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Robert John Baker
Any father is difficult to sum up for a child of that man. Separating father, the role, and Dad, the person. Robert John Baker 1939 – 2023.
READ MORE..Return of the Peregrinati
Any hometown is a memory palace, and moving through it unlocks feelings from long ago.
READ MORE..STARTOONS
Before becoming coming a Saturday morning cartoon powerhouse, the STARTOONS studio was briefly located in downtown Chicago, where I worked for them one summer.
READ MORE..Dance Of The Mayflies
Coping with impermanence and helping others persevere through their own mounting frailties, is one of the main missions of being human.
READ MORE..Keelung-Naha-Tokyo, 1986
My understanding of Japan was minimal, when I first set foot upon its soil in Okinawa, at the age of 22.
READ MORE..Photography
My own ‘selfies’ are rare indeed, but after a frenzy of scanning I too now have a huge backlog of old photos to share on INSTAGRAM.
READ MORE..‘in darkest PERU..’
The joy of writing and receiving multipage handwritten letters is a lost pleasure. My letter output now is no better than the average 21st century yahoo, but I was a prodigious letter writer in the 1980s while doing extensive travel (financed by working in Asian animation studios). In the pre-internet/SmartPhone era, travel abroad might mean … Read more
Nippon By Rail
The Japan Rail Pass was grossly expensive to someone used to meagre 1980s Australian animation wages but I forked over my hard earned cash anyway, for a chance to explore the length and breadth of a country I’d long wanted to see. Only available for purchase outside Japan, The JR Pass is valid on ferries and trains (even … Read more
Shanghaied
21st century Shanghai, with its ultra modern skyline and high fashion boutiques, is barely recognisable as the time-stuck town I visited in the 1980s.
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