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		<title>Kafka Chandler 42</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even more free wallpapers by Arno Kathollnig &#160;. . . Franz Kafka Trilogy &#8211; featuring my own Chandler 42 fonts (with some pointing hands from Alta California). Tweet]]></description>
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<p>Even more free wallpapers by <a href="http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/8295">Arno Kathollnig</a> &nbsp;. . . </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/sets/72157624998817447/with/5064649016/"target="_blank"><em>Franz Kafka Trilogy</em></a> &#8211; featuring my own <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/chandler-42/"target="_blank">Chandler 42 fonts</a> (with some pointing hands from <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/alta-california/"target="_blank">Alta California</a>).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/typoatelier/5063864872/"target="_blank"><img src="http://mehallo.com/B/Arno_KafkaChandler_02.jpg"></a></p>
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		<title>Tschichold and Alta California</title>
		<link>http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/26750</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rare Jan Tschichold book design, featuring his use of an early prototype of the Alta Calfornia font. Cloth cover for Das lustige Buch (The Funny Book), Verlag der Bücherkreis GmbH, Berlin, 1931. Tweet]]></description>
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<p>Rare Jan Tschichold book design, featuring his use of an early prototype of the <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/alta-california/" target="_blank">Alta Calfornia</a> font. </p>
<p>Cloth cover for <em><a href="http://mehallo.com/blog/april-fool" target="_blank">Das lustige Buch</a></em> (The Funny Book), Verlag der Bücherkreis GmbH, Berlin, 1931.</p>
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		<title>Alta Helvetica mug</title>
		<link>http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/23559</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helvetica on a mug, set in my Alta California font. Dark brown text, vintage baked enamel-like styling. Great for sweet tea, moonshine, or hell, even prison-grade pruno. Snag it here. Tweet]]></description>
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<p>Helvetica on a mug, set in my <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/alta-california/" target="_blank">Alta California font.</a> </p>
<p>Dark brown text, vintage baked enamel-like styling. Great for <a href="http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/20928"target="_blank">sweet tea,</a> <a href="http://www.coppermoonshinestills.com/id28.html"target="_blank">moonshine,</a> or hell, even prison-grade <a href="http://www.blacktable.com/gillin030901.htm"target="_blank">pruno.</a></p>
<p>Snag it <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/alta_helvetica_mug-168909724432159515" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
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		<title>Alta Cal</title>
		<link>http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/19103</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My font named for Northern California, warzone and great place to buy a damn good burrito. Get the font here. Burrito here. Tweet]]></description>
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<p>My font named for Northern California, <a href="http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/19069">warzone</a> and great place to buy a damn good burrito.</p>
<p>Get the font <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/alta-california/" target="_blank">here.</a> Burrito <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sacramento-CA/Carolinas-Mexican-Food/320165566509?__a=3&#038;"target="_blank">here.</a></p>
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		<title>Alta California: Named after a newspaper</title>
		<link>http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/5037</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alta California office, San Francisco 1851; found via Flickr At one point in my life, I was going to be a journalist. So folly along &#160;. . . . I love history, so every one of my fonts falls into some historical category (or categories, if you look at Jeanne Moderno). Alta California is my [...]]]></description>
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<em>Alta California office, San Francisco 1851; found via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/businesshistory/3779775812/"  target="_blank">Flickr</a></em></p>
<p>At one point in my life, I was going to be a journalist. So folly along &nbsp;. . . .</p>
<p>I love history, so every one of my fonts falls into some historical category (or <em>categories,</em> if you look at <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/jeanne-moderno/" target="_blank">Jeanne Moderno</a>).</p>
<p><a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/alta-california/" target="_blank">Alta California</a> is my artist&#8217;s response to <a href="http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/2897">Susan Kare&#8217;s</a> early Macintosh font, San Francisco. And it was a tricky build, as I was literally going thru book after book after book of old types &#8211; then messing them up, then messing them up more; and redrawing the edges until I had what I wanted. </p>
