Over the weekend I met up with Luis and The Swain. We were headed up to the NG Office to deliver the I, WZL's from the recent competiton. Tom and April picked us up from the hotel and we had a nice breakfast and drove out to the office a little while later.

The office looked great and it was a blast meeting Tom, April, Stamper, Jeff (JohnnyUtah), Jose (Mindchamber), Tim, Bob, and Mike.

Then a little later on in the day Afro-Ninja showed up. THE WHOLE GANG

After a couple hours at the office which consisted of a full tour and plenty sneak peeks of awesome and beautiful things to come for the site and community, we headed back to Philadelphia for some Cheesesteaks and good times.

Tom had the quote of the night too. The situation was him and I standing on the balcony of this bar. I'm not 21 so everyone else was drinking their heads off and I'm standing there kinda mingling kinda just looking around. Tom comes over and after a little silence he says "Sooooooooooooo, uh, see any movies lately?" thankssssss Tom, as if I don't already feel kind of out of my element with you all. The beer he bought me later cleared it all up though. <3

The coolest part of the trip besides meeting all these fantastic people was seeing what it is like to work in Flash and game development on a professional level. See, I am at one end of the spectrum as a lowly amateur animator and seeing more or less the peak of web development and animation as a career is really inspiring. It gave me great insight on what working on that level is like and how they more or less started out where I am. It was definitely cool to have that inside look and things.

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EDIT: LOOKS LIKE I WON. Yehy. More pictures and critiques here.

(from left to right) Bob, Mindchamber, The-swain, and Luis checking out the Munny's. They turn out was awesome and they all looked great set up together.