{"id":956,"date":"2011-12-01T00:28:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:34:17","slug":"my-favorite-viral-video-ever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Viral Video&#8230; Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i3k5oY9AHHM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 0; text-align: center; width: 600px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/originals\">See all the CollegeHumor Original Videos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Being a graphics geek is sometimes a lonely road. While life in Austin does afford me the advantage of having access to a large media community full of tech savy peers, it&#8217;s still not hard to find myself in a room full of people that will leave me scratching for some common ground on which to establish some basis for idle chit-chat.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, sports fans seem to have it all too easy. Games occur all the time. And no matter what team you tend to favor, or for that matter &#8211; what sport you tend to favor, there is always some pathway to conversation regarding who won what, where &#8211; and how they came to emerge triumphant. Plenty of room for criticism, talking smack, or philosophizing on what the next big contest will bring.<\/p>\n<p>Media heads are often a bit thinner in a crowd. It&#8217;s seldom that you&#8217;ll see two geek-types going face-to face over the virtues of 3d Studio Max vs. Maya, or whether the next release of Expression Design is going to blow the pants off of Photoshop. (Ain&#8217;t gonna happen&#8230;Although, I have seen that Flash vs. HTML5 thing get a little tense a time or two.) For people that can name more than a dozen font types by sight, unless you are lucky enough to cross paths with someone else in the crowd with a similar skill set, anything you&#8217;re likely to say related to these subjects is likely to get you a puzzled frown, and a quickly rotating view toward the backside of the object of your was-emerging discussion as they attempt to fade into the crowd and put some distance between themselves and your nerdy personage.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, folks of our slant have found some kindred spirits in the hearts and minds of a pair of the comedic producers at College Humor.com, having produced a viral piece that they lovingly titled, &#8220;Font Conference&#8221;. This vid was created by Sam Reich (who plays the role of &#8220;Broadway&#8221;) and Sam Gurewitch (appearing as the punch-line dropping &#8220;Wingdings&#8221;), and expands on the concept of personification of the default Windows font set with the greatest of abandon, and I might ad &#8211; effectiveness. All I can say is &#8211; Dang!&#8230; I <em>wish<\/em> I had thought of this.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your interest in visual communication is limited to &#8211; dare I say, clip art in Word, or perhaps the more conservative province of background colors in Excel (and they call ~me~ a geek&#8230;) This is a darn funny clip, and sure to bring a smile to most everybody &#8211; with the exception of the entirely computer illiterate.\u00a0 And &#8211; should you happen to fall into the latter category, rest assured that the upcoming Synchronized Mud-Surfing championship airing on ESPN3 this weekend will provide more than enough water-cooler fodder next week to keep your social circle in tact.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy.\u00a0 -D<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See all the CollegeHumor Original Videos here. Being a graphics geek is sometimes a lonely road. While life in Austin does afford me the advantage of having access to a large media community full of tech savy peers, it&#8217;s still not hard to find myself in a room full of people that will leave me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5uwdY-fq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nashionalgraphics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}