{"id":12634,"date":"2008-01-26T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/01\/steve-guttenberg-did-not-invent-the-printing-press.html"},"modified":"2008-01-26T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T13:25:44","slug":"steve_guttenberg_did_not_invent_the_printi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/steve_guttenberg_did_not_invent_the_printi\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Steve Guttenberg did not invent the printing press&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> So says an angry, <em>angry<\/em> little man in &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VpAuDrs5ocg\">Printing&#8217;s Alive<\/a>,&quot; a funny, foul-mouthed viral video made by Montreal-based <a href=\"http:\/\/pazazz.com\/en_home.php\">Pazazz Printing<\/a>.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/031673.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The vid is particularly funny if you&#8217;ve had occasion to interact with some of the crustier, more ink-stained members of the printing community (and no, I&#8217;m not gonna mention any names).&#160; I remember a few years back visiting printers in Chicago who were out for blood, riled up about some incredibly nuanced aspect of Illustrator output (wanting fourth-digit decimal precision in a certain field, I think).&#160; Fortunately the Illustrator PM at the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lydiavarmazis\">Lydia Varmazis<\/a>, was the type who could write PostScript by hand, lending her amazing powers to chill these dudes out.&#160; The transformation was night and day, and I felt like we should&#8217;ve filmed a pilot for <em>The Nerd Whisperer<\/em> right then and there.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of funny and profane, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MWn0lxRNqos\">You Suck At Photoshop episodes 3<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smugbaldy.com\/?p=116\">4<\/a> have been posted for your enjoyment. [Via seemingly every person &amp; blog ever] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says an angry, angry little man in &quot;Printing&#8217;s Alive,&quot; a funny, foul-mouthed viral video made by Montreal-based Pazazz Printing.&#160; [Via] The vid is particularly funny if you&#8217;ve had occasion to interact with some of the crustier, more ink-stained members of the printing community (and no, I&#8217;m not gonna mention any names).&#160; I remember a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}