Bicyclist uses app to turn his rides into art

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If Stephen Lund's giraffe looks amateurish, consider his medium: his bicycle and a GPS tracking app.

At a TEDx Talk, Lund explained how his Strava app tracks cycling trips for fitness and marks the route on a map.

"It just struck me immediately that there had to be some creative potential to it," Lund told CBS News.

Lund plots his paths through the streets of Victoria, Canada. The end result: a grasshopper, a thug, Darth Vader and a mermaid that took 14 hours alone.

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