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As a kid, I used to watch recorded reruns of my favourite cartoons every day. Sometimes the same episode. Over and over. Some had no dialogue like Roadrunner and Taz-Mania. Others like The Flintstones and The Jetsons, where cars ran on feet and spaceships folded neatly into briefcases. My young mind was blown~
Cartoons were a key to my imagination. It felt like anything was possible and everything could happen. The idea that you could imagine something and bring it to life… that was what I wanted to do when I grew up.
Outside of the movie box, there were also playground games. Tug-of-war, monkey bars, and occasionally hogging the lift just to ride up and down for fun (which I’m not sure counts as a game, but it was very entertaining).
So I made a bunch of animated drawings of different types of play using my name. Just three little alphabets having fun.
And that’s the thing about play. It doesn’t need to be competitive or perfect or have winners or losers. It doesn’t even need a big idea. Sometimes it’s just about seeing what happens next.
Germaine Chong (Shu)
@shu.anonymous