On the Met Gala night, we also got this photo of Hudson. I was curious to know more. I live on the other side of the world and have never been to the Met so finding out where he went and what he looked at is a way of living vicariously. Also, Egyptian art is fascinating. So, like my other post, I did some sleuthing.
Luckily with this image, unlike the HudCon one, I had more to go on for image comparison. A bit of back and forthing, cue montage of me comparing pictures of Egyptian art, and voila! I found out that Bambi is standing in front of recreations of the artwork on the north side of the west wall of Nakht's Offering Chapel in Nakht's Tomb. On the left we have Nakht and Family Fishing and Fowling, and on the right it is Nakht and his wife receiving offerings.
Here is the original Chapel:
But where was he? Don't worry, I have you covered! Should you want to create this picture of Bambi for a loved one, go to Gallery 135 in the Met. Do with this information as you will.
But! What i discovered doesn't end there... See that green vertical stripe near his corner? Well, it turns out, that's the closest bathroom to the Temple of Dendur, which is where the Gala dinner is held.
Now, why would Bambi be lurking outside the bathroom... 👀
P.S. I don't go looking to ID where the boys are when they're out and about, where their hotels are, where they get their groceries. I keep this kind of sleuthing skill for museums.
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This casual and candid HudCon photo dropped from the Met Gala. But what was going on when it was taken? Here's a fun fact for the archives. Allow me to take you on a sleuthing journey. A thread.
We know that Gala guests enter via the front stairs.
The dinner is held in the Temple of Dendur.
That means they have to go from point A (pink) to point B (green), via the Egyptian collection.
Following the logical route, that means there's a potential 9 rooms that photo could have been taken in, plus another 9 side rooms, should they have deviated from the logical path. It gets even worse if they went the longer way through rooms 101-119!
But luckily, we have three clues! The clues are the head statue (blue), the stone slab (purple), and the angle of travel showing us the room they're coming out of (green). But were they heading to the dinner or was this at the end of the night?
(Interlude: It was only much much later, after I'd spent ages sleuthing, that we got this much higher quality version which would have saved me a bunch of time because trying to work out wtf that thing on the wall was in that blurry arse version above was a fucking nightmare. Past me was so mad to discover a clearer version after all my effort! Therefore, I focused on the head statue first.)
Turns out the head carving is of the god Amun. You do not want to know how many pictures of Egyptian head carvings it took me to find it. Really. There was a process. And a lot of cross referencing. And a discovery that certain archives have not updated since the Met changed their exhibitions around.
The stone slab is the votive stela of Userhat.
And with these two identified, I finally worked out that this puts us in gallery 121!
And based on the angle of the photo, they were heading to the dinner :D
Of course now, the question remains, did they happen to find each other while going through the Egyptian collection, with Connor perhaps waiting an hour and a half for Hudson to arrive? Or did they leave the dinner for a cheeky smoke, and this is them heading back to the dinner? Maybe they're coming back from the bathroom (actually, check out this post here to see why this is a possibility). I can't answer this. I will say, for the number of people at the Gala, it's looking awfully empty around them there... Although this thing circled could be a skirt? I can't work it out and I did go looking to see if anyone was wearing a colour like that.
But there you have it. Gallery 121 of the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian collection is where one sneaky photographer got very very lucky. Feel free to recreate this moment in our history with a loved one of your own. Now if only they'd not taken the photo with a Nokia phone from the late 90s.
P.S. I don't go looking to ID where the boys are when they're out and about, where their hotels are, where they get their groceries. I keep this kind of sleuthing skill for museums.
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Hi, I'm Cazsuane, and I love behaviour and body language analysis. But I'm also a critical thinker and I don't believe everything, or even anything, is absolute proof. I'm looking for patterns and the more patterns we have, the less likely it is we're looking at coincidences.
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