tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48631353508852209102024-03-05T23:45:55.543-08:00A I R W O R K S S T U D I OGeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-57552322822468896362015-11-22T23:04:00.000-08:002015-11-24T12:12:55.312-08:00THE MAKING OF IDEAS - Start to Finish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Public and corporate art projects are often a mystery to most artists. Having been in the field for quite a period of time since the early 1980’s and after completing over eighty five large scale commissioned art projects around the state, nationally and internationally, I often look back in wonder why I’m even still standing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In making a large scale project it often takes a large amount of patience, communication skills, work with engineers, architects, art committee members, business representatives and corporate client CEOs. Sometimes we work with artist agencies who handle most details and other times we do it all ourselves. Either way the process is challenging and often rewarding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Melanie and I are both process oriented artists. While the end product is certainly an important part of this process, our concentration and work takes place in the early stages of the idea and design. This stage then progresses to a formal proposal of a concept or maybe several ideas, then meetings with the client for feedback and approval, contract signatures, scheduling the fabrication and installation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As artists we both tend to work intuitively and enjoy spontaneous design so planning a project one or two years ahead is often difficult. Generally we have a month to present a proposal of our concepts. After that our imaginations might progress to other directions with ideas, new thoughts, alternatives and new materials. It’s always a learning process each time stretching our capabilities in increments along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Last year we were approached by an art agency, Lewis Graham Art Consultants in Denver, to present ideas for a new building in South Denver that would be the new company headquarters for CoBank, an agricultural lending and financing bank for agribusinesses, rural power, water and communications systems. We were to present ideas and concepts for their atrium entry lobby space. The building construction had just broken ground and we prepared a package of our past projects for the agent to present to the CoBank people. A short time after they expressed interest in having us put together some ideas and a proposal for the entry area artwork. There were three other artist finalists that they are looking at so the proposal meeting is an important stage in presenting the idea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Given that the bank is multi-layered in its involvement with agricultural businesses we chose to work with general abstracted themes within the framework of the concept. Circular ideas kept presenting themselves, the cycles of seasons, the shapes of pivotal irrigation fields, the wide open spaces needed for farming and agriculture, the sky, the clouds, colors of fields throughout the seasons. So many images along these lines started to create a theme in our heads within the volume of the atrium space of that split between field and sky. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">My first aerial view of farm fields from an airplane taking off from Denver’s Stapleton Airport back in the early seventies astounded me by the beauty of that patchwork quilt below. I was surprised and delighted by seeing the circular fields that used pivotal irrigation systems from the air. How could I not have noticed them all the years before? This theme then started to dominate our approach.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Two thin membranes on the planet, the arable soil layer and the atmospheric water circulatory system, create the living sustenance for all of life. The importance and connections of these two elementary systems to our civilization is deep in its history and immense in its mark on the earth. </i></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In a world where the products of the farm and extensive agricultural practice is hidden from view of the consumer behind the veil of packaged food and stocked grocery chains, the only glimpse that most people have of the immensity of the agricultural endeavors and infrastructure this country has produced is during airplane flights of the much maligned "fly-over land". The casual view out the window reveals vast areas of the country that are filled from horizon to horizon with a quilt of farming fields each with a shimmering array of lakes and reservoirs, meandering estuaries of silver rivers, and hundreds of thousands of miniaturized farm houses, barns, stables and grain silos dotting the grid of roads below. It is this flat land and rural heartland that provides the nutritional ad economic sustenance to this country.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>We both have traveled extensively as youths over dirt roads of rural America, witnessing firsthand the fields of dreams that a particular farm bred group of people called 'farmers' have cultivated. Those fields are a testament to the cooperative endeavor of growing the foods, tending the groves, the flocks and livestock on an endless carpet of green patchwork. Those flights have kept our eyes glued to the plane window watching the clouds and fields pass below us for hours and hours. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We'll be flying kites on the first day of the year again. January first is the day. Call us crazy but this is probably the 31st annual. Some years it's only been the two of us. Others have been attended by a great group of friends and kite flyers from all over. There have been sunny days, sometimes sunny and warm. Occasionally there was wind. Always some sort of refreshments and warm beverages like hot chocolate and cider. Some have been in snow storms, 60mph winds, no winds. Sometimes we bring sleds for the hilly sites. One time there was spontaneous snow sculpture making</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">This Boulder tradition had it's beginning way back in 1983 when co-owners of the Into The Wind kite store, Jim Glass and George Emmons and I decided to fly kites on the first of January. We met up at a local high school football and soccer field, popped a few kites up into the freezing winds, flew for a while and then dashed back to the car heaters to thaw out our fingers. It then became a tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">The rules for the fly was that we'd fly something no matter what the weather and what the conditions were just so that we could start the year out right and with a positive spin. After a few years other friends and family started joining us. The event traveled a bit. It went up to Bald Mountain, a short drive up Sunshine canyon above Boulder. The hike up the hillside to the top led to a view was fantastic! It was usually a clear day and you could see all the way to the Kansas border or at least to the skyscrapers of nearby Denver to the southeast. It continued there into the mid nineties with a combination picnic gathering, kite flying and tree climbing.... to retrieve the kites from the branches.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">One memorable fly was during a full blown snow blizzard storm. The storm swept through as we were hiking up the trail to set up the kites and picnic area. We thought no one would show up. Amazingly five others made it up the road and trail and we spent about an hour in the blizzard flying kites. You could not see the kites just ten feet up over our heads but you could hear them flapping wildly. It was a surreal and fantastic memory. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">If you're in the area, please stop by for some hot chocolate and a bit of fun in a snowy field. </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial;">The address is 2227 Yarmouth in Boulder. Please park in the parking lot next to the stone studio building or on the street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-11991217180599519122014-06-25T23:36:00.000-07:002014-06-27T11:36:46.069-07:00THE ART OF PLAY<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Ranch Arts Center in Aspen and Snowmass, Colorado and the Atelier 6000 gallery and printmaking cooperative in
Bend, Oregon this past two weeks. I have
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Ranch Art Center is a very special place in the mountains of Aspen and
Snowmass, Colorado. The school and workshop facility was started some fifty
years ago by a group of artists and ceramicists to offer workshops in painting,
ceramics, printmaking, photography, wood working and now … kite making. We
probably used every media available to the students for our week long adventure
into the art and craft of paper and bamboo kites. We used Sumi ink, torn paper
collage, paper fold kites, photo ink jet wax print transfers, digital prints, paper
fold ink prints as well as conte and crayon drawings for cover designs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The art of spitting bamboo was taught from the stash of shafts we brought with us. Kite books lined the tables for inspirational idea making as well as a slide talk opening eyes to the art of kites around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was our
third invitation to Anderson Ranch with previous years creating our own works
as artists in residence. We worked with talented and fun teen students creating
and bouncing off of each other’s ideas. This basic kite making class started
with simple miniature “sketch idea” kites and grew from there into larger
flyables.</span></div>
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after leaving the dining hall we played with the light winds on the nearby golf
course as the sun set over the ridge of the western high peaks. A delightful experience! We’ll return later in the summer to dress up the
campus with banners and wind creations for their annual Anderson </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ranch
Auction fund raiser.</span></span></div>
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we packed the kites and workshop materials and headed for Bend, Oregon to the
Atelier 6000 printmaking studio and gallery for our “Flyables + Floatables”
workshop. The first day was kite making with small miniature kites made from
simple materials of Kozo paper and bamboo. These quick small kite designs and
methods were then expanded into larger creations using a variety of painting,
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challenge like, well, ducks to water! Hulls were painted, printed and stamped
with elaborate designs. Sails and masts sprouted from the small decks. Ballast weighted keels were added as well as
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sails tipping dangerously close to the choppy seas. Some headed for the pond falls while others
drifted into the pump water vents. Screams were followed by a run with the long retrieving
poles around the pond and catching the boats just in time to send to the
opposite side… and into the rocks. People walking by watched this scene of
adults playing with toy boats with curiosity. Passing children wanted their own boats as well pleading with their parents to buy one for them. Nope.. not for sale. Gotta make your own.</span></div>
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were also a bit too strong for the kites but several students tried. One
flipped from its mooring under a box weight and ended up in the water. Despite
it all everyone had a fun and splashy day. No one fell in. All the boats not
only floated but sailed as if steered by their toy passengers. Everyone thanked
us for getting them to think outside the box of standard printmaking practice and
remembering that fine act of playful fun we learned as children. Some said it was the best workshop experience
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we hopped into our little silver Beetle bug car and spent two days on the road
with our eyes on those fabulous western skies of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming and
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">This exhibition is a collection of photos, sculptures and installations of Melanie Walker and George Peters exploring the varied themes of the house </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">and the idea of home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The house is a nest, a
place of retreat, a collection of life memories, a shelter from storms,
sometimes a prison made to escape from, a place to return to. It is our
societal glue, placing ourselves into a community of other houses in suburbs,
cities and village communities. Our house mortgages hold us there. Our families
grow up there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Our roots to place are
also our house foundations. It was not so long ago that our inherent nomadic
wanderings took us to places that we could plant and harvest. We stayed and
built houses of stone,</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">sticks, mud and straw from the earth we tilled. Our houses shaped
us. They formed our protective exoskeleton cocoon and grew with us through our evolution to city dwellers. Even our technology connections
return us to our “home” page.</span></span></div>
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together as an artist team was our similar artistic sensibilities. We both have
done works in installation, sculpture and photography using the theme of the
house. The house is a strong image of our place in the world. We have even been
influenced by our sleep dreams of houses as totems and as mazes of endless
rooms and corridors. The house has slipped into our psyche and made a place of
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our understanding of the place our houses have in our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">"The Househeads came to me in a dream. They came at a time when I was searching for a sense of place. As a single woman I was trying to determine what home was without family. They became my fictional family. Home is an idea that we carry in our heads.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">The Househeads first appeared in my work as constructed images done through a Polaroid Materials Grant. They evolved into installations, puppets and other permutations. At one point, I found a box of negatives at a yard sale. I made prints and re-photographed all of them with houses on the heads. Friends saw them and began bringing me their family pictures to include so they could be a part of my fictional family. This has been an ongoing project that I return to over the last 20 years"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The works were situated in the picturesque setting of the Colorado landscape of the Wittemeyer Ranch just west of Boulder in the foothills. The curators of the exhibit were Petra Sertic from the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Denver artist, Alvin Gregorio. Artists were chosen to engage this particular region of Colorado in it's historical and/or current context through works of art in a variety of mediums, including large scale site-specific installations, time-based art, and experimental projects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our contributions were four entry way projects. At the Wittemeyer Ranch gates were a welcoming cluster of white flags along the roadway welcoming the out-of-doors gallery hikers. At the beginning of the trail entering the area of the exhibition were series of spinning mirrored Mylar ribbons along with broken 'glass' strands and reflective aluminum. As wind caught the kinetic sculpture, light reflections danced on the ground and flashed up the trees as people walked under the forest light show. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I entitled this piece "Tree Talk". Through a series of science experiments in the eighties involving detectors placed in forest areas it was discovered that trees emit certain chemical signals into the air warning other trees of insect or parasitic invasions and thus triggering changes in the tree's natural defense systems. The strung lines of forms refer to these aerial streams of conversations between the trees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melanie's piece, entitled "At the Edge of Memory - Drawn with the Wind" featured a group of drawings on cardboard tree stump tables. Pens, pencils and charcoal drawing instruments danced over the paper suspended by paper flagged strings strung from the tree branches creating individual time tracings from the wind and tree branch movements.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alvin Gregorio's son, Koko did a fruit juice stand at the trail head<br />that was much appreciated by the exhibition hikers. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roll With it by Amber Farnell - a statue of Michelanelo's "David"<br />dragged through the exhibit, down trails and along the road</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This artist perched high on a stone outcrop made announcements<br />to the exhibition hikers below. He shouted into his bicycle mounted<br />megaphone, "HAVE YOU EVER FOUND YOURSELF... ON TOP <br />OF A CLIFF... AND WONDERED TO YOURSELF... SHOULD I <br />JUMP?...THAT IS ALL!"</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our spoken words and thoughts have been written, printed, recorded, placed on film then miniaturized to a digital pixel of the hand print on a computer keyboard. Libraries are now world word information centers holding our collective stories and marking the trail to expanding and understanding other ways of thinking, seeing and dreaming. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The resulting design of the work came about through various means. We wanted the work to involve a simple form of flying and floating paper, letter forms and pixelated color. Within the library space were deep light wells extending up through the central lobby atrium entry as well as the main library room. The library sky lights also extended up through the second floor staff offices and further to the roof top at 50' from the library floor. What a great aerial space to work with! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aerial sculpture traces a trail from the pictographic to the formation of letters and words, to paper, book, library and to the digital language of binary information process. We imagined the entire work to trace our evolution from the beginning of language to the present form of global information sharing. It's been a long journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The work itself is also long....close to five hundred feet from one end to the other. It meanders and floats through the ceiling spaces, into the skylight wells and down hallways at the facility creating discovery areas and flashing changing color patterns from the dichroic units of the 'cloud' mobiles. A cascade of letters descend from the high light wells in the library and weave among the paper and flying book forms. The paper then floats into the entry lobby, up the central skylight to a flock of gently moving mobiles. The trail of paper forms then drifts to the Event center hallway transforming into cloud-like pixel grid mobiles that float above. </span><br />
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-50296372521988502122012-03-15T17:14:00.012-07:002012-03-16T09:54:36.415-07:00SKY ON A STRING<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNVQMQvEawDYlyosC2bXZzPKNQj8NLqnVvWK3EyL105iUmuHxZI07kWJHhcNc1zlOyueDVMyq5JM_yyRKfqbNnl1NXfN4X_Ahab4FXpwAHZGS-Rwx6n8C3FmJZJLNSYQ9UJ3wNSzQWl4/s1600/P1000991.jpg" style="text-align: left; "><span><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNVQMQvEawDYlyosC2bXZzPKNQj8NLqnVvWK3EyL105iUmuHxZI07kWJHhcNc1zlOyueDVMyq5JM_yyRKfqbNnl1NXfN4X_Ahab4FXpwAHZGS-Rwx6n8C3FmJZJLNSYQ9UJ3wNSzQWl4/s320/P1000991.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720323698189057490" /></span></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span style="text-align: left; "><span>Maybe kites are the prime form of artwork for the outdoors. Some can be as large as billboards offering some prime space for shouting whatever message the flyer wishes the world to know. Kite making is an art and craft available to all as almost a folk art form throughout the world's cultures. We like to think of kites as a celebrationist form of expression. The act of flight being a magical lifting of our cares. It is the play of color and form in the invisible medium of wind and air currents that delights and brings our eyes up and spreads that smile across our faces while flying. . </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span style="text-align: left; "><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span style="text-align: left; "><span>Kites could even be one of the highest art forms depending, of course, on how much string you might have on your spool. We've often been tempted to fly our kites above the great art museums of the world so we can say "We've shown our kites at the Louvre, the Metropolitan, the Museum of Modern Art..." But the real show place is in the sky gallery and tacked to that beautiful blue and white ceiling.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span>We were asked to put up a kite show at the Museum of Outdoor Arts in South Denver in the city of Englewood for the spring wind season. While the kites have been stilled in their wind dance, it is inside within the doors of the gallery that reveals an up close view of our kites.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span>The kites include a view of over thirty years of wind blown passion. Melanie's new photo kites are featured using printing processes onto polyester covers. A special collection of Japanese kites that were gathered from numerous trips to Japan are also included as early influences in my early kite making.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span>Here's a few quick views from the show...</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB6iqspnP8mnzmRAwDcuTkcVGj85693Ru6FxZGhivrXtmJLX1IyMWEMLsts_im96jcc4MqzE5_x49e9pYmpcvmVkTcfvyyBJNDmb6LO8WlEHLoWlskMHGRI_bs2bRGpN7capd8RdcU2M/s1600/P1000989.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB6iqspnP8mnzmRAwDcuTkcVGj85693Ru6FxZGhivrXtmJLX1IyMWEMLsts_im96jcc4MqzE5_x49e9pYmpcvmVkTcfvyyBJNDmb6LO8WlEHLoWlskMHGRI_bs2bRGpN7capd8RdcU2M/s320/P1000989.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720325017336576898" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><span>the entry to the museum kite show</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPRXrirHaBBAqfd7BB9WTQ_5NzWuAtK6UeOlqqThRTo5mEyGjO050WqrrwDx-oJtVrPEgxjb5PWdPZosN7O0Augrj8HSLDt4bhr5C_hqg7EQEJrOjSrBmHrOpPYfAygnHBYdx9gXgeQrs/s1600/P1000957.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPRXrirHaBBAqfd7BB9WTQ_5NzWuAtK6UeOlqqThRTo5mEyGjO050WqrrwDx-oJtVrPEgxjb5PWdPZosN7O0Augrj8HSLDt4bhr5C_hqg7EQEJrOjSrBmHrOpPYfAygnHBYdx9gXgeQrs/s320/P1000957.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720325027115218594" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJyiKXMVemivx6qeml4eZlwlm88QwruS6Yffdl0Ojt3muQOlGnbQs7U1a_hFL7-1rh7oAmDStfZRebXJxHchbS1UskeEClNipf8-CChwu1iuaMgs1FXYbhlxBgGoiFmGlwHFL9se28AE/s1600/P1000992.jpg" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJyiKXMVemivx6qeml4eZlwlm88QwruS6Yffdl0Ojt3muQOlGnbQs7U1a_hFL7-1rh7oAmDStfZRebXJxHchbS1UskeEClNipf8-CChwu1iuaMgs1FXYbhlxBgGoiFmGlwHFL9se28AE/s320/P1000992.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720323702033236498" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span>opening night was full of delights</span></div></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjlXSrAWzImb0kNqsfw5gfiBUHdj4gRkNsBopZFhaE8Wenk23eTdOGAm1iZpPXoT06qEUb07mgxJ6GK7cMbwAtOTsdulvPL1jehFGXjqvj3JVWHw0QJ4rfszK0-QlCvBIHjKXKqDfr_Jo/s1600/P1000970.jpg" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjlXSrAWzImb0kNqsfw5gfiBUHdj4gRkNsBopZFhaE8Wenk23eTdOGAm1iZpPXoT06qEUb07mgxJ6GK7cMbwAtOTsdulvPL1jehFGXjqvj3JVWHw0QJ4rfszK0-QlCvBIHjKXKqDfr_Jo/s320/P1000970.