by melloajello | Oct 18, 2013 | Vahana
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bike Friday owners Pamela and Nateon Ajello captured the adventure of a lifetime to India on film, and created an amazing short feature. By Nateon Ajello “When we made the decision to tour 1,300 miles across India, Nepal and Bhutan, we knew we...
by melloajello | Oct 7, 2013 | Film, Frontpage, Vahana
Short Film About 1,300 miles by (folding) bike, bus and train “Vahana: (Sanskrit: “mount,” or “vehicle”), denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu god is said to use as a vehicle. The vahana and deity to which they support...
by melloajello | Sep 5, 2013 | Animation, Frontpage, Mocap
“Running in real time in the Unity 3D game engine, Unplugged is an interactive animated short created by the Mixamo team to showcase its Face Plus technology. Taking viewers through the story of a boy breaking free from a meaningless and dreary life, Unplugged...
by melloajello | Aug 29, 2013 | Mixamo
Last week at Unite, in addition to releasing our first short film “UnPlugged,” we also demoed the technology we used in the film called “Face Plus.” This is a markerless facial capture technology that can capture your facial expressions and...
by melloajello | Jul 1, 2013 | Mixamo
Appoday.com is a site that eats, sleeps, and breathes apps. Every day, they sift through the good, the bad, and the ugly to uncover the shiniest app gems. Today they uncovered an app that we worked for many months on over at Mixamo.com, and finally released last week...
by melloajello | May 17, 2013 | Frontpage, Spinning Southward
“Spinning Southward is a documentary film following three bicyclists who traveled from the far northern shores of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska through 13 countries to Ushuaia, Argentina in support of the National Brain Tumor Society.” The DVD has been out for almost 3...
by melloajello | May 12, 2013 | Vahana
After two days in Thimpu, we were still adjusting to the dramatic change from the mainly Hindu cultures of Nepal and India to this very different Buddhist kingdom. Bhutan is currently governed by a lineage of “Dragon Kings,” starting in 1907, who have...
by melloajello | May 7, 2013 | Vahana
After crossing the hot dry plains of India, riding the Himalaya of Nepal, hiking a portion of the Annapurna circuit, and bike-train-bussing the final kilometers through Nepal and India to its northern border, we had made it to our final stop: Bhutan. Bhutan is a tiny...
by melloajello | May 4, 2013 | Vahana
Ok, I admit it. When Pam and I planned the map for where we would be riding on this trip, we were perhaps a tad overambitious. 2300 kilometers in one month in countries that we are unfamiliar with is a lot. Our pace turned out to be far slower than what expected,...
by melloajello | May 2, 2013 | Bike Love, Vahana
Biking from the train station in Hasimara to the border of Bhutan was another perfect day. We navigated some gnarly roads under construction and some smooth roads through the tea fields, but none of the roads were boring roads. While we had great enthusiasm for...
