Josh "cortex" Millard

@joshmillard.bsky.social

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Artist and weirdo and etc. from Portland, OR. Fractal fixation. Online to a deeply unfortunate degree. Ran MetaFilter for a while. Today in Tabs idiot. Blaseball will never die, RIP Blaseball.

Screenshot of text on a kindle: “Really?” She looked a challenge at him. “Never?” He looked back. “Well. Hardly ever.”
My beardy long-haired ass in a tank top
A tray of deviled eggs
poor-quality snapshot of a Toynbee Tile, an infamous bit of anonymous street mosaic art -- this specimen reads "TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER"
the two panel "I guess!" comic snippet of a fed up man in a shirt and tie throwing up his hands and shouting an exasperated "I GUESS" but the text has been changed to "I VOTED"
Fake Star Trek TNG episode title screen with the words "The Gang Clones Riker"
screenshot of text message that reads "Happy Mother's Day weekend to all....as we all come from a mom. Take that AI....WHOOT!"
Burger King style logo (top and bottom orange buns with red sans serif text in between) with the text "THIS BURGER IS A MESSAGE AND PART OF A SERIES OF MESSAGES"
TMNT logo style rendering of the phrase "EROS BINGO EVENING VIOLENCE"
Closeup shot of a beaded portrait by Tammie Dupuis of a Native American woman, her face rendered in sections of orange and red hued beads set off by blue beadwork in the background
Helicopter hovering over raft with Artemis II astronauts; the downdraft of the air from the blades creates a spiral pattern of concentric white rings on the blue ocean water, reminiscent of the rings of teeth of a sandworm in Dune
the classic None Pizza Left Beef image
contemporary DUNE promo image with alternate generated text via an image generator utility; above a shot of Paul and Chani is stylized text reading "URINE AND FECES...ARE PROCESSED IN THE THIGH PADS"
top down image of the Strait of Hormuz, with a crude drawing in red of an oil tanker, from which a long curved arrow loops off the left of the map image, underneath to the right, and than back up and into the map from the right side, with the text "simply drive the oil boat off the left of the map so that it reappears on the right"
Altered screenshot (via Foone's Death Generator) from NES Bionic Commando of a pixel art soldier in a metal helmet and the text "BACK TO THE SLOP MINES, YOU ROBOQUISLING"
Remy the rat from Ratatouille
The finished sponge sitting on a wood table, viewed from a corner; a red, orange, and yellow face are each visible, with central cavities in shadow where the connecting tunnels recede into the center of the shape. It’s about four inches on a side and at least roughly cubic.
Picture of a knitted artwork, about eight inches wide and twenty-ish inches long, showing three increasingly complicated iterations of the Hilbert curve fractal executed in yellow, orange, and red yarn respectively, all over an off-white background yarn. The edges of the piece and the horizontal rows separating each of the colored curves are done in garter stitch; the curves themselves and the negative space around them in each figure is done in stockinette.
A sketch of four long rectangular strips of knitting, each a different color and one square wide and four squares long, and the strips connect to one another in a complicated way that looks a little like two pairs of trousers walking along with the knee of the front pair’s back leg stitched to the knee of the back pair’s front leg. Below that, a sketch of four square “tunnels” radiating out from a central area, in the same colors as the strips — this is the object that folding the trouser strips up correctly would create.
Wine bottle label with the large block letter image of PRUF ROCK
A picture of a knitted item in two colors of yarn, red foreground on a light cream background, depicting a Hilbert curve fractal
i'm not transcribing the whole thing but it's an email from someone asking me if I want to put my old Garkov generator on the fucking blockchain and me saying no using a metaphor about an exploding dick
An end grain cutting board made of light and dark cubes of wood, the dark cubes describing the winding path of a second-iteration Hilbert curve fractal
Me holding a big ball of chunky blue yarn with a couple of 10mm knitting needles plunged into it
A few rows of orange yarn knitted on a green needle; the knitting is very tight and grows substantially on each row in an unintended way
Mamdani hand-painted campaign style sign but with the phrase "TURN DOWN for WHAT"
Screenshot of Hicks from the film Aliens, dressed in colonial marine gear, shouting "Remember! Short, staccato bursts!"
My old long-hair ass flipping the bird in my Menger sponge t-shirt
The two-line Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo except it says "Teenage Mutant Baader-Meinhof"
An orange plywood box with varied, incoherent Garfield anatomical segments painted on it in black
My long haired grumpy ass flipping off the camera
portion of a form, with the printed text "The meter was not accessible because" and then, roughly handwritten on a blank line below that, the phrase "seized nuts"
Closeup view of Hawthorne, a reddish brown hen, in profile
Four chickens in a yard
Weird doggos
Picture of a puzzle in a box, with the large text “I AM LIL’ ORCA”
Illustration of another set of folding triangles
Illustration of several chains of increasingly small numbers of triangles representing repeated foldings of a zigzaggy 16-triangle figure down to a single triangle
Digital sketch of several triangular strips with possible edge folds and resulting smaller strip configurations
the "i guess" cartoon meme
Screenshot of a zoomed out Inkscape vector graphics document, featuring dozens of little nonogram-related illustrations made up of black outlines containing solid green boxes, numeric clues, and other bits of markup here and there, arranged in loose clusters without any useful labeling or clear directional flow from one cluster to the next.
Six ceramic polyhedra sitting on a table.
my dumb horrified gurning beardy face
Me with with a squad of three week old chickens roosting on me
Black and white linocut print of a young hen with her head cocked slightly to the side, with the name Hawthorne carved across the bottom
a goat floating into the sky on a balloon, in a screenshot from Metal Gear Solid 5
Two hen chicks perched on the arm of man who is, in turn, flipping off his dear friend ColdChef with said arm
cover art for the movie The Human Centipede
Test print of a linocut carving, black bird on black background with white fringe and some light areas of feathers and markings around the eye and on the breast. The name “FREMONT” appears at the bottom in block letters.
A young hen chick, black and white, perched on a pile of small grey round-ish thundereggs
Everything Is Stupid -- black linocut blockprint on white paper, bold capital letters in five rows reading "EVERYTHING IS STUPID AND I AM CONSTANTLY FURIOUS", rows alternate with black text on white and white text on black
Homunculus XXVIII -- black linocut print on white paper of a diagonally oriented square humanoid figure with wing-like arms and legs
Green linocut print, of a smiling green ogre with jaunty tentacles, under the word "fuck" written in jaunty all-caps letters the F of which also has, you guessed it, jaunty tentacles.
Candid snapshot at a slight dutch angle from a delivery service driver of my front porch, with a bright deep orange door framed in stark single-bulb porchlight by narrow green-colored walls of uneven woodslatting. A food order sits in a bag near the bottom of the frame, in stark shadow.
Several fresh linocut prints — Shrek but it’s the word Fuck — hanging from my basement rafters
Four black on newsprint linocut test prints
A motley selection of glazed and fired ceramic objects.