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720323689818110322" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Melanie Walker's photo kites</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtIzayPgYGLrBQtv43QcBwaZF55Q-DZYor1jdBEBemSLRD_TWEddRZqTPibQUVKsEUyfZ1YH3khRZWOsytoIrbekIoeRsG-MVBEbNp0U1o3nxPlDryq9HI4G_17w2fY8kIoNr99pNDb0/s1600/P1000959.jpg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtIzayPgYGLrBQtv43QcBwaZF55Q-DZYor1jdBEBemSLRD_TWEddRZqTPibQUVKsEUyfZ1YH3khRZWOsytoIrbekIoeRsG-MVBEbNp0U1o3nxPlDryq9HI4G_17w2fY8kIoNr99pNDb0/s320/P1000959.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720322500707924370" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span><u></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span>the Japanese kite gallery</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvUi0tuL6u0qPnnbmuJnoOTQ2QOtHS2M_TQPrHZRYWktigxqf0V7ej4Ke-VuK99vZRhazXaqBSqmROBEOdaHpG_WHUf0fET2bxXi_SwarLKxMogz8OmHM7LyX-2rlpMdDTgogE9HUBAc/s1600/P1000948.jpg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvUi0tuL6u0qPnnbmuJnoOTQ2QOtHS2M_TQPrHZRYWktigxqf0V7ej4Ke-VuK99vZRhazXaqBSqmROBEOdaHpG_WHUf0fET2bxXi_SwarLKxMogz8OmHM7LyX-2rlpMdDTgogE9HUBAc/s320/P1000948.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720322497169884466" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>Star Man kite by George Peters</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtN-Ed9ldawabGymqBpPPd52GYkN9wrF_pwALO7it5MvcnsDF2RnofH6s1iULZRYi8XszLp0w5ZYBRnyHopDZ6p1I3NWHWn_XJL4s_RBAbIWx7oHJVSgtep5tYNAbRA1VAceC-VaXuEnQ/s320/P1000965.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720322503495747650" style="text-decoration: underline; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></div><div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><u><span><span>Cloud Kite Triptych by Melanie Walker</span></span></u></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><u><span><br /></span></u></div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV13suKz7-xpFHvOy0gV2yHM8-1KdoDmtOiTVkqFPp2EBwD3ZRNe4_DQO2T1S9Ui6_ZETWg_EfssTguqlEz7sGyU2P_OI3t30o5Y1qVlx3fer67rBLQljPVwTBaifswqn30UrTW_cXye8/s1600/P1000969.jpg" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV13suKz7-xpFHvOy0gV2yHM8-1KdoDmtOiTVkqFPp2EBwD3ZRNe4_DQO2T1S9Ui6_ZETWg_EfssTguqlEz7sGyU2P_OI3t30o5Y1qVlx3fer67rBLQljPVwTBaifswqn30UrTW_cXye8/s320/P1000969.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720325022097791058" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Lady Bug kites and Sky Bird kite</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ssFd6X297CckWHFpOEH8i1jK-mUP0RwH0_nwxc5sJ0TzeBQw3gD5Y8mKyP4BDTXB4kaQxvpiaA9mHphWSUrjsiwG97mv4d3_7nqsIPHSb-VojRL3WvrK_cAAUhxLA3IXTjYh2CXm8zw/s1600/P1000945.jpg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ssFd6X297CckWHFpOEH8i1jK-mUP0RwH0_nwxc5sJ0TzeBQw3gD5Y8mKyP4BDTXB4kaQxvpiaA9mHphWSUrjsiwG97mv4d3_7nqsIPHSb-VojRL3WvrK_cAAUhxLA3IXTjYh2CXm8zw/s320/P1000945.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720322489261274466" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></a></div><div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span><u>Te Manu kite by George Peters</u></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVGkUALJUEwljXL6PzG7ZRq8pdp6yMYU2HFQVwEQMgtwjUxxPQ5ld8vpmtwJ_xqBNoWK9-1LcIchtW5FM7dixzDUcZnSmzIYAHHY6coEnr6WUYbc92wkgUvqHK0Gewrz0O1gVyfjQjSM/s1600/P1010001.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVGkUALJUEwljXL6PzG7ZRq8pdp6yMYU2HFQVwEQMgtwjUxxPQ5ld8vpmtwJ_xqBNoWK9-1LcIchtW5FM7dixzDUcZnSmzIYAHHY6coEnr6WUYbc92wkgUvqHK0Gewrz0O1gVyfjQjSM/s320/P1010001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720323694215654402" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a></span><div style="text-align: center; "><span>Japanese kites by Hideo Matsutani</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: center; white-space: pre; "><span> </span></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span><span>I</span><span>n another very small enclosed gallery in the museum there is a show of miniature kites. Some are from the Airworks Studio collection along with others from the extensive kite collections of the Seattle based Drachen Foundation kite archive.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div style="text-align: justify; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjepkGytNvoKRRJZZyUfXT1xXh6Fx20Be-Dq77Qb8v8Qtc6dpXspGdK1K4Q1NeiVwQ4Rq4PmOueZKGXX4g43EiimNnhyd1o3GiJJCeKHACauQxXZga1eEpnupZMNel9hwtuFF07vhGAdE8/s1600/P1000976.jpg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjepkGytNvoKRRJZZyUfXT1xXh6Fx20Be-Dq77Qb8v8Qtc6dpXspGdK1K4Q1NeiVwQ4Rq4PmOueZKGXX4g43EiimNnhyd1o3GiJJCeKHACauQxXZga1eEpnupZMNel9hwtuFF07vhGAdE8/s320/P1000976.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720323687889816690" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQPC1BnlFd1GMgR4IDeJ4AwLSMHhmblrZyZSbFzonTuFA7QUZO7Vuhjtup49UUKwVfttXQA4lXL3WvyZ8nlYRLWaq0V5E3VfSLgNBYGLwXIDGEl0adx_8XG-imdCwKW2KMnj326IxnXU/s1600/P1000978.jpg" style="text-align: left; "><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQPC1BnlFd1GMgR4IDeJ4AwLSMHhmblrZyZSbFzonTuFA7QUZO7Vuhjtup49UUKwVfttXQA4lXL3WvyZ8nlYRLWaq0V5E3VfSLgNBYGLwXIDGEl0adx_8XG-imdCwKW2KMnj326IxnXU/s320/P1000978.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720326221308328450" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 148px; " /></span></a></div><span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span>The "Sky on a String" kite exhibition will be at the Museum of Outdoor Arts from March 10th to July 21st, 2012. If you're in the Denver area, stop by and enjoy a wind blown colorful feast.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span><br /></span></div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrIgRtC3PSNRgZ2BR3qa7MIwqLu4aZtK9c4rDOhQXIxHeghHOyD7hhyQCJU712A0m5DB7aStjTbsAIM-Vx1njWYM1xjnEZapYKAZ6yZmyKjcxuRbHXba6LPpwPfMbuHhJEVtpX9UEjOEE/s1600/P1000947.jpg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrIgRtC3PSNRgZ2BR3qa7MIwqLu4aZtK9c4rDOhQXIxHeghHOyD7hhyQCJU712A0m5DB7aStjTbsAIM-Vx1njWYM1xjnEZapYKAZ6yZmyKjcxuRbHXba6LPpwPfMbuHhJEVtpX9UEjOEE/s320/P1000947.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720326229185518242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><span >For a slide show of the exhibition, visit the Airworks Studio <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157629223799114/show/">Flickr</a> photo site <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157629223799114/">here</a>..</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span ><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-63160138999974094612011-08-09T20:28:00.000-07:002011-08-12T22:17:48.619-07:00COLOR THE WIND<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGY5Dnc9A5RVGFUaCogPwrt7D1HNhdQ7-yj7PKCIJw8QrgRF7mFRWOvwQl3cPF81ZDMc-B5ptMflgNFVhe9-RNGljGfA5x3VyJe9HFBBOB41nZ3a1tf3MrONjHMVGp-S0pYWBX-635rm8/s1600/Color+the+Wind+-+sm.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGY5Dnc9A5RVGFUaCogPwrt7D1HNhdQ7-yj7PKCIJw8QrgRF7mFRWOvwQl3cPF81ZDMc-B5ptMflgNFVhe9-RNGljGfA5x3VyJe9HFBBOB41nZ3a1tf3MrONjHMVGp-S0pYWBX-635rm8/s320/Color+the+Wind+-+sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639065110147705602" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">We rarely exhibit our kites indoors. They are outdoor creatures, made for the winds, made to move and dance under the clouds with the sun shining brightly and illuminating their skins in the brightest colors imaginable.<span> </span>We were recently offered a show at the local Art Center in Grand Junction, Colorado. The timing worked perfectly with our kite festival calendar and the space in the large round gallery exhibition hall at the art center proved a perfect showplace for the kites. The high ceiling overhead could support numerous kites in flying positions while the surrounding gallery walls worked for showing our new sets of new photo kites.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRbH9JFhnubEak3WAmrT5FzQnHsrLIi2PRQGcVS45BYERhB4ZKKguLxN2dmWvmWGtLq_zehUd7zgnor60H0_hU2fuFdNBgldQJnI_pTNMYVQxFTfJjxMW3tUPB7K2fqHUNFg-A9FS_qxc/s320/P1000523.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639065384796938898" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The exhibit entry has a few traditional Japanese kites representing the initial inspiration in delving into the art and craft of kite making back in 1977 when, while living in Hawaii, I started making kites in earnest. I was introduced to Japanese kites through a book entitled “The Art of the Japanese Kite” by artist & writer, Tal Streeter. The definitive collection of stories from his travels around Japan gave insights into the deep cultural roots and fascinating tales of meetings with the old kite masters, many of whom were reaching an age when their craft would pass with them.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmoV5zjN5-GLgI5FY_a-1ZDbiheqONQJSOhaaxgyZoXF1JsdOWeR5lgMNupr1l2ulYhsHQtClHR4wAEkeCkAsRovnEBl-YSaHUxvGAxYyxYFgJXT4f-KBopFMcW4N3RlBICKgBznjxF2c/s320/P1000525.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639065716675087106" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZque5T8f_-RN65R7FB-AyL8fxG_bMKmW3GEfg3PnZO5GQmffnBBHicRduQ8ex31nw4rACigb3C5C4eeVdyEIXRzOiHcm-cVGzJDT5y-2dDWCwm5L4OyB_uwHq2AGCugTv6o7SbXrJzdU/s320/P1000526.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639065927553702066" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Since then and after many travels throughout the world attending international kite festivals, I’ve learned much from friendships with other kite makers. Around the world each country visited has unveiled the culture and depth of this simple air craft made from paper, string and sticks. From Europe to India, Indonesia to Japan, New Zealand to the US, each country has a very unique history that is wrapped tightly into the culture and traditions of flying. The kites at the entry to the exhibit represent kite makers and friends from Japan who either gave or traded a kite for one of mine.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIuSBzTP0Rg6_pHn8vwhtw0Ux_Vu1IeUbWvBm7c5TLTpECavi1DipgNczw5d3KSdTLJ2ffumeBMEqFWY4m_YIzOgHcJN4NJTvM_DCdnTP-wjdaVGC5oP9ZlRu-XZ-AQu1nrSbprza1LnQ/s320/P1000404.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639066509532648594" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sky & Desert - Melanie Walker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The kites in the exhibition represent a history not only of my kites but also my partner, Melanie Walker’s kites who joined me in 1995 and started making kites as well. Many of her recent kites were produced with a photo printing on polyester technique which involves a dye sublimate digital printing process. <span> </span>This is a new and exciting realm that has opened up many possibilities of combining her first passion in photographic processes with kite making. Some of the photo kites are first prints of mine as well.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieoY1Gj0GzljQIC9vL5BrhobRq8GhgA5YVaiCdrAvJYiK005GPTpTJ39N_Fu_j11HLVBpMders-ckop4e1bc0zuPRPWvgohZ7M-oTQg8fqVE5iLo-a3avvzSWg0f1izOz-ydRhcKAkmV0/s320/P1000403.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639066870460917330" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 189px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">House & Artichoke kites - Melanie Walker </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Venice House - George Peters</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
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<br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOK4AxEx_Dd9L4VrSClqzm-Gsbvb6v1Mjaq7lzGN4P8KS1rQO3S6865SseBWUj1XkzFPnM2JT1QCGq_xtLLRpldR8PvNjXqdKOOI2xxObulTZSTLIk_N_Tugxp__9_fCDktR1rTcDE7s/s1600/P1000538.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOK4AxEx_Dd9L4VrSClqzm-Gsbvb6v1Mjaq7lzGN4P8KS1rQO3S6865SseBWUj1XkzFPnM2JT1QCGq_xtLLRpldR8PvNjXqdKOOI2xxObulTZSTLIk_N_Tugxp__9_fCDktR1rTcDE7s/s320/P1000538.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639069255799735346" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Zebra kite - Melanie Walker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
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<br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKPEcQS1In4mw56mZ_JHU1klackk17-oepB27vbfPo5H8KLPXHaFK1w6DwOS5HBDTWV3OhSN2EFTtyAm8RrbmZtWZnKdmH7KRD4AiUFuC58OYx-3Owz01yAjR324Ljm5-YI8HqTKBHzQk/s1600/P1000402.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKPEcQS1In4mw56mZ_JHU1klackk17-oepB27vbfPo5H8KLPXHaFK1w6DwOS5HBDTWV3OhSN2EFTtyAm8RrbmZtWZnKdmH7KRD4AiUFuC58OYx-3Owz01yAjR324Ljm5-YI8HqTKBHzQk/s320/P1000402.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639069257667423490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Rabbit Kite & Househead with Bunny - Melanie Walker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The other kites in the exhibition feature various kite designs of ours that have been developed through the rough school of trial and error. It took maybe two years early on for a kite of mine to finally soar to a high angle and just stay up there. Many kite ‘bones’ were broke in the process of learning the subtle aerodynamic principles of kite aeronautics. The early kites made by traditional Japanese means with carefully split, shaved and balanced bamboo spars very soon gave way to modern materials of fiberglass rod, tube and sewn nylon covers. These new materials were, for the most part, crash proof.</span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial">Kites have given an appreciation of the simple act of watching the sky and participating in an act of celebration with the winds. It’s a peaceful pursuit, above it all, in the limitless expanse of overhead space. It is like saying, “Here I am”, swimming in the sky, fishing with no lure, no barb, making no political statement, and letting the wind pull our heavenly tether out higher and higher. The gatherings at the international kite festivals around the world are like a high wire circus act putting colorful paint dabs on the blue canvas overhead. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbYeHfrPwMtvwlkKFwZIkGWikP4gUCY-4FMUDM7sNUpZSy-0I9s0xDli34CqTDEZJ51_pQwXZQGVU2k2zPPyTb_aTeQv7_f36yCsJdHBSvCwcRs_7i5lFPPO-cvLDKmsxji38Lu1Tad_A/s1600/P1000553+pan+sm.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbYeHfrPwMtvwlkKFwZIkGWikP4gUCY-4FMUDM7sNUpZSy-0I9s0xDli34CqTDEZJ51_pQwXZQGVU2k2zPPyTb_aTeQv7_f36yCsJdHBSvCwcRs_7i5lFPPO-cvLDKmsxji38Lu1Tad_A/s400/P1000553+pan+sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639074984956184034" style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 123px; " /></a>
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCovRuz_MHgdPWQQ9cRHZI5rrjQiS_lM4EwRZ6GYBjpCjl5UjVlzFksTOhJnrdUA8DP2aAv-_6x4Eg8-9KpVEulU_vZ0XXu5HCbSgFzuQ_Cim9VBELbm7pU4jxUor1EV7w6qtVAf1opSU/s1600/P1000539.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCovRuz_MHgdPWQQ9cRHZI5rrjQiS_lM4EwRZ6GYBjpCjl5UjVlzFksTOhJnrdUA8DP2aAv-_6x4Eg8-9KpVEulU_vZ0XXu5HCbSgFzuQ_Cim9VBELbm7pU4jxUor1EV7w6qtVAf1opSU/s320/P1000539.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639074250428955570" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span">Pipes - George Peters</span></span></div><p></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMnK5KR83KrxsBu0gvanzT-GEh2XKTE8BhEsCN3PUw-z284KTwqd2oqWgvG_3TNo480bgl6ne4sZTpRBELmyhJMKYh6VZVBvReeb0Oq4FemaSh1nAhXFGH9yqZiIROVFRlx1s9-X_TCM/s1600/P1000558.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMnK5KR83KrxsBu0gvanzT-GEh2XKTE8BhEsCN3PUw-z284KTwqd2oqWgvG_3TNo480bgl6ne4sZTpRBELmyhJMKYh6VZVBvReeb0Oq4FemaSh1nAhXFGH9yqZiIROVFRlx1s9-X_TCM/s320/P1000558.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639074213335441474" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoX0XbnO5yGwHaEpOT98J6CS1ZnozZUTci6fPqhn4BVR0RbwhY-OfzrSkTYTdHdW_jeMOjNRIRJ7h7QkNdSU-ntHbl-wP-Xdesi6idsJzbufDx0DXad00wFbtG-CYL5ga-3vHteGFOJLQ/s320/P1000541.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639074182666474754" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span><p></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLES1JGVcRwIOgYngauDjAOV80tjVLX2jYjKJkEnG_OKRwSOf9e-HWMNGOooiEsdzaL43EBTPtbuxFrWVeVnzZIYs08ZEO4eMRHJRc8HhgUeqJd4VZAQo3ePAlfVGwaJDwBivf0u_0TVU/s1600/P1000434.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLES1JGVcRwIOgYngauDjAOV80tjVLX2jYjKJkEnG_OKRwSOf9e-HWMNGOooiEsdzaL43EBTPtbuxFrWVeVnzZIYs08ZEO4eMRHJRc8HhgUeqJd4VZAQo3ePAlfVGwaJDwBivf0u_0TVU/s320/P1000434.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639077947319940978" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a>
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqh2FoPDSMIT5HIxVqwrwFPZxkoig5cp_SzGiYL58vU49wzQGN0-eHvpcye-7ie12jL4QAcxhwYS6B2hEgtSOIMo0DtVee5yeibWLBD-uKF6Odp5x9ZjHOvxOVyqjpkCHaWNSdX7_k6A/s1600/P1000543.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqh2FoPDSMIT5HIxVqwrwFPZxkoig5cp_SzGiYL58vU49wzQGN0-eHvpcye-7ie12jL4QAcxhwYS6B2hEgtSOIMo0DtVee5yeibWLBD-uKF6Odp5x9ZjHOvxOVyqjpkCHaWNSdX7_k6A/s320/P1000543.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639077950932010274" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Bird Man & Kat Man kites - George Peters</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjseSG5koTCNcF4bC8JNkBjVANe8trfHOqhNrX6QHjCKmOkQgzR6riUBBe56-QVJE8l504yiQ3q76rCb-1igUNc_JWTEg9pMxugG5u7uqRmFyWQ-Sks_dDFRwlfHF4Uet841V-avYhggao/s1600/P1000529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjseSG5koTCNcF4bC8JNkBjVANe8trfHOqhNrX6QHjCKmOkQgzR6riUBBe56-QVJE8l504yiQ3q76rCb-1igUNc_JWTEg9pMxugG5u7uqRmFyWQ-Sks_dDFRwlfHF4Uet841V-avYhggao/s320/P1000529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639077945357369602" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Artichoke Kite - Melanie Walker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
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<br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0813LYQVi8dIdvFkQnckeIIsSYxCf6zVyTAE2uXeziLoZAW9tP6msHNWyW5H8qpbj4MSlTDBdgHjCM3xhgaRGuLTtrajAk2bYUOsV5qJtRH2ZyuC_sp_iCo0n6PGher9MGYU-BBPW6U/s1600/P1000534.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0813LYQVi8dIdvFkQnckeIIsSYxCf6zVyTAE2uXeziLoZAW9tP6msHNWyW5H8qpbj4MSlTDBdgHjCM3xhgaRGuLTtrajAk2bYUOsV5qJtRH2ZyuC_sp_iCo0n6PGher9MGYU-BBPW6U/s320/P1000534.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639077943262900642" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Leopard Man, Pod kite & Falling Man kite - George Peters</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTM8UgVmdHLjfuRadPELaUKvwqqmiQHwnlmD8DPw6tmHU_Y2oXuPsxRFKpO13yI1XEODapfiJIuF5Gu3fw5oeEjvrwQGasAhvV91qHgnURoj4HHshHB9P_aIcAG58dFEWmYyz3tmryKAo/s1600/P1000540.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTM8UgVmdHLjfuRadPELaUKvwqqmiQHwnlmD8DPw6tmHU_Y2oXuPsxRFKpO13yI1XEODapfiJIuF5Gu3fw5oeEjvrwQGasAhvV91qHgnURoj4HHshHB9P_aIcAG58dFEWmYyz3tmryKAo/s320/P1000540.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639077940760251986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Chevron Edo kite - George Peters</span></div></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">To see more photos from the "Color the Wind" kite exhibition, go to the</span> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157627390402964/show/">Flikr slide show</a>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-59616334280669363602011-06-30T13:13:00.000-07:002011-07-05T22:00:53.595-07:00SKYS OVER ITALY<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaB8be5gFFenzCI11TsXCWcYV6UaXGO3xamkyq944d5Lfrc_EJeiBA9ZbG_14kaGJOhyphenhyphenfJ_2yS4Pt23Hpzv1rsHu9Ki93IkARKz5SUJRQ-eIl3a_RBvTXEJSTRqL6JaSe1jcknp2iKvGE/s1600/P1070146+copy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaB8be5gFFenzCI11TsXCWcYV6UaXGO3xamkyq944d5Lfrc_EJeiBA9ZbG_14kaGJOhyphenhyphenfJ_2yS4Pt23Hpzv1rsHu9Ki93IkARKz5SUJRQ-eIl3a_RBvTXEJSTRqL6JaSe1jcknp2iKvGE/s320/P1070146+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624118397963370946" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations">Monumento</span> <span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations">al Aquiloni</span> S<span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations">ignora</span> V<span class="hps" title="Click for alternate translations">olantino</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(Monument to the Lady Kite Flyer)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Flying at the Cervia & </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Venice International Kite Festivals</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">There is something grand about Italy. Maybe it’s the embedded history on every wall and each face. Or is it those clear skies and steady winds? When we were asked to come to Italy for two kite festivals, one in a little beach bagno community of Pinarella near Cervia and a second on the Lido di Venezia just outside of Venice on the Adriatic, we jumped at the chance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-Zco3tW0denM-zLivbaU_GfMdtqMuCqjm35ejifw3btcK6zePojSDikPzWa94cwHWmxF_pbqgCN8g_VoMbGv3gTEcxvY562wayCMNof9SwjCCTQsrTR0ULou8cP9gcxrWZpgFB1MFIo/s1600/our+kites+and+banners.jpg" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-Zco3tW0denM-zLivbaU_GfMdtqMuCqjm35ejifw3btcK6zePojSDikPzWa94cwHWmxF_pbqgCN8g_VoMbGv3gTEcxvY562wayCMNof9SwjCCTQsrTR0ULou8cP9gcxrWZpgFB1MFIo/s320/our+kites+and+banners.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624110737944901858" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">our kite and banner display in Cervia</span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOts7E7DZribLaJCaA-aKDEnwUx9CTEwrMLpKgZc58b_F0stwZTrFw_GLnJKpw2jqkCd53bAaLOjp0iU-EOuWJrVzri2OICv9UO-V8SPvDnguDp3ZUe6ZPQl-hWn_GYPgYRR_QTW0Jf0Q/s1600/our+kites.jpg" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOts7E7DZribLaJCaA-aKDEnwUx9CTEwrMLpKgZc58b_F0stwZTrFw_GLnJKpw2jqkCd53bAaLOjp0iU-EOuWJrVzri2OICv9UO-V8SPvDnguDp3ZUe6ZPQl-hWn_GYPgYRR_QTW0Jf0Q/s320/our+kites.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624110749569907746" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">our kites after a day on the beach..</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">The festival of Cervia was held in a new location this year on a bigger beach, more room to fly, and a perfect wind for the ten day festival. Each day glistened with a sky full of kites brought from all over the world hovering overhead on the blue sky gallery ceiling. Each day brought great pictures of the scene and great times with friends we’ve known for many years. Sometimes it’s hard not to just pinch ourselves to make sure we’re not just dreaming this life up.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">Each day began with a visit to ‘our’ bagno to open our storage lockers and carry the kites, banners and flying gear to the beachside. Setting up the show is always like putting on a circus. Banners go up, the colors are displayed, the colorful aerial acts start to rise to the big blue top overhead on kite lines angled up to the sky. Some people stand gazing at their addition to the overhead scene, others group together in beach chairs like fishermen watching their lines. We tend to try to see how many kites we can put up there at once… a constant challenge like juggling balls. The kites are tethered to sand bags and spread across the beach so that each kite has some airspace. When the wind is ‘clean’, like straight off the sea, the kites claim their space up there and hang almost motionless drifting together in an overhead aerial sky dance. I never tire from watching this.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLDL21itynnAdIkM7MuCeiMFrXzWADrgapX7kL3bTiV0HQyNwx66Z8alJx4MdALwfsj3zdm_0LgT29dEG9O4JIdMsC6FfXohS1zrtxZSerCFMdDPVZ28mnxj9x-cgnQUU9-USNJWpzjA/s1600/a+streamer+display+from+Sardinia.jpg" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLDL21itynnAdIkM7MuCeiMFrXzWADrgapX7kL3bTiV0HQyNwx66Z8alJx4MdALwfsj3zdm_0LgT29dEG9O4JIdMsC6FfXohS1zrtxZSerCFMdDPVZ28mnxj9x-cgnQUU9-USNJWpzjA/s320/a+streamer+display+from+Sardinia.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624110744587487762" /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span">the Sardinian ribbon poles</span></div><div style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">The days passed with lunch treats of sumptuous food Italian style. In the evenings we all gathered at a central hotel along the beach boulevard of Pinarella that gave us a spectacular banquet each night. The waiters and waitresses rushed the plates in a frenzy of service keeping the pasta at just the right temperature. It is a hard job serving eighty hungry kite flyers each night.