MetaFilter posts tagged with kites

Kite-flying Falconry

dkg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:32:22 -0800

How do you convince a raptor to exercise? One way is to send up a kite with bait (a chunk of meat) attached. This is a relatively new strategy (~30 years) in the millenia-old tradition of falconry.

Into The Wind

growabrain — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:43:47 -0800

Acrobatic kite flying (Background music: Flower Duet from Lakmé’ by Delibes)

Ben Franklin was right!

geos — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:19:13 -0800

Go fly a kite! Who thought it could be this [pdf] complicated?

Pa-Thung

hadjiboy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:38:33 -0800

The Indian Patang (pdf). Kite flying in India. Kite flying across the world. A link to the history of Kites resources. And India’s Kite flying effects on birds.

HurriCraft

?! — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:09:23 -0800

Rise above the debris during your next hurricane with the HurriCraft.

Up, Up, and Away

LeLiLo — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:44:29 -0800

10,000 kltes to be flown ”on both sides of the 500-kilometer long barrier that separates Israelis and Palestinians” on my birthday (but not in my honor). Inspiring, or just silly?

Kites over Frisco, 1906

Cryptical Envelopment — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:30:30 -0800

"THE YEAR was 1906, and the citizens of San Francisco must have found it a wildly incongruous sight--grown men at child's play in the midst of tragedy. Less than three weeks before, the earth had shaken and the city had burned. The disaster began with an earthquake in the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, and when the fires were extinguished three days later, at least two hundred thousand San Francisco residents were homeless. Yet on the afternoon of May 5, a small group of men was flying kites near Folsom and Sixth streets."

Planet Kite

hama7 — Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:05:25 -0800

Planet Kite is an ambitious website dedicated to world kites with notable appearances by Cambodia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, and the sublime Southeast Asian Leaf Kite, among many others.

marvin — Fri, 08 Nov 2002 10:40:41 -0800

pointless but surprisingly beautiful photos taken using a kite on the northern California coast

tomplus2 — Fri, 18 May 2001 13:04:35 -0800

Kites are cool, but this kite festival site kills me. ....worth clicking on "directions". Flash for everyone.

mathowie — Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:35:29 -0800

Kite aerial photography is basically hanging a remote controlled camera off a kite string and shooting pics high above the ground at random. How this guy gets such great shots is beyond me. It's amazing photography you probably haven't seen before.