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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    09/15/09

    In reply to Top 10 Unlikely Survivors Of The End Of The World
    In the same vein as "The Book of Dave," I would recommend "A Canticle for Liebowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.
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    09/14/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    Was the Scarecrow in Oz the original stitchpunk role model?
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    Image of DorianBaazo DorianBaazo
    09/14/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    I love how everything that incorporates an interesting little bit of new imagery is immediately labeled a new genre and the -punk suffix is added. Cyber- and Steampunk I'm perfectly willing to legitimize as genres dealing with particular eras and applications of technology. Biopunk, I'm more on the fence about, but this? Really? Come ON. Oh yeah, and dieselpunk is nothing more than a fledgling aesthetic. Why people are so eager to pigeonhole and genre-fy something, I don't know.
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    Malfunktion v2 approved this comment DorianBaazo was starred DorianBaazo was unstarred
    Image of vortel64 vortel64
    09/14/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    I'd have to disagree with #3. The original short that 9 was based on was created years before LBP came on the scene.
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    Image of Jason Rowell Jason Rowell
    09/14/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    I'll keep my cyberpunk goth and be happy with it.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/14/09

    @Jason Rowell: and i bet she stitches herself up with a little thread and a lot of self-mutilation
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    Image of BenjaminSharan BenjaminSharan
    09/14/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    Little Big Planet was not an influence for Shane Acker's '9.' If anything, it was the other way around.

    Here's a short history of '9' - you can fact check this on imdb, wiki and even other interviews with Acker himself.

    '9' the feature film is based on a short film that Acker started about 10 years ago for his thesis project at UCLA. The short, also titled '9,' has the same character designs as the feature. The short played in Sundance in 2005 and won the Student Academy Award the same year. It was nominated for the Academy Award in 2006.

    Little Big Planet on the other hand was released in late 2008 - that's 9 years *after* Acker started the short, and 3 years *after* the short was in wide circulation on the festival circuit.
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    tetracycloide approved this comment BenjaminSharan was starred BenjaminSharan was unstarred
    Image of NoahFisher NoahFisher
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    You should all know that nine came before Little Big Planet as the movie is based off of a short movie that came out before LGP. It's probably coincidence or if you refuse to believe in coincidence than LGP would have stolen from 9
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    tetracycloide approved this comment NoahFisher was starred NoahFisher was unstarred
    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    I like my Sex Pistols - Punk.

    Since you have used Tim Burton in so many examples, maybe his vision and influence is the overriding factor.
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    Image of Kpibca Kpibca
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    Wait, how are eight reasons more suitable than, well, nine?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    Yes, as I was watching 9 last night it made me think of Little Big Planet, albeit Little Big Planet on a nasty trip. I definitely preferred 9 - maybe if Little Big Planet had more death-bots in need of blowing up I would enjoy it more.
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    Image of Josh Hegarty Josh Hegarty
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    Coraline and LBP didn't really have any influence on 9. The original 9 film was released in 2005, before LBP and Coraline were in production. But if Stitchpunk does become some bigger style/genre, I could see including them as co-originators.
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment Sarah Hope Williams approved this comment Josh Hegarty was starred Josh Hegarty was unstarred
    Image of rob_p rob_p
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    It is far more likely that "9" influenced LBP than LBP influencing "9" [en.wikipedia.org]
    It was a short before it was a feature.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    09/13/09

    @rob_p: Probably more of a coincidence really but you would have to ask Media Molecule or Shane Acker if it was more than just that snce boh were conceived in the same year.
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    Image of Spiral Spiral
    09/13/09

    @Makidian: It may just be a coincidence. But they weren't both conceived of in the same year, or at least in no trackable way.
    The original 9 short feature was released in April of 2005, and according to wikipedia, took four and a half years to make. Media Molecule wasn't formed until 2006, and Little Big Planet not announced to 2007. It is possible that the Media Molecule guys had the idea of a sackboy 6 years before they formed their company, but it seems unlikely.
    I thought I had heard months back that Media Molecule admitted 9 inspired them, but can't find the citation, so can't say that wasn't an unfounded rumor.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    09/13/09

    @Spiral: Actually the concept was brought about in 2005 when the founders of MM left Lionead because they didn't like the idea, so feasibly they could have be coincidentally thought of. Or it's likely one inspired the other, since it can't be said for sure that they were going to use sack persons in LBP. Either way the workd is better for it, at least mine is.
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment Edited by Makidian at 09/13/09 7:19 PM Makidian was starred Makidian was unstarred
    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    Hilarious! Well done Sarah.
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    Image of disatess disatess
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    it`s real shame that it didn`t do very well at the box office .
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    Image of zerofritz zerofritz
    09/13/09

    In reply to Just what is “Stitchpunk,” Anyway?
    oh no. please. please don't.
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