Cartoon Gravity

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Julian Simpson’s public brain 🌉 bridged from https://www.cartoongravity.com/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Wednesday Wonders 30

Boards of Canada, Warpaint Live, The Book of Dust, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, Notorious.

2d ago·3 min read·492 words

The Call of Cthulhu is now live

I have been keeping this place plug-light as much as possible, and I have not been around for a while anyway, but it seemed worth throwing out a bulletin for those who might be into the Lovecraft Inve…

May 21·1 min read·191 words

More musings...

Just random thoughts.

May 7·1 min read·5 words

Strange things are afoot

What's in a name?

May 5·1 min read·8 words

Wednesday Wonders 29

Life Noble notebooks, Dominant Industry ink, Paper Republic, Milanote

Apr 29·1 min read·12 words

Heading off the beaten track...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson I came across that quote for the first time earlier this year. When I first heard it (it ma…

Apr 26·1 min read·104 words

Launching The Call of Cthulhu

This is probably duplication for a lot of people, but just in case you are not also signed up to the Pleasant Green site, our new crowdfund is now at official pre-launch with a go date of May 20th. Y…

Apr 19·1 min read·99 words

Change is coming...

I have some changes in mind for Cartoon Gravity, and I hope they are changes for the better. This was always supposed to be my scrapbook, my commonplace book; the place where I posted things that I f…

Apr 13·1 min read·90 words

Cartoon Gravity 44

This is going to be brief, because it would be really nice to salvage something of the holiday weekend. This week has seen me mostly cosplaying as a Customer Service Assistant. Crowley and Mythos wer…

Apr 6·1 min read·89 words

Mythos: The Village

This one really shouldn't exist. Somewhere back in the mists of time, the first Mythos radio play slipped unnoticed through the BBC commissioning system. I had wanted to do something "A bit X-Files, …

Apr 2·1 min read·89 words

Wednesday Wonders 28

Spectacular cinemas, Graph paper drawings, a Wild West town in Kent, The Brain at Rest, Girl Gangs of New York

Mar 25·1 min read·23 words

Still playing...

The launch of Pure Hokum

Mar 21·1 min read·7 words

Wednesday Wonders 27

Buffy, Qntm, The Ipcress File, Austrian Audio, Ken Adam

Mar 18·1 min read·12 words

Wednesday Wonders 26

Ruth Wylie, The Bride, De La Soul, 3-D scans, Sign Painting, Bonus - Derelict.

Mar 11·1 min read·17 words

Cartoon Gravity 43

Some enthusiasms.

Mar 8·1 min read·5 words

Movies Watched - February 2026

A mixed, and smaller, bag for February. Some amazing films (Sentimental Value) and some turkeys that were even worse than I feared (Madam Web). * Bombshell * Lou * The Running Man (2025) * Black …

Mar 7·1 min read·69 words

Wednesday Wonders 25

J. Cole, Under-appreciated movies, Paper masks, Book covers, Debunking AI panic.

Mar 4·1 min read·14 words

The pivot to Pure Hokum

Building a company that builds worlds.

Feb 28·1 min read·11 words

Wednesday Wonders 24

Photography Awards, The New Attic, a World Railway Map, and the Bibendum chair at 100.

Feb 25·1 min read·18 words

2026-02-24

This is just depressing: The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films - The Atlantic. Maybe I'm a little Victorian about this, but I think if you're on a film course, it should be mandatory t…

Feb 24·1 min read·94 words

2026-02-20

There's a publication in Milwaukee called the Shepherd Express. They have a section called "News of the Weird", from which I culled the following: Christopher Carroll, 36, was suspended from his job …

Feb 20·1 min read·79 words

Wednesday Wonders 23

Choosing Keeping, Renate Reinsve, The Hour of the Predator, Obsidian, William Hannah

Feb 18·1 min read·15 words

2026-02-16

Some incredible images from Mongolia. In ‘Altai,’ Photographer Claire Thomas Chronicles a Time-Honored Way of Life in MongoliaThomas celebrates the nomadic lifeway and ancient customs of livestock he…

Feb 16·1 min read·74 words

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Gore Verbinski is back behind the camera.

Feb 15·1 min read·13 words

Dressing Up Dogs

Part Three of a career retrospective

Feb 14·1 min read·9 words

2026-02-13

Cal Newport has just launched his Masterclass, and it prompted him to write this piece on the qualitative difference between professional productions and YouTube videos. He also talks about "micro str…

Feb 13·1 min read·88 words

2026-02-11

Back to (maybe) daily posting

Feb 11·1 min read·6 words

Wednesday Wonders 22

Tigran Hamasyan, Leonora Carrington, Design Theory, Melania review, Georgian House

Feb 11·1 min read·13 words