Any kite that comes too low is fair game – the first person to catch it, owns it – hence the cricket/baseball style person-spacing on …
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The romantic notion that some animals are inherently more sky-divable than others, and the perpetual state of free-fall that the skydiving-frog design implies.
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Social Norms, Artifacts There-of
14 Nov 2009
The extent to which social activities take place out on the streets, in the home or, as in Afghanistan – around the family compound and …
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Kite String Naming Norms
02 Aug 2008
Popular kite string brands including: Captain 2007, Regency 2007, Olympic (no doubt officially authorized), Khyber Shaheen and the Mamilon Shutranj no 1. Surprising to see …
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Somewhere down there in the haze that is Kabul is my home for the foreseeable.
This visit is an opportunity look beyond what ends up in …
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