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Issue 76: South Padre Island Kite Festival Gallery
Photos by TK Barresi and Dave Shattuck
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Issue 76: Great Texas Kite Club Fly
As is now the tradition, the Coastal Bend Skypirates coordinated the date of the Great Texas Kite Club Fun Fly again this year with the City of Rockport’s Christmas season opening festivities that...
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Issue 76: Monkeys in Malaysia Pt 2 (Bintulu Kite Festival)
-Read Part 1 Here- When I last wrote about my trip to Malayasia in the last Kitelife issue, Meaghan and I had popped around Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, well guided by the ever resourceful Chris Tan...
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Issue 76: Treasure Island Kite Festival
Oh yeah, not being lucky enough to live in a southern part of the USA, we always love any opportunity to take a trip out of Portland (OR) for drier, sunnier weather in order to shake off the chill and...
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Issue 76: South Padre Island Kite Festival
Waltzing with the Weather down in Texas… or attending a GREAT South Padre Island Kite Festival Scotty Weider and I are on a “Kite Road Trip” together. We’d been out a week when we hit Texas, staying a...
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Issue 76: KTAI Trade Show 2011
21st annual – Las Vegas, NV I always look forward to this event… It’s not what you’d call a “kiteflier’s event”, but if you’re in the business and keen on learning about the industry as well as the...
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Issue 76: Featured Store: Into The Wind
Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive of Kitelife and other areas of the kiting community…The retailers you’ll find here are established, proven vendors....
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Issue 76: REVisions – Bazzer, Xtras and B2s!
What to write about in the dull winter months between festivals? Actually, truth be told I could talk about how 4 of iQuad rolled into South Padre Island earlier this week to get some practice in only...
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Issue 76: Pothecary’s Corner
Introducing Us Please allow me to introduce ourselves. Some readers may have met us already and some will have discovered our website. We are Marilyn and Allan Pothecary, founder members and leaders...
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Issue 76: Kite Comics
This issue marks the second set of kite cartoons we’ve had made for Kitelife Magazine, courtesy of Dan Thompson (Funny Cartoonist)… These two were just made “off the cuff”, but we’d like to start...
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Issue 76: News Reel
Community/Activism: “…The flying of angel-shaped kites marked the culmination of the Pink Purse campaign, a collaborative effort between the Breast Cancer Welfare Association (BCWA) and supported by...
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Issue 76: Drachen Archives: Digitizing
When we make art, or kites, it’s often a convergence of factors that guides our creativity. Sewing skill, access to materials, travel: all of these can influence the next end product. In my own...
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Issue 76: Dave’s World: Travel – Tips and Trips
We’ve seen a lot of online posts lately asking about traveling with kites. And I completely understand. Between lost bags and damage, extra fees, and all that security, no wonder people are anxious....
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Issue 76: Dave’s World: Star Farker
Back in the early 90′s, the Star Watcher by Jordan Air was one of the best loved kites on the field. If memory serves, it was even featured on the cover of American Kite Magazine. Things were...
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Issue 76: AKA Corner
Do you know what the AKA does for you? In another forum, a question was posed: “What is the best kite group to belong to? And what are the benefits of belonging to the groups?” The writer had heard of...
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Issue 76: Kites… Life.
What a great year we had for kiting in 2010! At least that’s my opinion… I don’t mean in terms of measurable growth, but in the little changes I’ve seen in the mentality at the 18 kite festivals I...
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Issue 76: From the Editor
Well, I’m here to tell you it’s been a tough winter for content and we really found ourselves working hard with our contributors to bring a fairly solid line up of articles and reports for this latest...
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