by melloajello | Apr 7, 2013 | Bike Love, Vahana
The Vahana Adventure Vāhana (वाहन, skt. that which carries, that which pulls)denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular deva is said to use as a vehicle. The vahana and deity to which they support are in a reciprocal relationship. Vahana...
by melloajello | Apr 4, 2013 | Spinning Southward
The last post was about the expedition camera + laptop technology of 2006, how I struggled with its limitations, and what I learned about preventing it from breaking on a 10,000 mile bike tour from Mexico to Argentina. Looking back, its really quite incredible how...
by melloajello | Mar 14, 2013 | Spinning Southward
What is it like to live every day on a bicycle for 16,000 miles?“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...
by melloajello | Feb 28, 2013 | Film and Animation
Last year I took an “Intro to Sustainable Design” class at UC Berkeley Extension and happened to sit next to a man by the name of Galen Maloney. Though he was a man of few words like myself, I felt compelled to talk to him and we hit it off. A year after...
by melloajello | Jan 5, 2013 | Film and Animation
The new year brought the launch of my good friend Bryan’s new site, PurifyArt.net. The idea is to help empower artists by giving them an easy way to promote and get paid for their artwork. Mello Ajello Media created an animated video to show what...
by melloajello | Dec 12, 2012 | Mixamo
Most people don’t realize that the motions we capture at Mixamo, when used with high quality characters and lighted and rendered well, can produce a very nice, film quality motion capture animation. We wanted to create a cinematic animation like this, so I...
by melloajello | Nov 8, 2012 | Spinning Southward
When I joined Spinning Southward and started the 10,000 mile ride south with my camera and laptop, I thought my problems would be finding clean water and fighting off banditos, not trying to figure out where to fix technology in Latin America. Yet that was pretty...
by melloajello | Nov 5, 2012 | Spinning Southward
This Thursday, November 8th, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center will feature Spinning Southward at the Art & Science Discovery Center located at 3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette, CA 94549. The screening will begin 6:30 p.m., followed by a brief Q&A...
by melloajello | Oct 16, 2012 | Spinning Southward
We definitely were not the first, or the last, to ride our bikes from Alaska to Argentina. We weren’t the fastest . . . like Emmanuel Gentinetta, who still has the world record for the fasted solo bike tour for the famed 16,000 miles of Pan-American highway....
by melloajello | Oct 9, 2012 | Spinning Southward
With this new trailer I am pleased to continue the launch of the Spinning Southward Film DVD released over the summer. After nearly 6 years of editing, awareness events and preparation, the Spinning Southward adventure is available in feature length format on DVD at...
