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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

tell me why avatar seven havens has me crying ep 1

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

longest year of my life

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

cried every other song at the phoebe concert last night ama

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

who would of thought september is the month i finally start feeling unambiguously good. journaling works, folks

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My brain is so broken all I think think about is These caves don't hold secrets

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

went too hard and gave myself double runners knee. why does god give his stupidest injuries to his dumbest hoes 😔

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" 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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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

LANTERNSSSSS two gorgeous men being gorgeous love cinema wow

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

one estrogen for me please

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

opening up an fdx after 1.5 months of being too mentally ill to write

ben affleck from Air (2023) wearing a red and blie jacket and obnoxious sunglasses. he looks embarrassed despite clearly trying to be cool

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

sun on my face, going for a run. park crush is here. wow. what a day.

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ah yes, september. a month i havent been dreading for the past 9 months. not at all. i also feel fine and normal about october and november.

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

i feel like i could sleep better in the middle of the day rather than at night. whats up with that. why am i vampire maxing but only the annoying restrictive parts ?

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

big insomnia is my # 1 opp. I'm outside their head office with rage in my heart and a jerry can

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

anyway im pretty sure my upstairs neighbour has a crush on me and i dont even wanna be friends. so, you know, I got a lot going on.

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derek @eerdk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a ghoul, i find myself slowly coming back together after intentionally anhilaiting myself for the better part of a year. been on that Live Aggressively Until You Feel Better beat lately. everything is so weird and hard but I guess since I'm here i may as well do something with my time. ugh.

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