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlLqFyDOlNqH5ZdJTGvQMjxZvgSWjrNSnXejz5j_Mskxm71GvF3paEBuxXbeu0JfORHPMF_r9eww86yf-VrzY3asY9HtuUbxgJFCQXGYRlmWhLqDhtg1EF4x6g3tJiDbLaSxV068JJwr0/s320/The+dining+hall.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624112860750366354" style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">the hotel dining room</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDMSFcQbNL-IzOT6QmrGrZEjg8E0S_pZ6dBiGjb84yehtVVkGe-ZJIYq6AwqChHH3uYeSZiTQfICyDDRTC0ZXJsjMu8A5cxYKl3RkC3W8DefJt2f0AjMnKo9r5NXKQrxv5JQVuzproLZ8/s320/chaotic+kitchens.jpg" /></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">behind the kitchen doors..</span></div><div style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Fe_Y3Xj_BKui6V_lRrTlLsonBqU0qRncahTiIR4E9Alzpa9oxoEUzXM0dYKU5dJdy_EKvqzR6r7JL063P5NrLBc-akF829t6dLmMxGHf7L9M_C_JcmRsVLHL5GtEQYyE9hDbHlipwHg/s320/Head+Chef.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624113708791499538" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The prima chef</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">The festival drew big crowds of people each day. The beach tourist season was just starting and the kite festival, organized by Claudio Capelli and his daughter, Caterina, of ArteVento was a welcome event in this community of beach houses, hotels, bagno beach clubs and restaurants. I believe this was the 31<sup>st</sup> annual kite festival, one of the longest running kite festivals in Europe.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2EXA8K0_PzRVNW0vYU42SueMkWjDMr4s5UZNac1XLFCOh6vdWhiE3RA8RtfAasOXJz3ekL5pfbFYq9LUqbzbCJLoB70hD0R193qOgw1UwFB11pYQVtvGmCo3qg2GdF_SRPOYndwxioU/s1600/Makoto+Ohye.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2EXA8K0_PzRVNW0vYU42SueMkWjDMr4s5UZNac1XLFCOh6vdWhiE3RA8RtfAasOXJz3ekL5pfbFYq9LUqbzbCJLoB70hD0R193qOgw1UwFB11pYQVtvGmCo3qg2GdF_SRPOYndwxioU/s320/Makoto+Ohye.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624110753644552946" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Makoto Ohye's kite display</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETLtJeTSmNTj-3dm-Db7GIBl2r3V8ZqUlTAEAn5EjE7KIsaV2CLS0nIIw4OOkfIpVBBwwyE2EUWBE5Q8_mMC9bwYRBE7Z_6RzViKhBxdHcuxru3kEaoh_Nr78ussFnU0A9leX3GBYGpw/s320/Venice+Lido+Beach.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626094022125336562" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span">on the lido del Venezia</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">One might ask how a group of kite people can keep the colors up there for a full ten days on a beach without serious mental damage? The routine quickly takes front stage as every morning the kite flyers would wander in, choosing a spot on the beach to set up their ground displays, put up some shade and let a first lined kite up into the overhead sky circus. Over the course of the day the sky gets thick with kites dancing in tight formations over the beach. At about noon there were spontaneous little gatherings hosted by different country delegations for a refreshing drink and a taste of each favorite international cuisine. We hosted a US group picnic in our beach encampment serving ‘mini-Mac’ appetizers, mini pizzas, brown and white ‘wine’ (Coke and Sprite) and a big spread of small bite appetizers that were gobbled up in record time….then everyone migrated over to the German vodka tasting.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZAaCEDpjIDQFy-Pi5DQWl9hVLEy7x9nE0SjEE_-ovEz0ob7D4uIynh2oX7lZsWwjZQKdbw5Uo4A05CCVBXDQWV0GkYotcIOJk344svBlgaiolcbebTNDXopXK9OuLy9Bc87usiNQLJp4/s320/P1070013.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624116125086870914" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">The USA beach party</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9WmWMARxf2ryruS6hW6SG7awUE6aaUHEPDp-X1RRX35bPYCkD2g0iJRSsZsDuA3kStB9wmselKmXHbIi42UE-v7R3DO_OOZsrStsFOBHhyphenhyphenqXSSDAADISHs3aHaql_ytLVbCchj4bgVuU/s320/USA+beach+banquet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624116120312409778" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 204px; " /></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></div></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Each day we visit with kite flyers down the beach, keeping a sharp eye on our kite group making sure that they stay up and are not lost into the nearby pine forest or on the roofs of the bagnos. As the day goes on the wind always gets perfect as the stomach growls for dinner. Everyone then meets at the local dinner hosting hotel for drinks and a delicious Italian meal each night. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span">The second weekend after a disappointing rainy Saturday night fly evening that washed out the planned event we had a glorious last day in Cervia/Pinarella and then headed North to Venice the next morning.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHMEVIJuLLChIx0AAeQBsx0zAfC-lvFBqbGYDsh3_cvlRds5gNZSVJbFEW6uJ1IEIFSt_czacM0hRFcOQBF-TUsGhweQEwsNwRkBD8TLqaHGN8CE6zybJ9Ju2H6ndw0oL6Z9oHxuRJmQ/s320/P1070169.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624118400624670610" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 320px; " /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">Claudio Capeli at the announcer's table</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhglyxKm8KGmtCaz4QavnVQdikJsXXorRmayeqrIBFiGbkDtBcSJTkwGDgKaFc3VFYkWNIqhUGBAozw0PrvhBnz_WDx2aZHkw7HaAzSItlo3QBYhMjQoOsDckesOI8eKqWiAHg27jqBVfw/s320/P1070209.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624118419499605138" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">the sky over Lido Venezia</span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The Venice festival was attended by a smaller group of kite flyers from the Cervia event. Since this was the first festival for the Lido of Venice <span> </span>Claudio and Caterina were asked to help to organize the group of kite flyers chosen for the trip. Many details were kept a bit fuzzy but the kite flyers were ready for anything. Arriving at the field we were greeted by a beach full of umbrellas set up for the beach season on the rather small beach at the east side of the Lido. A large overhead steel pier bisected what was left of the beach. Not much room to fly kites or put up a large show. After a day of trying out the tight space it was decided to move the festival down the beach to another location in front of a large hotel that was closed at the time and being refurbished. The spot was perfect as we all spread our overhead kite show down the long beach.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCZqlxboNOttlVXRnSW5zAYwwlllAhmR4bFN_m2K2iWnYA7MoQbHJg4rA0vq5LD4h7GCAiHI6_9RSe3VcDnxfbupT9fvoEC2fLwd4rZUvp55OgBxJMDF6AnciAhlughMSjW4oQAJ_3XM/s320/P1070173.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624118406490513490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 320px; " /></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">Each day was a perfect picture of kite fun. Crowds of people came and enjoyed the show despite the fact that the weekend featured some competition in Venice proper...the Pope was there on a special visit and the canals and squares were packed to the hilt with tourists and followers of the Vatican. Banners we set up down the beach. Kites floated overhead and each day was almost perfect conditions.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEo7EsZIyVZeWqrFiWgMGh0jUGBvkvQkBcCgFbYcC04xPIqZZ8_iTUrkEnAS2sF7WF7NUUmRkaWsZtPiBUon7aRhb5Rtsz81UAwx_LgUAEG1b97rhQAdVMJpp7OR8IuADCYy9Ku_CIH18/s1600/kites+over+Venice.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEo7EsZIyVZeWqrFiWgMGh0jUGBvkvQkBcCgFbYcC04xPIqZZ8_iTUrkEnAS2sF7WF7NUUmRkaWsZtPiBUon7aRhb5Rtsz81UAwx_LgUAEG1b97rhQAdVMJpp7OR8IuADCYy9Ku_CIH18/s320/kites+over+Venice.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624110755626728546" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">The last day we were the last on the beach packing up kites. Behind us an ominous dark sky loomed. Suddenly as the last of the kites were packed in our bags and we started to take down the banners, the wind picked up to speed sending an intense sand storm across the beach. Banners flew off poles, sand bag anchors blew tumbling and our Italy tans were sandblasted away.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">The next day was spent dumping sand out of the bags and repacking in the garden of our hotel. We were told that plans had changed for our bus trip to the airport in Bologna and we would have to make it to the Venice train station ourselves… with our eight bags of gear and luggage. Somehow we managed to hook and strap everything with wheels together in a long train of gear and rolled down the main street of the Venice Lido to the water bus to the train station. One last trip through down the Grand Canal made us want to come again, again and again. Ciao Italy!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzC7aqh3KLD_tCBUErRnga5jBSSAbpqKhU10bYtwscJoqOVeqjdQse5APotYajKr9y9DA_lKowBuo4XWTBQLgq1uccvtOlFRPakwfY_VEvRVfPEqy7Ew06MvyQwDtyxdaQOdhqtMJmw6Q/s320/P1070227.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624118413200892674" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px; " /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">the kite train home</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span">For more pictures of the Cervia and Venice International kite festival go to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157627087092258/show/">Airworks Studio Flikr Slide Show. </a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-52807166041889609952011-04-14T12:09:00.001-07:002011-04-14T15:20:52.071-07:00KITES & FLIGHTS<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZhGouciNSQSxFG9HDa5U78qfp2t3ZREgl96_fI0OzHae3cqUYssjUwCltsnu7F3jgjcgdCj17TQ8bTTb-2YtWrVcpXahnw6SYXg324Wp3pKKZNxkZnBXdOHbMY0dR6wR_9HcixMSBxA/s1600/Kites+%2526+Flights+5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZhGouciNSQSxFG9HDa5U78qfp2t3ZREgl96_fI0OzHae3cqUYssjUwCltsnu7F3jgjcgdCj17TQ8bTTb-2YtWrVcpXahnw6SYXg324Wp3pKKZNxkZnBXdOHbMY0dR6wR_9HcixMSBxA/s400/Kites+%2526+Flights+5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595528770712257794" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQW_t0Il2TxqMbhaqz0irPI_DKrneCECK5K5qwwbnThbxUwboGzqz4LKnZW3G2LO4S0moeQhANhCAHVswiARePe_EIGfVNPZpCC-6bO_B4QdC_qJDn18c-75cJ7JNrYrLhzzKdOr_biM/s1600/Kites+%2526+Flights+5.jpg"></a></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5YRosgKsOqJqwEiei9d3jwCk3CFpH7l3hP5fNMVwNpqmNoKk0siIQBjgdc3BtV1-AJowmsK5GReMNu7SSNrG4AJSjq58JxscfYT0sLYLLW4K6URnl7wJ9fAri9AH5D9XX2NmL79xswQw/s400/Kites+%2526+Flights+4.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595519873863810258" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span">While in Jacksonville installing the 'Sky Bridges' aerial sculpture at the airport we installed our kite exhibition "Kites & Flights" in the Haskell Gallery there. The show features kites from our collection made by Melanie and myself over the years. It is a great pleasure to see the kites in an environment that is so public and available to people who are in transit, waiting for arriving friends and family and need a little diversion and vision into the world of kites. What better place than an airport! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The idea for the show came from early discussions with the airport's public art commission. We were presenting our proposal ideas for the newly renovated main connector bridge to the concourses and showed a few pictures of our kite works. The kites have been a big inspiration for the themes and aerial sculpture we've done in the public art realm over the years so it was good to put up a show in conjunction with the installation of the permanent 'Sky Bridges' sculpture. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXo82nWU2X9Ux5RwS3nJrFKdH2sQqKJVtS9kz_Vt8EJTIFtB81Q5Et8i28yoV0QuEUADLht0zoNSQ_NVUi2QjtgUCzWA4GXx5N0F3dhGsrJea4bm3mtQBuHSUmjVXprs0d1fg7ggoGIyk/s400/Kites+%2526+Flights+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595529838890555922" style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cabeth Cornelius who manages the Haskell Gallery and the airport's public art collection encouraged us to combine the show with the completion and dedication ceremony for the commissioned work. We ended up pulling many of the kites that have been our dedicated 'show' kites. These are either ones that we prefer not to fly at the kite festivals to keep them in good condition or prototype and test kites that, how should I say it, preformed slightly below our international kite festival criteria. Ok... they didn't fly so great. Most of the kites exhibited fly well. It does take a special appreciation level to see the kites close up in the intimate gallery space. We're proud of the craft involved in kite making and like it when people can get close up to the kites to appreciate that aspect. Many people who came to the show opening enjoyed the show and colors. Some told us it was the best show they have seen in the gallery.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">The show opened a couple days after the last hanging cable was crimped on the 'Sky Bridges' sculpture on March 24th and will continue until July 14th 2011. If you're flying through Jacksonville anytime soon, please stop by and see the show.... as well as the 'Sky Bridges' aerial sculpture. Can't miss it. Just look up before you go down to baggage claim.</div><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNJgbQ0w2C7fNtLS_l3BE7ZPNcEvE5im23fY_SVujHEaW62Dt8VimbftFn1N7T02S8X4ZDUV17nvI_9pNISjwWc9jjyKdpkcfRmMAmScszRzUkVInnIyoQ526EjycT7UlM8cMg2LROHE/s1600/kites+%2526+Flights+10.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNJgbQ0w2C7fNtLS_l3BE7ZPNcEvE5im23fY_SVujHEaW62Dt8VimbftFn1N7T02S8X4ZDUV17nvI_9pNISjwWc9jjyKdpkcfRmMAmScszRzUkVInnIyoQ526EjycT7UlM8cMg2LROHE/s1600/kites+%2526+Flights+10.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNJgbQ0w2C7fNtLS_l3BE7ZPNcEvE5im23fY_SVujHEaW62Dt8VimbftFn1N7T02S8X4ZDUV17nvI_9pNISjwWc9jjyKdpkcfRmMAmScszRzUkVInnIyoQ526EjycT7UlM8cMg2LROHE/s400/kites+%2526+Flights+10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595519887456722098" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDF0l3n611rAvTbYhjGn6Hk2-JdN9TkueEPB0pqEEf75UAN7iS6WPABqM6kkVQUzUIcJa35ve5hG5Lkg_6oDZeO80RWiqa5gNL05h25yJe6eg0jajjTmdazN2fjG_6MFsZrtGRUAb4kc/s400/GPeters+-+Wind+Wasp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595544206485135538" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHLKF4kYD1Xb4DgrOUbM15GpchtelsBBTlq2o3XKJ4z2oED_exXGfNFr797ILWli2pDonS6pWJl2dyh2m3CUZhLp0vf7zAD_cbo0oHSJXjb3UDenSTT8ydH8uC9sqnteKhkP6f2jBCU7I/s1600/Kites+%2526+Flights+2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHLKF4kYD1Xb4DgrOUbM15GpchtelsBBTlq2o3XKJ4z2oED_exXGfNFr797ILWli2pDonS6pWJl2dyh2m3CUZhLp0vf7zAD_cbo0oHSJXjb3UDenSTT8ydH8uC9sqnteKhkP6f2jBCU7I/s400/Kites+%2526+Flights+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595519868063625698" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2s_QNbFGWfRVxoPWbvMLbrQPAyfpMnj3Ufig6VWAQKWY-hANvOa-cQ0S_QdlRmrbHsdfknrAz0Fz4Irp5EnRdZe61Fj1I_k-Oqye_NxKg4XE0A9K4sjV0lF_399Y07LPXceGQR0ALLjA/s1600/Kites+%2526+Flights+1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2s_QNbFGWfRVxoPWbvMLbrQPAyfpMnj3Ufig6VWAQKWY-hANvOa-cQ0S_QdlRmrbHsdfknrAz0Fz4Irp5EnRdZe61Fj1I_k-Oqye_NxKg4XE0A9K4sjV0lF_399Y07LPXceGQR0ALLjA/s400/Kites+%2526+Flights+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595519862611335010" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTSNqD2r5-EW20_mO97-i39mZMs6qvAITbgKsT_6_cvzChzugSMAf7KKuQ31ogzLNGXbNiV4Zb96aE_mhNdW59mW3s9JdbrYARRJm4r2XufV2rIHBWyvfhkccIczQzxuFKezx8RzjZu5E/s400/Kites+%2526+flights+14.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595527578380754946" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">live music for the opening!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBY-D1WgQvqYYhvyHPk5GBA-Rn2Gyk16vuf00VFKNp0IWqhCAv9vIiT72As2bSN5BLk7v3m56DMIMEfRSZKmubvW60xO10cxgDdTq1LL5NPwO_Xuz8OG48Mjdi6kAQDo-3upky1WQxZU0/s400/Kites+%2526+Flights+13.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595527570696389266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Melanie and George at the opening of the show 'Kites & Flights'</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family:arial;">For more images from 'Kites & Flights' go to our<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157626374124649/show/"> Flikr slide show</a></span></span></div></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-33713589427571741372011-04-01T20:58:00.000-07:002011-04-05T13:34:30.780-07:00SKY BRIDGES - Jacksonville International Airport<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8l_1dyVpDnY2-C56phgt10RgKQqk-avkJxCY3iMk0eVB_t1-MRgoQ1eKu8QUAK4SxySLhyphenhyphen0BYknnviY1q0cUs8gv6-_iN_8cgHGqONjR-UG4Ytan2-ubEYWfWgAmuNy3iMTIrMEuGOBo/s1600/Sky+Bridges+1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8l_1dyVpDnY2-C56phgt10RgKQqk-avkJxCY3iMk0eVB_t1-MRgoQ1eKu8QUAK4SxySLhyphenhyphen0BYknnviY1q0cUs8gv6-_iN_8cgHGqONjR-UG4Ytan2-ubEYWfWgAmuNy3iMTIrMEuGOBo/s400/Sky+Bridges+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590860230021361826" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span">If you think of public art the most public place one can imagine would be the busy terminals and of our international airports. They are extraordinary transit zones and places where humanity is on the move. Both Melanie and I confessed to each other that we liked going to airports in our youth just to witness the drama of air travelers. There are lots of people waiting which is why I always took a sketch book to draw people there. People are busy sleeping, reading papers, checking their cell phones, hurrying to their flights and generally hanging out. In the rush of humanity on the go are people arriving, departing and meeting their loved ones in great shows of public emotion. Airports now have all distractions of ordinary street life with few places for rest. Occasionally there are rest zones for art to occupy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"> In all the years we have been applying for public art projects both individually and collaboratively, airports have been at the top of our list. The link to aerial sculpture inspires much of what the work of Airworks Studio has been about for a very long time. From the flying forms of kites to banner installations, atmospheric suspended installation sculptures and kinetic wind sculptures. All have the element of flight and the movement of air over form. We have applied for close to a couple dozen airport calls for public art commissions. I became a finalist back in 1994 for the Denver International Airport before I was ready for a seriously large scale work. We’ve also been finalists for the Philadelphia International Airport arrivals hall.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span">Last year we were selected for a newly renovated concourse connector bridge at the Jacksonville International Airport in Florida. We had presented a proposal to the art selection committee of a simple group of suspended truss-like forms in gentle curves through the overhead space. We chose materials that were reflective, light reactive, transparent and colorful to cover the truss forms and give a light and airy atmospheric effect to the ceiling of the bridgeway.</span></span></p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2WgKFsYUioJcRfg_QjcxEfMYR-9HK1PnCav0XaDGMH7f94obav5OkggQqUa6XwC0HWfj8vSWxPWs99UMbVu1hr-Jmap1CgxdRQk9PHntIyibEbEsfLY_ELkP99XqisXrt9e58UaybeEc/s400/JAX+Model+4+-+revised+first+plan+-+cable+positions.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592186468170975618" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 197px; " /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">the computer 3D model</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span">The forms derived fr</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">om the bridges of airplane routes one sees on those flight maps in the in-flight magazines that show arching lines connecting cities to each other. The paths of airplanes make contrails across the skies each day connecting people on these bridges across the sky. The white cloud lines are made from crystallized vapor trails and sometimes in the right weather conditions the sunlight catches prismatic ‘sun dog’ parhelion effects along the edges.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg400Y3RgWWtFUMg8IMXuuVDzTvDFIYlINvZ1uEG39otavOFsGJ2lIKVqYnnhx1pw8yxGl84zL6US13noVH8xqvTeSkJChzogg_EgvMnI613vwnUl349GksQWPSDBc4ITcNK_FIVD7fTn8/s400/contrails1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592193420649849810" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 220px; " /></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Another strong influence in our design for the works was the great number of bridges in the downtown and river front areas of the city of Jacksonville. There are bridges crossing the St. John river that reflect many eras of civil engineering from the classic steel truss bridges made with rivets and human sweat to the extraordinary gravity defying forms of the ultra modern bridges . The engineering of these bridges is breathtaking and the <a href="http://www.dot.state.fl.us/structures/botm/bridgelighting/acosta.jpg">Acosta Bridge</a>, the blue truss elevator bridge of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Main_St_Bridge%2C_Jacksonville_FL_Pano.jpg">Main Street </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">and the harp-like lines of the <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dames_Point_Bridge,_Jacksonville_FL_766.JPG">Dames Point Bridge</a> make Jacksonville one of the best bridge cities in the country.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6zRWBwNy6At1RCsu0tsk-Cj9PHthpss7yyTKSjwgnqnYm0QSrMC9AveKAUlNqE8QERAQGWbjydwYCCna5CpY_WyVSl3-i6FFDcAt_oLRzRIbVFLjQfxqBTidLo1UQ8gNMWDREhL2lv_0/s400/The+summer+studio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592191731954082066" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Work began in late summer of 2010 constructing the fiberglass rod frame trusses while we searched for a larger studio space for the fabrication processes. Our rear alley awning studio served as a construction space while storing the 20’ long truss units in the only space available… our back yard. Soon the weather dictated that we hurry with our search for an indoor studio in Boulder. After two months of searching we finally found a perfect space. It was a high end used car showroom just east of town with just enough space to store the frames overhead on the ceiling and brought down to the floor tables to complete the covering process.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0tYSqIpSyx7C_N0KgG7s5W-1vX4Wcnv6U1juLeUXQZYeiSp_DZM2xKtBq0buHMmjM2K-kzo4tO0M7nWDH7bRRmU7qCxmj9B8vFEn3D6FUMqMNihs5snRuYiYSCijlpcB07lTdRe8hSc/s400/P1060788.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592197246841975650" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span">We recruited three university graduate students we’ve worked with before to help us with the laborious task of the covering the trusses with a lace work of aluminum, polycarbonate and dichroic materials. This process took us two months and about two or three thousand screws to attach all of the materials to the fiberglass frames. Spencer, Evan & Marianna worked tirelessly with us through long days to get everything done and ready for shipment.</span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsBzwVkD_FF3ackNjC7c7oTLIFBv4XM9cQdhOyzQ3-mK1RCk4SzrOEIF9uTQrFyaoD4JNiznHuzMkKy5KkVH8vGY49GaLryF6Izxf-nX6zXbKEAblPa6JUq4dlHhaOfQPvsSprdZCMtY/s1600/The+Work+Crew.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsBzwVkD_FF3ackNjC7c7oTLIFBv4XM9cQdhOyzQ3-mK1RCk4SzrOEIF9uTQrFyaoD4JNiznHuzMkKy5KkVH8vGY49GaLryF6Izxf-nX6zXbKEAblPa6JUq4dlHhaOfQPvsSprdZCMtY/s400/The+Work+Crew.