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Fabergé egg

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This inspired me to see if Dall-E could riff on the concept. I give you the Fabergé Fried Egg:

https://twitter.com/andybak/status/1634904354632376321?s=20

Don’t forget the scrambled Fabergè egg.

Salvador Dali would be proud.

My mother went to a Fabergé exhibit in the 1980’s, and her impression of it was “When you looked at those things, you could tell why they had to have a revolution.”

What’s the modern day equivalent of faberge eggs that would trigger a revolution?

I believe they should be (should have been) Vertu and Savelli phones:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2015/02/14/a-jew...

Rather not, these were an absurd caprice. CARS and YACHTS. All these luxurious, collector special edition, designer cars and yachts.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-...

I think the population has to be starving first.

Difficult... but hungry? We're getting there step by step.

Peleton?

That was my reaction after seeing St Petersburg. Palace after palace after palace...

The world's oldest NFT collection.

Except you can't right click save a Fabergé egg.

And a Fabergé Egg cannot degrade to a 404 or an NXDOMAIN just because a third party server stopped working.

And Fabergé Eggs are also made of precious metals and jewels, built with incredible craftmanship, were owned by one of the most powerful people in the world during a time in history about which hundreds of books have been written, and have endured over a century as a craft of artistic, cultural and historical importance.

So now NFT's are being added to the bitcoin blockchain through the use of something called ordinals. NFTs are still dumb but at least they don't have to rely on a third party hosting solution.

What's the connection between Faberge eggs and NFT?

They're both scarce and thus considered "collectibles."

Fabergé eggs are scarce because of the difficulty and cost of making them. NFTs are scarce because they are a one time issued code, attached "somewhere" to something that's extremely easy to make, and were in fact produced in large quantities in short time.

Perfect uselessness. Plus, they're ugly.

That's just art in general. But I don't think Fabergé eggs had a decentralized ownership or anything like that. They also required extraordinary craftmanship and expensive material, quite unlike NFTs.

I think the ownership of Fabergé eggs is decentralized. They don't have any dependencies like electricity. They just exist and one can judge their value, quite unlike NFTs.

They’re both extremely resilient to forgery, which makes them great stores of value — and also great modes to launder money.

I'm absolutely fascinated by these things.

Each one was unique, and many of them represented important moments in recent Russian history - there's one that commemorates the completion of the trans Siberian railway for example.

Given what happened next, you could say they accidentally document the fall of the Russian empire... through the medium of decorative eggs!

I've always found Fabergé eggs interesting. It's awesome how it was just supposed to be a one off thing, but the tsarina loved them so much they became a tradition. I've been trying to make painting wooden eggs a tradition in my family, and I take a lot of inspiration from Fabergé eggs.

There are some better, or at least bigger, higher resolution images on Fabergé's own site: https://www.faberge.com/the-world-of-faberge/the-imperial-eg...

There are moments when one pities that the revolution happened, but then nah... it was perfect storm.

The big problem with basing your system of government on literal autocracy is that sometimes you don't get good autocrats. That said, the crisis of 1905-1917 would probably have overwhelmed a better monarch than Nicholas II.

My $5,000-a-day habit.

More like $5,000,000

https://youtu.be/JA_Mfvt1IIk

Not to be confused with the “slightly” less expensive Dragé Egg

https://www.godt.no/aktuelt/i/vAnvo4/hvor-ble-det-av-drage-e...

TBH the Ferrero's Kinder Surprise was likely inspired by Fabergé eggs.

Tbh I'd pay more for them than a fabrgé egg. I grew up in Sweden, eating these eggs every easter.

One of these eggs featured prominently in the early '00s masterpiece that was Ocean's Twelve.

Didn’t the feds just find one of these in San Diego on a boat they seized from Russia?

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