Wow...I discovered macrofurry stuff back around 1997/98 (which ultimately got me into Furry as whole), so I've been into the scene for a while. I'm surprised I had never heard of this guy. Sucks that he's passed on.

I was... an still ma, devastated when I found out *hugs*

R.ip jim hardiman your going to be missed warm bear hugs ronbear

I knew of him from back when I joined the fandom, but other than a couple of portfolios, I never knew he was a macrofur artist. I always thought they were one offs.

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I remember him. His macro pic of the giant cat about to eat the guy was my fave. But all the work he has done and contributed to the furry fandom paved the way for many artists. He was an inspiration. He will be missed.

He will be dearly missed.

I never really knew him, but from the art I had seen of his, he had a great attitude. Of course, my memory's so bad that maybe I did actually see him at one of those late 90's Khans I went to. It's a damn shame, I bet he was a really nice guy.

Think of five people you know, or maybe are close friends with. Then imagine later today getting the unexpected news of one of them "passing".

Why is it that we only show our appreciation of an artist/writer/musician/comedian or even a friend after they are “in the box” and not while our praise can mean something to them?


Tell or write someone in your life today and tell them that you consider them "special" -- cause they are.

Unfortunately that is true...we tend only to really value the things only after they're lost. That's because we adapt to the situations, and we only can truly feel something is good or bad when we have experiences to compare. Good and bad aren't absolute concepts, something that we learn in the books. E.g., we only really know that fire causes pain when we burn a finger.

Now this learning concept is good regarding simple things like a little burn, but we must learn to use our reason to fight that instinct back and promote our relations with other people. I wouldn't like to remember my friends as a burden, constantly tormented by the thought "Why didn't I give them more when I could?". If the remembrance is really all that will be left afterdeath, let it be, at least, a smiling nostalgia.

If we ‘can only feel something is good or bad when we have experiences to compare’ [Is all knowledge then about feelings?].
Considering the lethality of some experiences in life, then it is remarkable then that any of us survive into adulthood in our learning of what is good or bad.

As to ‘remembering one’s friends as a burden’ to which something beyond our companionship must be paid, most of us remember our friends as things which make or have made our lives better.

While to some it may seem a burden, a fair-minded person is motivated to occasionally measure and acknowledge that degree to which others, before their loss, have made their life better.

Good counterpoint. Indeed, we avoid some behaviours because we know they're bad, even though we never experienced them (e.g. I never smoked, nor I feel curiosity of smoking, because I know it's bad for health and wallet). But I believe that exception apply mostly to extreme behaviours, and our learning of how to live in our daily routine comes purely from comparison of experiences. That we can call a knowledge entirely based on feelings. However, added to this "living" knowledge, we had theoric/practic knowledge, made of a variety of things, from culinary recipees to classic physics, passing through Traffic Code.

I didn't meant to say that, by standard, memories of dead friends are burdens. Or, unfortunately, they are in modern society, but it's a controllable situation with the use of reason.

One does not have to have the experience of wetting our finger and putting it into an electric outlet to learn whether it is a “good” or “bad” thing to do. A large part of our knowledge is taught to us early in life which we accept without question. Otherwise those who do test such “hand-me-down” knowledge in order to learn by experience have short life-spans.

The good things in life, like true friends, we keep close to us and encourage their closeness since they benefit us. The bad things in life, as soon as we are taught to recognize them, or learn from negative experience, we keep at a distance and discourage their closeness to us.

Friends are good and so we should do anything we can to encourage them, like acknowledging their “goodness”, while we recognize smoking at being bad and so we do anything we can to discourage those who smoke from being in our company. Friends we praise and occasionally compliment, while smokers we might make unflattering comments to them about their habit.

It’s called positive and negative feedback and it is used to enhance or benefit our lives. But it only works when the person it is directed at is still alive.