Sunday, November 17, 2013

Kitelines



















That Kimiai film made me think about kites. The colors and materials and geometries of kite-flying are so beautiful. Try doing a google image search for 'tetrahedral kite'. Kite fan culture of the 70s almost mirrors the underground environmental art and inflatables of Ant Farm or whoever. Here are some images from KiteLines magazine from the late 70s. You can find PDFs of every single issue of this magazine here. Start with the earliest issue and travel forward in time - totally amazing.
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  1. dispoNovember 19, 2013 at 4:30 AM

    Lovely! It sort of makes me a little melancholic though. Maybe because flying kites epitomizes innocent purposeless past-time (as opposed to self-optimization etc.)?

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  2. BenNovember 19, 2013 at 4:34 PM

    Ha, I think a lot of these hard-core kite fans in the magazine take this shit super seriously -- not an innocent past time at all!

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  3. dispoNovember 20, 2013 at 10:24 AM

    Ha, sure! But that's not a contradiction, is it? It's even better if it's taken seriously. It's still wonderfully purposeless - just feeling the wind like it's being done for hundreds of years. It's not sports or anything. Call me a romantic.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 20, 2013 at 7:33 PM

    When i think of kites i think of child like obsessives, but i think they originally started out as weapons or hunting tools. Some of them are beautiful though.

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