On how this site is changing and why, and why you don't need to worry about anything.

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

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 Investigations but are not on those specific channels...

The new crowdfund went live yesterday and has raced over £200,000(!) in less than twenty-four hours. There are Early Bird incentives and all…

Just random thoughts.

What's in a name?

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 may have been in an episode of The Blacklist), it resonated. But it resonated in that way that some quotes do, where you feel like they apply to you, but they really don't. "Yeah, I'm a pioneer, I go…

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

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, but British", which is probably what I pitched. It is not quite what they got.

Instead of two FBI agents, they got Mary Lairre, the ghost of a murdered French nun, and Jonathan Hicks, a podcaster…

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

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 were both released this week, and that necessitates dealing with a lot of people who have issues with streaming links, downloads, orders etc. Aside from the inevitable "No the e-mail definitely isn't in…

The launch of Pure Hokum

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 found interesting and thought others might also be interested in. So far this year, outside of Wednesday Wonders, there hasn't been very much of that going on. Partly that is because I've been busy…

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

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

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.

You can get all the info and register your interest (without committing to anything) at the link below. I'd love it if people could click the link and sign up, because the sheer number of followers…

Building a company that builds worlds.

Some enthusiasms.

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 Bag
• Defending Your Life
• Madam Web
• Marty Supreme
• Sentimental Value
• The Life of Chuck
• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Zone of Interest

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 herding and eagle hunting in the Altai Mountains.ColossalKate Mothes

An interesting Medium piece on simplifying productivity. I had already got here, but this provided a little reassurance.

I…

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 as a paramedic with the Baltimore County Fire Department and is facing 23 criminal charges following inexplicable behavior at work and elsewhere, WSFA-TV reported on Feb. 7. Investigators said…

Gore Verbinski is back behind the camera.

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 to attend a percentage of in-person screenings, and at those screenings, phones should be handed in at the door and given back afterwards. Any student who cannot cope with either of those things will…

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

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 streamers", which is a really interesting concept. 

This morning I am noodling with the idea of a stage version of my radio play "Bad Memories". I have very little experience of making theatre, but I…

Part Three of a career retrospective

Back to (maybe) daily posting

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

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

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