John Borden
bjorkbat.bsky.social
John Borden
@bjorkbat.bsky.social
Had a dream that as part of an effort to colonize a distant planet me and my crewmates would have our minds uploaded to rabbits.

Clever really. Rabbits don’t need large spaceships, and rabbits breed like…rabbits.
August 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Just made the switch and did the import. Pretty impressed that all my favorite songs made it. Fuck Spotify.
Fyi I switched over to Deezer a few months back and it's:
🇫🇷 French owned
🎵 has a tool that imports all your Spotify liked songs and playlists (and does it in approx five mins)
💵 pays artists 2-3x better

Would recommend! Haven't had an issue with much music being missing at all.
Parasite becomes aggressive.

Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.

Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
June 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Had this really weird dream that I visited a Target that had, for lack of better word, a "pawn shop department" attached to it, filled with the sort of random shit you might expect to find at a pawn shop, including an eclectic mix of guns
March 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Had a dream where I coined the term “backed into my strawberries” to refer to when one makes a mistake (I really backed into my strawberries with that one). Kind of feel like making it a thing.
February 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Genuary Day 24: Geometric Art. Back during Genuary 2023 I believe I attempted to create something kind of plant like and wanted an excuse to try and revisit it and make it better. This is the fruits of those efforts.

#genuary #genuary24 #genuary2025
January 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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i got a tax bill and i'm mad at the government
please buy a print so I dont have to sell my organs #illustration #Medieval www.sonnyross.com/shop/shut-up
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Between leaving Twitter and Instagram, I've lost about 60k followers — which is a huge blow as an independent artist. If you dig my stuff, please share it with your friends!
Hi, I'm Helvetica — an artist exploring mysticism, mythopoeia, and connections between art and magick in a variety of media.

✍️ Weekly Sketches & Updates
patreon.com/helveticablanc

🖼 Prints
inprnt.com/gallery/helveticablanc/

👁️ Elsewhere
helveticablanc.com/index.html#elsewhere
January 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I feel like leaving Twitter was the right decision, but holy cats has it been a financial disaster for me.

Promoting things on here seems much harder. This might be just due to the fact that I have 10% of the followers, but I also feel that having RTs be the only way to boost things really hurts.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Genuary Day 20: Generative Architecture. I saw this lithograph up in Santa Fe and decided to use that as a reference for this one. Not sure which I like more, but I'm leaning towards the one with the black background.

#genuary #genuary20 #genuary2025
January 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Genuary Day 19: Op Art. A day behind, but whatever. I really like Akiyoshi Kitaoka's works and wanted to try something in the same vein. Not as strong an effect as I wanted (islands are supposed to float), but it's kind of there

#genuary19 #genuary #genuary2025
January 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In memory of David Lynch, here's a screenshot of one of my favorite 4chan moments.
January 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Genuary Day 12: Subdivision. Honestly really surprised with how this came out. Essentially, I started with a seed rectangle, randomly subdivided it n-number of times, then assigned a color to each rectangle and filled with Linear A glyphs.

#genuary12 #genuary #genuary2025
January 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Genuary Day 11: Impossible Day. This one has a bit of a story, the short of it is that I wanted to try and replicate my favorite piece of art from my favorite artist, something that uses Penrose tilings as a base.

#genuary11 #genuary2025 #genuary
January 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Genuary Day 6: landscape made out of primitive shapes. I'm a day late but whatever. 3rd photo is a Herbert Bayer painting I saw in Santa Fe that I decided to run with for this one, using a noise function to generate "terrain"

#genuary6 #genuary2025 #genuary
January 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Genuary day 2: Layers. You can create an abstraction of a shipping container by drawing rectangles one-after-another, and you can layer shipping containers on top of each other.

#genuary2 #genuary2025
January 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Doing Genuary this year, kicking things off with #genuary1, vertical or horizontal lines only. Inspiration came from a box of colored pencils
January 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Wow, Bluesky is really active and engaging now!

Shame about the reasons leading up to it, but silver lining, quitting Twitter has never been easier
November 12, 2024 at 3:00 PM