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Fabergé egg
- KyeRussell 4y agoMy $5,000-a-day habit.
- codetrotter 4y agoNot to be confused with the “slightly” less expensive Dragé Egg https://www.godt.no/aktuelt/i/vAnvo4/hvor-ble-det-av-drage-eggene https://www.godt.no/aktuelt/i/vAnvo4/hvor-ble-det-av-drage-e...
- expertentipp 4y agoTBH the Ferrero's Kinder Surprise was likely inspired by Fabergé eggs.
- INTPenis 4y agoTbh I'd pay more for them than a fabrgé egg. I grew up in Sweden, eating these eggs every easter.
- stravant 4y agoThe world's oldest NFT collection.
- fsh 4y agoExcept you can't right click save a Fabergé egg.
- Mordisquitos 4y agoAnd a Fabergé Egg cannot degrade to a 404 or an NXDOMAIN just because a third party server stopped working.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoAnd 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.
- m348e912 4y agoSo 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.
- tgv 4y agoWhat's the connection between Faberge eggs and NFT?
- stanleydrew 4y agoThey're both scarce and thus considered "collectibles."
- tgv 4y agoFabergé 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.
- azubinski 4y agoPerfect uselessness. Plus, they're ugly.
- tgv 4y agoThat'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.
- detourdog 4y agoI 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.
- VeninVidiaVicii 4y agoThey’re both extremely resilient to forgery, which makes them great stores of value — and also great modes to launder money.
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- expertentipp 4y agoThere are moments when one pities that the revolution happened, but then nah... it was perfect storm.
- gerikson 4y agoThe 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.
- andybak 4y agoThis 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 https://twitter.com/andybak/status/1634904354632376321?s=20
- bradgessler 4y agoDon’t forget the scrambled Fabergè egg.
- lisper 4y agoSalvador Dali would be proud.
- simonw 4y agoI'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!
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThere 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-eggs https://www.faberge.com/the-world-of-faberge/the-imperial-eg...
- Decabytes 4y agoI'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.
- joeatwork 4y agoMy 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.”
- xattt 4y agoWhat’s the modern day equivalent of faberge eggs that would trigger a revolution?
- jaclaz 4y agoI believe they should be (should have been) Vertu and Savelli phones: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2015/02/14/a-jewel-of-a-phone/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2015/02/14/a-jew...
- expertentipp 4y agoRather not, these were an absurd caprice. CARS and YACHTS. All these luxurious, collector special edition, designer cars and yachts.
- shalmanese 4y agohttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-...
- booleandilemma 4y agoI think the population has to be starving first.
- expertentipp 4y agoDifficult... but hungry? We're getting there step by step.
- DontchaKnowit 4y agoPeleton?
- kylecazar 4y agoOne of these eggs featured prominently in the early '00s masterpiece that was Ocean's Twelve.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoDidn’t the feds just find one of these in San Diego on a boat they seized from Russia?