Friend, brother, and compatriot Brian Dickett has posted an impressively exhaustive look back at our collaboration, featuring a series of Flash animations we produced together about a decade ago under our “People Who Bring You Things” banner. He provides some great commentary too, so all that’s left is for me to provide the link:

http://editbrian.blogspot.com/2009/02/gabe-pilot-part-1.html

Off I go. In an hour I head out to the airport. I’ll post updates and photos as soon as I’m able. This year we’re going for two days and we got a hotel room less than a mile from the convention center. Hopefully we’ll have internet access.

I’m beat, so I’ll keep it brief: the con was awesome. I’ve never seen such a singular huge place devoted almost exclusively to Josh-candy. It was constant fun. Among the people we met/ran into/bought stuff from/listened to: Billy West (voice of Fry, Zoidberg, and Professor on Futurama), Ray Harryhausen (master stop-motion animator of Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans), Lisa Henson (daughter of Jim Henson), Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter’s Lab and Samurai Jack, and director of the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon), Brian Froud (illustrator of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth), Jerry Beck (animation historian and Looney Tunes commentator), Sid Haig (great 70’s character actor), and Bill Hunt and Todd Doogan of The Digital Bits.

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[This review was written by Brian Dickett for JoshWay.com]

It’s midnight on June the 20th. It has taken me three days to recover from the deep-rooted depression that has ravaged my body since a late night viewing of this movie. The fog has slightly lifted, the torturous ringing of preposterous one-liners has finally muffled itself enough to make room for this damaged mind to formulate at least a slight inkling of what went VERY wrong with this storyline.

Please bare with me. I have just been deeply scarred by the film industry. The air is right and the time has come to unleash the fury of film reviewer hell on a happy little story, in a happy little flick called “Gone in 60 Seconds”.

Are you ready?

I know I am.

Here we go!

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