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executive producer came to studio to listen to the finished album 'Vignettes of Vampires' jukiokallio.com/r/vignettes-...

a black short-legged dog showing teeth in a cozy studio space

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Recline into the creaking leather chair, take the old tome into your hand, and hear the melodies of vampires surround you. Burn slowly, embers eternal." New pondering vampire album 'Vignettes of Vampires' out now! 🧛🩸🎶 jukiokallio.com/r/vignettes-...

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

V E R Y S O O N (translator's note: in finnish 'veri' means blood)

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

been acquiring plants for my studio with an alarming rate (yesss!)

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sante @sa-nte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lyric video for Toivon ettet huomaa is out!! English lyrics in the description youtu.be/RexkD4hpCUQ?...

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Toivon ettet huomaa Lyric Video

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

nextg weeeeeekkkkk! 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

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aivi @aiviwave.com · 24/09/2026

our new album about sexuality releases tomorrow! join our listening party 🫶🏼

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

rainy day here... vibes a-gathering... ⛈️

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Kaspar Tamsalu @kaspartamsalu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fernando created truly something great for Zero Parades. Can’t recommend him enough! (with the contributions from the whole audio team this game is for your EARS; @rubenrincon.bsky.social you and yours made it special 🖤)

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

can't wait for y'all to hear my 🧛 ambient album! out at the end of the month! aaahhh!!

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'Vignettes of Vampires' digital pre-order on Bandcamp is out! Album full of slowly pondering, moody atmosphere. Perfect for reading in the coming fall evenings 🍂🎶 jukiokallio.bandcamp.com/album/vignet...

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Vignettes of Vampires, by Jukio Kallio

7 track album

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Vignettes of Vampires, by Jukio Kallio

7 track album

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hello! I'm Jukio Kallio, multi-award winning composer for video games and media. Let's make beautiful things together?! youtu.be/z8Y8tq9Ry6I

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Jukio Kallio Composer Reel 2026

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

new studio slowly getting there yay

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

oooh wow!! congrats rubén! excited to see where this goes!

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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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__eirik @strotchy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Type Me Home, new game from @sinksadventure.bsky.social, which I did the audio for, is coming out soon. First time doing C64 / SID sound for me. 🕹️ store.steampowered.com/app/4772200/...

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Type Me Home on Steam

Type in commands with your keyboard to guide a lost baby lizard through wild platforming challenges and reunite it with its mama.

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

FORTREVANIA II used an hour or so on another quick (fake NES) #chiptune piece inspired by castlevania!!

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

FORTREVANIA II used an hour or so on another quick (fake NES) #chiptune piece inspired by castlevania!!

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

random test shots, with music from Vignettes of Horror. for some weeks now i've had this perverse thought of filming a horror short with my old iphone, specifically with its digizoom maxed for all of it...

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GP @mousefountain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Go and appreciate some art today. Look at all the little details they put there for you.

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

FORTREVANIA little castlevania inspired friday jam, using 2a03/famicom/nes limitations (faking them in ableton though!) #chiptune

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

duet with tingle (lord of the tings)

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Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

i'll be releasing a new album, The Autumn Tape, in september. it's a fragmentary exploration of tape aesthetics drawing on jangle pop, K records, 70s psych folk, and other stuff. give the first single a listen over here: harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...

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The Autumn Tape, by Harrison Lemke

14 track album

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

hooo boy! thank you so much for your support!!

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jasper byrne @jasperbyrne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it's bandcamp friday and the drowning world released a new album spacerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-f...

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Live From The Lagoon Vol.2, by The Drowning World

2 track album

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Giannis Milonogiannis @milonogiannis.com · 04/09/2026

bandcamp friday means listen to my racing game music returningasechoes.bandcamp.com/album/sound-...

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sound stage [EX]: Origin, by returning as echoes

5 track album

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

new week new week! maybe... new projects?! if you have a cool project in mind, don't hesitate to contact Katariina and get the discussion going! cheers 🙏🎶

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

got to be in a jury deciding 'musiikkioivallus' prize for finnish films! more on my instagram: www.instagram.com/p/Dcu_fiFjSXu/

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

new week new week! maybe... new projects?! if you have a cool project in mind, don't hesitate to contact Katariina and get the discussion going! cheers 🙏🎶

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

this is awful… i hope more people take note. again. Steam keeps doing stuff like this and goes largely unchallenged. anyone on the fringes knows how this monopoly damages gaming + dev culture, but i wish the discussion were more mainstream. i don’t think this will change without pushback.

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 27/08/2026

We are here in a booth sponsored by the German government. Here's the PRESIDENT OF GERMANY this morning, posing in front of a game that Steam considers too pornographic for this whole country.

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sante @sa-nte.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I made an album!! 8 songs of finnish pop(?) rock(?) or something!! Please listen!! open.spotify.com/album/4iJUat...

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Vapisevilta huulilta - Album by Sante | Spotify

Sante · album · 2026 · 8 songs

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jukio kallio @jukio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

studio cables before and after yay!

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leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io · 26/08/2026

In the next version of the itch app you can... make your itch games show up in Steam 😅. This has been a long outstanding request that should make it easier to play your itch games without having to change apps on Steam Deck or Big Picture mode

Screenshot of the "Steam Shortcuts" dialog in the itch app

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Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

here are some screenshots of the BOOTS QUEST expansion i've been working on. it's called BOOTS QUEST: BOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND. the release date is not finalized, but the stitching is all in place and the uppers just need shining -- stay alert

screenshot of two cartoonish blobby characters in a home with vaguely 1950s southwestern-style decor; an elderly blob in a white cowboy hat is saying: "heck, i guess i was too tough on them BOYS. who knows what trouble they're getting into without their old MA... what sort of AWFUL FOOD they're eating..."

a blobby video game protagonist stands in a desert full of tall grass and standing stones. the scene is suffused with an eerie glow, possibly connected to the strange monocle that the blob is wearing...

protagonist blob in a cave full of mushrooms is speaking to a ghostly blob, who's saying: "if you won't even listen to a ghost, then who can help you?" they're both wearing orange miner's hats.

protagonist blob stands in an eerie grey wasteland at night, surrounded by the glow of greenish lamps and clusters of hexagonal standing rocks.

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Joonas Turner @kissakolme.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New game, ready one of these years, 120$ or 80€ (60£), download code personally via e-mail, no intelligence of any category used whilst making this but the idea is pretty good! No bullshit like cutscenes or other boring trends, all killer no filler! Call it whatever you want!

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 25/08/2026

the thing about indie games is that if someone designs one single game I love, I’ll get whatever they make for the rest of their lives and pretty much always have a good time. people are so attached to ip but imo you really gotta know the creators.

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