Birthday party for Lisa & Sara

I promised to make some kites at the birthday party for Lisa & Sara...

Live of a kite man can be very hard!

Looking for the Mary Maersk

I was so happy to make some pictures of the biggest container ship in the world.  Back home I found out that it was an other ship....(or did they put the wrong picture in the newspaper).... anyway this one was also very very big!!!    Please let me know who is right...!!

 

Hot cut

An other exercise for hot cutting!!

Tattoo I

A Della Porte kite with lion head made for testing out my new cutting tool. Thanks to recommendations of Christian Baden Powell.

Butterfly
Tattoo I
Tattoo II

zero wind

   There was almost no wind today, A temperature of 17 degrees and a little sunshine; what else do you need to get your low-wind kites out.   I was hesitating to take out my new Plutz3 from Leong Cheewan.  I have to admit, It's not always that easy to set it up in the field.   But what a blast!  What a kite!  It's hanging there! It doesn't want to come down.   Totally different flying experience than the PlutzII.   Once you get the feeling of putting and releasing tension on the line you can get the kite wherever you want.

 

 

To finish the day, I had to take out "the long way home" from Horvath.. for that long long glidepath....

Some more pictures:

The long way home I
The plutz II

Some more videos;

"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - I
"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - II
"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - IV
"The long way home" kite - Justitiepaleis Antwerpen - V

Zora

Made this morning a present for Zora.  I hope that she gone be a great kiter!

Some other examples:

Special for Helena 

Special for Roos

Special for Arno 

Special for Zora 

Special for Nona 

Special for Arthur

Special for Noor

Workshop for kids 

Workshop for Lisa

Dille

Singapore

We were invited for a kite festival in Singapore at the Marina bay organized by Act3. It was a very special festival with live opera music and a lot of international street acts.

The wind conditions at the marina aren't that great, so we had to work hard to keep our kites up in the air.  (The holy man and many other kites had be rescued from the bay)

Good buddies; Danny and Rajesh, showing me the area. 

A areal few on the festival

Eh eh what do you need more than my billboard guarded by these two security man

A great show of quad liners

Setting up my booth

We spend almost a full day flying our zero wind kites


All pictures of my stay in singapore

Do you see the church

It's a special place in the harbor of Antwerp.   Checkout if you can find the church....
"Oosterweel" was a small town north of Antwerp. It was leveled to the ground for the expansion if the Petroleum docks, Only the church ('t Kerkske van Sint Jan de Doper) still remains.
Screenshot of the area (Thanks to Hugo)

 

Rijsbergen Vliegerfeest

Some very interesting kites at the Rijsbergse vliegerdagen.
Some more pictures at picasaweb.

 

A nice pair of Jan Van Leuwen

An other one of Jan

 Markus & Katja Flender's Saul’s Barrage Kite...originally used as advertising scheme just before the worldwar II. During the war well known as an anti-aircraft device flown from merchant ships.

 

Ivo van Olmen, Belgium flag -deltas (next time I hope to take a picture of the 3 colors together)

 

 

Andre Cassagne

A tribute to Andre Cassagne at the Rijsbergse vliegerdagen.   Andre Cassagne developed plastic connectors that could be used to make tetrahedrons, flying rings, and any variation of cellular kites.

Wissant

Wissant, a beautiful place. The beach of Wissant is very thin and the sea is really blue. .It's a nice little fisherman’s village offering tranquility to its inhabitants and to the tourists in the heart of a protected site.Wissant lies on the coast in the Pas de Calais region of Northern France, located between Cap Gris Nez and Cap Blanc-Nez.  Wissant derives its name from the English words ‘white sand’ and at low tide the beach is exposed with a tide range of more than 8 metres.

Taking pictures of Wissant at +/- 100 meter high with a CP-P RIG and CHDK Canon  camera thanks to Holy man and butterfly kite.

Antwerp

Klein Willebroek

Klein Willebroek I
Klein Willebroek II 
Klein Willebroek III