http://3.media.tumblr.com/kcq2O9G2Oo...XMhKo1_500.jpg
(couldn't acquire a name)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...clizo1_500.jpg
中村静香 | Shizuka Nakamura


[technotaku.]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...uh2no1_500.jpg
Animalistic digital art by Ryohei Hase ::: Pink Tentacle


+ bonus

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...uh2no1_500.jpg
"Child's Mind"

looking for the Firefly Santa, I found this:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1287/...80dcdc6a_b.jpg

That's great and all that you at last remembered this theme, but I gotta ask: where's the santa hat?

But, to perhaps add a little relevant context to the above image, I have a friend in New York who just strolls across the streets in Manhattan and snaps the mannequin displays every few weeks as they are newly-erected, and some shops are more lively with this targeted-but-niche advertising ploy than others. It's really quite wonderful how creative it can be.

I wonder if I can find a relevant contextual follow-up to what I've stated just now...

Ah, by luck, I have, indeed, done so...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3524/...6359cdfc54.jpg
Detail of Easter Bunny In NYC Shop Window. by Elisha Cook Jr.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8...odilesxmas.jpg
Crocodiles & Dum Dum Girls – “Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don’t Die)”


[stereogum.]

Well, I've been saving this for the better part of this past week, so might as well post it now:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3648/...a6d8e1d8_o.jpg
Santa with Automatic Rifle. By Primo.

{ Wheatpaste Street Art; as seen in Lower Manhattan, NYC. captured by Elisha Cook Jr. }

zoom-in
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3630/...eed2a584_o.jpg

- - - - -

+ bonus

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2090/...19dd2c75f7.jpg
Billikid's Obama Paste UP. Obey. Santa. Sticker. By Hargo.

as seen in Lower Manhattan ; captured by Elisha Cook Jr.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h..._bunnyears.jpg

196/365:'s Flickr page.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky...r2peo1_500.jpg
DAUL KIM, for Vogue Girl Korea, May 2007

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs40/f/20..._Heidilu22.jpg
Santa Hat Cake by ~Heidilu22 on deviantART

celebrity who bunny-ears: Lily Allen

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...ca051c82_m.jpg
Photography by Alasdair McLellan, for i-D Magazine, Summer of 2009


-- courtesy of touchpuppet


previous portrayal: Katy Perry

celebrity who santa-hats: Mr. T
previous portrayal: Katy Perry (that's downright weird)

as part of Fanservice! Wednesday, I present:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...6s5bo1_500.jpg
The lovely Mariko Shinoda, as part of J-pop/idol group, AKB48.

+ bonus

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...6s5bo1_500.jpg

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5006/1134957.jpg
Photography by Andy Prokh

author's comments (translated):
Be happy! ... Everything! ... Always!

http://i48.tinypic.com/29wvfon.jpg
Photo by: whileseated

http://i28.tinypic.com/4gngvo.jpg
Santa Claus School ; Photography by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1961. © Time Inc.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...m8w5o1_500.jpg
(fashionable bunny ears) Model: Lily Donaldson ; Photo: Patrick Demarchelier


[editorial.catag.]

http://nerviosismo.tumblr.com/photo/...24bVwxc1qznava
Jessica Weekley

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...waddo1_500.jpg

* -

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs23/f/20...ookiemagiK.gif


--courtesy of `CookiemagiK

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw...yagco1_400.jpg
(probably should have followed #126)

The anti-santa: Krampus

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...vaaoo1_500.jpg
as depicted and realized as if he were ... no, in fact, what he may actually look like.

this one is sort of a conceptual bunny-Santa connection


http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...206/rabbit.jpg

You always find the best bunny + santa arrangements, Nick-o.

That's a really cool skill. I can only find one or the other, but I go for the obscure, which helps bring in the intrigue.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9...pjinglebel.jpg
kaoru yumi (?)

Ah! she exists!

thanks for appreciating it, Jet.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...hl9eo1_500.jpg
Photographer unknown, circa 1950s

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the
mask they have assumed that in due course
they actually become the person they seem.”

—W. Somerset Maugham

You continue to amaze, BadNick.

With as many photographic sources as I've come to accumulate (dozens upon dozens) you still make better use of Google (I'm assuming) than I do with 50 other resources.

I need more Santa hat portrayals; they're a bit more rare than finding any number of weird abstract bunny ears, I've noticed.

[Cosplay events]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...mmkpo1_500.jpg
artwork by Rob Sheridan

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/978...f23a59870z.jpg
santa took a break from toy making to enjoy the (football) game. Photo by: veg*n-mom-2-2

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kr...9q81o1_500.jpg
コスプレ＠もみぞう : [Cosplay @ The Elephant rice]

just stumbled upon this one so I remembered this thread

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ntavsbunny.jpg

Thanks for re-contributing, BadNick.

