Zombie Jamboree
Jul. 5th, 2013 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanama...is the title of a painting at the Peabody Essex Museum. It's a song by the Kingston Trio as well, the song that killed calypso, and that's going to be what you find if you search for Zombie Jamboree. 
Here is the painting.
I'm going to provide a link because it's 1280x1148 pixels. It's not nsfw or anything like that. It's on loan, just so you know. I thought I'd call this "A Dog Day" but Zombie Jamboree trumps it.
There were four Fabergé eggs. 38 other eggs were in private collections or in museums, and eight are destroyed and/or missing. But that's not all Fabergé made, nope. Some things were cane handles of nephrite, silver caviar dishes in the shape of sturgeons or with medieval Russian warriors, animal statuettes with jewel eyes made from natural agates that evoked the colors of an ostrich or a Chinese swan goose and a statuette of a Russo-Japanese war-era Russian sailor with jewel eyes, blinged-out Orthodox iconography.
There were pug statues, made by the Chinese or by westerners working in a Chinese style, not by Fabergé. A really cool-looking bed and nested ivory spheres and an alabaster model of the Taj Mahal. I love how every Chinese and Japanese porcelain caricature of a westerner is depicted as piss-drunk.
There was a sculpture of an embroidered person covered in birds. I saw somebody take a picture of it but it hasn't really propagated throughout the Flickrverse, the Twitterverse, and the Instagramverse, and if it's propagated throughout the Facebookverse, I can't find the fucking thing even if I looked for it. There were pictures on Flickr but they're details, and they don't make it entirely clear, but it's a soundsuit by Nick Cave. Not that Nick Cave, if you know what I mean.
There was a stuffed king penguin from the Malvinas and model ships. There was Oceanian art but it's not on display.
Burning Question: So, why's The Penguin cold-blooded, anyway? Real life penguins have higher body temperatures than humans (they're about equal to dogs, if you're wondering), even if they are lower than most birds.
Here is the painting.There were four Fabergé eggs. 38 other eggs were in private collections or in museums, and eight are destroyed and/or missing. But that's not all Fabergé made, nope. Some things were cane handles of nephrite, silver caviar dishes in the shape of sturgeons or with medieval Russian warriors, animal statuettes with jewel eyes made from natural agates that evoked the colors of an ostrich or a Chinese swan goose and a statuette of a Russo-Japanese war-era Russian sailor with jewel eyes, blinged-out Orthodox iconography.
There were pug statues, made by the Chinese or by westerners working in a Chinese style, not by Fabergé. A really cool-looking bed and nested ivory spheres and an alabaster model of the Taj Mahal. I love how every Chinese and Japanese porcelain caricature of a westerner is depicted as piss-drunk.
There was a sculpture of an embroidered person covered in birds. I saw somebody take a picture of it but it hasn't really propagated throughout the Flickrverse, the Twitterverse, and the Instagramverse, and if it's propagated throughout the Facebookverse, I can't find the fucking thing even if I looked for it. There were pictures on Flickr but they're details, and they don't make it entirely clear, but it's a soundsuit by Nick Cave. Not that Nick Cave, if you know what I mean.
There was a stuffed king penguin from the Malvinas and model ships. There was Oceanian art but it's not on display.
Burning Question: So, why's The Penguin cold-blooded, anyway? Real life penguins have higher body temperatures than humans (they're about equal to dogs, if you're wondering), even if they are lower than most birds.
