{"id":8575,"date":"2010-10-14T07:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8575"},"modified":"2010-10-12T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:22:27","slug":"the-nutshell-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8575","title":{"rendered":"The Nutshell Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/nutshell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Nutshell Still\" title=\"Nutshell Still\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a> recently posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vuWU0Lefwzs\">trailer<\/a> for an upcoming documentary called &#8220;Of Dolls and Murder,&#8221; narrated by John Waters.  The film (official site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildestdreamsmovie.com\/\">here<\/a>) explores the public&#8217;s fascination with forensic science and revolves around &#8220;The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death,&#8221; a set of dollhouse-type models depicting murder scenes in intricate detail.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of googling revealed that the dioramas were the work of Frances Glessner Lee, a particularly single-minded heiress who decided to use her fortune to do what she always wanted to do, and it turns out that what she&#8217;d always wanted to do was make scrupulously-detailed dioramas of crime scenes.  The models were sufficiently accurate that they were used to train police officers, and they&#8217;re still sometimes used in forensic seminars.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nutshell-Studies-Unexplained-Death\/dp\/1580931456\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmaoo-20&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1286893948&#038;sr=8-1\">book<\/a> about the dioramas by Corinne May Botz, who also has several photos available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corinnebotz.com\/Corinne_May_Botz\/Nutshell_Studies.html\">her site<\/a> (be sure to take a look at some of her other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corinnebotz.com\/Corinne_May_Botz\/project_index.html\">projects<\/a> whilst you&#8217;re there).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to just being really cool, this sounds like fertile ground for a DIY dollhouse project.  A miniature cleaver, a little red paint, and you&#8217;ve got a grown-up diorama that would definitely be a conversation piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoingBoing recently posted a trailer for an upcoming documentary called &#8220;Of Dolls and Murder,&#8221; narrated by John Waters. The film (official site here) explores the public&#8217;s fascination with forensic science and revolves around &#8220;The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death,&#8221; a set of dollhouse-type models depicting murder scenes in intricate detail. A bit of googling revealed [&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-8575","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\/8575","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=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8585,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}