{"id":3574,"date":"2009-06-08T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2009-06-05T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T16:32:30","slug":"meet-the-seamstress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Seamstress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/seamstress-150x128.jpg\" alt=\"Seamstress\" title=\"Seamstress\" width=\"150\" height=\"128\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The new movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0472033\/\">9<\/a> (produced by Tim Burton, which should come as no surprise given that image there) involves a ragdoll who comes to life in a post-apocalyptic world where maniacal machines have killed off all of the humans.  9 finds a small community of others like him and tries to understand what&#8217;s happened to the world whilst avoiding the killer robots.<\/p>\n<p>The Seamstress is one of the robots, and she&#8217;s pretty fantod-inducing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Director Shane Acker] was inspired by the mythological Medusa in his creation of this serpentine hunter. Fashioned with a doll&#8217;s head, grasping prehensile arms, an intricate thread-spool mechanism, and hypnotic eyes, the Seamstress lures her prey out of hiding and stuns them into submission before sewing them up within herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreadcentral.com\/news\/32012\/exclusive-meet-seamstress-9\">Dread Central<\/a> has more information about the Seamstress (and the movie in general), and <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5219979\/post+apocalyptic-ragdolls-meet-a-deadly-machine-predator-in-new-9-clip\">io9<\/a> has a clip of her in action.<\/p>\n<p>I like her.  She&#8217;s what I expect the Goddess of Gothic Crafts would look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new movie 9 (produced by Tim Burton, which should come as no surprise given that image there) involves a ragdoll who comes to life in a post-apocalyptic world where maniacal machines have killed off all of the humans. 9 finds a small community of others like him and tries to understand what&#8217;s happened to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}