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592181287779401506" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>the studio got really full</span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbEOAg7iejOAeGpXk7Q7JE2Itv6xR9JnJIs1IbvgR2knEQuBq71oryHGTF0a4aY2O8w1MuungRIIfg3a9UYnijEfSuNfCoSn1YjOaoQ-Fw_oDjn2sARxH2eUadOi26LMohEc75bv6oqA/s400/Melanie++bridges+-+ready+for+install.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592181303275203490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >the units arrived at the airport... at the end of the ticketing counters</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rIaTKhj7412joU7pbTtY84hTxlYLjnFFLv3DhO23TxyntH7MbuDrfpsybxcJHQ7yLoVag3AFdQgRpMh47BjgzcgVSWwfi3q62ReOZvIYN97tKXVNhT0OJ53efH5zOrPBBLOOhAYQlMU/s400/Sky+Bridges+g4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592187847555243314" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">the cabling center</span></span></span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span">When all fifteen twenty foot truss units were complete everything was wrapped for the packing and shipping in a large cavernous fifty three foot trailer truck. We flew in six days later to meet the truck at the airport. Everything arrived in good condition thanks to carefully roped and strapped supports. The trusses were then carried into the front door of the airport and put in a staging area at the end of the airport ticketing area. We set to work immediately putting in a 10pm to 4am work shift each night for the six nights it would take to install the hanging eyebolts into the ceiling, the cables and the trusses. Fortunately we contacted a local sign company and arranged for some assistance with the hanging operation. Austin, Cleave and Larry from Harbinger Sign Company were tireless in their help in getting everything up. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQzC8xOF4uREhP-3dytrYcls1OE9-utYsxguCRNAPcXIAOO1x1bead8do6OAgyf6EbyvlNbFgFaCrCrep9zZHIv_zGu3Q3mT4mS1tz-l2c4VVvaetJFIzSMpSW-dPUdFfmY0GyCZenPs/s400/George+and+Cleave+installing+%2526+cabling.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592183538784639794" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I<span class="Apple-style-span">t all went like clockwork except for one small slip on my part the first night. While tapping the threads for an eye bolt to the ceiling steel tube beams the tap tool broke in my hand and dropped twenty five feet to the floor. I thought it had bounced harmlessly down the escalator below me. Further inspection by the airport maintenance crew later that night revealed the tool had bounced and ricocheted off of a tempered glass panel, shattering it into a spider web of broken glass. This may be the first serious damage done during an installation in over 35 years. My bad!</span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">After a week all the trusses were cabled to the ceiling we switched gears to hang a kite show in the Haskell airport art gallery at the request of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority and public art director, Cabeth Cornelius. We had brought a group of exhibition art kites with us for ‘Kites & Flights’ that would be shown in conjunction with the dedication opening of the ‘Sky Bridges’ aerial sculpture for the airport. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9hYpI0GoGGFREj5NFSUaNqyL5QSQmXs0NhGAUUB4rHWY0A9ihtRBoT2vQf6JZ-e_MG6N_u6J0sPRcH6NtIcBaiK17L5MIf4HqwHl2pDmxXiAvkSDSOLYtePK4nM-piad83Sdbf1Srm6U/s400/Kites+%2526+Flights+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592184490356904770" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Lots of people came for the dedication and kite exhibit to see the final results of the Sky Bridges install. We hear many compliments for the works and everyone had great things to say about how well the ‘Sky Bridges’ sculpture fits the new concourse bridge way. A step back to see what we had done and we were ready to make our way home again.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmlSe-d-UWEJictHjZCyUlNTF7JuT4RjBDeCeG-4_Y24QgPgET2DgxFkm6n1QniZBCDHG8I5zwUEZbgZ-lvab-3jGTF36UW-qvT6E7wNChRlf89cRJ7n3vyw8x5oABbt6VAuDVsbIbzo/s1600/Sky+Bridges+g2.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDmlSe-d-UWEJictHjZCyUlNTF7JuT4RjBDeCeG-4_Y24QgPgET2DgxFkm6n1QniZBCDHG8I5zwUEZbgZ-lvab-3jGTF36UW-qvT6E7wNChRlf89cRJ7n3vyw8x5oABbt6VAuDVsbIbzo/s400/Sky+Bridges+g2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592181309050836930" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC28-tOzqdXxQJqVTcCjpUaLXlmNdaj5_nfpm6ToSoZWKmciD1_veo-ab1gYbggre7NJBerF52n0n0x4kxsns2udn-deXOcFMmgqv2UReBie6IEYn8tU5H7-lxYQkWvD3JVOqsuIEDv4g/s1600/Sky+Bridges+3.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC28-tOzqdXxQJqVTcCjpUaLXlmNdaj5_nfpm6ToSoZWKmciD1_veo-ab1gYbggre7NJBerF52n0n0x4kxsns2udn-deXOcFMmgqv2UReBie6IEYn8tU5H7-lxYQkWvD3JVOqsuIEDv4g/s400/Sky+Bridges+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592181300796714482" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Melanie speaking</span></div></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxGDvYUkaTqGNNvqkP_vZYAqcR3fjxzMgb7__USaXHHJOd_qr5E3SR-MxUCJ4wY61H2e-bxA6v1PhugUANCoiUr2H0QH132sdO73k1whLv5ZmvQjj3S9uAjSEi9SBxr0Yujedfw9ZNRw/s1600/Sky+Bridges+2.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxGDvYUkaTqGNNvqkP_vZYAqcR3fjxzMgb7__USaXHHJOd_qr5E3SR-MxUCJ4wY61H2e-bxA6v1PhugUANCoiUr2H0QH132sdO73k1whLv5ZmvQjj3S9uAjSEi9SBxr0Yujedfw9ZNRw/s400/Sky+Bridges+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592181291299513666" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">and George speaking</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXzbLTajc1GY3NMMWSPVoQshgDCbxqcpdLnk-X5wAsEA5pv6vDj4Uk539qXEurROThmUPG7PpkjqHPqSxm0r5rDNoxx3b6ELuY-h1KZ7y9iMIhxVtLVw5n3vzeI6kW6caZH1N6rj6flk/s400/Sky+Bridges+G%2526M.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592183141084561298" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span">To see a slide show of the complete process go to our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157626409407776/show/">Flikr site</a>.</span></span></div></span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></o:p></span></p></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-37771917296568199622011-01-29T22:03:00.002-08:002011-01-31T20:23:14.163-08:00THREE IN THE AIR, ONE IN THE NEST<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3RsW8jxdt3KTSQ2XsNLzrF269R1vwDgg3LabrBoKLAuwA5L-O12-gvPv7c6Ms5q6fGm9OSmOGUlmfkSusoi6Cd_yOrL0dwVYm8MRGCo8KnbetbPk8tbp0NcbOsXAgtc8KwTHwNRDBXiE/s320/Circumspectrum+-+detail.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 279px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567865335605823538" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); " >"CIRCUMSPECTRUM" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); " >Hubert H. Humphrey Comprehensive Health Center, Los Angleles</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); " ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">Last year we completed three projects at our studio installing two here in Colorado and one in Los Angeles. We’re also working on our first airport public art commission for the Jacksonville International Airport in Florida that will be installed in March. The size of this project made us have to expand into a larger space to construct the parts and pieces of it that will then be put into a large eighteen wheeler and sped to it’s destination for the install.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><br /></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span">The first project was completed last April for the City of Broomfield here in Colorado for the Municipal building lobby. We designed a series of leaf mobiles for the space that move gently in the air currents overhead. The mobiles are made from fiberglass sunscreen, fiberglass rods with acrylic coloring added using masking techniques. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; " >"LEAF & FEATHER"</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15bdJU6jc8M0ouTpmLJ3v9Ic-v7pk-Fvi1lpm-Fg-PvRYNvDImvIldWkkk6sMR0_6GXC4JNTFzotg4kQS298YLfN3rA3Qdz8ByuJdjBXYDtfkxgucoVqk2QtjzShWo08ennFcj86Ag0U/s400/Leaf+%2526+Feather+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568202422497860466" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpm5xReAHHAZz8Bw37XsHrTUKNYmA3tc6y8yqy8VlMNn_Y2Rm3W5pMhPYGgzvFmqEXgnwgJaxdkfe_bVRxP6qISBxmZYf2duZtrimK5KltZDl-L0PGWRWLhWGQSBO5_Nt-QbXbfpSrt8/s400/Leaf+%2526+Feather+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568029055104650450" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px; " /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2H7fx1rp3nrhmYca9jArPwFkLSWypRpXa2qBNitBlFs07Oi1HfG8h8RCBmSMN_XV7sCWzaggyZJiXjnydZxPLZh2Kz2oxH0u3YIVAysw9HORvIW8xrKqoViKhGGQbMZ1jylA5swSomuk/s320/IMAG0010.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567866650788460226" style="text-align: justify; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">I especially liked the shadow patterns on the spray paint board...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">In May and June we traveled to Los Angeles to install another series of mobiles for the newly renovated Hubert H. Humphrey Comprehensive Health Center. The central atrium area provided lots of light for the group of colorful units strung to the upper beams of the skylight. The work moves slowly in the natural air currents and we’re pleased with the way it came out.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">"CIRCUMSPECTRUM"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr9WLw35OCvFXdBu-CUwrLiH337Ihg1-pAEHOvFBCiIZ4yrkGPHJxTJU8DTkZvl2Hgfx47zNqoxtyCbkCXJBbDmLA1iGs7jIPXG2ymdG77mS5qfb_do4-LWLsdAx2tZ0nlRPyagTciQCQ/s400/DSCN7642.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567875899131687986" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8x4c2NAR6ou-2QNOljGP6_tfWzBvJGLKxDQLVOhx-jkHg2kmClgXSqDq_t-8lrzMh74nHvhMYwyZf90-4HwGIbvsJNNRRuRNhb24EX1Er40KC8BbNgmOqGPWE3TTzyqzUFDzsdMQvjA/s320/Circumspectrum.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567874588772416882" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">During the summer we started work on a series of wind vanes for an exterior project in City Park of Aurora east of Denver. After many start and stop delays from the renovation and landscape contractors for the park the project was finally installed before the first snow fell in December. The wind vanes turn on 25’ aluminum poles and are constructed of aluminum punched metal screen and aluminum channel and square pipe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">"SOLAR WINDS"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-YqRbzuIo1oFYQs6nzu7Cl4Z2PmcQKah43qxSPyupEmuBt4fYI2B3gnABBerE6pOeA7CHu_QnpeGU9Cwbv4b0P-UrJjVXA5pwJlWCcBo-Yil5Xos5eUOUNuxumzi3LwqkKfJJusMcBY/s320/Solar+Winds+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567873431595548226" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFYlO-XjiktvgtCYrW1G3jBw3wT3gvYhJswwA2VOpeVjhWf0Mxs3Vqy92gyvt_Y0wUrPHbRS6WX5N1fhzCNYrjv6XWipiPAZnMtJ9xENRLQ9gR4c3E5BSJr6EZlH0P0LAIrn-Zzu2-z8/s400/Solar+Winds+3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568228685804456866" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUosykS5IlNCa7ez8m3ClnKsLUdWaU6W2dG5ewuJtRDMfwnqqQaPcnJR282NKXjrVKb_BQjZaIe4sQuH0UPZ6rdPKi2X8Zj5ktpXtndBFYWoKX5DOJH4hjIIPZdUQ76uleSc71MJzvo4k/s320/Solar+Winds+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567873426837174082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">In August we began</span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">constructing the frameworks for “Sky Bridges” for the Jacksonville International Airport. The long arched triangular trusses were assembled at our home studio outdoor workspace and quickly took over our small yard while we looked for a larger studio to work in. After a couple months of looking all over Boulder and surrounding communities we finally found an ample and well lit auto showroom that was perfect for our needs. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">With a great crew of studio assistants we are now in the final stages of fabrication covering the trusses with mirrored and light reactive materials that will transform the connector bridge of the airport for travelers heading to the concourses from the main ticketing area. We’re excited about the project and trying to imagine the total light effect of the work in the space. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">"SKY BRIDGES"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKitUo2dOloppvFpuWe5gJd0BOwHe9ditq9synLLXnNfQ6OIji3aKX4Hc1og-qWXhSjzRYdAtlXiob1ew9R1T2nyNq5My72-OpxtiHCmD4iVfg0xLDX_jRVyTRhPjiQMoCJzrexQ1y9d0/s400/Model+-+Sky+Bridges.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567880037997989410" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px; " /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >proposal model</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirOmZvy6s_f31WEGkrU4RpZsM4OPJKNgM-trnP8f-ZzfVtkoD1uxq7mWJLeXlL3YLsxdZgzzvjDaUPFfL6zIMKEhvEFU7rOzdjtSBVlUhm1B194CvFuP1eOBzG1nhQaARuVOhyLo8yLFE/s400/P1060382.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567879231706877442" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> a half of the frames finished and stored in our yard</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWvvc6JMyyjQ4_WAHOVwzrVcoAKHE6X78cMkNLwdJ5pWG_0w-JGEmuajMRPL0nE7LzinE8VhNmZWrzIdr4u8BKOioRq-c6RFNCSxens3PksJdD7Bez3erKamh5F9WqJ6k7I1XMa0Lrb94/s400/Melanie+and+the+bridge+frames.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567884358646883458" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">Melanie calling for more materials</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxQEpCxMYe2OU7fTfXrqFDCQzGw561g-a9U-JdeqbAzQ-rQ5BrDQbRtaH-OfxQkrA28d_3r3-udJnhr5GNIU2ZyMQTlBECjeQThFMJEpYi46Jnif5Mu-tHPvgIu5R4to4jZr2wv7FeGs/s400/the+work+table.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567884363195089362" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">The tool table in the outdoor space.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOCCxKjv_r3L9N5rBu9ro5EFhYlhVKkDGzHT0oEuF7x8B_3ZXQjBrYdW9UMYwCuEQbvZRxsfdSmev0wAHBv3lXa9ZpxNzEcEmB3WMIvOgozA8zaWTAcOkg6UomNItPmyWLB3umo0Iyzs/s400/P1060786.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568207452584890610" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); ">then we moved the operation into a larger space</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNKENZhPSzWCeH8X1Ylkf3m9wL951knrFtsNzQGgfVJP9swAPo48PVXN_PunQ0RzWSRH-IxD7pqzAbWuygHcPnhcyZd9maYwDdPOcUkssvlRv590lN3d1Q3K-NA0C5_aPF5aKX9XVEhg/s400/P1060810.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568205954693206242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">the units needed to go overhead for storage while working below</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_I0GVqISKhi4tTjPOpoXenbTyVFmJ-13zB3cjgsU2bGhSCCyaSMVmwpFRcDDA1vpVNxSkXK2N5Rp4qdjhfGnXbAusgcV-yCdeRGcyurnh7Vgw6g66_WPk5i_4qIjTNzqdVfdHZ47vXTw/s400/P1060806.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568204542974062194" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">the work crew adding the shiny bits in the new studio</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">We'll be doing some periodic updates on the airport project as it continues..</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-37975968868531277262010-05-15T22:03:00.000-07:002010-05-21T11:28:02.855-07:00CERVIA INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELL7ldTZkapWoZjiYidjpK_V1774KPtJfzyvxRQ1-H668IynL9_N3irpXr5NAQ0ElfdB8y-I3bpvIvtNvMNylUeHBHsBqNl5p29jDlreoqH5owrMHFcZAyxh8h_ZJV_S9sONL_olY7FA/s1600/The+color+circus.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELL7ldTZkapWoZjiYidjpK_V1774KPtJfzyvxRQ1-H668IynL9_N3irpXr5NAQ0ElfdB8y-I3bpvIvtNvMNylUeHBHsBqNl5p29jDlreoqH5owrMHFcZAyxh8h_ZJV_S9sONL_olY7FA/s400/The+color+circus.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471743892760617666" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Th</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">e kite festivals that we attend around the world each have their own particular celebratory nature. Some are huge events attracting thousands of spectators and hundreds of kite flyers around the world. They are like a circus aerial act, with performers launching their creations into the overhead arena, white lines stretching upward to the giant sky blue top tent overhead.</span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO5EYiDU9LLQL2kk88lSHo8Qihjv6C46QzleM5whaibdeK-w3z0kIaixN3Sy3aChRXm0vcAjrdQn3irXU043fO4_mTQgOpA_gzctICyxOFp23K_F-27GWY1_d_j3EgtwM5wTwE9tOLjxk/s400/full+Cervia+Sky.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471730828633369762" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We flew to </span></span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Cervia</span></span></span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span></span></span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Italy</span></span></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> recently to attend the 30</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> annual Cervia International Kite Festival. That number, by all standards for kite festivals, is a long time running. There are only a handful of festivals that have that sort of history and still have the same organizers at the helm. This festival was started by Claudio Capeli, an artist and painter turned kite maker and then kite festival organizer. His daughter, Caterina always at his side in the early days eventually came on board as a co-organizer for the festival. His wife Giovana, helps and manages the kite store tent on the field.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">From Germany, Anke Saur's Dot kite ..150 bridle lines!</span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL874ta2TlwTvq8wK5LJXORjlAyYG1tlowfLg7AaULV6StGVPrZ58O31Ofy0SrWqFeIQSB7fSYp4e6603GkViJXrz0Sp1FChCN6C984JF-VQyd2o8QUZu71WSzEE_oGUz6XBZLVJOUJII/s1600/Anke+Sauer+-+the+lift+off+of+Dot.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL874ta2TlwTvq8wK5LJXORjlAyYG1tlowfLg7AaULV6StGVPrZ58O31Ofy0SrWqFeIQSB7fSYp4e6603GkViJXrz0Sp1FChCN6C984JF-VQyd2o8QUZu71WSzEE_oGUz6XBZLVJOUJII/s320/Anke+Sauer+-+the+lift+off+of+Dot.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471750971978305074" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 320px; " /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Cervia is on the upper calf of the boot of </span></span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Italy</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, about an hour from </span></span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bologna</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> near Ravena on the seaside. As many times as I’ve been there as a participant, I’ve experienced the best winds along with some of the best kite flyers and makers in the world. This particular festival is a favorite among the art kite makers. It is a sky gallery of the most unusual and unique flying creations anywhere. People gather to share ideas and relax in this paradise of sun, sand, wind and clear blue skies. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Although the event spans two weekends, the days pass gently with no particular schedule except adding as much color and movement to the sky overhead as possible. It is rare that Melanie and I experience a kite festival with such perfect gentle and even winds letting us send almost every single kite in our tightly packed bags overhead all at once. When that happens, we hold our breath a bit hoping that it all stays aloft with no wayward kite bringing the whole show swirling to the ground. And, yes, that happened a few times as well. Tangles are a great way of meeting new kite friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a flying paper wonder by Austrian kite maker, Anna Rubin</span></span></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWgBODpv83lfPIuFHqy9GChVwBImqF-z0lk1iYkTbMEGfFjGnUThMa4YEL4YejtIpCn-0Y6upnJNInmxziIzIAHVoVgIb_Esos0nHW8pd88mqjyOi6mrO6nbIWVBAc-uxTiQ3cReg-SM/s1600/Anna+Rubin+kite+2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWgBODpv83lfPIuFHqy9GChVwBImqF-z0lk1iYkTbMEGfFjGnUThMa4YEL4YejtIpCn-0Y6upnJNInmxziIzIAHVoVgIb_Esos0nHW8pd88mqjyOi6mrO6nbIWVBAc-uxTiQ3cReg-SM/s320/Anna+Rubin+kite+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471745791289582002" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px; " /></a><span style="font-family:Arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The festival used to be held in the city of </span></span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Cervia</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> proper on a large beach near the city center. A few years ago, it was moved south to the nearby beach community of Pinarella. The beaches are lined with the familiar beach club bagnos that are normally full at peak summer season. The festival held at the end of April and beginning of May is a welcome early season opener for the town and businesses as kite flyers flock to this place each year.</span></span></span></span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A parkland strip of pine trees separates the beaches from the town creating a pleasant buffer between the cars, restaurants and bars and the beach scene. Walking there from the town each morning was like entering another world. A row of tents were set up along the beach selling all sorts of goods including kite sellers, curious curios and clothing waving on hangers in the sea breeze. A short distance from the kite fields a large tent housed the children’s kite workshop. Each day streams of kids would enter the tent and make kites guided by some of the international kite flyers. At the end of each session they would hurry to the beach to try out their creations. The sky would bloom into a garden of dancing kites held by excited children.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Melanie relaxing under my Metro Man kite</span></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuXfr8beuBztZv8cd1zL04rTgQCjH1mJCavEOdcEznn2HTHHc8K98jYEJI2-9HlLMbhp6snXsofp089GsuJTfss1VeozRHn5XwLOgZKLualmu9WTQY7UAxe1RhxLlybmaGU9Q_XQ7S-I/s1600/George's+Metro+Man+kite+with+Melanie.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuXfr8beuBztZv8cd1zL04rTgQCjH1mJCavEOdcEznn2HTHHc8K98jYEJI2-9HlLMbhp6snXsofp089GsuJTfss1VeozRHn5XwLOgZKLualmu9WTQY7UAxe1RhxLlybmaGU9Q_XQ7S-I/s320/George's+Metro+Man+kite+with+Melanie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471745784090989378" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px; " /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The kite field was split into several venues. One demonstration area reserved for the aerial acts of supreme sport kite teams and the king of multiple stunt kite flying, Ray Bethel from </span></span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vancouver</span></span></span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, </span></span></span><st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BC</span></span></span></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Canada</span></span></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. Further up the field were single line kite flyers with some astounding ground displays of banners, tents, sand ants, beach art, spinning, floating and flying aerial art of all forms. Further up the beach, the larger kites floated overhead dwarfing the handlers camped out at the enormous sand bag and stake anchor points. The scene through the week passed with these giant floating creatures buffeting in the winds while some slept under the kite shadows or passed the time chatting with old kite friends.</span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRfUuv2JISuEl78E5kPyDwxaumJotTs1NgNeDIUh-HTDZwBT9x6zT6lLWsBF3TBal2Te0xtyCdj-WV6mZmqwEt6-0MbFgxeSCIWbn1_-euREqn9tNhzpoEVInrUHCk1fNsGPUyUy6YaM/s1600/Kid's+Kite+workshop.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRfUuv2JISuEl78E5kPyDwxaumJotTs1NgNeDIUh-HTDZwBT9x6zT6lLWsBF3TBal2Te0xtyCdj-WV6mZmqwEt6-0MbFgxeSCIWbn1_-euREqn9tNhzpoEVInrUHCk1fNsGPUyUy6YaM/s400/Kid's+Kite+workshop.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471732532824647826" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The kid's kite workshop tent was busy</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIiJoCLMnuXDp76nKM0LZiVv3QxxzSoL6LKd4My7WUl63WE4Cfh8Mc2Q-VFNLltEaxiJsE1UuUlwFvPQXNYjIRxRW_VU2UnmDJ0gHeFkYm81RT0XIohoUgoWVy2qd68PDhZy9A8oSQIVg/s1600/Peter+Lynn+kites.