Josh
Thursday
1:09 pm 
Animated GIFs are a dying breed. Forged in the early days of the World Wide Web, GIFs were used to add non-static content to sites long before Flash, CSS and Javascript came to the fore.
Nearly 20 years after the format was created, animated GIFs serve a purpose. They’re like a time capsule, and harken back to a simpler time, when we marveled at the potential of the Internet before it was completely overtaken by phishing and porn.
To that end, Geek6 is endeavoring to preserve and pay tribute to this dying format in our Animated GIF Museum. From time to time, Joe and I will showcase an example of the finest ..read more
Josh
Wednesday
10:32 am
Children’s educational television has come a long way since we were kids. The days of only Sesame Street and Pinwheel are long gone, replaced with myriad cable channels and direct-to-DVD shows, all of which promise to boost your kid’s intellect to new planes of existence.
Over the past 6 years (and two children), I’ve watched a LOT of these shows. While I’m no expert on early child instructional methods, sitting through (by my calculation) no less than 1100 hours of edutainment in the past 6 years, at least qualifies me to have an opinion. I’ve watched what my kids have picked up, what they repeat, what they engage in and what ..read more
Josh
Tuesday
2:21 pm
Editor’s Note: Let’s get one thing out of the way: I’m not one of those “Winnie the Pooh” people. I’ve never read “The Tao of Pooh,” I’ve never owned a Piglet sweatshirt or sweatpants with Eeyore’s name emblazoned across the ass in rhinestones. But, as the dad of two kids, I’ve certainly watched a lot of it. And I seem to be the only one who’s noticed Disney’s dastardly plot to eradicate intellect from the Hundred Acre Wood.
Disney has killed off Owl.
Apparently, I’m the only one who’s noticed this. For the past 6 years, I’ve been subjected to every Winnie The Pooh movie (and resulting TV series). I’ve watched the ..read more
Tim Hodge is a well known animator who worked on such projects as Aladdin, Lion King, and Veggie Tales. His son, Matthew was recently in an accident and is comatose. The insurance won’t cover the costs so the National Cartoonist Society Foundation stepped in and started an ebay auction to help the family out. Animators from all over the industry have donated rare originals, signed books and prints. It’s a pretty impressive collection, I like the art from “How to Train Your Dragon” the best. You can get more information ..read more
Josh
Thursday
6:17 pm
Animated GIFs are a dying breed. Forged in the early days of the World Wide Web, GIFs were used to add non-static content to sites long before Flash, CSS and Javascript came to the fore.
Nearly 20 years after the format was created, animated GIFs serve a purpose. They’re like a time capsule, and harken back to a simpler time, when we marveled at the potential of the Internet before it was completely overtaken by phishing and porn.
To that end, Geek6 is endeavoring to preserve and pay tribute to this dying format in our Animated GIF Museum. Every week, Joe and I will showcase an example of the finest art created ..read more
Keeping with the App theme, my brother’s latest iPhone app was just released on iTunes. It’s called iWeapons Guns Pro and is pretty kickin’. It’s got four different weapons to choose from, including a flame thrower, which makes me happy.
On an unrelated note I totally had a dream last week where a Terminator was after me but luckily I had a shotgun app on my phone; not an animated app but an actual shotgun. Of course I kept on forgetting to check the safety (the vibrate/ring switch of course).
I’ve got three coupon codes if anyone wants to check it out. Just leave a comment telling me which weapon would destroy terminators most efficiently ..read more
Josh
Sunday
11:37 am
For Christmas, my daughter’s grandparents got her that animated video about the old guy with the balloon house who carries a precocious kid off into the sky.
No, not the one you’re thinking of — the other one.
Yes, there’s a studio which has cinematographical balls big enough to completely steal the big idea from Pixar and Disney. And this isn’t even the first time they’ve done it.
Video Brinquedo, a Brazilian company whose souls have apparently all withered to emaciated husks long ago, has released several films with uncanny resemblances to Pixar releases. “The Little Cars,” released just months after Pixar’s “Cars,” follows some anthropomorphic vehicles in a ..read more
Josh
Tuesday
11:31 pm
The mid-80s were the golden age of kid cartoon music. The previous generation’s music was either corny, or vague action themes with blaring trumpets. And, as the 90s approached, the era of Saturday morning cartoons started to decay.
But for a handful of years, cartoons had their pulses firmly attached to a pop-culture beat, and the theme songs that came out of that stretch of time were fantastic ditties that mirrored the then-exciting Top 40 soundtracks.
We consulted our horrible, Pop-Rock-addled 80s brains to come up with the 6 most rockin’ theme songs from 80s cartoons. It was hard to not just list our favorite cartoons — keep in mind, ..read more
Josh
Monday
12:35 pm
If I’ve learned one thing in my year of blogging here at GeekSix, it’s that geeks aren’t a one-size-fit-all collective. There are many specialized facets within geekdom that other card-carrying members don’t embrace, or even shun.
So I figure, in the interest of self-disclosure, and getting to know us all a little better, I’d come clean with geek stuff I should like, but just don’t. If this post makes you lose faith in me as your resident head geek, I apologize — I’m hoping we can find common ground. And, on that note, let the flameage begin with the geek topics I can’t stand:
Almost all anime.
There are bits of ..read more
Josh
Thursday
9:55 pm
I’ve recently started re-watching Voltron on Hulu (sorry, Canadians — it’s all we have left), and while it’s been a nostalgia trip, I’m completely annoyed that they’re only carrying the far more popular Lion episodes (GoLion in Japan). As a kid, I was the only one on my block who actually preferred the 15 vehicle Voltron (Armored Dairugger XV) to the lions.
The galactic convoy setting, the broader characters and near-earth reality was much cooler than the “on a planet far away in a castle” crap the Lions rammed down our throat.
But, alas, I seem to be alone in this assertion. So, in an attempt to win you over, ..read more
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