Awww, sweet...

[starphire]

I'm holding a sleeping baby over my left shoulder while typing with my right index finger. poor kid had an earache today and now she's super sleepy, but too restless to sleep for long on her own. so i hold her while she adjusts herself and twitches fitfully like a sleeping dog dreaming of chasing rabbits or something. it is teh cute

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[dancingwolfgrrl]

Poor baby. I hope she's on the mend soon, for everyone's sake!

[lillibet]

I haven't made it there yet, but still hope to squeak in before it closes. I did see glimpses of the exhibit in Casino Royale and found myself thinking that it somehow rings my "decadent civilization" bell--like, when they study us they way we study the Roman culture, they'll point to this the way we point to gold-plated pheasant dinners, as a sign that we have proceeded to a point where we require extreme stimulation as a society.

[starphire]

Hmm, are you sure it was the same exhibit? Believe it or not, there's another competing exhibit of pretty much the same thing also on tour - it's in New York right now. Although I've forgotten the name of it, arggh.

[lillibet]

Yup--I recognized the name on the banners in the movie and checking the web, it does appear to be Body Worlds, not any of the similar exhibitions (Wikipedia lists "The Universe Within" in San Francisco, "Bodies Revealed" in Seoul, "Body Exploration" in Taiwan, "Mysteries of the Human Body" in South Korea, "Jintai Plastomic: Mysteries of the Human Body" in Japan, and "Cuerpos entrañables" in Spain).

[starphire]

Wow, there's a whole universe of competing exhibits!

The one in New York right now is called "Bodies: the exhibition", and appears to be on a US tour now too.

One of the docents at the exhibit told a visitor who asked where the bodies were plastinated that although the headquarters were in Germany, the studios were in China and Krygistan (one of the Stans, I think that was it). I thought: "it's probably a hazardous and labor-intensive process" and then "wait, what are they doing with all of the hundreds of bodies that have been donated and flown into these countries - it's too much for one exhibit every few years".
Now it occurs to me that they might sell them to other exhibits under license - who knows?