthful, and/or jolly? The image of Santa running a sweatshop does not conjure up warm holiday fuzzies.

Greg said...

Jack Frost isn't Puck! He's out to stop Santa and hit you with those arctic blasts that leave you struggling to breathe.

Puck... we'll... he'll favor his master with a tender kiss on the forehead and prance away.

Jess said...

aside from the basic mischiefs,they aren't the same, but this pic threw me for a loop. that or Frost is Goodfellow's winter incarnation.