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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE ALBUM EVER MWAH MWAH MWAH #animation #nineinchnails

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disappointed I am unable to see the new Resident Evil movie but it is probably for the best I do not see something like this in a theater, considering how I did not handle Backrooms well and almost had to go into the hallway for a brief moment to regain composure

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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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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me: man my motivation for finishing owed art stuff is barely there Brain: hey if you finish all your owed art, you can focus on music studies Me, reluctantly picking up my iPad stylus, knowing that my brain is right:

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Saw Coyote VS ACME today. Go see that when/if you can, it's really damn good!

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Cloud Creature @0ceancoast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There isnt one correct way to have a relationship with art. U dont have to always love making art to make it, sometimes it will suck and it will be hard and thats okay too. Sometimes making it despite those feelings is how u enjoy it again

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Trying to regrow your wings, huh? You do know you can't get them back... right?" #art #procreate

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

artfight attack for @/bumpkin_le_pumpkin

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Okay finally talking about one of my writing projects in proper: Flagrare. It finally has a title. Idk where I will go with this project but I'll show tidbits of characters and world building here and there so you get a better idea of things. Got refs and stuff to sketch up.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was today years old when I found out Garageband is on iPad. Until I get a desktop & slap FL Studio onto it, this will have to do. Let's see how much of a pain in the ass this is to learn to use and navigate...

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Played some Meccha Chameleon with friends tonight and I'd have to say this is my magnum opus

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm 29 today. Made myself a Portal-based cake entirely from scratch :>

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Bleak⋆Squeak @bleaksqueak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It seems people are often afraid of liking their own art work due to the worry of being perceived as egotistical or conceited, but you can still love your work and have a huge driving force behind that acting as a love for learning and improving. You can be proud and seek joy while you grow.

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ SleepyTime Holiday @angeloslh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I always kinda see it as like...like it's not a perfect Hollywood romance with art, it's like a messy relationship where you get real fucking heated at times but ultimately there is a ' I want to see this through because you mean everything to me ' thing going on.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Man I haven't done inkwork in forever #art

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Jandri🔞 @jandri.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The amount of people expressing that it’s totally normal to feel like your own work is terrible is really sad to me. Sometimes social media feels like a contest to see who has the worst relationship with their art and I refuse to be a party to that shit lol

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A’ine Evergreen 🏳️‍⚧️ @sith-art.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I you don’t love what you create, you’re creating either the wrong thing, or for the wrong reasons, its good to be humble don’t get me wrong, but some people have this unhealthy believe that humble and self-hatred are the same thing, and they’re really not.

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finally got a card made for artfart les gooo artfight.net/~REACTORPOOL

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thinking about you always... The Fragile our beloved

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Album cover from a dream. Text is not accurate though, as I cannot remember the word(s). #art #procreate

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

what if I showed you all the art I drew on the break room boards at my first job

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Here's another older piece supposedly from 2018 that I still like #art

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REACTORPOOL @reactorpool.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Unearthed an older piece from 2018 (might be older than that but I genuinely don't know, file properties are sometimes Liars). I still kinda like it, in a weird way. #art