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIiJoCLMnuXDp76nKM0LZiVv3QxxzSoL6LKd4My7WUl63WE4Cfh8Mc2Q-VFNLltEaxiJsE1UuUlwFvPQXNYjIRxRW_VU2UnmDJ0gHeFkYm81RT0XIohoUgoWVy2qd68PDhZy9A8oSQIVg/s400/Peter+Lynn+kites.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471732524667508562" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Volker Hoberg's No Limit giant inflatable kites from Germany</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEppql6E_23dp4xJROzHs91bD6hGWLY1-2e_mJkh9dIWrfkhvWZeZFpSXVvuoiYjOQSKW9kL0q2H2953hgl1h677Aw1dFftGdI3KvY229D0g3RSWldmi0ofG_RqPjqO3rR6OoprXXxuY/s1600/Tetrahedron+with+Dot+and+Wrap+Man.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEppql6E_23dp4xJROzHs91bD6hGWLY1-2e_mJkh9dIWrfkhvWZeZFpSXVvuoiYjOQSKW9kL0q2H2953hgl1h677Aw1dFftGdI3KvY229D0g3RSWldmi0ofG_RqPjqO3rR6OoprXXxuY/s400/Tetrahedron+with+Dot+and+Wrap+Man.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471732516133188898" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A fine Swiss Tetra kite and my Wrap Man and Dot Man kites behind</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPioJhQOKdgBuYqaVrYRfPpsjNQSFsOpWFhY8iYB2U9LLYh91ik4gT3WF7mS8lMofEPt8jSSBuChyphenhyphenDazda4gAPulENqCwDSBqazEEIn8TcYUyPJwqpkDjNqqf9UA0F2y98nfVkzb5eyrk/s1600/George+and+Melanie%27s+kites.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPioJhQOKdgBuYqaVrYRfPpsjNQSFsOpWFhY8iYB2U9LLYh91ik4gT3WF7mS8lMofEPt8jSSBuChyphenhyphenDazda4gAPulENqCwDSBqazEEIn8TcYUyPJwqpkDjNqqf9UA0F2y98nfVkzb5eyrk/s400/George+and+Melanie%27s+kites.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471732509804221090" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Our kite array and banners</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27v4S8aapnop4uIntW4hkIRQ_WcLAwrqTuWfxATPu88kBdtt1dqU0-eqAYJ6cklpywZibK_c_VR8yn3mM1sFN3VunRTfYXd1Xvg_7STWoum9WpHAyNin-OmpAeWCeH_XpVGehbVtvgvg/s1600/Paper+kite+portfolio.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27v4S8aapnop4uIntW4hkIRQ_WcLAwrqTuWfxATPu88kBdtt1dqU0-eqAYJ6cklpywZibK_c_VR8yn3mM1sFN3VunRTfYXd1Xvg_7STWoum9WpHAyNin-OmpAeWCeH_XpVGehbVtvgvg/s400/Paper+kite+portfolio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471733672334647474" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A portfolio of fine paper kites</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEqooAtd5Fj93wS5_C2S6_RlrfTKZuF41b_CdA_Eol_uYOHbHe02e-75KIOJrTrYKYPOxtsgK5g4a9vbkU-B2Icp6isz827p9WE6q5bwYvzNb9_BtW9YDK2VZ6JSysotwrsHRzAMJFfNA/s1600/Kite+sleeper.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEqooAtd5Fj93wS5_C2S6_RlrfTKZuF41b_CdA_Eol_uYOHbHe02e-75KIOJrTrYKYPOxtsgK5g4a9vbkU-B2Icp6isz827p9WE6q5bwYvzNb9_BtW9YDK2VZ6JSysotwrsHRzAMJFfNA/s400/Kite+sleeper.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471733666055776418" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A very relaxed kite flyer</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqz4NwgsjHpGQWXgjKHYwyQlkQS2fQ13iZvAi2aTvS6uAb1DM_wGVWmzMYsqaSAwG-w0MGLqKhdQT7vT0VydCrIQrtloPePsSX2rADHeEHJ1UaUwOD7RFwqV9DX6hwlirMen2eaLGvW6k/s1600/Cervia+Banner+display.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqz4NwgsjHpGQWXgjKHYwyQlkQS2fQ13iZvAi2aTvS6uAb1DM_wGVWmzMYsqaSAwG-w0MGLqKhdQT7vT0VydCrIQrtloPePsSX2rADHeEHJ1UaUwOD7RFwqV9DX6hwlirMen2eaLGvW6k/s400/Cervia+Banner+display.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471733658226114370" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Banners by the seaside</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjClUg8N_I8vmhQD9P91KNeDaqk3wHkY47w63faizMUPYVObNNbHwNaLEAdlga2vFQsdZVntABeKkPML4EUmK-UH5fAum2y2lovt7XG6dYzVcdmKpjXLWQ5VognTqtcGIImtYlheac39Sg/s1600/butterfly+kite.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjClUg8N_I8vmhQD9P91KNeDaqk3wHkY47w63faizMUPYVObNNbHwNaLEAdlga2vFQsdZVntABeKkPML4EUmK-UH5fAum2y2lovt7XG6dYzVcdmKpjXLWQ5VognTqtcGIImtYlheac39Sg/s400/butterfly+kite.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471733652790332642" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 221px; " /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ready for launch</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVghcO7g68lmlZjd9ZITVAz_baI9Gnk9530AAVejUYyvS4RD6XKbJBdpmrFXsBIobEiavkVVP-U9qGr3w7U-m85yoA6S43ZRvZ6oNjjaMutCRXvZSLs130xSfRwQj-AZ0nD8WdhOISCU/s1600/Beach+scene+at+Cervia-Pinarello.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOVghcO7g68lmlZjd9ZITVAz_baI9Gnk9530AAVejUYyvS4RD6XKbJBdpmrFXsBIobEiavkVVP-U9qGr3w7U-m85yoA6S43ZRvZ6oNjjaMutCRXvZSLs130xSfRwQj-AZ0nD8WdhOISCU/s400/Beach+scene+at+Cervia-Pinarello.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471731236544030690" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px; " /></a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The public area beach side</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It’s a scene that I’m familiar with but somehow, each time creates a memory like a dream that drifts by like a colorful cloud and then, while on the plane flying home, exhausted with warm and happy tan faces reminds us why we do this. It’s just so much fun! And </span></span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Italy</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">?...I have a hard time thinking of a finer place to pass the time under the Italian sun, on a beach with a few hundred kites overhead dancing in the perfect winds. Grazia Mille, Cervia! </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Until next time, Ciao!</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For more photos of the Cervia International Kite Festival go to the</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48654031@N05/sets/72157624037911948/show/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Flickr slide show</span></a></div></span><p></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-11461678266919255192010-04-14T18:14:00.000-07:002010-04-14T22:01:50.177-07:00SLEEPWALKING SONGS<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq2x4UKFxg_XlKOykeB09R_hFb-M3b9H5FNqWG1fPWg4_QAVQvXEKoZ8GyY_OM5X-kJlnVaY8hOAaMxp4-TogHSezZooLg_juFocf8_Ctu5anVsNnD4teiOZei4cZCRXkNbkLEnrDds40/s1600/Sleepwalking+Songs++poster+1+sm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq2x4UKFxg_XlKOykeB09R_hFb-M3b9H5FNqWG1fPWg4_QAVQvXEKoZ8GyY_OM5X-kJlnVaY8hOAaMxp4-TogHSezZooLg_juFocf8_Ctu5anVsNnD4teiOZei4cZCRXkNbkLEnrDds40/s400/Sleepwalking+Songs++poster+1+sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460178015506040114" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">We recently installed some of our works in a joint exhibit at the Burris Hall Gallery at </span></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Highlands</span></span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"> </span></span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">University</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"> in </span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Las Vegas, New Mexico</span></span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">. We just drove down to disassemble the show but here is a synopsis of the show.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"><br /></span></span></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIg1T0eCfKi99P1JC-HrB6_LeGtAwcRWgLQXawnmTe_vcZpR0Zzbn6tfFMOtz3V8vhaaVS-xZd2mTGXEUx0bTnI3w15Ae2LvNv8SUYCOqCCEoOflO1Rey9TyY4TIHczjc4cvvdje_akDM/s400/Fall+-+sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460175998918521762" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px; " /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Melanie showed a series of her collaged metal plate photographic shadow box works as well as four of a series of House Head prints. The man in the photos is her closest associate and collaborator… me. Also included were our camera peep viewers from a show entitled “Cameraeye Voyaguer”, a cabinet installation of Melanie’s bird houses entitled “Bird Cage of Socrates” and a cabinet installation of mine entitled “Plato’s Cave”</span></o:p></span></p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">The Bird Cage of Socrates derives from a intellectual dialogue with Theaetetus where Socrates equated the human thought process comparing it to grabbing onto a bird (truth) in an aviary of the mind. Many birds fly by and the chance of catching what one hopes to be a truth in the maelstrom of the mind is a daunting task.</span></o:p></span></p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGgNIK79ltoz238tSuN0rdTvuFGXTZky3rXWCBHcBmG-ZHaxBFrMthFdKZrfUAOPJbwMIyZPJoniyfOpBkbbf9oGqtDyzIC35_LYMVHkmEam9w_D15A7iDjCLwSFMzJSCRMPM_J_Rvwsw/s400/Bird+Cage+of+Socrates.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460179048313488946" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Arial;">Plato’s Cave relates to his allegorical story about the human mind discerning truth from illusion. Watching dancing shadows on the wall of a cave can be one form of illusion the same as most mediated experiences of reality … ie. television and Youtube. The source of the shadows the light of knowledge is, of course, the greater of the reality and leads one out of the cave of ignorance. The installation features wrinkled paper, about a thousand small paper cut-out moths suspended from the ceiling and a single light bulb.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0Yg-f8sbkZfXIYE_XiXvxAK3pHF1gjd8Zyf-h6s1S0PkrWtRJrW1uqQhyphenhyphenghOiTR7l9qWpsvyOIbE6wO-MV4Ov7R8Qti2Qxy-K1w2UWHeaOwBHSXUHnTpUSrgMQEQXXcceKBxoJ54hus/s1600/Plato's+Cave+-+1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0Yg-f8sbkZfXIYE_XiXvxAK3pHF1gjd8Zyf-h6s1S0PkrWtRJrW1uqQhyphenhyphenghOiTR7l9qWpsvyOIbE6wO-MV4Ov7R8Qti2Qxy-K1w2UWHeaOwBHSXUHnTpUSrgMQEQXXcceKBxoJ54hus/s400/Plato's+Cave+-+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460178730905986802" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px; " /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmihW8D1MwHh7iOdqUvGvO8-JCPttInV5mygWENKK3t0rsC8TdkKMHg8sYozha-W6O0gR8jKyVJmgbvOvn7875IQOupwdAKSUsbGXZpGSl12g7bg1GWnBjEgkgVJpr6Zt5g5s_OK76rW0/s1600/Plato's+Cave.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmihW8D1MwHh7iOdqUvGvO8-JCPttInV5mygWENKK3t0rsC8TdkKMHg8sYozha-W6O0gR8jKyVJmgbvOvn7875IQOupwdAKSUsbGXZpGSl12g7bg1GWnBjEgkgVJpr6Zt5g5s_OK76rW0/s400/Plato's+Cave.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460178726318312882" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Also included in this part of the gallery was an installation work of mine entitled “Otto’s Dream”. One large airplane in flames followed by four smaller airplane forms are suspended from the ceiling. Otto Lilianthal was the first to make a heavier than air flight using a glider. Essentially, he was the first man to fly with wings. He made two thousand flights using his gliders from a specially built conical hill outside of </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;">Berlin</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"> in the 1890’s, inspiring the Wright Brothers in their pursuit of controlled, powered flight. Lilianthal firmly believed the if man learned to fly, there would be no borders to protect and peace would prevail. He was critically injured after a crash and his last dying words were “Small sacrifices must be made”.</span></span></span></o:p></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaKVCPzro6CGmmwzWmFA8ALQO9WR0E4_VY_123XNeIG6J3194KRme04_LjZlqQZDGtcQyqgONvPTLjD8OxyVaVE34BCOvRp40-6ZffEA-rBFkW_sWisrXqoR1mznhyphenhyphenP0li5Owan0RYMqc/s400/Otto's+Dream+.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460178263582865250" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Arial;">Two of Melanie’s kites were included in the show as well. One with an image of a toy house and another from her animal series of photographic tableaus featuring a rabbit headed figure and a rabbit marionette in the woods.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Arial;">For more photos from the "Sleepwalking Songs" exhibition visit the Airworks Flikr slide show.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;color:#C0C0C0;"><br /></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#C0C0C0;"> </span></o:p></span></p></div></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-58844543522874122682010-01-08T19:41:00.000-08:002010-01-08T21:22:10.463-08:00CATCHING IDEAS FROM THIN AIR<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBJTo0cRws3IY6qZJuvW9RXWkjClTaqGNGKOq1161B-_xtEDvEgMz_HnopKXgp_DSmXGU6JoHstLSzA5K-H0UyVxUAujLLR5O9Lw4DtI10mQBnkggnrdD5v72uP0rndqN0uFpL6poeusQ/s1600-h/bridges+sketch.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424593819708713410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBJTo0cRws3IY6qZJuvW9RXWkjClTaqGNGKOq1161B-_xtEDvEgMz_HnopKXgp_DSmXGU6JoHstLSzA5K-H0UyVxUAujLLR5O9Lw4DtI10mQBnkggnrdD5v72uP0rndqN0uFpL6poeusQ/s400/bridges+sketch.jpg" /></a><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;">When not playing with the winds we are often inside our studio environment doing works that sometimes confound us and keep us from sleeping. Usually this happens when we have a particular public art deadline for a proposal. Maybe I need to explain this process a bit more.<br /><br />We are public artists both in our kite works and our commissioned aerial sculpture works. The process goes something like this… Step one is scouring the internet calls for art throughout the country. We get announcements through the public 1% for Art programs that are generally government run agencies in all of the states and many cities in the US. A promising project may be a great architectural space or the art committee may even be asking for aerial sculpture in particular for either inside a large atrium space or an outdoor kinetic work. We then review the requirements for applying by sending in images of what we’ve done, resumes, a description of how we work and interest in the project and then send it off. This part is probably the simplest part of the public art process.<br /><br />Next comes the anticipation, the waiting, the wondering if they forgot us. Nine times out of ten a couple months fly by and we forget about which ones we have applied for. “It’s the economy” we tell ourselves, or, “Maybe we should email them to see if they got our application”. Then the day after we get a polite letter in the mail saying, “Thank you for your application… Many artists applied and, unfortunately you were not chosen in the finalist phase”. The letter then gets added to our rejections file which, over the time period of close to twenty eight years has gotten quite thick.<br /><br />But, like fishing, there are many casts into the blue beyond and occasionally we do catch one or two. The letter begins something like, ”Thank you for applying. The art committee has convened and has chosen you as one of three (or seven, or twelve) finalists for the project”. This is followed by the both of us cheering and dancing about the room. Then the details are read about the period of time we will have for developing the idea. This is always much too short a time given the processes involved in coming up with a genious idea and crafting it into a bona fide proposal presentation.<br /><br />Generally we have a month to pull everything together. This means careful researching of the institution or business, finding out appropriate themes, pouring over the architectural plans supplied by the architect, hours and days on the computer making a 3D computer model of the space to familiarize ourselves with the building or area, sketching out the “wild and wacky” ideas, refining to forty other ideas, drawing some more until it enters our dreams, going through night sweats and technical tremors. This is the most difficult stage. Sometimes whole sketchbooks are filled and then we return to our first page idea and decide that’s the best one. Other times it is just plain long and hard work contained in a process I like to call “drawing from the deep well”.<br /><br />For many years this process followed the building of a physical model of the space. These were generally finely detailed models made for the proposal presentation. The architectural space often defines what can go into it. B</span></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;">y constructing a model early in the process and spending a lot of time with it, the vision often comes just at the point of desperation. Some call it the ‘Ah-Ha!’- moment. We just call it the “Quick! Get it into the model …. We’re presenting next week!”- dash.<br /><br />What follows is a generally well rehearsed dance that verges on frenzy. We gather and research the materials for the proposal, figure out the processes, construction, how we get it to the site, how it gets installed, all the costs are calculated into a detailed budgeting for the project, in a word, all the nuts and bolts. These are plugged into our overall plan, detailed drawings are made along with computer renderings using photos of the model.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The physical models have proven to be a necessary step in the presentation of our ideas. Being visual artists we tend to like showing the ideas directly. We call this the “Doll House” effect. Not only are they useful for us in developing a concept but they are invaluable in presenting our ideas to others. The miniature version speaks volumes above the pages of descriptions that are written describing our design intent, narrative descriptions and processes. And, of course, traveling with a large scale architectural model can involve some difficult maneuvers through airports.<br /><br />We have constructed our models in hotel rooms the night before a presentation after arriving. We have shipped them by FedEx and prayed that they would arrive in time for our presentation. We have done international projects that were proposed using primarily emailed photos directly from our model. We have never (so far!) tripped and dropped our model at the doorway to the presentation room.<br /><br />What happens in the proposal presentation room is strictly confidential and not for discussion here but there is a lot of hand wringing before hand. Often we wait outside the closed presentation room while another finalist is presenting their proposal. Butterflies tie knots in our stomachs as we wait. And after our presentation is over and all the questions are answered we leave the room with the art committee thanking us for our presentation and ushering in the next artist who is sitting outside with presentation boards, model and that familiar nervous look.<br /><br />We traveled to Jacksonville, Florida last month, presenting for a project for the Jacksonville Airport there. We have close to seventy large public art projects we have won commissions for over the years. They are in libraries, universities, corporate headquarters, rec centers, schools and health care facilities. We have applied for maybe a couple dozen airport commissions. We figured it would be a good match with us doing aerial inspired works based on kites and using air as a theme and medium for our art. Let’s just say we have added to our rejection pile and have not received any positive notice from the airport arts commissions that decide on these matters. Then, a couple days after returning to Colorado we received an email ….starting with “Congratulations, you have been selected” from the Jacksonville Airport Arts Commission….followed immediately by our little dance for joy around the room and then our “Oh No!” dance….”Now we have to make it!”</span> </span><br /></div><div align="justify"><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><br /></div></span><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424583399644590562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNBN-DhymrGvoYEXLL3ODQk8wf6MdDpLSeu2-H9aB8MzEj-hmgdBjvPn-9WsjLIjx7dPhLiuTw0vri7lv2VoMO4i78xoBUiKVZEsqMy3_0srKUnqXU6ennFbWv299aTK2oiSsS-t407pA/s400/Model+view+1.jpg" /><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Some proposal drawings and models for the connector bridge to the gates at the </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Jacksonville International Airport. </span></span><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424583403168586578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxoyXJ4eFub_DwJhHHtGZHgV3v_oYKQm83NPaREZvxU3VOTVUs8orYvulT5hSAUKB7a36XplSnupFASpgtySOUVrpFQH0UXIn2MGOd1w9y9AeLsZ0F__Ocm-ykK54DW3OD9ZY7p-3Iy4/s400/model+view+4+lt+sm.jpg" /></p><p></p><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 174px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424587834670911154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HfB41YleAL-rdZeKR2JQ8nKKOItC2bRTMiOkCa7mlChWcUwwsYnulhcg9aOy51cHxwSt1lzhRM9MHoCcWxDD82B_ahR83iZWFKZ9hyphenhyphencI0wHFTrvim_cItzfgI78ptZVnUs4J26scJgs/s400/Illustration+5+sm.jpg" /></p><p></p><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424583417152548194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKke6f3K_uiEdKjVwkWSXpsi71AB6aLvUzUKAgpYQHelxWyAt9j7jRMb_lmUzdAoXWqrJ8jnboPVu4EKtOthfNg0cPfMXz4ySJVTFiPSs6Z1CheCk8WDAbB1HS8HMzGx1vJsjR6KtyfPo/s400/Illustration+2+sm.jpg" /></p><p><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 208px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424583413135940498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVgHMH8l8jTwI-5UNao4Bli2nVMB0HKgZ-7KtgKYoB-RxeB4-mOb_KUb46G0LMmbmXmjcRkZ5AdSidMVqo5C0_nvioEB4_EvtWKeH802o3v-1R0FaW5TuF_aFC0wg54f8voOc3oIC3lQ/s400/Illustration+1+sm.jpg" /></p><br /><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 188px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424583420817284978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyzy1UfRfRosc9ihCFOJz9gKZMBbcD8ELWB8R9yw9RxnvSMum9UwY8mgG8wujzdSLLi76U9tCOmOMzl-agVMqxy22T3OSzTwaubmFZC5Fa72Xp3D6vYo761yHmK20ok1vd3sTf3J5Ev2w/s400/Illustration+4+jpg+sm.jpg" /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">The project is set to be installed November 2010. Fly through there and see "Air Bridges". </span></p></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-35549886054353590832010-01-02T19:13:00.000-08:002010-01-02T21:23:07.791-08:00THE BOULDER JANUARY 1ST KITE FLY<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4Y2z1NzDAm1m84wzSXzP4YIgCv8Py-zloZVNE7VbKjBv264jUuM-e8czwAIH_zw5u3slTBgiz7V2fsHXj3ot4jCXPwOqjDs5XITNcW6jlGMW8EhXvlf2FYGPkxph-SNMAmdl2VO3z8E/s1600-h/banners+in+the+breeze.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422352179323750562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4Y2z1NzDAm1m84wzSXzP4YIgCv8Py-zloZVNE7VbKjBv264jUuM-e8czwAIH_zw5u3slTBgiz7V2fsHXj3ot4jCXPwOqjDs5XITNcW6jlGMW8EhXvlf2FYGPkxph-SNMAmdl2VO3z8E/s400/banners+in+the+breeze.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Each year since I came to Boulder in 1982, I got together with Jim and George, the owners of the Into The Wind kite store to do a little celebratory 1st day of the year kite fly. We would meet in a nearby high school soccer field in the bitter cold and attempt to fly kites with frozen fingers. Then a year later up on top of “Bald Mountain” in the foothills of the Rockies just above Boulder for a fantastic view of the plains spread out below. It was always exhilarating after the long trek to the top in the freezing Colorado weather to unfurl our kites and send them up into the chilly winds.<br /><br />We’ve managed to keep up this tradition despite Jim’s passing many years back and have been joined by many other friends over the years. Fools on the hill … flying kites when most sane people would be inside nursing a hangover from the New Year’s party the night before. I always thought kite flying is the best way to start a new year off to clear the air and watch the sky.<br /><br />I think this might be the twenty seventh annual New Year’s Day kite fly. Some of those days on the hill were bitter cold, others warm and almost balmy with winds swirling around the top of Bald Mountain making the kites circle lazily overhead in 360 degree wind shifts. One time a full force blizzard hit as Melanie and I trudged up to the top to get the kites ready. We didn’t think anyone else would join us. Nobody would be that crazy. The road up was almost impassible with blowing snow. On top, out of the mist came friend Tom and his whole family like some apparition yelling our names with his kites under arm. Two other friends showed up and we flew in the blinding snow storm. The kites flew ten or twenty feet overhead but you couldn’t see them. You could only hear the flapping of nylon and feel the tugging of the line. That was one of the best kite flying days ever!