Like many of us, Stephen Lund loves to doodle. However, he doesn’t use conventional materials like pens, pencils, markers or even brushes. He uses his bike, and the capital of British Columbia is his canvas.
The Victoria-based cycling enthusiast became an internet sensation the moment he mounted Strava, a GPS device that tracked his bike routes with a thin red line, to his bicycle. Over the past year or so, Lund has been carefully planning out each of his long bike rides so that they’ll produce an image, such as an angler fish, giraffe, giant anteater, Siren of the Salish Sea, or the Sea Serpent of Haro Strait.
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“What excites me most about GPS doodling,” Lund said at TEDxVictoria, “is that it takes the intimidation out of creative expression. If you can move, you can doodle. In fact, when I coined the term GPS doodles, I did so because ‘GPS art’ felt a little too lofty and exclusive. Everybody doodles. And anyone can GPS doodle.”
Listen to Lund’s TED talk, “A Creative Spin: Pedaling My Art,” in the video below.
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Head on over to gpsdoodles.com to see more of his amazing artwork.
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