<p><em>(Please note, when it comes to &#8216;grunge typography&#8217; &#8211; I don&#8217;t trust anything automatic; I&#8217;ve always gone in and tweaked the edges until I have something that looks &#8211; printed. Printed poorly, but printed.)</em> <span id="more-5037"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/alta-california/" target="_blank"><img src="http://mehallo.com/B/Alta5.jpg"></a><br />
<em>Alta California font specimen</em></p>
<p><strong>moniker</strong><br />
So when it came to naming the font, I selected a newspaper I knew from college: San Francisco&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Alta_California" target="_blank"><em>Alta California</em></a>. The <em>Alta</em> was published c.1849-1891.</p>
<p><img src="http://mehallo.com/B/Alta3.jpg"></p>
<p>For my very last research paper as an undergrad, I wrote a detailed report on the daily community findings of San Francisco &#8211; from one month in 1863. </p>
<p>And since I love to obsess, I actually skimmed almost <em>all editions</em> of The <em>Alta California</em> from that month &#8211; via microfilm (which did give me quite the headache; one has to really experience old microfilm equipment to understand why). I waded thru the bias, the hype and the oft butchered writeups to build my report. 19th century San Francisco was quite the bawdy town.</p>
<p><img src="http://mehallo.com/B/Alta4.jpg" width="380"></p>
<p><strong>the dude</strong><br />
Found out years later that Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, wrote for the <em>Alta California</em> &#8211; and his book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812967054?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=0812967054&#038;adid=1ZQ8KRBGHTYZGECGCVD3&#038;" target="_blank">The Innocents Abroad or, The New Pilgrims&#8217; Progress</a></em> (1869) was culled together from letters sent to and originally published in the <em>Alta</em>. </p>
<p><img src="http://mehallo.com/B/Alta1.jpg" width="380"><br />
<em>The Innocents Abroad Vol. I Harper&#8217;s Library Edition (1903), from my own collection</em></p>
<p><strong>archive</strong><br />
And today, there&#8217;s some great stuff online. But it&#8217;s buried a bit. Check out the newspaper archive <a href="http://cdnc.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">here</a> (just do a search for Alta California). </p>
<p><a href="http://cdnc.ucr.edu/" target="_blank"><img src="http://mehallo.com/B/Alta7.jpg"></a><br />
&nbsp;</p>
<p>And, of course, aside from my <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/steve-mehallo/alta-california/" target="_blank" >Alta font,</a> you can also snag some Alta merch <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/mehallo/gifts?cg=196688683287850816" target="_blank" >here</a>.</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called that, where it came from and I&#8217;m sticking to my story. Like any good journalist. Like glue.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zazzle.com/mehallo/gifts?cg=196688683287850816" target="_blank" ><img src="http://mehallo.com/B/Alta9.jpg"></a><br />
<em>Merch from the <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/mehallo/gifts?cg=196688683287850816" target="_blank" >Alta California Vintage line</a> by mehallo </em></p>
<p><em>Original Alta California newspaper images found via <a href="http://cdnc.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">CDNC</a></em></p>
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		<title>The changing &#8216;faces&#8217; of the web</title>
		<link>http://mehallo.com/blog/archives/1798</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typography on the web is about to change dramatically. Several entities are involved. I have a bunch of my fonts about to launch with Typekit. And here&#8217;s a really good rundown by Elliot Jay Stocks, posted on the i love typography blog. Tweet]]></description>
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<p>Typography on the web is about to change dramatically. Several entities are involved. I have a bunch of my fonts about to launch with <a href="http://typekit.com" target="blank">Typekit.</a> </p>
<p>And here&#8217;s <a href="http://ilovetypography.com/2009/08/07/the-font-as-service/" target="blank">a really good rundown</a> by Elliot Jay Stocks, posted on the i love typography blog.</p>
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		<title>Survey, from MySpace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>What was going through your mind during your last kiss?<code></em>
Oh baby yeah baby that's it yeah oh baby yeah you know yeah you know baby yeah drink Coca-Cola yeah baby that's it yeah baby oh yeah a Big Mac would be good right now oh baby yeah you know it baby yeah baby yeah yeah yeah]]></description>
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Oh baby yeah baby that&#8217;s it yeah oh baby yeah you know yeah you know baby yeah drink Coca-Cola yeah baby that&#8217;s it yeah baby oh yeah a Big Mac would be good right now oh baby yeah you know it baby yeah baby yeah yeah yeah</p>
<p><em>How did you do on the last test you took?</em><br />
Completely bombed it, and it was important. and now I&#8217;m sort of screwed. ended up with a drinking problem, drug use, joined the army, get to see the world and they&#8217;ve promised me I get to be in the marching band.<span id="more-18"></span></p>
