Category Archives: Drachen

Drachen: Beauty and Design

Here are some comments on refined beauty and design.  Take a look at the two [...]

Drachen: An Unearthed Treasure

A few months ago, I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico to participate in the [...]

Drachen: Werner Ahlgrim

FanØ, Denmark brings together some of the most amazing kite builders in the world when [...]

Drachen: Quiet Sophistication of the Barriletes Gigantes

To help celebrate the release of the Drachen Foundation’s Wings of Resistance, The Giant Kites [...]

Drachen: A Tale of Two Collectors

For almost thirty years I have collected Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) that have images of [...]

Some Fodder for Creativity

In my last article for KiteLife I wrote about the importance of not plagiarizing original [...]

Homage, Plagiarism, and Outright Theft

I clearly remember my second trip to FanØ, Denmark, when, as I was driving down [...]

Empty Spaces: Jørgen Møller Hansen

Perhaps it is a bit “odd” to have so many individuals write about one kitemaker. [...]

Drachen – Perusing a Kite Archive

Perhaps the following images and details from articles will spur some of you to action.  [...]

Drachen Archives: Japanese Prints

Scott Skinner has one of the most unique collections of Japanese prints in the world [...]

Drachen: Deb Cooley

Deb Cooley I jumped into kiting with both feet in 1984 when I attended my [...]

Issue 81: Drachen Archives – Power of Our Online Archive

After 17 years of collecting, studying, documenting, digitizing and finally redesigning a massive website that [...]

Issue 80: Drachen Archives

Tour the new foundation website! I’d like to take Kitelife.com readers on a guided tour [...]

Issue 78: Drachen Archives: Artists in Cervia

A gallery of artists in Cervia Having made kites for almost thirty years, I’ve come [...]

Issue 77: Drachen Archives: Back to Beaufort

I’ve been lucky in the last several years to participate in a number of collaborations [...]

Issue 76: Drachen Archives: Digitizing

When we make art, or kites, it’s often a convergence of factors that guides our [...]

Issue 75: Drachen Archives: Painting with Papel China

Many of you don’t know that I have another artistic passion – distinct and different [...]

Issue 74: Drachen Archives: DOTA @ Burning Man

My 2010 Burning Man experience started with a full-fledged white-out of blowing dust and sand. [...]

Issue 73: Drachen Archives: Master of Paper and Flight

For the last twenty years, there has been a shining star in the kite flyers’ [...]

Issue 72: Drachen Archives: A Collection of National Treasures

It is a bit humorous to talk about “humans” being artifacts and treasures, but such [...]

Issue 71: Drachen Archives – Relegated to the Back Room…

As I was starting to organize all of the assorted objects that are not kites, [...]