Category Archives: 2010

Issue 75: South Padre Island Competition

Sponsored by Windchasers Kite Shop It’s not often we attend a kite festival where the [...]

Issue 75: Lincoln City Fall Festival

Noah visits Lincoln City… or Lordy, LORDY – Didn’t it RAIN!!! Yes, it’s actually all [...]

Issue 75: One Sky One World @ Denver, CO

Oct 10th 2010 – Colorado, Denver 25 years ago, a simple event took place. Jane [...]

Issue 75: Camas Indoor Festival Gallery

Photos by TK Barresi and Dave Shattuck

2010 AKA Convention: Day 6

Last day of AKAGN, I started off my morning with a visit to Ben Dantonio’s [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 5

Our morning workshops consisted of “Traveling to Kite Festivals Outside the USA” by Cliff Quinn [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 4

Thursday morning started off with pretty good weather and early winds off the land, so [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 3

Another absolutely amazing day in Seaside with sun and warm weather all day, and while [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 2

My morning started off with a quick jaunt over to the Convention Center for a [...]

2010 AKA Convention: Day 1

First day of AKAGN in Seaside, OR… Brings back nostalgic feelings, as this was where [...]

Issue 74: From the Editor

It’s hard to believe we’re already into Fall and another kite season is well on [...]

Issue 74: Kites… Life.

Competition, is it time to MIX it up? To provide a small disclaimer, this article [...]

Issue 74: AKA Corner

Welcome back to the AKA corner of the world! It is an honor and privilege [...]

Issue 74: Dave’s World: Festival de Verano

Weekend in Bogota – August 11, 2010 It sounds a bit crazy, doesn’t it? Flying [...]

Issue 74: Dave’s World: Balikpapan (How the Story Ended)

August 31, 2010 Six months ago, a group of us traveled to Balikpapan in Borneo [...]

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 74: News Reel

Afghanistan: “As I stood on the roof of the Ministry of Interior headquarters last evening [...]

Issue 74: Kite Comics

This issue marks the second set of kite cartoons we’ve had made for Kitelife Magazine, [...]

Issue 74: The Green Giant Kites

From RB Toys 1971-1990 Promotional kites are an ancient business, basically as old as the [...]

Issue 74: Build a D-Stix Tetrahedral

When I was a junior in high school I became obsessed with the geometry of [...]

Issue 74: A Novice Position in the Mega Grid

100 Rev kites in a 10 x 10 stable grid formation…. That was the plan, [...]