<p><em>What is your ringtone for when people text you?</em><br />
air raid siren, actual size and volume. Wakes dead.</p>
<p><em>What show did you last watch?</em><br />
Mad Men or that thing with Miley Cirus, can&#8217;t remember.</p>
<p><em>What foods make you sick?</em><br />
licorice and good hearty helping of uncooked bacon.<br />
Yum!<br />
Walrus gizzards.</p>
<p><em>Do you get shy around the guy/girl you like?</em><br />
Oh yeah, act weird. Hit my self with things around me, drop papers on floor, wet pants, teeth start bleeding, pull out razor and start shaving parts of myself that shouldn&#8217;t be shaved.</p>
<p><em>Do you remember what you were like a year ago?</em><br />
Normal?</p>
<p><em>Do you have family problems?</em><br />
Sort of like the Sopranos. Without the &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; heavy Italian diet.</p>
<p><em>Where are most people in your top from?</em><br />
Holland.</p>
<p><em>What was the last meal you ate?</em><br />
Dinner late Friday night. Although that wasn&#8217;t much of a meal.<br />
I think I had a really good meal sometime in 1996.</p>
<p><em>Who are there pictures of in the room you&#8217;re currently in?</em><br />
King Kong (vintage), Captain Kirk (original 1966 promo poster, framed), rare typography prints, a copy of an 1863 Alta California newspaper, a picture of Dennis Miller before he became a Republican, map of the area with lit pins in it to show how I plan to dominate the region.</p>
<p><em>Name one thing people think about you that&#8217;s not true?</em><br />
That I don&#8217;t know how to fly.</p>
<p><em>Do you give special ringtones to certain people?</em><br />
For Christmas?<br />
See: <a href="http://www.imakebells.com">imakebells.com</a></p>
<p><em>What&#8217;s the weather like outside?</em><br />
65 degrees F, currently clear, wind at 4 mph. Humidity at 71%, typhoon, flooding and general plague coming thru killing first born in every family. Looking for blood to put on door jam, but can&#8217;t remember which animal I&#8217;m supposed to slaughter.</p>
<p><em>Have you ever seen a 3D movie in a theatre?</em><br />
Yes: Jaws 3D and some horrible science fiction thing in the 80s with Molly Ringwald in it.<br />
Was the new Hulk film in 3D? Don&#8217;t remember, my IQ really dropped about the time he jumped out of the plane for no good reason.</p>
<p><em>Where&#8217;d you get everything that you&#8217;re wearing?</em><br />
JCPenney. It&#8217;s all inside, baby.</p>
<p><em>Do you text with T9 or ABC?</em><br />
I don&#8217;t text; shit, it takes forever to do the alphabet. Don&#8217;t use my cell phone either. I have my limits.</p>
<p><em>Have you memorized your social security number?</em><br />
Of course. Like to tell it to people I don&#8217;t know and see how fast they can steal my identity.</p>
<p><em>Have you ever had a dream about people you love dying?</em><br />
Yes. And then I dream about texting them with T9.</p>
<p><em>What radio station do you listen to the most?</em><br />
Pandora.</p>
<p><em>What do you think about the person that last texted you?</em><br />
They think I want insurance, but I don&#8217;t.</p>
<p><em>How do you like your school?</em><br />
Which one, I teach at more than one. They&#8217;re cool or I wouldn&#8217;t teach there, but one of them I&#8217;m not terribly happy with the administration right now.</p>
<p><em>What&#8217;s your favourite colour to wear?</em><br />
Black, dark gray or something neon to contrast. Wonder if armor as a fashion statement will ever come back.</p>
<p><em>Have you ever been in love?</em><br />
Yes.</p>
<p><em>Who will you never forget?</em><br />
Terri Nunn<br />
and Pierce Brosnan.<br />
<em><br />
Have you ever questioned your sexuality?</em><br />
Not until I first laid eyes on Mario Lopez.</p>
<p><em>Would you ever consider having a relationship with your best friend?</em><br />
I am in a relationship with my best friend. That&#8217;s the secret to a good relationship.</p>
<p><em>What piercings do you want to get?</em><br />
Eyeball, full size arrow through left wrist, large knives sticking out of my feet like old James Bond villian.</p>
<p><em>Have your friends ever seen you cry?</em><br />
When am I NOT crying?</p>
<p><em>Who was the last person you cried in front of?</em><br />
George Bush. He makes me cry all the time.</p>
<p><em>Can you do a push-up?</em><br />
Maybe one. Maybe.</p>
<p><em>Are you self conscious about your weight at all?</em><br />
I text people about it all the time. And write the number on my forehead with super thick Sharpie.</p>
<p><em>What do you think about the person that last commented you?</em><br />
Cool band.</p>
<p><em>Who sings the song you last sang?</em><br />
Aaaaiiiiimmmeeee Echo!<br />
or Engelbert Humperdinck.<br />
(or I think it was a Lawrence Welk medley, you know, I can&#8217;t remember.)</p>
<p><em>Plans for this weekend?</em><br />
Supposed to remember to go to friend&#8217;s wedding reception, but if I join the Army (to be in the band) the whole a.w.o.l. thing might cause a few problems with George Bush, who really makes me cry a lot.</p>
<p><em>Have you ever been to California?</em><br />
No. Not been. I am here. So it&#8217;s more of a &#8216;being&#8217; thing. Being here, crying, texting, watching tee vee shows, having fantasies about Mario Lopez and Engelbert Humperdinck. Blaiming GWB for everything that goes wrong anywhere. It&#8217;s a full life.</p>
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