This was supposed to be a poetic – or at least a not so informative – article, since we flew our kites here more than we care to count. We told you pretty much everything about this beautiful place in the Ljubljana Marshes landscape park and the river Ižica meandering through it. But … A … Read more
Cyclops were never cool. Κύκλωπες, circle-eyed, one-eyed monsters, relics of a strange and magical past, giants different and bizarre, quintessential Others. Polyphemus of the Odyssey was a Neolithic man, a pastoralist, dabbling in sheep transhumance, having nothing in common with Bronze Age long-distance trading farmers, artisans, boar-helmeted warriors. Cyclopes inhabit strange, scary, inaccessible places – … Read more
Ljubljana is a funny city. It is one of those instantly recognisable Austro-Hungarian towns that can be found all over Central Europe, from Lviv to Linz, from Brasov to Plzen. Cozy, nice, clean, clear, ordered, disciplined, boring, shallowly happy. But Ljubljana has a different feel – something southern is in the air, something Adriatic. Ljubljana can be seen … Read more
So, Caly the wiener dog had an appointment with a hairdresser. Since it takes a lot of time to further beautify the already beautiful wire-haired dachshund, Janez had some time on his hands – it was a windy late afternoon, and Ljubljana Marshes were calling. He went to the place called Ižanske toplice – “the … Read more
No, not that mushroom … and testing, not tasting … Dr.Agon – Janez – was busy with his sewing machine yet again, and, having a lot of rather suboptimal fabric, decided to make a simple mushroom laundry kite. We went to Ljubljana Marshes, to our regular testing grounds, to see how it would behave in … Read more
“I will BURY your kites!” – the bora wind, on Sunday Jesolo Kite & Beach festival is huge. Enormous. The largest in Italy, one of the largest in Europe and in the world. It’s an incredible aerial show with huge crowds, thousands of kites, fantastic flying monsters, awesome aerial masterpieces … … and we chose … Read more
On June 18, 2017 we flew our kite with a camera for the first time. For our third kite aerial photography session we went to the Upper Pivka valley, sometime in August 2017. We took a couple of cool photos of Šilentabor archaeological site (with a tailless sled, on 800 m of line), and then … Read more
“OMG really?”– the bartender of a shady village bar A special something happens when one sees giant kites flying for the first time. A sudden click of synapses deep inside the brain. It’s uncanny, but in a good way. It stirs the earliest memories, uplifting them into consciousness: a family picnic, the taste of a … Read more
A young man was in pain. A vertical crack had developed through the enamel of his lower left canine, exposing the dentine tubules. The tooth hurt really badly and it drove him crazy; every folk cure failed, his fervent prayers (to Mother Goddess?) were unanswered – so his mother (who else?) finally took him to … Read more
Winter is hard to kiters. It’s cold. And it’s wet. And the sun disappears at 4 PM. India comes to help, and we spend a sizeable chunk of the darkest month, January, in hot and sunny Gujarat (and other fantastic places). But winter means waiting. Waiting for the sun, for the first yellow flowers, for … Read more