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Vahana Featured on Bike Friday Blog
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 need a...
Vahana Released
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 are in a...
Mixamo’s First Short Film “Unplugged” Released Last Week at Unite 2013
"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...
Mixamo Releases Latest Facial Capture Technology “Face Plus”
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 emotions using only a web...
“Charade Parade” Featured on Appoday.com
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...
Spinning Southward Streaming through Vimeo.com
“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 years...
Bhutan Part 2: Temples and Takins
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 done much to...
Bhutan Part 1: A Vacation from Our Vacation
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...
Racing to Bhutan
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,...
Interlude of Bengali Kindness
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...
Slowly, Slowly: Annapurna circuit
We arrived in Pokhara after an 80 kilometer day, up and down through the mountains of Nepal. Pokhara is a comfortable tourist town which offers really good amenities, but was somewhat less interesting than the personal connections we experienced in the smaller towns...
New Promo for Mixamo All Access
"With Mixamo All Access (http://www.mixamo.com/allaccess), get limitless access to all Mixamo 3D character models, all animations, and to the Mixamo Auto-Rigger, along with an Unlimited+ Mecanim Animation Store license on Unity." With direction from Michele Baggio we...
Siddhartha Highway, Nepal
Sunday morning we enjoyed a nice breakfast with Neelu, her husband, son and daughter. We talked about many things, including what it means to be Sikh , the (wonderful) customs and relationship with God. It was somewhat difficult to break away from the comfort of their...
Pedaling to the Nepal border (and a kind meeting)
We had to make up for some lost time (due to aforementioned stomach bug) so we got a taxi ride to Gorakhpur where we were dropped at the side of the road (with our agreement). Gorakhpur is approximately 80km from the border of Nepal. As we assembled our bikes and...
2 Days in Varanasi, India
We arrived in Varanasi by train, 2nd train ride of our trip so far. It was expected to arrive at 12:30 a.m. but ultimately arrived at 3 a.m. which is to be expected in India and is understood. The local hotel had offered to send a car and they had kindly waited. This...
Etawah part 2: Kali Wahan Temple and the Internet cafe
As mentioned in Etawah post 1, we had planned to leave the morning after arriving in Etawah but the town had more in mind for us. After the ring ceremony we hopped a bike taxi which transferred us to rickshaw to make our way to temple. When we arrived we could see the...
Etawah part 1: ring ceremony
Firozabad -->Etawah: ~70 km, 100 degrees As we got closer to Etawah we began looking for a place to sleep. According 'the Internet' maps checked the night before, there were a couple options, one called hotel Krishna. Turned out to be a truckstop for the many...
Maximum Village
Holy cows. Many times before this trip we talked to people and agreed "Yes, it will be hard." Such a simple statement....but until you are here....in the heat, the insane traffic, and the masses of people, there is no way to comprehend it. An Indian man rode up next...
Fighting jet lag and permanent rush hour in New Delhi.
It's only been 3 days since our arrival in New Delhi, but San Francisco and our busy lives already seem like a distant memory. We arrived at 9:30 in the morning after 28 hours of air travel, and were picked up at Delhi airport by our good friend Anuj's mother Usha and...
Detour to the Burj
Had an 8 hour layover in Dubai, so we swung by to see this beautiful monstrosity.
The Vahana Adventure – Intro
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...
Expedition Documentary Technology, Then and Now Part 2: 3 Evolutions of Technology if I had to do it all over
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...
Spinning Southward now for Sale through Melloajello.com
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...
Nautical Torque Indiegogo Campaign Video Complete
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 the class...
PurifyArt.net Released Today – Completed Animation for Home Page
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 PurifyArt's purpose...
Making a High Quality Cinematic Using the 3ds Max and Mixamo with Solomon Jagwe
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 called on...
Expedition Documentary Technology, Then and Now – Part 1: “Spinning Southward Profiles – Los Tecnicos”
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...
This Thursday, Nov. 8 Spinning Southward Screening @Lafayette Library
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...
25 of My Favorite Photos from our Bicycle Journey Through Latin America
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. He...
Spinning Southward DVD Trailer Released
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...