I let the thread go dormant for a while, since we were "out of season",
but I guess since we have now turned over into the other half of the calendar
when the "festivities" coalesce, the activity and interest into this topic should rise.

Here's my offer:
http://oi53.tinypic.com/2m5yzac.jpg
Photography by Andrew Hasson

Santa does seem to have an unusual attraction to bunnies.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ing_rabbit.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...6/P4150158.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...6/PB110103.jpg

Very fine findings you have brought here, BadNick.
(are you just searching for "bunny + santa" in Google's image search, or GIS?)


I'll be taking the time, indeed, next off, and whence I return, to see if I can locate the artist or history or folktales attributed to your above shares. I might get lucky, and actually uncover as to why Santa likes to ride Bunnies (I have a feeling it has to do with psychotropic mushrooms, but we'll see).

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...wpxno1_500.jpg
I Wished My Eyes Were A Camera [selfshot ; read of interest]

I could find no history that links together Father Christmas and ride-able rabbits, or what one might term as "snow hares".

Here's a random piece I found instead:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs27/i/20..._by_Adineh.jpg
Rabbit and Santa

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld...wlato1_400.jpg
novelty santa hat

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/...975_z.jpg?zz=1
"Festive" (at the company Christmas party, in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) -- Photo by: Kaptain Kobold


-- image courtesy of The Santa Hat Project

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld...krf7o1_500.jpg
A Brief History of Sketchy Santas - How Santa Lost Control of His Branding

“Imagine millions of Justin Biebers carousing in the streets all across the world.
One in every mall. Anyone can be a Bieber. Find a Bieber for your niece’s Quinceañera on Craigslist.

Whether this idea excites or concerns you, I think we can all agree there would be
some awkward embraces, crushed dreams and unfortunate incidents!

And that’s exactly what’s been happening to our favorite American Christmas Superhero
for over a century - Santa has lost control of his ‘personal brand’ because anyone can be him.”

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...antarabbit.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...antabunny5.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...antabunny4.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld...vbcno1_500.jpg
BUY -- "you need to wear the hat. else, it doesn't count."


-- courtesy of Sketchy Santas

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...antabunny6.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...antabunny9.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/2yv2dsp.jpg
Photography by Jozef Krajco

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8...6s5bo1_500.jpg
bunny ears-like hair accessories illustration (oh! hair band)

celebrities who bunny ear: Meg White (of the recently-departed White Stripes)

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg...6iido1_400.jpg


previous portrayal: Mariko Shinoda

celebs who wear santa hats:

http://i51.tinypic.com/r0408g.jpg
Mary Martin, 1940. --courtesy of LIFE.

http://i56.tinypic.com/2ee97bl.jpg
Ring girl Photo by: matthe1276; taken in Anchorage, AK, USA.

#santa hats

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj...p2yjo1_500.jpg

#santa hats

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...5045o1_500.jpg
FOUR YIP


[ofellabuta.]

http://i54.tinypic.com/1zf4fty.jpg
Bubbles by Andrea Hannah Valencia - Model: Allison Alberto © Dec 2010


#bunny ears

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj...5fw0o1_500.jpg
Santa: just one of global warming’s many victims. -- submitted by Alicia Penner


[sadstuffonthestreet.]

Hopefully it might save a tree if I use this picture twice...already used in the "take 3" thread and now here to show off the bunny ears:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...a046f2fe_o.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/mkd7y0.jpg
króliczek zmęczony | photo by: marta michno


#bunny ears

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li...5v7io1_400.jpg
photo by: cynthia meadows


#bunny ears

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8...aee5o1_500.jpg
It’s the Green Lantern Larfleeze Christmas Special one-shot! | Giant Killer Squid


#santa hats #superheroes

http://i54.tinypic.com/24eqtyv.jpg
as seen in Aeschenpl, Basel-City (Switzerland) | Photography by Ryan Cordell

#bunny ears, still attached to the source
 

http://i55.tinypic.com/14lpjzt.jpg
Photography by Claire Beaugrand-Champagne

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj...6f9yo1_500.jpg
by Jason Yarmosky

+ bonus

http://i51.tinypic.com/14mvx8i.jpg
#bunny ears #Artist Features

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...5vgso1_500.jpg
(I'm thinking that you should not click, lest you be treated to visuals of a scantily-clad chick.)


#bunny ears #fanservice!

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk...so1_r1_400.jpg
guest star Carol Wayne on Bewitched, c. 1969


#bunny ears #fanservice!

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li...w5wjo1_500.jpg
Xiuyuan Zhang
"Koi", 2010
graphite and digital


#bunny ears #artist features #fanservice!

http://i52.tinypic.com/o70f92.jpg


#santa hats #classic covers #fanservice!