The video was a created by using long exposures which captured the iPads movement through space creating three-dimensional forms in light.

The process started by creating software models of three-dimensional typography, objects and animations. These were then rendered into cross sections, making a series of outlines like a virtual CAT scan. The cross sections were then played back as movies on the iPad and captured in long exposure photographs as it was dragged through the air to extrude shapes.  Each long exposure still is a single image in a composite stop frame animation.

Each frame is a long exposure photograph of 3-6 seconds. 5,500 photographs were taken and only half of these were used in the final edit.

Learning to ride a bike is one of the most valuable skills a child can learn, helping them master the art of balance, a skill crucial to so many other physical activities and sports. Not to mention there is just something plain magical about riding a bike, what with the wind in your hair, and your green conscience in the clear and all. Traditionally, children learn to ride a bike with training wheels, or at least they did when I was a kid. Now, things have changed, and before you go and get all nostalgic on me, let me tell you, they have changed for the better. A little over ten years ago Rolf and Beate Mertens came up with a novel idea that challenged the way children learned to ride bicycles and the very technology that we (adults) learned with: The Training Wheel.

Rolf and Beate were the creators of the first “like-a-bike”, which has since become a childhood staple for 2 to 5 year olds. It is a simple concept really — a bike without pedals or cranks that relies on two wheels and two feet to keep it upright. It ain’t rocket science, but I bet you wish you’d thought of it. This just goes to show that there’s always a better way to do something, and a lot of the time the “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” mentality can actually hold back progress, that a simple idea with some sweet design can do a whole lotta good. Now companies like UK-based Kiddimotto have taken the Mertens designs to the next level with a neat little range of kiddie motorbikes.

The Kiddimoto range comes in four styles, each based on a motorbike classic. From the “Scooter”, inspired by the mod scooter of the 60s, and the “Chopper”, a nod to future Easy Riders, to the Super Bike, based on real race bikes and the Srambler, a more traditional bike shape.

All this talk of bikes makes me want to go for a ride…and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Peace.

Patrick