Up where the air is clear

Flying a kite is liberating. It can also be a great way to introduce your kids to the idea of wind power and what it means to our future as an alternative energy source.

 

 

The handbound book, FLY ME, by Yoko Ono is designed to unfold to become a 30x36" kite. The pages bear individual messages of inspiration, such as "Imagine Peace" and "Fly", designed to attached to a hand-carved frame fashioned of oak from a sustainable forest in New York State. Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Library is the publisher of the 2,500 books available for purchase.

 

On the DIY tip, FLY ME sparked reference of a great project I was recently introduced too, KiteBot. Their mission is to develop low cost, low complexity kite-based wind energy and the site offers (in their words) a fairly in-depth description of a (fairly) concrete implementation designed to be as simple as possible, but extensible, using mostly bicycle parts.

Oh the possibilities!

Sonic Youths

The Avant Garde Preschool, an effort from creative studio Partners & Spade in NYC, has a very exciting engagment this coming weekend. We just learned about this (miss school miss out) but checked in and there are a few spaces left! Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth will be offering a lecture on the seemingly complicated subject of white noise to inquiring minds ages 8-12 (and, of course, parents of). From experience, Moore's stage presence is never short of very entertaining, so I wouldn't miss this if you're in or around NYC this coming Sunday. Short and sweet and the lovely hosts of Partners & Spade know how to have a good time. A special friend of Hw/Ks will be at the event and we're excited for insider reports! RSVP stat info@partnersandspade.com $30 tuition All proceeds benefit the art program of PS 126.