John Coombes
jecoombes.bsky.social
John Coombes
@jecoombes.bsky.social
artist, writer and independent filmmaker - trying to see through the gap between the billboards
The hardest thing to manipulate and move around is undoubtably a double mattress. The second hardest is an A3 laminating sheet.
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I worry about how other people live their lives when you consider most clothes washing powders are sold on their ability to deal with "really tough stains". What are we doing wrong?
July 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I often wonder if the corner you cut off a Tetra Pak will always fit into the hole you make by cutting off said corner. Regardless of the size of the cut. #topology #tetrapak #geometry
June 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Why? Why would any sane person do this? Ah! He's not sane, he's insane - they all are. How did we get here?
May 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Reposted by John Coombes
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The number of footpaths around here is amazing, I've been on a walk everyday for a year and I've hardly been on exactly the same route twice. Big thank you to #kirkleescouncil #barnsleycouncil for all the gates and stiles.
February 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A dark night on Spook Hill
February 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Let us not forget that the wonderful illustrator, W Heath-Robinson, was inventing complicated machines to do simple tasks, before Rube Goldberg got in on the act.
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I find it fascinating, and indeed terrifying, that the rich & powerful people poised to ruin the world are such uncharismatic, illiterate, unpleasant, ugly, vacuous people. But then I guess you can’t be a billionaire unless you are a hard-faced sociopath with no charm or respect for others.
January 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
It's all very well saying Labour aren't doing very well, but no political party could do well after the Tory government totally bankrupted the country with its corruption and economically disastrous decision to leave the EU.
January 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Art is the daughter of memory
December 6, 2024 at 9:29 AM
an artist's dilemma, neatly summed up by Robert Graves:

He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid,
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits,
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.
December 5, 2024 at 10:08 AM
When I'm not filming or editing, I'm drawing
November 19, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Today’s location
November 16, 2024 at 10:02 PM
It's a strange feeling, starting up on a new platform. As if I need to introduce myself, "hello, I am..."
November 12, 2024 at 5:19 PM
looking for a breath of fresh air
November 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM