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grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 1h ago

why did going on a run make my ears leak so much fluid?!

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 15h ago

when i went on my run yesterday, my inner left ear started hurting SO much halfway. i think it leaked a bit of fluid? and then at the end my right hand went tingly then numb. my body hates running so much it fucking panicked and thought it was dying i guess

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · yesterday

hm... been getting a shit ton of cat calls and creepy men interaction wearing very unremarkable gym clothes (loose tshirt and basketball shorts) :| one guy was following me for a little bit i think. men are truly the fucking worst. i'll find breathable joggers or something

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 2d ago

i think i need to see a doctor i feel like something weird is going on with me

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 2d ago

sunset views from buena vista park

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 2d ago

there is such a fierce love for this city that i didn't know about or share until doing that scavenger hunt this summer, but now i 100% feel that love

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 2d ago

i feel like it's generally normal to get hungry after running, but for me my body is like "the only possible reason we could be running is if something is trying to kill us so survival mode is turned on and no hunger for 12 hours" lol

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 3d ago

i don't really know how to like... be without roo. i'm either crying or i'm numb and those are my two states currently

unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 4d ago

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grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 4d ago

okay tmi but i was wondering why my body was so fucked up and why i was getting so confused and it turned out i had some mild fecal impaction but i'm okay now lol

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 5d ago

roo, namo, and rascal visiting at the same time... 🥺 i named two cats roo because neither one looks exactly like him. missy elliott looks like roo under the blanket, but she's calico... neko atsume doesn't have a true roocat :(

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 5d ago

i saw this streetlamp shining on some trash bins in front of a house and it felt like i was looking at an illustration

daryl "bury me with my golden arm" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · 6d ago

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…

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 6d ago

you know what, i think "you're only as strong as your weakest link" depends on the size of the group because at a certain point the correct framework is "you're only as strong as your strongest leader" lol

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 7d ago

gen z vaping over zoom meetings during work is crazy lol

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · 7d ago

okay the writing for seaside escape so good lol it's actually nutty

grue @glamruckus.bsky.social · last wk.

realizing i'm someone who needs to know how and why things work not necessarily because i'm curious, but because i want to make decisions based from an informed place