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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 1h

Everyone needs to go read Si Land. Some of the best anthro art I’ve ever seen in a manga. Super slept on.

A manga cover of a black anthro canine holding a sword, for Si Land vol3

A manga cover with a white anthro canine, Si Land vol 1

A manga cover with an anthro lion. Si Land Vol2

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 20/09/2026

Last day at #asc2026! Thanks to everyone that’s come by so far, I’ve been having such a good time!!

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 16/09/2026

Huge shoutout and thanks to @anthrosocal.org vendor lead for being a rockstar and helping me solve some last minute issues (that were entirely my fault). I appreciate you!

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 14/09/2026

Little tiny raven on purpleheart wood that I gifted to @luminesc <3

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fell down a Ron Francis rabbit hole after seeing this post earlier. Sublime

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Russell Williams’ Tree’

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Room With a View’

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 08/09/2026

Went to see Akira in IMAX the other day. I’m not usually one to go to theatre releases but I felt like I was gonna see a lot of detail I otherwise missed and I was right. Was worth it and now I’m nursing a minor hyperfixation 🥹

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Akira Tokyo: Cyberpunk Cityscape

ALT: Akira Tokyo: Cyberpunk Cityscape

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 07/09/2026

I will be at @anthrosocal.org ! Easiest to remember booth location ever. Which gets your vote? Oxcart or Avenger? x)

Map of ASC 2026 dealers den with Bazteki’s location shown.

Photo of a model of the proposed A 12 avenger.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Sidian @sidian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Saw a few people doing these a lil while back and wanted to make my own. 💙

A cute, chibi feminine coyote holding a yellow flower and looking back over its shoulder with a raised brow and a smug smile. Text says "Your AI Flyer Looks Like Shit <3"

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💍 ᔕᕼYEᑎᗩ 🏳️‍⚧️ @shyena.dog · 04/09/2026

-tippy taps sign-

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𝕻𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖙 🔞 @pesst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Found it

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 03/09/2026

Older watercolor postcard commission <3

Watercolor painting of a black wolf walking across a cloudy landscape.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 03/09/2026

I miss live-streaming :(. What’s the most popular platform these days?

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 01/09/2026

Puma sign is back in stock ^^ www.etsy.com/listing/1842...

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MonsterDewdle @monsterdewdle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Best advice I ever got in this vein was look at your favorite illustrators and artists then figure out who they were looking at for inspiration, then figure out who THEY were looking at, then pull your references and inspo from those artists. This lack of diving deeper is a problem everywhere sadly

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 31/08/2026

lil wood burning of a raven from 2021 or so. Sold.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 28/08/2026

Why is the sound of cars passing in the rain, coming thru an open window, make me feel so peaceful?? (Not happening now, unfortunately. Just thinking about it)

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones (Gone until late Oct) @sasharjones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🔸 four points raven 🔸 Mixed media on toned paper on panel, 4.25” x 6.25” Another small piece from the spring, playing with the layering of some of my usual mediums. Original available: sasharjones.com/store/four-p...

The underside of a flying raven is silhouetted by a glowing golden light, highlighting their blue-black feathers with flecks of red and cyan and gold. Across their face is a four-pointed star shining just as brightly. The texture of the toned paper is prevalent throughout.

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▀▄▀▄▀▄ ROCKY TOP’S BEST WOLF ▀▄▀▄▀▄ @canisgulo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

wolfliveshere.straw.page Hi! Im wolf! I’m a taxidermist and multi media artist! Welcome 2 my page!!

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Sidian @sidian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A noodly derptato for @bazteki.com

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 26/08/2026

@vivavulture.bsky.social ok so this is random, but I watched this the morning before Ratsopher’s B-Day party. When you showed up and were going off as rats it sounded exactly like this and it cracked me up so hard. (I was sitting directly to the right of you guys. Was so nice to meet, y’all rock!!)

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Sidian @sidian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The latest round of loafs, sploots and derptatoes is finished, so I'm open for some more!

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 25/08/2026

Postcard I did for @maliepono.bsky.social back in the day that I still love X3

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🌌 Sasha R. Jones (Gone until late Oct) @sasharjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🔹 Lineflow Raven 🔹Mixed media on paper on panel, 4.5” x 3.5” An experimental painting on some cool handmade paper that tends to pull ink and watercolor down beneath the surface layer. Original available: sasharjones.com/store/linefl...

A realistic painting of a raven head with some stylization playing up the flow of forms. The raven is a deep rich blue with accents of violet, teal, and gold on a sandy tan background, and veins of white and gold flow throughout the paper the piece is painted on.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 24/08/2026

More old art, companion to the “Lost” piece.

Drawing of an anthro canine with the word found behind it.

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Deth P. Sun @dethpsun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Working on a new volume of my North Coast by Transit zine. This issue will show how to get from coastal Mendocino to San Francisco. Really enjoyed drawing out the little maps.

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erykah badon't @yuzupool.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

black sea hare sona....fishsona. aquasona. they throwed me into a waters #capydraws

anthropomorphized black sea hare, shirtless but with colorations that mimic a sort of crop top. wears pants and has cartoonish markings on arms to mimic the tattoos i have but can be randomized in nature. gold jewelry on neck with an aloof expression as it they carry groceries

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Tess Fowler Gutierrez @tessfowler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Promotional diary comic! Take the Fall is at tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 22/08/2026

@aenaminie.bsky.social the book I’m listening to keeps talking about Bevatron and it reminds me of you and makes me laugh, so I had to let you know.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 03/08/2026

“Corona”, acrylic and colored pencil on reclaimed wood, 2017, sold.

Painting of a coyote person wrapped in dark fur, with a solar corona behind its head

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 19/08/2026

A Bazteki from 2018 or so.

Lineaer of a anthro canid sitting on the ground holding a lit cigarette.

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 19/08/2026

More Bazteki, plus airplane X3

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 20/08/2026

How popular is MFF these days and for those who deal, how is dealers? Only went in 2021, considering applying again for this year, but on the fence X).

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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 10/08/2026

2018 collab with @sidian.bsky.social . Acrylic and colored pencil on pine. Sold.

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