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.
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.)?
ReplyDeleteHa, 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!
ReplyDeleteHa, 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.
ReplyDeleteWhen 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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