Random Picture Thread

Amazingly, these are sidewalk drawings (by Julian Beever)

 

something about the finger skirts just looks more professional

oh well do a picture essay and keep us posted
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Gosh! Who is this good looking man
Dany
900-765-1239

 

I ran out of material of the 3rd redo and used every scrap I had, looks terrible but it works just fine.

 

Wisconsin

 

A book entiled; "The battle for Monte Cassino" is another eye opener!

 

http://www.greentechmedia.com/green-light/2008/07/P14/


http://www.molokai.com/kites/boat


http://www.angelsofthesky.com/photos1.htm

 

I bought kites like that for my sons one year, George. Neither one ever flew them; instead they hung them in their bedrooms.

 

there used to be a shop named "Into the wind" up in Boulder that sold kites like that one. My bet is that thing is about $300 bucks, so loosing it in a tree is not really an option.

they had some upwards of $2000
crazy expensive and no way you would fly it within a mile of any obstacle

 

My Dad built his own kites when he was a kid in Denver.

 

Ones like those shown in the pictures go for about forty bucks or less, Boston. Which is still a lot for a kid's kite, but not so expensive it can't be risked. My kids just thought they looked cool hanging from their bedroom ceilings....

When I was about five years old, my dad built a box kite bigger than I was, out of brown wrapping paper. It had triangular wings on two corners, and a long tail. When he let me hold it, it lifted me off the ground. Fortunately he had kept one hand on the string, so he didn't lose the kite when I let go.

 

na the "Into the Wind" Kites had carbon fiber sticks and parachute cloth where the paper aught to be

you forget its Boulder mate

you can pretty much quadruple the cost of anything and some fool college kid will spring for it

I think they are even still in biz
e gads they are

http://www.intothewind.com/

ok Im guilty
they have radio controlled kites these days
might have to get me one of those

 

My dad taught me to built kites so small they would fit in your shirt pocket-twice. When I was in college I was flying one on campus. Somebody came up to me and saw the kite flying off in the "distance" which prompted him to ask how much "line" did I have out, so I reeled it in and showed it to him close up. The upright of the frame was made out of a toothpick and the skin was made from a piece of tissue paper that came in a box of new shoes and I only had about 30 feet of sewing thread unreeled.

 

That is a great Scale Story.

http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/sanfranciscophoto1/ig/berkeleykitefestival/Fish-Kites.htm


http://www.fishingfury.com/20080425/big-fish-kite/


Anne Quemere solo wind kited across the North Atlantic in 2006
http://www.adventuresofgreg.com/HPB/10-01-06.html

http://peterlynnhimself.com/Tie_Kites.php

 

Nice pun.