After finishing the bar for Cocoa Cinnamon coffee house, I spent some sweaty days building Rudy the Iron Reindeer. I pulled together all of the scrap in my shop and welded Rudy up. The team in DC was building a brilliant santa sleigh art car out of a airport baggage train. Rudy would help keep things from getting too cute. Rudy bobbed in the back of the truck all the way up to DC.
After a couple modifications we managed to mount Rudy to the art car.
Then ride it around the back alleys of Capitol Hill
And Voila! Covered with a ghostly patina of playa dust.
Dustin Smith, chief Santa and sleigh engineer, led team of about 20, to fabricate, mechinate and to wire for light and sound, and bring the gorgeous Merry Marauder to the desert.
