There has been some speculative discussion on this blog about the sun's reasons for wearing protective eyewear. This has been going on for years, and, as I hope to illustrate with this small grid, is pretty well consistent behariour. My theory is that the sun started wearing shades in the 80s in order to show that he was a fun lovin' party dude, and has continued wearing them in order to better blend in with vacationers shopping on holiday websites. Of course the shades also subtly remind us of the sun's killer-ray-emitting powers, ensuring that we don't stop shopping for sunscreen product and UV protective eyewear of our own.
I'm pretty sure the sun has been wearing shades since way before the 80s. The logo of a company that printed road maps of calgary featured a (the?) sun wearing sunglasses and a stetson, as early as the late '60s. I believe some ads for arizona tourism in the 50s had a sun wearing shades, too. Damn, I was going to be productive today, now I gotta go through the stacks.
Is the sun ever female?
Rob, you are a better man than I! Would love to know roughly the earliest instance. Maybe it coincides with depictions of space aliens as having big reflective eyes?
Joester, I responded to the gender question here.
Dudes, we're way off. Check this out
It's a mayan sun god! I found it here
wow! who knew?
...I guess maybe I should confess that I made-not-found one of the images on the grid above (bottom right).
sally, you cheater. just goes to show that all "scientific proof" is suspect. that sun at the bottom right certainly made me think of the sesame street sing-song: "one of these things is not like the others..."
My money's on the top left.
Geeze, why didn't I do this
while I was at it.
Which naturally led to this.
I'm going to stop now, I feel my posting privileges are in serious jeopardy.
Friend Rob provide this drawing. Thanks Rob!
rob told me about this quandary (i have always wondered the same thing) so i went googling, and i found one answer to "why does he have to wear shades -- he's the SUN?" it makes sense to me:
They're not sunglasses, they're space glasses. They protect the Sun's eyes from the darkness of space. =)
Kat you are right on! Many thanks for clearing that up.
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- sally mckay 4-02-2005 8:13 pm
I'm pretty sure the sun has been wearing shades since way before the 80s. The logo of a company that printed road maps of calgary featured a (the?) sun wearing sunglasses and a stetson, as early as the late '60s. I believe some ads for arizona tourism in the 50s had a sun wearing shades, too. Damn, I was going to be productive today, now I gotta go through the stacks.
- rob (guest) 4-02-2005 9:23 pm
Is the sun ever female?
- joester 4-02-2005 10:09 pm
Rob, you are a better man than I! Would love to know roughly the earliest instance. Maybe it coincides with depictions of space aliens as having big reflective eyes?
Joester, I responded to the gender question here.
- sally mckay 4-02-2005 10:20 pm
Dudes, we're way off. Check this out
It's a mayan sun god! I found it here
- joester 4-02-2005 10:38 pm
wow! who knew?
...I guess maybe I should confess that I made-not-found one of the images on the grid above (bottom right).
- sally mckay 4-03-2005 12:13 am
sally, you cheater. just goes to show that all "scientific proof" is suspect. that sun at the bottom right certainly made me think of the sesame street sing-song: "one of these things is not like the others..."
- emily (guest) 4-03-2005 12:26 am
My money's on the top left.
- joester 4-03-2005 12:40 am
Geeze, why didn't I do this
while I was at it.
- joester 4-03-2005 12:44 am
Which naturally led to this.
I'm going to stop now, I feel my posting privileges are in serious jeopardy.
- joester 4-03-2005 1:09 am
Friend Rob provide this drawing. Thanks Rob!
- sally mckay 4-03-2005 11:23 pm
rob told me about this quandary (i have always wondered the same thing) so i went googling, and i found one answer to "why does he have to wear shades -- he's the SUN?" it makes sense to me:
They're not sunglasses, they're space glasses. They protect the Sun's eyes from the darkness of space. =)
- kat (rob's sister) (guest) 2-10-2008 6:38 am
Kat you are right on! Many thanks for clearing that up.
- sally mckay 2-10-2008 11:04 pm