<br /><br />We moved the kite fly off of the top of the mountain and down to the prairie a few years ago. Better winds down below. Then when a Boulder Open Space ranger happened by last year and told us we had to apply for a permit to fly kites there we decided to move the event again. This year we flew in a little used city park on the east side of Boulder near the local airport. It was the perfect place with a big kite field, views of the foothills and the ‘Flatirons’, spectacular clouds over the continental divide and an audience of prairie dogs.<br /><br />Kites were flown, banners rippled in the sparse winds, hot chocolate and apple cider bubbled on a camp stove with cookies served. A nearby sledding hill helped during the doldrums with some great slides. About fifty friends and friends of friends showed up to celebrate decorating sled kites and flying them in the gentle breeze.<br /><br />Partway through the day a Boulder Police squad car pulled up into the parking lot. We thought we were going to be busted for flying without a permit or something. He watched the event from inside the police car for a while then we heard the crackle of his loud speaker switched on. “Very cool” he said in a dry speaker voice. Someone on the field yelled to him to come and join us. He clicked on again and said “I wish I could”… and then drove away.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422352189672056514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 321px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5pylwn7pyj0WAVBJ6Bi5ZSa8V0AjURfbmEdvrSD1ha7W_c8__5H5E0yy1W2HHEhYqOlS0SBGyWG6DtGRI20a56jVcIDpAVcZzKOo1FTbHiOINW4hdaDvVChqB4OZ4Qo0BjDfNl3do6X4/s400/Sanjay+flying+the+Sky+Bird.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422352188025828226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8o9dZeAp1HB1jMOgL85Z38Cxg7N8QefW8UUOtinGXnU8VVIMRGBYQX3qJIVYdJau4eJowEm2QGcwos0jbyKMLBKQBbJHVQ25SuHjKPSBhWDWWKiiqEXKZqBPnDU7yh5iYZNqh7DEBo3k/s400/George+with+Play+Sail.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422352198892759970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 257px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCRxxoUqzGyUh1veTXnlmkS2qQm63Hfo62CGUx_uxzBhbG-SiZzix-XwI0_jhSPXjfn7K4UBYVuUGwy7QtJBfONUSbfGdPLipRZols8PkNGxfhMmzc8VvbqSRhEaRpOkNGYVeAP2bUv_0/s400/Play+Sail+in+the+breeze.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /><p></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422377326167325074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 259px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBJsEyyOkVpEcXKBelW_hMwwPJ7BbhRew74OqM6pnYI6tpk21bVjUzVJaYydfTN_b8MAfmO_HWMh2xtfl7a-pGhMl8YHZwHB35eEMIuJe-jdHcHE7iTXPanqzOP-c5m_Fydiuv3VVLrCQ/s320/To+m+Lyon+with+Dragonfly.jpg" border="0" /><br /></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422352200154906930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ohjlKFBEfeeGqXWfXQAIXexWPgexvJz3WLoTili0brCh42UeXbKOpKdFCBvVaVDWjePmaVd4jcRWVbr1CkkH9UT393d-d9lOoIE2KpRI_UHNRM1PFysxBJ_rN54d-6rSMs8HLMUtixo/s400/sledding+hill.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422353112640158770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-eeNC4HfWZLkpD7B-B-RevIisxnXfrqchCLzq4v5aveOCM9S5kv4diRwTfHsZMkr6igi7DEHco92vb119Uo7PO3zmcMKihf2eEJI-5iRIpEWU0DU6i907IfLkocAgiDfeKpqSGhlk_8A/s400/sunset+over+Boulder.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">The sun sank behind the mountain top as we cleared up the kites, banners and unfinished hot chocolate. It was the perfect day for sky watching and kite flying while welcoming in a brand new year. Come and join us next year!</span> </span><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"></div></span>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-41768402158368053802009-06-07T09:32:00.000-07:002009-06-20T17:13:07.253-07:00SAN VITO, SICILY INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiHVZMvcVqXlOJRKwLKy4-33DxiYi391THfHiANxg6rzprkyPdw64E5MAksfm_VNk5v5CRHvFPBzrfkG-bx1tyh4-EALggxETqe3YUiyUugAOBv_HTzrDRNWaX0q8SvLUAglnnbryYOA/s1600-h/Flag+display+in+sand+garden.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344733272926667250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiHVZMvcVqXlOJRKwLKy4-33DxiYi391THfHiANxg6rzprkyPdw64E5MAksfm_VNk5v5CRHvFPBzrfkG-bx1tyh4-EALggxETqe3YUiyUugAOBv_HTzrDRNWaX0q8SvLUAglnnbryYOA/s400/Flag+display+in+sand+garden.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">We packed our kites and jumped on the plane headed to the island of Sicily for a taste of Italy and to test the winds along the blue shores of San Vito on the North West tip of the island that is being kicked by the boot of Italy. The festival was the first for this area that promised a clean onshore wind, sunny and warm Mediterranean weather, great food, Sicilian hospitality and a group of some of our favorite kite making friends from around the world. What could be better? </span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;"><br /><div align="justify">Kite flyers were gathered for the event by kite artist and festival organizer, Claudio Cappeli and his daughter Caterina. Included were flyers from France, Germany, Austria, Italy, England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ghana, Mexico and the U.S. Maria Gabriella and Ignacio Billera of Trapani Eventi organized the event details and hospitality in San Vito lo Capo.<br /><br />We were greeted by a near perfect kite flying day for the first weekend of the ten day festival as everyone put everything into the sky to fill the beach with our kites. Some took to the cool waist deep waters holding their lines to the kite show overhead and commenting, “It doesn’t get much better than this”.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnQQxyZ6fvoTr6NWbSUiLKhrA5SyhKm1etkRbR2MO3LEg2GtPtQDc43eCVQVmR-CmxAfp97k18zrVODGseRyBz2Ilagsi_dWKZwVpgMElZP0F3rJdCTkrVnrf6wlK_-cptmCXQlqmyv0/s1600-h/Wind+mill+salt+water+pump+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344710495818696018" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 157px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 216px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnQQxyZ6fvoTr6NWbSUiLKhrA5SyhKm1etkRbR2MO3LEg2GtPtQDc43eCVQVmR-CmxAfp97k18zrVODGseRyBz2Ilagsi_dWKZwVpgMElZP0F3rJdCTkrVnrf6wlK_-cptmCXQlqmyv0/s320/Wind+mill+salt+water+pump+2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />While some of the other days offered less than perfect winds, each day offered an array of activities including trips to small groups of kite flyers out to communities around San Vito for kite flying demonstrations and sight seeing forays. We were taken to nearby the seaside town of Trapani visiting the historic salt fields with old wind mill towers that used to pump the sea water into the evaporative salt beds. We then drove to an old stone hill village of Salemi in an area that was destroyed by a powerful earthquake in 1968. Salemi suffered from major damage and was reconstructed. We flew kites at the hill top church and from the fortress castle towers.<br /><br />We then traveled to the nearby village of Gibelllini. This rural town was at the epicenter of the earthquake and was totally destroyed. Three thousand people perished in the quake while sleeping in their stone houses. The entire town <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKL8V8qrFMwoyAmRbOnSwPRthsKc32QFe1AZOxRfTaQZZ11Kk7Gq9r4vjf22QlVGOABZ5wbWoGG8ayuY9RI5YkI_WBgBhyphenhyphenliQSwT-ojlSaDPspXmN4SL8vav3trXHWDrKGoFbWvKF2NI/s1600-h/Gibellina+ruins+monument.jpg"></a>was leveled in the disaster. As a memorial to the victims Italian artist <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129335">Alberto Burri</a> was commissioned to create a monument of concrete at the site of the town.</span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> The result is a haunting maze of concrete covering the hillside. We flew for the spirits entombed there. We visited the new village of Gibellini Nouva that was built seven kilometers from the original town. All the surviving families were moved to this new villiage. Italian architects and artists designed the new town filled with memorials to the victims and families lost in the disaster. The new town modern apartments and condos obviously lacked the Sicilian flavor and the tight and narrow street corridors bustling with the sounds of families.</span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><br /></div></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344714460459894594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21CsrGy17E59X-IyBOxiTj9edUubLrQefbz9bj3hcfAoheZLT1XJP7rbInNnNczvN0QnXIbLKnOaMtlw_M0unV8pLAST3LHgjUMfVwqCPYpfl3ucRM-BZJqRTYRYjDP_EZjU3BtEdF6c/s320/Gibellina+ruins+1.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /></div></span></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344712349005577106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 169px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0mde0IJISZUeABnkkYacnWcCkNzS6Q49n1jK7O-8id5qPN-3CJZ3yp_S1n0BxldgPvwGS3IzKF65ngFsY_G4vK9sBfSJOQnkXQRNsnlUDzI1ICrKPK76vfYe2hXQqQMa89diIMZltw8/s400/Gibellina+ruins+monument.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsfkTmJVrjCPQ2YmsbzgcKgBB3raM6Ztiu97B1sNK1FVcygI3J9X8lJTxf-f3RcbJ-vWlQ4eI3O7uqlZdiyp_V-Gk65Ozqj4L_dWGqUeg9OK2zkxAn2O2NDkSDoosEvsxzu2S22qI3UeQ/s1600-h/Cous+Cous+lunch.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344710496066159026" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsfkTmJVrjCPQ2YmsbzgcKgBB3raM6Ztiu97B1sNK1FVcygI3J9X8lJTxf-f3RcbJ-vWlQ4eI3O7uqlZdiyp_V-Gk65Ozqj4L_dWGqUeg9OK2zkxAn2O2NDkSDoosEvsxzu2S22qI3UeQ/s320/Cous+Cous+lunch.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Returning to the kite festival, each day we were treated to lunches in different local restaurants, tasting the pleasures of Sicilian food. Cous Cous dishes are a specialty in Sicily and reflect the close interaction with North African cuisines. Along with the summer kite festival, there’s also an international cous cous festival in San Vito with the streets filled with tent kitchens serving a staggering variety of the dish.</span></span><br /><br /></div><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344716849488544738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcGK_GsFtVZqvO0XpthFy4N3j_7cMpes5bqxAK9KPUFt4ubHkCxMMMunftrlHeBbqBcen3HEE5ba14u45htCgnhSbB1Feo5CefJ0FbqK7HRAkqZsVeIPCd1j8cgVv-iusWX5NdfrFpsG8/s320/Cous+Cous+restaurant.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="justify">While some would say that flying kites for ten days on the Mediterranean while being fed delicious lunches, dinners and gelato is probably close to being the perfect job description. Another side of the job is carrying two hundred pounds of kites back and forth to the flying field each day, setting up the display of banners and kites, keeping things flying, dealing with shifting winds, kite crashes into the sea, avoiding dehydration, sunburn and sunstroke, chasing down kites that get cut down, climbing trees or darting between the traffic to recover them. Then again, it was still pretty fun.<br /><br />The last weekend of flying brought a near perfect night fly and a day of clean enough winds to set a world record for shoulder to shoulder single line kite flying. I think there were about twelve of us in a tight lineup with kites aloft. </p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344715839193366418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 289px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUYPaiVaXi3I-RpZD2FeXzXDU_SaTIySOHaQGbIwYTAr1PydiyvSDrF6xDmEkX9mrEaW7RAD0-K-0CN-ZDbi9KZd3Y4e8CGRhwfergHgKRc51VvWL63R2SoA8THKqd5sOf_yKn2_dZDs/s320/Shoulder+to+shoulder+flying.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="justify">When all the kites were packed up on Sunday and the kite flyers gathered for a last meal in the dinner tent the wind picked up and started a sandstorm across the beach. Moments later sheets of rain and severe wind buffeted the tents. Leaving the next morning we learned that the freak storm had lifted the kite storage tent and the dinner tent during the night from the concrete stakes and totally destroyed both. Lucky no one was inside.<br /><br />Flying back home brought some added adventure and a few scary moments. There was a flight delay in Rome because of the rain storm. That made a tight connection for us in Philadelphia. I was coming down with something the last few days and not feeling that well as we ran through the airport to get through customs and to our transfer connection gate. On the flight to Denver I passed out briefly and the flight attendant brought me oxygen. Then while driving home from the Denver airport I had an excruciating pain in my back and had to go to the emergency for what turned out to be a kidney stone. The last few days have been spent recovering in bed and the back yard lawn lounge remembering the lovely time on the beach at San Vito, Sicily. </span></p><br /><p></span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344713553244512162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnk8MLIVsy5tEPvcTEQfsmAQPA9wVlNY4rGOQ8rSKQO4tCUWe1YY2_y4vRVwSqraKfMOfwz0TuNQ6Vta_Fmkg8W7EtxhShRRAXygkDnic3NNw3z3AH0A2MHjHOwe_Iu9NkLNVFmOwr1WQ/s400/George+Peters+kites+%26+Melanie%27s+Dress+kite.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">An array of George's kites flying with Melanie's High Fashion Dress kite and House Head kite</span></p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344721377561317634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1sdXoIMvB1xBj-zWqwhDXtEa9bdTfBLU0inmRA3n2rGJA3OlCApxMrZsQdcnV5HsCzdgTL-3DBI91_kBuxuUNkkIJz6xVUWQHgjIxWj1WZlSemx_1Xueyw5h3uz60_XrLvVodtX93Xy4/s400/Pierre+Fabre+-+Space+Dummy+-+Gibellina.jpg" border="0" /></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Pierre Fabre flying his Space Dummy at Gibellina</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></p></span><div align="center"><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344721378942174770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJj1bD5d6hF-roGDYUvBsLcGDWhVUI0Ds4MWpyseTV2W4F73j6K0jlVm0xaGzA2BxowuM_VrcQwmPNGk6yWbaA51mC4dJVYUAuWKNPJToMjPnuKhlrohnKcxny02aKPhRZ4l3xF6TR3CU/s400/Michel+Bougard+-+mobile+kite.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">Michel Bougard from Nantes France perparing his mobile kite<br /></span></div></span><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmOatdMnCgv8SSGAHgxWUvNNHVbC2lh12u85wlTJwVyxxsDjxU00Z5x7RcBQYs9U6EDOeKSIvI8Eo8f0CQUY9LTVVh7xfeoHfKzrLYkprxvGmjJLkXpY_en3NQ0Jyh36i1IEoxe5WNxw/s1600-h/Kite+shop+-+San+Vito.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344718756490094434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmOatdMnCgv8SSGAHgxWUvNNHVbC2lh12u85wlTJwVyxxsDjxU00Z5x7RcBQYs9U6EDOeKSIvI8Eo8f0CQUY9LTVVh7xfeoHfKzrLYkprxvGmjJLkXpY_en3NQ0Jyh36i1IEoxe5WNxw/s320/Kite+shop+-+San+Vito.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;"> A kite shop on the street in San Vito</span></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZS9vtk_ZZx1RqHLg761rVdxW5Q8UQQ4pM-ss5QcCU8jANLYOnYOL6zKDOigM4_HKyFg1X3RHgpowDwVgK1HZiiGBNeTowGsfMpZ_dWccyOZNuxu5TGX4yI1Ou1okzS8OjeUOtS30vl8U/s1600-h/Japanese+sand+garden+on+the+field.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344718759552043090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 179px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZS9vtk_ZZx1RqHLg761rVdxW5Q8UQQ4pM-ss5QcCU8jANLYOnYOL6zKDOigM4_HKyFg1X3RHgpowDwVgK1HZiiGBNeTowGsfMpZ_dWccyOZNuxu5TGX4yI1Ou1okzS8OjeUOtS30vl8U/s320/Japanese+sand+garden+on+the+field.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Mikio Toki and Makoto Ohye working on the Japanese sand garden</span></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;"></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344718762070987314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5QguDrtrK8yv5qhds9kurFiqPS5LuIluBXwQ6OfEf5ooP8oiiHTx5ljgESVOeRNr8uUxr5g9aDAn-XzNRCWHCGXAFpWak7BDM3rvgXde6qxDF05tzXZAbhi9h85_eWZOTKKeSdTg1Xi4/s320/Robert+Trapanier+-+face+kites.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">Painted face kites by Robert Trapanier of Montreal</span> </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344718752175877346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4-_6G5D0NcB5rZxd4myWMok56_TC24rlKUKmqGo87-s86tON7sUxstR-tR85t2Xci-2opRPEfrZisaGDBUHaDo_SuFlVDR2RG0g7dF7aD8hGsgQ5YIGyA5MRJyNh5v0Yupd4q3PEc0U/s320/Edwardo's+big+Bol.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">A large spinning 'bol' by Edwardo Borghetti of Italy</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344718748367577570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivHdH8UwkLGQTPmWJyRu1fPP-4sKkibLqH6_6DZexEqRVN7v9L3CapHPYfmLORQjjYh8igAKoVRH0YnmzZT3Rbt61xUgvSSvifTxvBb5tk3O08PxQYk5snCa2BDMD3V8naVi3N04w5uxc/s320/Bird+Man+-+George+Peters+%26+Kisa+Sauer+blue+banners.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">George's Bird Man kite at the end of the day</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">For more photos of the San Vito lo Capo International Kite Festival go to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/airworks-studio/sets/72157619412250106/show/">slide show.</a></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"></p></span>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-71801111138587928382009-05-18T19:23:00.000-07:002009-05-19T00:39:54.287-07:00JAPAN ON THE WIND<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKo5jsPbamDgZ3oyTA86En3f99nUKBlP29lowd21Dzwvt-cBXMfoQSD9Hl1IAiUPXa6PR_Yoyr3nkBhJP0IW5k70nAXOTTvpHUEAFROHsWKeTwNfZl9TSx8x09hMDCuaj-SqFVmj6r8tY/s1600-h/Hamamatsu+-+kite+team+2.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337415053227362210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKo5jsPbamDgZ3oyTA86En3f99nUKBlP29lowd21Dzwvt-cBXMfoQSD9Hl1IAiUPXa6PR_Yoyr3nkBhJP0IW5k70nAXOTTvpHUEAFROHsWKeTwNfZl9TSx8x09hMDCuaj-SqFVmj6r8tY/s400/Hamamatsu+-+kite+team+2.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">There is a deep history and connection to kites and kite celebrations in Japan that inspires a great admiration in me. It was years ago in the mid seventies that these artful and wondrous flying objects introduced me to the world of kites in a big way. I tried my hand at splitting bamboo while living in Hawaii, gathered from the bamboo forests high over the city of Honolulu, carefully splitting them, shaving them to even the spar bend and balancing the bamboo to the requirements of the kite “bones”. My first copies of the Japanese kite would often end in many broken bones and, eventually, a switch to crash proof fiberglass rod. It was a dream of mine back then to travel to Japan to learn from the masters.<br /><br />This year was probably my fifth trip to Japan. I was invited by my friend, Masaaki Modegi, the president of the Japan Kite Association for a second tour of the kite festivals in Aomori, Uchinada and Hamamatsu. I arrived in Japan with traveling companions, Jon and Karen Burkhardt, kite makers from the Washington DC area and Clyde Cook, from New Zealand who brought a group of Peter Lynn’s kites with him. Melanie was unfortunately enmeshed in her student’s finals at the University of Colorado art department and couldn’t join me.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjl5tY7XpyEO9JHDc4Xn2f2yH_hCjxGhgp8h98wSZ_6pviZlSpORDyu5APr1s9gtD2833kHKN8BGvsFBFlafOkYVa3NAvv0_nAuigeawwP4l76f3mUOuOrszT1ltuaNLsYfjN2dVRi880/s1600-h/bee+kites+-Tamieken+Kite+Museum.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337416807157423970" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjl5tY7XpyEO9JHDc4Xn2f2yH_hCjxGhgp8h98wSZ_6pviZlSpORDyu5APr1s9gtD2833kHKN8BGvsFBFlafOkYVa3NAvv0_nAuigeawwP4l76f3mUOuOrszT1ltuaNLsYfjN2dVRi880/s320/bee+kites+-Tamieken+Kite+Museum.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;">On our first night in Japan we were treated to a welcome dinner at Mr. Modegi’s Taimeiken Restaurant. Well known in Tokyo and the Nihonbashi neighborhood as the best European cuisine restaurant in all of Japan. Started by Mr. Modegi’s father in pre-war Tokyo, Modegi-san has taken both his father’s love of cooking and his passion for Japanese and world kites. His father created a kite museum in the upstairs floor of the restaurant and features his collection of traditional kites from all over Japan as well as examples from the world. The collection packs glass cases, hangs from the walls and ceiling with barely a space left for this astounding collection of the art and craft of kites.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwwQIVdWn0SSCYuQT1gYhCrTfWiB2A0rMxdKPcX2EPaztpUnqcfJfh4tZ5Li76Iucdy65MK7VPZRvoZKrUXZHfiCSNzME-TSs7X_Pn7ytyeqAeogirHrBUsVx0kYRAgQzz7evBN_iXMDc/s1600-h/Tsukiji+Tokyo+fish+Market+2.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337416809399874402" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwwQIVdWn0SSCYuQT1gYhCrTfWiB2A0rMxdKPcX2EPaztpUnqcfJfh4tZ5Li76Iucdy65MK7VPZRvoZKrUXZHfiCSNzME-TSs7X_Pn7ytyeqAeogirHrBUsVx0kYRAgQzz7evBN_iXMDc/s320/Tsukiji+Tokyo+fish+Market+2.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;">The next early morning I took Jon and Karen on a tour of the Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market. This place is a must see for all who visit Japan. The market is the central hub for all the fish that are brought in and transported to markets and restaurants across Japan and the world. There is a dizzying array of plastic cartons of fresh fish, eel, octopus, big and small fish and some that I have never seen in my life. An early morning auction house is filled with bidders for huge frozen carcasses of tuna that go for $4,000US and up each. The market is a chaotic yet highly organized scene of small transport carts motoring down narrow market corridors and a bustle of buyers and sellers for the lucrative fish trade. The amount of fish coming in every day to the Tsukiji Fish Market is mind boggling. It always amazes me when I visit the market that there is anything left in the oceans.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAm8-kvJQyIlDkiVvWtlaTiBN8nhZFRrAhLM9bOe9PjHj1GD_V42LDwqHsRWZSOi67wOAYw3-8u9bzXHqsJIfjPfIKM3GjgL-Gbg-eK9eLz9LLoay6ZQnpnFSkyTWw7BLCEL_bfdMXe2g/s1600-h/Mrs.+Sato%27s+kite+studio"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337434999476087602" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAm8-kvJQyIlDkiVvWtlaTiBN8nhZFRrAhLM9bOe9PjHj1GD_V42LDwqHsRWZSOi67wOAYw3-8u9bzXHqsJIfjPfIKM3GjgL-Gbg-eK9eLz9LLoay6ZQnpnFSkyTWw7BLCEL_bfdMXe2g/s320/Mrs.+Sato%27s+kite+studio" border="0" /></a>We flew later that day to the city of Aomori in the north tip of the main island of Japan. It is close to the north island of Hokkaido across the isthmus. We stayed at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Sato and were hosted royally with fabulous meals and comfortable quarters there at the Sato house. Mr. Sato has a dental practice in the front of the large rambling house while Mrs. Sato has a kite making studio upstairs. I have known Mrs. Sato for many years and have enjoyed her sweet Japanese demeanor, her cute laugh and her kite making skills. She has also had a career as an internationally famed Japanese opera singer.<br /><br />We spent most of the next few days there visiting three local elementary schools where we were entertained by the school children before doing kite workshops with them and flying demonstrations in the playgrounds. A kite festival was held in the Fujisaki township on a river bed park with groups of children performing opening ceremony band performances and Taiko drumming groups.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTtGSjanZseVRTV9Xnby-_9YLMLhwfMH7pFInuT4J_moFvasE3n7nbKyzlz4Nesqsnd_JPLGvd_2Sw7SWrwF-Nc69d9HzTtVExRsASfQOuhG4Wbc9-AnMZGQf7lw7sVheLK5eHMTzcMs/s1600-h/all+dressed+up+for+tea+ceremony.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337416807980804226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTtGSjanZseVRTV9Xnby-_9YLMLhwfMH7pFInuT4J_moFvasE3n7nbKyzlz4Nesqsnd_JPLGvd_2Sw7SWrwF-Nc69d9HzTtVExRsASfQOuhG4Wbc9-AnMZGQf7lw7sVheLK5eHMTzcMs/s320/all+dressed+up+for+tea+ceremony.