Issue 75: One Sky One World @ Denver, CO
Oct 10th 2010 – Colorado, Denver 25 years ago, a simple event took place. Jane Parker-Ambrose presented a kite to the Soviet Women’s Peace Committee in Moscow, just in advance of the historic...
View ArticleIssue 75: Lincoln City Fall Festival
Noah visits Lincoln City… or Lordy, LORDY – Didn’t it RAIN!!! Yes, it’s actually all true (well, most of it anyway)… But let me start at the beginning, just like I usually do. We had a bit of...
View ArticleIssue 75: South Padre Island Competition
Sponsored by Windchasers Kite Shop It’s not often we attend a kite festival where the weather and wind are just about perfect, and it’s very rare it happens on both days of a two-day event. Well, it...
View ArticleIssue 75: Let’s Paint The Rosario Sky (Spanish)
** Click here to read this article in English ** Mis amigos; Ariel Carnevalli tuvo un sueño hace ya diez años. Desde su inicio lo mantuvo vivo haciéndolo realidad de forma ininterrumpida. Ariel lo ha...
View ArticleIssue 75: Let’s Paint The Rosario Sky
** Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en Español ** Hi friends; Ariel Carnevalli had a dream ten years ago which has developed year after year to become truth. Ariel has organized this Festival...
View ArticleIssue 75: Camas Indoor Festival
Yes, it’s November – which means the whole house will be in an uproar! Nearly EVERYbody in the Northwest that competes in Sport Kites will show up at our door – even if they’re NOT staying with us!...
View ArticleIssue 75: Featured Store: Great Canadian Kite Company
Great Canadian Kite Company http://www.canadiankitecompany.com Taber, Alberta. Canada. T1G 1A1 Toll Free: 1-877-382-3956 Email: sales@canadiankitecompany.com The Great Canadian Kite Co. is a family...
View ArticleIssue 75: Buggy Newz
Location: – Pembrey and Pendine beaches, South Wales, UK. The Last Gasp has been the end of race season traditional weekend meet for well over 15 yrs. Saturday starts with a number of 3 lap races and...
View ArticleIssue 75: REVisions: On the Horizon
Ah, as the icy grip of winter begins to grip the Northwest (complete with snow!), I begin to wish that the summer was either still here or, at least coming a little sooner than the months away that it...
View ArticleIssue 75: KiteGang.org – Social Entrepreneurship
According to Wikipedia: “Social entrepreneurship is the work of a social entrepreneur. A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize,...
View ArticleIssue 75: Kite Paradise
** Originally posted on Rec.Kites on January 20th, 1998 ** The KTAI has come and gone and here in San Diego it’s back to reality. When I was at the KTAI demo fly on Saturday, the 10th of January, I met...
View ArticleIssue 75: Monkeys in Malaysia – Part 1
-Read Part 2 Here- One day last spring, Lam Hoac popped over for a visit. Lam is prone to doing this since he lives mere blocks away, so I end up seeing him on a fairly regular basis, which I like. We...
View ArticleIssue 75: Nokia Push N8 – KAP Winners Announced!
The winners of the Push N8 competition have been announced! Our Push KAPing video and the Push N8 project were featured in previous issues of Kitelife, so we wanted to keep you in the loop with what’s...
View ArticleIssue 75: Japan in Argentina – Cultural Exchange (Spanish)
** Click here to read this article in English* Japón en la Argentina, alberga la idea de un intercambio cultural desde distintos espacios: La exposición, las demostraciones de vuelo, la pintura, la...
View ArticleIssue 75: Japan in Argentina – Cultural Exchange
** Haga clic aquí para leer este artículo en Español ** The idea of Japan in Argentina emerged from different exchange cultural vision: The exhibition; flying demonstrations; painting; miniature...
View ArticleIssue 75: ProFile: Will Sturdy
It’s been nearly a year and a half since our last interview here at Kitelife and we figured what better opportunity for our next one, than with this young up-and-comer from Williamsburg, Virginia....
View ArticleIssue 75: Kite Comics
This issue marks the second set of kite cartoons we’ve had made for Kitelife Magazine, courtesy of Dan Thompson (Funny Cartoonist)… These two were just made “off the cuff”, but we’d like to start...
View ArticleIssue 75: News Reel
Commerce: Kabul, Afghanistan “Sometimes we sell up to 20,000 kites a day,” says Tamim, 35, who goes only by one name, and who has been selling kites for 20 years on Kabul’s busy market street, Strand...
View ArticleIssue 75: Drachen Archives: Painting with Papel China
Many of you don’t know that I have another artistic passion – distinct and different from creating kites in ripstop nylon or paper – it is ballroom dancing and I’m finally feeling (after ten years)...
View ArticleIssue 75: Dave’s World: Claudio Capelli Showcase
November 16, 2010 The international festival in Dieppe, France, did something delightful this year. From around the world, they collected, borrowed, and begged more than two dozen magnificent kites...
View ArticleIssue 75: Dave’s World: Khayelitsha, South Africa
Kiting on the Cape! October 26, 2010 I’m sitting in Boulder Beach near Cape Town in South Africa. We’re out on the deck and among the stars overhead is the Southern Cross. Our group is enjoying the...
View ArticleIssue 75: AKA Corner
Are you a current member of the AKA? Now, before you answer, think, have you received any email messages from the AKA lately? My latest message went out 2 weeks ago in the cool new format. Did you...
View ArticleIssue 75: Kites… Life.
In lieu of any pressing topics for my column this month, I’ve got a handful of news items and other recent projects which may be of interest… Video sharing just for kite fliers YouTube has definitely...
View ArticleIssue 75: From the Editor
We’re heading into the Christmas season and setting up our tree, approaching the end of the year and looking forward to a new one coming up – after twelve years since Mike Gillard started Kitelife,...
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