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Kraftwerk’s Das Model. From 1980.

Remastered track can be found on the album The Man Machine.

Found via Victoria Arriaga

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Video for Leftfield’s Afrika Shox. Directed by Chris Cunningham, filmed in the Manhattan Financial District, February 1998.

More about the video (and Chris’ work) here.

Found via Don Reid

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Video for Royksopp’s Happy Up Here. Directed by Reuben Sutherland. From the album Junior.

The Royksopp website.

Found via Matthew Valentine

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Google Street View

Fifty cool ad campaigns. Here.

What goes around comes around

Tibits, vegetarian restaurant

Old Timer restaurant

Get them off your dog

Papa John’s delivery

Found via Ashley Simko

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I really wish this technology existed. Would make blowing things up in Photoshop so friggin easy.

‘Can you clean that up?’
‘Not if there’s nothing there – it’s just a bunch of colored boxes. That’s all pixels are.’

Jack Bauer pulls out gun, kills dude at computer. Chloe solves problem.

24 returns tonight, btw.

There are some enhancement solutions, but not on the fictional scale that tee vee shows use.

Video found via kottke.org

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This week, Jeanne Moderno ended up with the dubious honor of being on the
Merkwürdige Schriften 2009 (Strange Types 2009) list over at Slanted.

Thanks guys! Strange, that would be the best way to put it.

Here’s a link. Here’s the same link translated into dubious English.

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As a thank you for everyone who entered my contest, I’m offering 30% off the purchase of any Jeanne Moderno font at MyFonts.

Please use this discount code: MEHALLOBLOGBONUS

Discount applies to single weights or for the complete family. Discount code is required, input at checkout. Offer available only thru MyFonts. Promo ends Monday, February 8, 2010.

Go here to order.

New blog posts coming later today (I’ll be back on a mostly daily schedule)  . . .

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The results are in! Our winners are  . . .

[1]    suresh
comment    Wow! Font giveaway! Thanks a lot!

[2]    rrriles
comment    Can’t pass up an opportunity for free fonts!

[3]    reece butler
comment    What a nice site you have here. I must say that it’s always nice to stumble upon a new hidden gem (even if it involved dangling a carrot like a free font to get me here). You can be sure I’ll be back.

[4]    matt v
comment    those are definitely some good posts! also, i am entering! i know there is almost a 1% chance i will win, which will diminish significantly as it draws closer to the 16th, but what the hell!

[5]    amanda
comment    January 16 is my birthday. ;)

Each have won a complete, licensed set of Jeanne Moderno fonts: All 9 OpenType fonts, $99 USD value. Emails have been sent out to the winners. Please contact me directly if my emails vanish into the spam filter ether.

also
Stay tuned, I have something planned for everyone who entered. I will post in a bit.

Image of IBM’s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (c. 1948) found via Boing Boing Gadgets

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Okay, I lied.

There were more than the last 45. I’m including 15 additional blog highlights below.

Also, I’m posting these just so you have something to read while we organize the comments from the contest and figure out the winners. The contest just ended – AND majorly huge, HUGE thank you for all the notes! I was expecting just ‘here’s my comment’ but got so much more. It really means a lot. I’ll do my best in the coming weeks to keep things flowing as – sporadically as I can.
 

We have a hat.

It was my dad’s, a Dobbs/Roos Atkins original from the 1950s. We’re putting everyone’s name on slips of paper, throwing them in the hat and my wife (who the fonts were named after) will draw the winners.

So give us a bit to do all this, we’ll post the results in a short while.

Here’s more highlights from 2009  . . .

 
  
[46]    djg design

[60]    dreams
 

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I’ve decided to start the new year off with a break.

So  . . .  here’s (my) 45 favorite posts of 2009! Should be enough to keep you reading till I post again (which will be in about two weeks).
 

As a thank you to everyone who has been reading my blog, sending me emails, even clicking ‘like’ on the Facebook page – in general, supporting my antics online – I’d like to show my appreciation. I’ve decided it’s time for a good old fashioned Jeanne Moderno font giveaway!

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. To comment, just click the ‘comment’ link below (and please fill out all the fields).

I will randomly select five winners from the comments. Each winner will receive a complete, licensed set of Jeanne Moderno fonts: All 9 OpenType fonts, $99 USD value. This is them here.

Contest ends 11 p.m. (pacific time) Saturday, January 16, 2010.

And now, here’s the best of the mehallo blog 2009  . . .
 

  
[1]    ‘as simple as possible, but not simpler’ –einstein

[45]    hurr

If 45 isn’t enough, please select from the archive at right. At current count, there’s over 500 blurgs to pour thru, with more on the way.

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New Years greetings from steve and jeanne mehallo.

print your own
Download a free, printer-friendly PDF of the above illustration. [file size: 1.1 megs]

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