I feel like saying..Timey wimey

Haha, yeah, I realized this isn't much of a conversation piece. 8D Just lots of blabbin'.

You was sposted to say Wibbly wobbly Hambro :<

But mostly its a nice comic though

You ever do the thing where you start writing down stuff and then wants ti wríte down every thought or idea you have? Its prolly the mainn reason I hve a blog "why do I qrite about this when this is much more important, I should write about this first" then I juat et a huge backlog of things. Im the samw way with comic ideas.

Haha, yes. X3 Thank goodness for blogs and diaries. It feels weirder rambling and writing in them so much when they're posted online but that's what I'd do in a normL journal too. It's great being able to get out our thoughts! not just for the sake of memory, but when you know or feel something it's just a lot harder to deal with it if you keep it to yourself. X3

Haha, and we're both like that with comics then, getting ideas faster than we can actually make the comics, and then having a ton left in our head to do!

héhé really colorfull li'l comic Nishi and also a li'l.... mmmm sad ? Héhé sometime it's hard to let go good memories or good souvenirs or thing that you've had pleasure to do or to explore Héhé nostalgia can be also a good thing and a .... sad thing.... depending of how we see it... Héhé I think that you'll never forget this li' project/compilation you've drawn because you've pur to much ''effort'' and ..... stamina in it... Knowing you I'm sure that you'll find something that will keep your good memories alive....

great message

And that's part of why time seems to pass faster as you get older--less of your life is new and interesting enough to put in long-term memory, so you feel less of it as time.

I truly enjoy when you create these thoughtful, artistic pieces. Your use of color and self-reflection / explanation is very enlightening and does give such a nice starting point for one's own personal discussion and interpretation on the matter.

Something I have found clever about memory is that, even if I don't write things down, I do notice I tend to remember even the most brief of moments and/or thoughts if, in some way, a major element of myself relates to it. This is particularly the case when things relate to my ever-enduring world of cutie-wootiness. If I see anything that even REMOTELY relates to it, I have it stuck in my head. It may be a fleeting moment and I may just barely even hear the words or see a piece of the screen, or picture, but it'll stick and imbed itself into long-term memory before I can say "Quack-Quack's Learning Farm."

Regarding the Spank Bank project, I do believe you will be surprised at how much you retain from your thoughts in 2011 despite not putting them down to paper like you did in 2010. You may not recall exact concepts, but the macro elements that brought you to think such things will likely continue to play a part in future thoughts of said nature. Furthermore, as a brilliantly creative person, you will find ways to take the shards of memories that a fragmented idea may well up to create a new idea that will itself become a broken memory to be assembled into a new one and so forth. Thus, creating an endless cycle of new ideas that, at the root, are based on a core point that is forever a part of your enduring, long-term memory. :)

As writers and artists, this is why it is fun to realize the things we put into our work that we don't even realize we do. Our memories, particularly long term, are what drive a lot of what we do. This is why my work, to some, likely comes off like material found in the late 80's and early 90's. Those were pivotal years for me when I started to discover a lot of things while taking a more prominent interest in my writing and creativity. However, along with that, if someone had a "This is Your Life" video, I bet they could pick apart each-and-every character, place, and face I develop by saying which engrained memory, or collection of memories, forged it.

This is why no artist or writer can truly be copied. It's those long-term, unforgettable memories that we even forget we have that surface when we write and draw that make our work special. Unless someone lived and experienced life in the exact way we did, they could never create a work like we do as what we do is present our fondest memories in delightful colors and phrases that show to everyone how we have grown from life and that we are happy to share our experiences with them in the hopes that we, too, may grow from their's as well. :)

really like the art alot - freedom pencil feeling!

Phew! This is such a great, meaningful piece, Nishinish! I don't know what else to add to it, and I feel silly for taking so long! But it's totally insightful, and I like the lil silly hammy drawings that go along with it too! I can definitely see how it'd be tough to get used to not remembering things that you wanna remember, and feeling like everything's going by faster. But you'll still have stuff you're doing, and maybe if you look back on that all that you've done, you can still see how much has happened and all that, even if you don't remember every aspect...if that makes sense? And of course, even if you don't remember things, they still can become a part of you. All of that stuff you've done and mostly forgotten probably helped shaped you and made you into the awesome hammy you are! Of course, sometimes even when things seem forgotten they can come back sooner or later when you least expect it! In any case, I'll be hopin' you get to build up plenty of fun memories even though some things might get forgotten sometimes. Thanks a bunch for sharing such an awesome thoughtful journal, Nish! :)