Women knicker’s, Dove and Pterodactyl by KARL LONGBOTTOM

For about a year, i suddenly have been much more interested by light single line kites to play indoor or in very light winds in the field, waiting to fly bigger and heavier kites. Those kites are great to watch but they are often even greater to fly.

Here are 3 of my favourite kites at the moment, with lots of innovations, humour, very well design and made by Karl, and at last but not least, quite cheap ! :

The lad’ys knickers, the dove and the amazing pterodactyl i fly this summer in New-York, Bali and so many other places in Indonesia.

Much more informations about Karl on his website :
http://www.longbottom.org.uk/

The Air-Yo – IndoorkIte in Portugal

I love that kite – The Air-Yo -
We had such a great time with it at the Alcochete festival, Portugal in March 2009 -
Revolution Kites makes also a kite which is quite similar by its concept – that i have not tried yet -

http://www.air-yo.com

One SKY, one WORLD 2009 – 24th Annual Celebration.

ONE SKY, ONE WORLD 2009

ONE SKY WEB 2009, a UNIQUE CELEBRATION OF PEACE IN THE SKY.

http://subvision.net/sky/osow/one.sky.2009/

You all have read about ONE SKY, ONE WORLD which as at first a political proclamation to reunify the EST and the OUEST during the cold war. Today, the aim of that very special day is to Fly kites worldwide for Peace, Culture, Exchange, Tolerance and understanding.

• ONE SKY osoWWW LiveWeb:
http://subvision.net/sky/osow

• ONE SKY denver proclamation:
http://www.oneskyoneworld.org/

• ONE SKY LiveWeb at Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137062827909

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This is the last message of our friend TOM JECKEL :

dear friends, ..and again!

One Sky – One World, worldwide kitefling for peace, will be celebrated this sunday, october 11, 2009. Feel welcome to join the worldwide simultaneous kitefly, undivided by borders – only by timezones , Do not forget to send your individual greetings to the worldwide kite+peace community
• by word and/ or PHOTO.
Your photo/s of your kiteflying, kite culture and cultural landscape, and the people, will be placed in the ONE SKY web and album.

pls mail your feedback, photos to webworker tom: mailto:tt@subvision.net

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2009 ONE SKY SPECIAL: “crossover travel and exchange” ..
visit other cultural places of osow – and let the world know!
(example: kitefliers from different countries will visit osow
in denver, colorado, usa. webworker tom will visit xiamen, china.
WHERE will you go?)

2009 OSOW VIDEO:
(denver) “we are trying to Skype this year’s OSOW “World Kite Day”.
The time difference is the challenge.
At this point we have four locations in the States that are willing to participate. A suggestion came through to collect shor…t clips/videos which could be pulled together into a master video.”

2009 OSOW WORLD MAP
send the google adress (.kmz) and i will place it in the overview!

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OSOW 2008 - Germany

OSOW 2008 - BaToCo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

OSOW official logo by Tom

Kiteflying under WATER / Cerf-volant sous l’eau

A new video from the Taiwainese kite flyer Deryl Yeh including the Scubadoo :

Here is an amazing project created by Thomas JECKEL (a great artist working with the wind (Kites, Flags and landart installations) – and one of the organizers of the peace organisation : ” ONE SKY, ONE WORLD”.

The specs and order a kite here :
http://drachenmanufaktur.com/ksf/kites/scubadoo.htm/

All the pictures are there :
http://www.drachenmanufaktur.de/gallery/v/kite-art/scubakite/

http://subvision.net/kitedive/events/thailand/march2002-1.htm

This was developped between 2002 and 2006 :
http://subvision.net/kitedive/index.htm

and lots of articles of the Berouth fly in 2002 :
http://subvision.net/kitedive/2002elements-pressreport.htm

kite in the Mediteranean see (Beyrouth)

Group Scubista

A kite in the Red Sea

Graphic Design and kites : The festivals posters

As a graphic designer and a kite flyer myself i am very sensible about the posters designed to promote festivals. Unfortunatly, i can tell very few are good, even if the kites which are presented are amazing, and if the kite flyers are very sensible to art, paintings, and drawing, because it’s all they do : decorate the sky.

Here is a very interesting collection of them mainly from France, but also Germany or Taiwan :

http://affichescv.free.fr/

Graphic Design at the 2007 Berck Festival, France.

The first live Graphic Design Competition on Rokkakus

Moscow, Russia, 8 & 9 May 2009
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Kites used to be great flying machines during wars in China, to observe from flying platforms. They were also used for all sorts of things like fishing in north Salawesi (Indonesia) since hundreds years ago, used to pull radio antenas (the Marconi invention or radios antenas used to be saved after a plane crash during the world war II used by english) or pelenty of other inventions with kites : “www.carnetdevol.org”

Today, kites are kids games and for fewer people, adults games.
They are also meant to decorate the sky, as paintings or sculptures in the sky. That’s why Kite designers are often artists, painters and designers. that is one of the reason i love flying kites. Even kite flyers who use very technical stunt kites for freestyle flying want nice kites with great graphic design.

Some people like Michel GRESSIER in France, like to paint on their kites. He, for exemple, proposed a few years ago to some his graphic designers friends to paint on big Edos kites ( 2 x 4m rectangular japanes kites).

“www.le-ciel-pour-cimaise.com”

Michel Gressier's Kites

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In the same idea, the Moscow kite club organised during his may 2009 festival (the 6th festival), a great event : the ZapfGames, a calligraphy projects (GREEK : calli=beauty / graphy=Hand) or the art of drawing nice letters. More than 50 participants painted on 2×2 sqm sheets Japanese Haiku. A jury of graphic designers chose 10 winners and after adding bamboo, flew 20 great rokkakus together. (Thank you for Mike LOSKOV for sharing those informations – www.prokite.ru )

It seems to me that the ZapfGames are named after Hermann ZAPF and his wife Gudrun ZAPF von HESSE ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Zapf ) one of the greatest typographer of the century ( with his great Optima, Palatino and Zapfino (you have them in you computer if you have a Mac)
sorry i dont read russian but it must be explained on zapfgames.ru…

The great life of Hermann ZAPF on the Linotype site :
http://www.linotype.com/en/1494/thelifestoryofhermannzapf.html?PHPSESSID=358ed0ef14662769febbe6d3ca9336bc

Painted Rokkakus in the Moscow park

Everything about the ZAPFGAMES 09 (especially all the pictures – click on the right handside pictures)

“www.zapfgames.ru”

“www.flickr.com”

“http://atarbeev.livejournal.com”

More calligraphy :

AIRSKIM – Ultralight single line kite, from the Horvath Kite Lab

This is the airskim, a great suiss single kite from the HORVATH kite lab.
The video i took shows two nice ultralight single line kites (italian copies) at the Frejus Festival 2008, France.

More about the Horvath Kite Lab :
http://www.horvath.ch

It can be bought directly from the studio Horvath in switzerland, or from HQ/Invento who also makes licenced copies :

http://www.invento-hq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=485&Itemid=106

http://www.volango.com/en/Kites/Delta/Hybrid-Singelline-kite-synergetischer-Nullwinddrachen.html

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• L’Airskim, un cerf-volant ultra leger suisse du Kite lab HORVATH

http://www.horvath.ch

http://www.invento-hq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=485&Itemid=106

http://www.volango.com/en/Kites/Delta/Hybrid-Singelline-kite-synergetischer-Nullwinddrachen.html

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In french :
http://www.bilboquet-kites.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167787062

Download this video in high resolution here :
http://revolutionkite.free.fr