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;">A welcome party was held at the local community center with local members of the kiting community. We were told that we would enjoy a “cultural experience” there. Jon, Karen, Clyde and I were ushered into a tatami matted room and were each dressed in traditional Japanese wear by a group of women. Karen took the longest to outfit with a meticulous and colorful dress kimono and emerged transformed. We were then ushered into another tatami mat and shoji screen tea room and given the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, a meditative and graceful preparation of green tea in a spare and slow motion presentation of the sublime gift of a warm cup of tea in an exquisitely simple ceramic cup.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifYbEdfvPPl0zMkGDdufQrebni-cvExcSqw27azcKekHuAzjM-H1G0zqtDBSU8wyAGXJ7Apr8v0oUrkv_Tp29-uxe6t2CqPJZhbTb6b9PZS2qXCLu7ptkabJM-e_0lC7R6__CSXC8i3Zs/s1600-h/cherry+blossom+bridge.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337416816426731394" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifYbEdfvPPl0zMkGDdufQrebni-cvExcSqw27azcKekHuAzjM-H1G0zqtDBSU8wyAGXJ7Apr8v0oUrkv_Tp29-uxe6t2CqPJZhbTb6b9PZS2qXCLu7ptkabJM-e_0lC7R6__CSXC8i3Zs/s320/cherry+blossom+bridge.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;">It was also prime cherry blossom time up in this northern township and a tour was given of the Hirosaki Koen Park grounds in central Fujisaki. This is an enormous park complex featuring the historic Hirosaki castle tower and moat system throughout the grounds and surrounded by the most spectacular display of cherry blossoms I have ever witnessed. It was like a spring snowfall in flower petals. People were strolling among the tree lined pathways, across arched red bridges crossing the moats, young blossom revelers spread blue plastic tarps across the open areas enjoying their friendships and partying into the night when the trees are lit up in a colorful splendor. It was a magical and beautiful sight.<br /><br />After we said our “arigatos” and “sayonara” to Mr. and Mrs. Sato we flew to Kanazawa on the central western coast of Japan. The Japan Kite Association annual convention and kite festival is held in the nearby seaside town of Uchinada. The gathering of kite clubs from all over Japan featured a welcome party in the town hall with a sumptuous feast of Japanese food, sushi and free flowing beer and saki. A woman’s taiko drumming group pounded on stage, mayors spoke, Modegi-san gave a rousing speech. All the food was gulped up in minutes.<br /><br />The next day we were taken to the beachside kite festival field where tents were put up for the kite teams and groups of children arrived for the special children’s kite flying day. Large traditional Japanese kites were lofted into the air. We had been told to fly our kites well away from the other kites but wherever we went it seemed we were smack in the middle of their upwind running paths. Long lines of kids ran in the much too light winds towing the ropes to the giant kites at the other end of the beach. They ran, laughed and collapsed as the kite then gently floated back to the sand. </span></span></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRV6C4MYFpaa0vkSEJEDPn5BAy2GbFQYXizjMTeD69CJDlrZJOWwUU18DF_rHFoL7UYNJ3P-JhAi3mSPGRV7NSQqxMavm85nF8DKN99343l0vMC3uv2-CCvPMIDIU9dmgzEmNBs9ELy8/s1600-h/Uchinada+kite+team.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337420987786056194" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRV6C4MYFpaa0vkSEJEDPn5BAy2GbFQYXizjMTeD69CJDlrZJOWwUU18DF_rHFoL7UYNJ3P-JhAi3mSPGRV7NSQqxMavm85nF8DKN99343l0vMC3uv2-CCvPMIDIU9dmgzEmNBs9ELy8/s320/Uchinada+kite+team.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEeX0LaIhWOPOHs0wb_uG5-dfx7jiak7cbEwBEqANVXmO2r8AJFowFHugP4eg2ww3N1awOK0dW1sycZ-fKYj-rMTzr0WySiaq5VkHEBi7BUQVGO6VJlmDq62qTHYlLRPIGnwrTn_L5b6I/s1600-h/Uchinada+-+red+sail+kite.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337418644815178354" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEeX0LaIhWOPOHs0wb_uG5-dfx7jiak7cbEwBEqANVXmO2r8AJFowFHugP4eg2ww3N1awOK0dW1sycZ-fKYj-rMTzr0WySiaq5VkHEBi7BUQVGO6VJlmDq62qTHYlLRPIGnwrTn_L5b6I/s320/Uchinada+-+red+sail+kite.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;"><br />We flew our kites again the following day when teams from all over Japan flew their large kites. There was a group of paraglider “Peel” kite flyers with motorized back pack fans traversing the beach all day and avoiding the lines of the kites. A large red sailed ship kite was an unusual addition to the Japanese traditional kites on display along the beach. An attempt to fly the ship was made but the wind was too light for this very heavy structural kite.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhIYvvQkhKkoaOZ1Nz7fjOPHiwSBQXB9fFDOm0TITFq-e-9uJNgvTW4fbLDu94ySWFPxHhl1MljMDmv18p4jygFTDthIxRYei4e8PJk69noI_Qz2u8msZP821lrP63KhlJ-X3g_8S1oY/s1600-h/Bullet+Train+-+station.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337419139832524290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhIYvvQkhKkoaOZ1Nz7fjOPHiwSBQXB9fFDOm0TITFq-e-9uJNgvTW4fbLDu94ySWFPxHhl1MljMDmv18p4jygFTDthIxRYei4e8PJk69noI_Qz2u8msZP821lrP63KhlJ-X3g_8S1oY/s320/Bullet+Train+-+station.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;">Our next stop on the tour was south-east to the Pacific shore of Japan. We traveled to Hamamatsu.by bullet train…which is true to it’s name. Waiting at the train station platform as the trains pass through is like a horizontal rocket launching pad. The trains whooshed through in a blazing white and blue striped line and had me trying to anticipate the impossible digital camera capture.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg26zLvb3HDtdtoEyMbCLGrYNkGVC2JlblsBsyZYSnuPecuON8HXpFi07GbwGXnsZgJJOmsUGQeq4hYa6Vv5qrYmRlbAayYWoErpoaOdv-vOs291WQaP103aLK3I-YVpLU6c3NGLzcuMOk/s1600-h/Hamamatsu+-+poster+2009.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337419895268235378" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg26zLvb3HDtdtoEyMbCLGrYNkGVC2JlblsBsyZYSnuPecuON8HXpFi07GbwGXnsZgJJOmsUGQeq4hYa6Vv5qrYmRlbAayYWoErpoaOdv-vOs291WQaP103aLK3I-YVpLU6c3NGLzcuMOk/s320/Hamamatsu+-+poster+2009.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;"><br />Hamamatsu is known for it’s centuries old traditional Japanese kite festival during the Golden Week and Children’s Day festivities of early May. The festival dates back four hundred years and features some of the most elegant and beautifully crafted large kites in all of Japan. They are like flying ‘shoji’ screens masterfully crafted from bamboo and Japanese paper. Each prefecture or township in Hamamatsu sends teams of kite flyers to the festival. Kites are sponsored by citizens who have a new born son or grandson during the previous year. The sponsoring family name is put on the corner of the kite from the prefecture. If the kite does well during the afternoon of kite battles, the boy will also do well in life. And if the kite is taken down in the chaotic tangle of ropes and tugging teams…well, too bad.<br /><br />Thousands participate in this seasoned kite battle dressed in traditional kite flying garb, hapi coat emblazoned with the team emblem, wrap around trousers, two toed snap on shoes, head band and team color gloves. Support groups of banner teams parade around the field with groups of horn players belting out a tune that starts to engrain itself on the brain. Parties go on into the nights as well with parades and pagoda-like wheeled carts festooned with lights and seated children clanging cymbals inside. It is a wild scene. Even my second time there brings me to a sensory overload of this culture’s facility for celebration and community spirit.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZgxO1vCLsMp5ZMfViDoTCX8bl3gXnNKRup63-zrqfR-HCTC-ht4_vCxD1dMwj7IY6pSJ3QGh-yNpNxk2JjIZGOL1nPVrRfE-CN7-yULSX997dWYLKTdq1f8FHLDlg2iC-JFwPLI9ckI/s1600-h/Hamamatsu+-+Museum+kite+display.jpg"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337419895879317042" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZgxO1vCLsMp5ZMfViDoTCX8bl3gXnNKRup63-zrqfR-HCTC-ht4_vCxD1dMwj7IY6pSJ3QGh-yNpNxk2JjIZGOL1nPVrRfE-CN7-yULSX997dWYLKTdq1f8FHLDlg2iC-JFwPLI9ckI/s320/Hamamatsu+-+Museum+kite+display.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;">We were given a tour of the Hamamatsu Kite Museum as well that features the history of the festival and a grand display hall of an array of prefecture kites with traditional red, white and blue graphic emblems and designs. The displays show sounds and sights of the festival and video screens showing the lively action on the field of the kite battles.<br /><br />The day ended earlier than we wanted as an overcast day started to drizzle and rain on the kite teams. Some of the kites were pulled in with soaked paper hanging from the frames. We darted between the team tents with saki parties going on inside. A moment later we were on the bullet train again for the hour and a half zip back to Tokyo and to our homeward flights.<br /><br />As always, my visit to Japan has me wanting more. The flavor of the country is one of graciousness, color, courtesy and artful celebrationism. I never realized that my small foray into the world of Japanese kites many years ago would introduce me to so many friends, such a rich culture, giving me a deep appreciation and love for this country. “Domo Arigato Gozaimas”…thank you!...for my passion for making kites and a life in the wind.</div></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337423148555865202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJ9OsUsFGS7OcUn_i1TnANG1GZujT4ziwkHL6joJgvZT8wemzdD2o1JnwBRx3g-WvxTGHuQRAvIqbl3Sup31_zBM3pHq-GVCSRE9n1gMihhDnN46vGSMtdt_557B5FBf1stsC-D-HEhg/s320/Hamamatsu+-+launch+ready.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Hamamatsu kite team flyers</span><br /></p></span><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337423158776751234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zyaADohVOfKGtwuUSce66jAPOfM-4XVCQum21vRkOi0H50XAMoCLqjyXPcRSDNAOtxKMjWsU_f6IQNGeHsYPcVC3XbD56DeZqk9XQ4WIfVrbmPtBujE8iP2VSlnLVRj0LPISBYXf7Mw/s320/tea+room.jpg" border="0" /></span> <span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Mrs. Sato at her home tea ceremony room</span> </span><span style="color:#cccccc;"></p></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337423153072076898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfXWtLgq6qOF10iDIHjSU_WkEFul9XByc2xxBSOQA5alBK2jknUL7eYrPOWN0AcchTzL4A10v0MWQeP8DwOYcGyOqLtj6O1xeVY6ER5JURBq25ENA5MFp5Dt36J6bC6fysee4_VvhA8Gc/s320/kite+workshop+4.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">kids making sled kites at a Fujisaki elementary school</span> </span><span style="color:#cccccc;"></p></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337423151581467826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbEGe32AD4ixjb43ImP-MgjWnc5ayFQa2cHuihY-KNJHC2NHetEvxOvVoXbU0ddtS7y1Y-LkOmONCd3iCGElsvEXrNNQXcwlT1NbhmsOCyzwfIc1dgmdq_9hDcO2IhWCaMy2A8zFa90U/s320/Cherry+blossom+branches+with+George.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I gloried in total immersion into cherry blossom time!</span> </span><span style="color:#cccccc;"></p></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337423154817743618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixBGaPQbMqRnw1QingKkeqyl6IKyS1Gozwam3qBeAT7uJmt8XLyxLmWgxyJrXJMv0JgA_GeR61TDvtTwQCJXIisJdH6kLLCjO7JkbIjeeWNe3kQL_6IrxAMmpCW1iFTHf3nqNp06UKskM/s320/Peel+fan+flyers.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">the 'Peel' parafoil fan team</span><br /></span></p><br /><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337421815775437506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguzcUCBF0tAjHD4JiA4tRQc9adibSOEaV1AmrtXNfBcQrV1dsGdcu406mwz8a9pHxwSqMEyz0FZhORXWLkbaOhlLpcN8uTXV6LGsEvgYK70quT9Lpfi7DyTog-YaP91H_dg8OKkWn4tJQ/s320/Crab+kite+-+Peter+Lynn.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">an inflatable crab by Peter Lynn flown in Uchinada</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;"></span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337429702536160866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 308px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxSrDW49xFFGEQ6f56YlYMbaP8-SsRYEJ1ZOCQiWiDh7y-mHSo3e_ijif-8pau5oX2ac_3uAs-NvTPW1u8s4615jbo9JEMCQ58souqzNLWzpFiHjp1sfIJSYx9XVcTNtaUmk6BX3WCvt0/s400/Wrap+Man+%26+Rain+Man+kites.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-size:85%;">two new 'Flying Man' kites I made for the Japan kite festivals</span> </span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cccccc;">For more pictures and descriptions of the kite trip to Japan go to the</span> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/sets/72157617894904382/show/">slide show</a>.<br /></p></span>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-14165019121127922252009-03-22T17:01:00.000-07:002009-03-23T12:02:21.402-07:00EMPTY SPACES<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316172929931468402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzSmjKtsIb64tBRYDsw-gV_SGL4x_l292N0j9HNw-WkQttljgK8jJtrjck4I1byL8gnqjVJuyfw-gEYvVCpHoLXoQyI6A9yhX9rpTV2-FcoDCjRdteA7M3j1igMy5rkLS_ZFdZAsQY_ik/s400/Empty+Spaces+-+bird+shadow+screens.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">We installed a show of Melanie's installation work at the <a href="http://accessgallery.org/">Access Gallery </a>in downtown <a href="http://www.artdistrictonsantafe.com/">Denver's Santa Fe Art District</a>. The work is a combination of bird mobiles, house shaped screens stretched and suspended in the space, two light sources to create a moving shadow show of flying birds onto the surfaces of the screens and an early 80's sound track that Melanie created using "peeper" frog recordings along with old 78 hand cranked turntable scratch recordings played backwards.</span> </span><br /></div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><div><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316173283824056402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 284px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_jK4vHRQc-yodgJCpR3i3Xb3gG6rYSXY800sfoLoyLcFLO_VV8bZobWk_unrAMEmCiXgz-YxdOHvZzW8HTYRvIks9GxULka1tRdSi0bk5fqTqcwV-ZL3pcqYOqNkKJ8qQntzbTD9H_4/s400/Empty+Spaces+-+full+view+1.jpg" border="0" /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wbAPxmly2wM4yDeGq8pCVJlyM-fIyZd2KFyOH-K10zbPqHLaL_wUBr15AT79UfQbkoa2oEAN7WhuIlaWHbnGb1vF7cSRwc_vzljPqWkEYWrT14JtObvDYh3R5GEwfSDD8r7VSgMTjAU/s1600-h/Empty+Spaces+-+bird+screen+-+window+view.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316239512186954130" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 302px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wbAPxmly2wM4yDeGq8pCVJlyM-fIyZd2KFyOH-K10zbPqHLaL_wUBr15AT79UfQbkoa2oEAN7WhuIlaWHbnGb1vF7cSRwc_vzljPqWkEYWrT14JtObvDYh3R5GEwfSDD8r7VSgMTjAU/s320/Empty+Spaces+-+bird+screen+-+window+view.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316173108978037314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVOePamiF20LECnN7k-Mg_UpvbTuuGRIU8tgjRzVVdkeQo4-QudHuSoqYjQ1peLRswNQ3-gUZzVbDBnOVuf-iH7SGA1l2p2Pz6c3FflS-b81mI-2Q02Dm644G_6FUn8L9EAJ_ls25HyKw/s400/Empty+Spaces+-+bird+screens+2.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkqkhCHWCKIMljiGxmMPkRB7Tb_94y8Sw7upYIzboNnlHis4XgPjZzvOIt3uyz6nqxljhoyp5vqQMYMxSp0rRJI_JxL03MidvvqQ_ErU9KPv2Va7z_pGva46hKCdDynABJKq28Bp1bdo/s1600-h/Empty+Spaces+-+birds+%26+tornado.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316173454598380466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkqkhCHWCKIMljiGxmMPkRB7Tb_94y8Sw7upYIzboNnlHis4XgPjZzvOIt3uyz6nqxljhoyp5vqQMYMxSp0rRJI_JxL03MidvvqQ_ErU9KPv2Va7z_pGva46hKCdDynABJKq28Bp1bdo/s320/Empty+Spaces+-+birds+%26+tornado.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyxbF-kuHE8Mk7X8fDtvncIDdRrl9eA59odKY8GaOImkno_CUuSzQbiZYJBDX9_hYVh0yHBfwOdTkUq_9k032E8E-6iQdyIvrFGo0R619jnrKSllnGFHthxoFkLyjx8YRqhqwr1qeQ70/s1600-h/Empty+Spaces+-+tornado+screens.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316173734845322498" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqyxbF-kuHE8Mk7X8fDtvncIDdRrl9eA59odKY8GaOImkno_CUuSzQbiZYJBDX9_hYVh0yHBfwOdTkUq_9k032E8E-6iQdyIvrFGo0R619jnrKSllnGFHthxoFkLyjx8YRqhqwr1qeQ70/s320/Empty+Spaces+-+tornado+screens.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316174407643937922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-zONW8cozh9nS4mVd-nXgnBbfndMEw1yyJxS66CBl21iFZQtSZ8VTm7eQ3wB1hq2LTW_4zxUI4qHTyWotvWL1gfd3Nui3HY-I5zcWuuzZ2B0YOvZY6xLu3ivogpSJxeodkYJmefZF7k/s400/Empty+Spaces+-+opening+1.jpg" border="0" /></span></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;">The installation uses sewn panels of fiberglass window screen with appliqued bird images and painted picket fences enclosing the two spaces on each side of the gallery. Small fans are placed to move the bird mobiles creating fluctuating shadows across the ceiling, walls and screens of the installation. The effect is like a bird avery let loose from the confines of an urban scene. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"></span><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;">Melanie's statement about the show: </span></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><em>I am interested in constructing spaces that conjure up memory and non specific narratives. My interest in installation art derives from a desire to create an all encompassing environment that surrounds the viewer and allows them to experience stories drawing from their own personal narratives. Empty Spaces alludes to shadow plays, illusion, puppetry and memory.<br /><br />I remember reading somewhere that the crow is considered to be the ‘one-eyed seer’. The Crow looks at the world with first one eye, then the other - cross-eyed. In the Mayan culture, cross-eyeds had the privilege and duty of looking into the future. In a certain way because of my cross eyed, one eyed vision, I have long identified with the crow. It is a black bird and my name means the ‘dark one’. It sees with one eye or cross eyed as I do. I have always felt that the role of the artist is to see into the future in a new way that helps to bring about a paradigm shift. I have strived to see through my disability and have used my altered vision to change my own perception of the world through my work.<br /><br />With this exhibition I want to thank Access Gallery for giving me the chance to do this installation. I also want to give special thanks to my partner George Peters for all his help, support and our constant dialog about ideas and how to express them visually.<br /></em><br />Melanie Walker</span></span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"></span></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316236209362154562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnY9OYZ0fgj2HVIv4Z9R11XtiTps1TEdxeU4MsnIkluG5VagS8N3GFqWNWuCT7yFuWojjpio44zm9qysCJpMwMXLvJJYKYevbV3aGZx98BhZ5uTn6ZNTwE-ICbZqFFfTAlRx-sh4ZDqBQ/s400/Empty+Spaces+-+Melanie+Walker.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;">The show "Empty Spaces" will be up until April 10th, 2009</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;">The <a href="http://accessgallery.org/">Access Gallery </a>is located at 909 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;">These images and more can be viewed on the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/sets/72157615687613259/show/">slide show</a></span></div><div></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-549228656003761742009-03-01T14:20:00.000-08:002009-03-23T12:33:08.287-07:00CAMEREYE VOYAGEUR<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiab0fxzi5rHR0L89AX_DUwUSPa8RYSUdjVI3Kr0MRnba4mHPISRYtT8yLqO3rjz32mRTlObu9d23tU6UcpUq6RLe-_AmQN5U9vqHCQJzXqEXBkkRF0IaEp3s2JH3za4A-QiGT633iWusc/s1600-h/Camereye+Voyageur+-+window+sm.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308390083327165426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 323px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiab0fxzi5rHR0L89AX_DUwUSPa8RYSUdjVI3Kr0MRnba4mHPISRYtT8yLqO3rjz32mRTlObu9d23tU6UcpUq6RLe-_AmQN5U9vqHCQJzXqEXBkkRF0IaEp3s2JH3za4A-QiGT633iWusc/s400/Camereye+Voyageur+-+window+sm.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">We just put up a new window installation at the neighborhood <a href="http://www.blinkgalleryboulder.com/">Blink Gallery</a> here in Boulder. The show features some older works but put in a more concentrated form. It includes works from an installation done for a photo show at the <a href="http://www.hcponline.org/">Houston Center for Photography </a>during the national <a href="http://www.fotofest.org/">FotoFest</a>.Biennial in Houston. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IPoAPeeBAoiIdS0KWbtHaO9NiWHQ7hn_cRX-eh-R8gQcVN_fvEmgW3Z9n1YSPQA4C7gcKs3RD-7VB9XPBJc67j_GlaSTjDuyTO7PxJNn75BnkpBeBqVMt_u73I8TbddTV_ijTkvq3bw/s1600-h/CameraEye+puppets.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308397142976136674" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IPoAPeeBAoiIdS0KWbtHaO9NiWHQ7hn_cRX-eh-R8gQcVN_fvEmgW3Z9n1YSPQA4C7gcKs3RD-7VB9XPBJc67j_GlaSTjDuyTO7PxJNn75BnkpBeBqVMt_u73I8TbddTV_ijTkvq3bw/s320/CameraEye+puppets.jpg" border="0" /></a>'Camereye Voyageur' features large photographic screens, two 'Camereye' nine foot high puppets that are manipulated by remote strings and five tripod 'peep' camera viewing boxes. Each of the cameras feature a tableau made three dimensional through layering of transparent photo images within the bellows of the light collecting cameras. The puppets are camera headed stick figures with moving arms and legs with lights in the lens and heads that give them a glow at night. </span></div><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">This is the third window installation we've done in the Blink Gallery window. The gallery is sadly closing because of changes in the economy but will continue in it's corporate and private art consultation business in the upstairs offices. The logo of Blink Gallery is two wide open eyes. We thought these puppets would be a perfect match for the last harrah show. </span></p><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Our statement about the show:</span> </div></span><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">The camera’s lens has radically affected our vision of the world. It flattens dimension, changes the real to the super real, captures time and focuses equally on the micro and macro by extending our eye. We have sent cameras instead of ourselves to orbit distant planets to take pictures of the surfaces, dive into atmospheres and wander the dusty landscapes searching for evidence of clues to our own existence here on this water and rock globe. Like puppets on long strings of radio waves we control their movements and click their shutters. The images are then sent back along the radio strings to be assembled, interpreted and analyzed. The photos tell a deep story.<br /><br />The images of distant worlds show us they obey the laws of light and dark with images of rocks and ice, dust and gas. Our remote vision through the lens of space telescopes shows us how incredible this space over our heads really is.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><em>“Who would believe that so small a space could contain an image of the entire universe?”<br /></em><br />Leonardo di Vinci<br />On the camera obscura</span></span><br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308385672019090418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 272px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oIrmReZDOG6-iSdy73rqngvA8tnzkw8HLcael1Slfj4d046CygQBeF_QZnjbF0N9eei8gqy4YiJrhJLPgoAORkE99XuwreJxD6vIA7FjcJ4rr6kB3FinsZeZTjXmbstPeV2a4G36PgA/s400/Peep+Cameras+-+Camereye+Voyaguer.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308385816357513250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 332px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq0uLZSL1VKv0C0CJTXQG2O3ZF7kpfLlc1yGWE38iPoHfT2slVtL3NBVhEgsyZ0urSaW67IfQRBY4Ck8AQN5ujvXwwc8cBTidgBvCYqSLCQkN1mfssjg4ULS0bC5Aq3ccjQGTvva2ZmiI/s400/Peep+Cameras+%2B+viewers.jpg" border="0" /></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">The tableau views inside the cameras</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">Stone-Leaf-Fish-Bone</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;"></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308386868167571858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzcCp1hmKsc0B-zLP20awCtP-FaRROb5TmmYmgSsK2Mz0KNylg4EKOA-Ht6LsezzYlnMkAH-C7zhFTzCq7VP1BPaZ6L727CqKHeQC4upoXNGwAfOyXS50hc4q2gjiHm-S5fR0imFH_EM/s320/rock,+leaf,+fish,+bone.jpg" border="0" /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> <p align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">R<span style="font-family:arial;">ock-Ladder-Window</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;"></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308386964793762802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJhYfXL_TxBE6masS6FIlDo8BgkhgopdC5gTTfp3ubDdYVGh4ZN9fZmmxesobpgf9yWl_G2xuc7pqXm1ubESOVUdjqlu6mY3UMpntqDwiUCtW0OqXtIAqpPtX0ZQuR9h4ITwVbz18l5Q/s320/window,+ladder,+rock.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">Wolf-Bat-Cave</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></p></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308387124626924770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7EfQzEuAIjdPD3eIWXkWGaLYxjMFdLOfxq6uXh9HhdhmtSA9fRUcyG_RtnHT6coyTQrHIyZNwaFYk0HEEKVkeZsKbOsFT9DAX47ezag3C_kvqyLQKEhgPBUj49Cj4bkEwM3QvZJpqRdQ/s320/wolf+in+the+bat+cave.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">Glass-Earth-Humming Bird</span></p></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308387204113860434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhijVOxxgMQAyFOYaCsmT5578eAMlE6PRLT1JmrVNZm_rOih9rBhYUb6C5uon9_5VVLZI0MFWdzV1UHThIWuVKkRe3FSMd1ea36XKyo-Ub-mtvZ9tiqaw2GmYfy5SoLSUHodCdOr1lZBCY/s320/Hummingbird+and+shards.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">Excavation-Hole-Monkey</span></p></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308408086619683250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUS00aH2R2TdBgzfDJYMNsRCZEafsNgW0doke50r_4aERtqpiEsFFmc0o4x-ZXtH3SxqBQJABpLyP0RdvnXiooekl6MgaHsYj4TffUSKpegmDuAS5YpFNHsaa7BVb5kUWDev2Mss99rN4/s320/monkey+excavation.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span></p><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">Pulling the strings causes the </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">passers-</span><span style="color:#cccccc;">by </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">on the sidewalk to stop and look at the camera-headed puppets dancing in the window. T</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">he overheard comments </span><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">are either "Wierd!" or </span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"Cool!".</span></span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"></span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"></span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"></span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;"></span></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308428424116999666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 318px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XDXICvoZCjE/SatThscUlfI/AAAAAAAAAzA/7s41-ZkYS5A/s320/pull+strings.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Blink Gallery is located at 1011 Pearl Street in Boulder. </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">The show will continue through to the end of March when the gallery will be closing.</span></span></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-42019925503744154822009-01-21T11:54:00.000-08:002009-02-11T09:09:50.386-08:00GALLERY O<div align="justify"><a href="http://minigalleryo.blogspot.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293881677875877554" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 172px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZDkkA1O7zvXsXExEdf2gtaVKqJiJWeNt4M4PriasQVPxoQZDO2EaUbqEWnFaQihxaDSt4pO8cTRbfpkaA8D208msgsSDdpMZnFK5JEt2JKNOqzwVDFdciY5LMQxHbj6Q9CC-wMduAK4/s200/Logo+1+sm.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">With our new house studio gallery finally completed we had an inaugural showing on Barack Obama's inaugural day. Included in the tiny space is a showing of over one hundred photos from the news services from his life and campaign. The gallery was painted blue on the day that he was elected to office and opened on inauguration day. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">Maybe we're jumping on the Obamania <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XDXICvoZCjE/SXewNxCljKI/AAAAAAAAAvI/1yCGLG5VMJI/s1600-h/subtext+logo+2+blk+xsm.jpg"></a>wagon but it is fitting to make a grass roots space here close to home to show not only our miniature works but invite other artists as well to show in our alternative art space. The response to our small "grand" opening was great with lots of friends and neighbors attending.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;">In the new Gallery O the emphasis will be on the miniature arts. Melanie and I are in the process of putting together ideas for the shows. Upcoming shows this year will include exhibits of miniature kites, a Bird House show, a photo show of turn of the century Tintype photography, a miniature printmaker show, drawings on paper and a show of peep boxes featuring a revised look at natural history. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">If you're too far away to drop by for the openings (complete with miniature drinks and foods) please check our blog occasionally and see what's showing. Or go to our new <a href="http://minigalleryo.blogspot.com/">Gallery O blog </a>with announcements of upcoming shows, photos of the current works on display and further writings on the "Art of the Miniature</span><span style="color:#cccccc;">".</span> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/show/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293850175539426546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFfyvTMqIzdYcnBBFsHce1Yzpl5vbsDJTnPNUzheYy1eBwOuyA-7wYNaCsoODfV8dfFn61MiIv0WdLyXvINiyZRzHIKBORPmUVNaD4jMYZU20DHBM3mTUkhg8FL-E-6VCe40oOVoskNek/s400/Gallery+opening+6.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/show/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293849935289661970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tqeaMwsjt9j0MxZqEKH-XtI7llZPryJs3hAjLsU8ZKoyIh1n2oARidQ5z1NGmvUS9dwo9IkilFKQnnN3ExUf8ObpUMjz4ZFgja7nklJvLuV4j7yi_1M-5dokAW5l7BmfYc4cJfBWv5Y/s400/gallery+opening+3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-o/show/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293849580619176562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVOnTsL1adxhuUFZVT-s1VLBNWQZNypEXfR1cJlwJrNcBa5wllRbnEvqUTKiV2GbUKYAS_C6axIPVLefoCf2yiuGkCiLqeQ6JSMEj3krlI_14rZSgkfLP0m-46-njKI-1TZqmOeth6YU/s400/gallery+opening+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://minigalleryo.blogspot.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295777689727442114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 118px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2M-7VAt3dS-jZH9gW6V_j1ZuBUh25R8EeI9juP24dCHhgLvfMFTy6-ZzbFAydU3-uir7SU-qxz7OnR3boLAhf0sivcFeqh5AoKHGQdifILG9PgSdLFvUA8LvzKrq-eu_hI54xBLTdyzM/s400/Gallery+O+title+bar+1.jpg" border="0" /></a>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-40420272524322519122009-01-14T20:27:00.000-08:002009-01-14T21:38:59.924-08:00TODD WALKER - A Legacy of Images<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBRZwuB1U3BBDiw3Pv8fXhWU5L3wgtf09ileagO241TqhnqAvdaK6-1GQM25BcTU6sWljz2ESb7Zr5ziRGRC7PKP4nCDTLdXes6lgoLlr8fxKzvHhV2bO_EM8va9K8dKQRriKsqpwctA/s1600-h/Chevy+in+the+Desert.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291379837496964610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 323px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBRZwuB1U3BBDiw3Pv8fXhWU5L3wgtf09ileagO241TqhnqAvdaK6-1GQM25BcTU6sWljz2ESb7Zr5ziRGRC7PKP4nCDTLdXes6lgoLlr8fxKzvHhV2bO_EM8va9K8dKQRriKsqpwctA/s400/Chevy+in+the+Desert.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">This month was an opening of Melanie's father's photographic art works at the </span><a href="http://www.stephencohengallery.com/">Stephen Cohen Gallery</a> <span style="color:#cccccc;">in Los Angeles. Todd Walker passed in 1998 but left a great legacy in the photo and art world. In his 81 years he worked as a set painter for RKO studios, working on Citizen Kane and polishing the floors that Fred Astaire danced on, a flight training instructor for the Army Air Corps during WWII and a free-lance photographer for Chevrolet during the 50's. He taught photography at the prestigious Art Center School in Los Angeles as well as the University of Florida in Gainsville and the University of Arizona in Tucson. He spent the later part of his life after retirement from teaching being a digital pioneer after spending many years generating more than 12,000 photographic works, screen prints, lithographs and prints done in historical photographic processes. He had a small press called the Thumbprint Press and self published art books, printing and binding them in his home studio in Tucson. His work spanned many directions as he explored processes of digital photography in the early 80's creating his own photo software for manipulating images. In this work he pioneered much of what we take for granted in PhotoShop. </span></span></div><br /><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">This will be an important showing of Todd's works since his passing. The show will be up through February 21st and will be a part of the annual Photo L.A. art exhibition.</span><br /></p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;"></span></span><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291390675120265650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 298px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheruRCEZCGs0KRfrTs8KI71bHucoG4zaZARKcf09rgQb29dOSTKstvfgdQOkdgRDjO24eUYERAGUMyI-xNImBu7n1G8fS37QhmsOM-dRSRXCif32vie8hJS9KnOdd9JDBDqvz56ahaMzg/s320/Cohen+Gallery+Todd+Walker+show+.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291380827661660866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNkbFRJJhwS-5kVAYF21TqVzQHhpPUjm-NR-DqwrzOJOdROVTtAqZrir89utSMjVMHjvUfW2gye385AU9I24gRR_g_DidGNTOvitHaAgaiTazErg6DZO_DUSDcIWZ0NEEdpx8b5AmcAhA/s400/Todd+Walker+-+Cohen+Gallery+front+wall.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291380992734893842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHROeWbi0QPiZ1vDLW4P4V_lHEPhR8NAqItLJ_id29FDJSmHO9Q8qNK0lDyr-fOa1fw1yDkjmvmwhgMbJQSQcv2HriUk9IGxvgzv_ujRwRgMk9mWUcVeMdDP3_ygQGNHUj_AIJwff4rlE/s400/CR+68.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291381185706417970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPPGiT1ox-EqUzHMB-EZPvJbuOIxYopKEqTkWrzKxR-aWW7M6K9er9DBrBQC-8u97eDsCWW1xHuHFH9NqkkyYoBKrsiQJNS3vX5qtNsAMPQ9WW0-nATTPsOcjEW_4MtuWkJAbXAn_E7b0/s400/DSCN7044.JPG" border="0" /></p><br /><p></p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291385927982365618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 257px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvRoWgfUyRemMXml7delgn40oa5NO8rmHWrOTFLLHm88RiQJ5ou0v21f5NPkgXP7GUwnpRVSOCTN2wKZT20i22tIvqrnDugg3MKKhDvmPXGSzvCzCspm3ZX4OPX8AP9zHol_rR4g7EYY/s400/TREMARI.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291381423256647778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 317px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBOuuFrZUeVs26msujHv_FsYt7nwuOxorodjqdyf6Y40CR2PO-hg_RqHsoA9_x5y4a9VpQhlAlvlOEw7RsjR5b3cpMTBrYhl-l0V5UqIexx-cUbC1ScNs_nz1zGDYA23LdJ1yK4kXah3I/s400/DEQPAMB.jpg" border="0" /></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-53298608841075131532009-01-14T17:00:00.000-08:002009-01-14T19:33:48.134-08:00FLYING ON NEW YEARS DAY<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMgiuRRpmvjxZ7amYPdzlVW2PYVDz45-1k3HpChbZi6rbrYDW3zYdwu6RRHk9AFbpwY5-4a7198EHL0dQD3ykAHOKyOqNThqeW7EqM7UE6FIVnEiFGl4hMjpz9HgrUhgi5lFy8VhyYMI/s1600-h/Mia+and+Ken+with+black+and+white+bird.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291354323289788690" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjMgiuRRpmvjxZ7amYPdzlVW2PYVDz45-1k3HpChbZi6rbrYDW3zYdwu6RRHk9AFbpwY5-4a7198EHL0dQD3ykAHOKyOqNThqeW7EqM7UE6FIVnEiFGl4hMjpz9HgrUhgi5lFy8VhyYMI/s320/Mia+and+Ken+with+black+and+white+bird.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">Every year for about twenty seven years we have flown kites on Jan first. It's a good way to get the cob webs out, celebrate the first day of a new year and see who is crazy enough to come out and fly in the middle of the winter. Some years were spent fighting blizzards, snow storms and swirling winds on top of Bald Mountain a short distance from Boulder. Then a few years back we discovered the winds of the prairie greenbelt surrounding the city. Sometimes perfect winds, warm days or absolute blow downs and hold on to your hats. It blows the old year away and puts smiles on all the friends that are brave enough to come out. Old Christmas cookie tins are emptied and hot chocolate warms the bellies. </span><br /><br /></div><p align="justify"><br /> </p><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">If you're ever out here and don't have anything to do but recover from too much partying the night before, come on out and fly a kite with us. </span><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291324532050171666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 294px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrpXfKjMPfRkFp_-DjEyrpzie6zJ-Ipacmwk75_pHlLSGcfOiOMfRYPDXCPKDG3w7tj10yEXByBTTNYmc4BBMhI8Y0zoQq-O-2Tl4KVyxujtcL2SYewUvGam_niD0nZIQnL5PYhdoUePk/s400/New+Year+Kite+Fly+2009+fish.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /></div><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">the greenbelt plateau makes a perfect kite flying field</span><br /></p><br /><br /><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291324923467388578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 326px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik1xEKnEI7eKBARKHBgX232qklXmLQAgua2t9pBiOpi5D5iHW0EVeo2KwEY6OQY96uTva7FqGV7uTCvzVbuMvEbwk9dgYwgRgkOuYaUCeK_uhJ3gnLHDwe4Djop1Dg-w3H6_jI9kFh5vU/s400/The+kite+fly+crowd.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">we flew a lot of kites that day</span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cccccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291325168303968626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 272px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixoZK3fHI-c4Ym5PQfOW5kIoo5-hFEvfpvj-zaxEQLUSaNwAaOajVm1BcKW60U0eS-846RINsTVSk6RFgAY8tiru7EuCASzFo9JFrrd4lI7VxY2P4mlZrhOuU_5fs1Da2nZr1NMfrgKWI/s320/Santa+Chris+and+Mrs+Elizabeth+Claus.jpg" border="0" /></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">Santa Chris & Mrs. Elizabeth Claus showed up on their new red scooter</span></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291356304800607986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJVIKvsL0v20c0qK_K7DDiWy1Bpidwwb0TlAOPeRxHD68k7qfwUdGJY4gmIJYsORj_flyN8PSHthExXEdK0uyMLinahcates5ccnIEY6gOJAhyphenhyphenfHLyBMIal44maVnybCmuotIpwNQ4tXE/s400/Dec+07+053.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">So happy high flying 2009!<br /></span></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-47461638196310127272009-01-13T21:40:00.000-08:002009-01-15T09:34:29.532-08:00THE NEW BLUE GALLERY<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Cpo0zBI-qgMgkLwNxLHY0LW-mlEjVy38VBK-ZKmaMslOuqZGPSJlpZBux1T43uD1LNQ1ofSE1Uodt__t8l3plOe9-S3GfXCBEbXYrUD_ViMKCxNvR3yDFE6ruR9AbnA35xSkJ7IZNLg/s1600-h/New+Blue+Gallery.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291044363842574370" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 184px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Cpo0zBI-qgMgkLwNxLHY0LW-mlEjVy38VBK-ZKmaMslOuqZGPSJlpZBux1T43uD1LNQ1ofSE1Uodt__t8l3plOe9-S3GfXCBEbXYrUD_ViMKCxNvR3yDFE6ruR9AbnA35xSkJ7IZNLg/s200/New+Blue+Gallery.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Out of the ashes the phoenix bird is born....or rather our new tool shed has arisen. It was finished on the day before Christmas after a two month long construction period following the </span><a href="http://airworksstudio.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html"><span style="color:#ff6600;">fire</span></a><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"> </span>we had back in September that crisped and blackened the structure and the surrounding trees . The new shed roof features a "flying nun's hat" design that raises the interior ceiling space considerably.</span></span></div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">With the new outside patio area and cover in place, track lighting and interior cabinets we've both concluded that the space is much too nice to put old burnt and carbon stained tools in. It is now our studio/house art gallery space and summer party kitchen. We'll relegate the tools to our dirty space studio numero 2 at "Rancho De Ville" north of town and out in the prairie lands where the sounds of table saws and loud music won't bother anyone. </span><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#cccccc;">In our pint size art gallery we will probably be showing smaller works of ours on a regular basis. The folks here in the Boulder area will receive notices for the openings starting in the spring. Shows of miniature kites, small sculptures, photos, paintings and other themes will occupy the walls and counters. <em>Intimate</em> is the operational word with the three or four person at a time capacity. The new outside garden patio area holds a much larger space for the chat and drinks room. We're both excited about the new gallery space and will somehow find time between all the other projects coming up to put on a show or two. Come if you can! </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291030260104520210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XDXICvoZCjE/SW2D_Q1fYhI/AAAAAAAAArg/6NlCdnOU7nw/s400/P1000376.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">George and friend, Todd... the intrepid builders at work</span><br /></p><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;">and....the finished patio and new gallery painted BlueBama and white.</span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#cccccc;"></p></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291031374827316098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTtscKAwPrDMHROH-ksdP1CpB1657ZieQoPU_WMBGs78wq5izBRv7H4Gl9NTAM-HnC7v8OlOJVgppfzVdxjMupiBGcaJd8NdIAEIuC8spitvHwJDokj6Gedw8dtaZu4Jz5EAMAwlfpadU/s400/P1000543.JPG" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291574737432285890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsfur_-rGYV54IihGXbQNztkE2UzkyDd5tD3jI1Er3zyGD-tWWPbE7oZWRywsENP-DmO7AXBqCbhRIGdb6z2DJhl2yCjZzR96s__gfx1s4TA5VDb-KL7jY84vS4FkBXoxTkMrU2RlBFk/s400/Blue+Gallery+interior.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291034036819352418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWQ4PFdB2K19uWXH5fyTnP4yrQb3XIFRuLTQBKKUIEOydpgYdz0Sh3phNZnoebNfdbCluyjn3QvHz8TAEGjVneRaRKejJMg-eyLWs8eHXDipSyMCXSVBg-spgINVsnsQy9DytLB23boI/s400/P1000557.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">...and here's the back alley blue view</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><p align="justify"><span style="color:#cccccc;">Yes, this really is where we do most of our work. Sometimes it astounds even us that we fabricate these large scale projects here in our home studio space and then truck them to the far corners of the country and world. We've used the alley as well as our spill over space with awnings for cover. The curious passers by sometime get petitioned to help us along with nieghbors. We do have our Rancho De Ville dirty space studio as well as Melanie's home space in nearby Louisville for sewing projects. Never enough room! Then again, our favorite studio space, the small space in our heads always seems limitless.<br /></span></span></p></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863135350885220910.post-10861219477121814802008-11-30T21:50:00.000-08:002008-12-14T21:58:57.809-08:00DRAW BRIDGE<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfkEh9WAT73A6B8CU92ew_5TpIHkHugAOfcZCyl4t6lpky3JaldltvjCPsOBgRdInLdTUW_B00Jo7nqHEOOKF1ZqqKAx-ulJE8G7vzo2CFj19IzH9sy2Pbx1oa0HlYyoanuVgWrkxydo/s1600-h/Bridges+-+up+view.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274709974639600130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfkEh9WAT73A6B8CU92ew_5TpIHkHugAOfcZCyl4t6lpky3JaldltvjCPsOBgRdInLdTUW_B00Jo7nqHEOOKF1ZqqKAx-ulJE8G7vzo2CFj19IzH9sy2Pbx1oa0HlYyoanuVgWrkxydo/s400/Bridges+-+up+view.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#cccccc;">We just put the finishing touches on the commission in the newly restored Civil Engineering School at Oregon State University in Corvallis. The whole process took about four years to completion surviving a state projects construction freeze while testing our artistic diligence.<br /></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#cccccc;">The idea behind the work concerns the primary task of thinking, drawing and making. The etched glass drawings on the glass elevator enclosure relate to the planning and design of civil engineering projects like bridges and city structures. The three dimensional bridges emerge from the drawing wall into realized forms. </span><br /></p><p><span style="color:#cccccc;">Several weeks work and a marathon assembly session with the boys from “BEAST” (Blackstock Emergency Art Services Team) brought the bridge truss forms into shape. The 20’ and 25’ units were then cut in half for the trip out to Oregon.<br /><br />We decided to truck the project out ourselves towing our silver “Bio-Bug” behind in order to get back home again. The drive was long but made to fly fast with Barack Obama’s books on CD, “Dreams of My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope”. It was a treat to ride with Barack's stories, humor and wisdom.<br /><br />After two days on the road through four states we pulled into the loading dock of the building and entered the site that was still under construction. I was there several months ago doing the glass etching mural work that featured graphics of bridge forms and engineering images but had not seen the finished glass mural installed yet. It actually looked quite wonderful in the space.<br /><br />Pulling out the bridge truss sections from the truck, we quickly got to work and the pieces were connected and hung in the fifty foot high atrium. It took one day to get everything up. The bridge forms arc in the skylight space and have reflective and prismatic materials that flash color. </span></p><p></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Jump in the bug and head home. A job done! </span></span><span style="color:#cccccc;"><br /></p></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><p align="center"></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274708382414885890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 187px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskOOikeJS4mmrs9s6fEWGY5TrwHj_hqDp4dFCs8cHNIL-TyBT2m2RSE3hEzx5B1Dt5AiuoyHW1-LibLnUex-1nB8yhX4HSdgOaXXKCunOhqFIilJHswsNnniM1dPkrOzSSscOHl2Nnus/s400/Draw+Bridge+-+pan+sm.jpg" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274707391810251074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXnNq7kECLxyFkdqzF9Y540y4b7QkL95LIWXxY4ebMp3iaczOG99nVJQpXHVyHJena3VNAeK7fz6AhtSUWkjEGIHb3VMUOOF0lz4KUNvObQb51HaK67fqUlzlWb-6Q6T0IK_J0Qwpp54/s400/Bridge+detail+2.jpg" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274705748180058162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 394px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 237px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AXSYScnahLoQsIeOycnMFxXmOzl5Vmf-I5HKfzx8QY6auJufaZo3un-b2RdkVpaRGzYxiGpRs527sp9Jt4swjLFSIYX3QxirE6I6-vAF4JE4dSRxBOYVrP2HDox2sw312vDLkkyNmoc/s400/bridge+detail+1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274707212878696658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmnZjA5uRxc1xQ6b8BDFxPUfnOsj0TNqevdxKVy-oBC3h7oK1kg8OommWQTyheB_VWCi7bPMzAVflQI_kbqWTwiE6AtHCoJQ8-EnaPsFFcoh0q_kC6jN9lPuTzA6pn-Onza4RPjXNDut4/s400/third+floor+bridges.jpg" border="0" /> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274722236945903106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XDXICvoZCjE/STOT7YYDrgI/AAAAAAAAAqk/LwACsmLr8As/s400/third+floor+bridge+-+with+Melanie.jpg" border="0" /></p>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09414868622173501738noreply@blogger.com5