#kite making

[corvidsofthedeep]

No Context Crow #275: Kite Crow

Created by Andrew Maize!

[picturekites]

Coracias - Flying Behaviour

This kite is an excellent kite for reading wind speed and condition. It moves almost instantaneously to any change in wind speed or direction. When the wind speed increases the kite visibly moves upwards and responds fast enough to show gusts in the air. I have flown this kite in very low wind speeds (5km/h) and it is very stable, a short drop in wind speed, however, may land the kite. The kite can also fly in moderate to strong wind, however, the pull on the kite line is strong, the spars start to bend drastically and it fights its way sideways out of the wind window.

When I have flown this kite in good wind conditions, it is capable of being used for KAP (Kite Aerial Photography) with a light camera and will fly at a relatively steep angle. The Dopero kite, which comes from the Roller design, is an excellent kite for KAP and provides excellent stability.

[artisticdivasworld]

The Artistic Flight of Chinese Kites: A Cultural Treasure

We are currently doing a series about various art forms around the world.  I am really enjoying this series and learning so much about other types of art. I hope you are also enjoying this series. In case you missed some of the posts in this series, here are the links to read later: The Artistic Soul of Clay: Why Pottery is Celebrated as an Art Form, or this one, The Power of Street Art: How…

[soarrenbluejay]

Supervillains for a community. (Well, except those jerks over in Gotham, insular lot, but they’re they’re one problem) Of course they do- supervillains are a group defined by strong opinions and a willingness to see them through, often with a healthy dash of societal failures and trauma as a catalyst.

The fentons, while not active even on the online message boards, are well known and explosive when they do show up, full of fascinating insights and hours long rants on mad science on hair pin turns courtesy of that ADHD attention span. Bit of the cryptids you feel honored to bump into kind of deal. Besides, like a good quarter of the community as it aged, they’d settled down and had kids (not necessarily in that order) and taken it very seriously! Out in the middle of nowhere, where even the most fearsome government outpost members, the local branch of the IRS, quake before them in fear. Out of the way.

Reveal gone okay-ish, Danny moves to Gotham still to get some air bc now things are Akward and he landed that engineering scholarship which is loads better than any other college would give him with his track record. So- the mysterious Fenton children are finally crawling out of hiding! Everyone is psyched! And roll in to Gotham en masse to witness the fireworks!

Except Danny is Determined To Be Normal. He’s had enough of the throwing himself into harms way shit for a lifetime- he wants to be free to peacefully built Rube Goldberg machines and unintentional increasingly complex bombs to his hearts content. JAZZ, on the other hand- the coveted token Normal One, has finally snapped! She’s watched her baby brother she practically raised throw himself into danger over and over and could do nothing, and now that she’s exposed to this whole network of superheroes outside of small town Amnity, some of those uglier emotions are coming out. And boy is she pissed! And can’t afford to show it much while filing the paperwork to have Arkham legally razed to the ground!

See I love this idea of like, niches in superhero society. A villain the heroes know they can plop their kiddo down with for an exciting afternoon brawl while they take care of a particularly grisly case and come back to a few hours later ranting about some new life lesson and a new move they really want to try. A villain who has a functioning moral compass despite their somewhat batshit long term goal and you can contact to fuck with another villains’s plan so they can laugh at them and you can have an easy afternoon. One who pries up hostile architecture and fills in pot holes, idk man. Get creative here, there’s such potential!

So Jazz becomes a Training villain- someone the heroes know their sidekicks will walk away from in a fight 100% of the time, usually with some new lesson to ponder and only a couple of bruises. Sometimes even snacks!

She also absolutely ambushes mentors to check that they’re worth the kiddo, which they appreciate once they get over being jumped in a dark alley by a 7 foot Amazon trained force of nature. They are not used to being on that side of the jumping, it’s a little unnerving.

(Yes, she low key adopts Shazam upon checking in with him on cursory ‘is the main hero of this city and asshole’ checkin. Yes, the super clones get yoinked out from under Superman’s negligent thumb to go have a blast with Ellie. What about it?)

This however only encourages more assorted weirdos to crawl out of the woodwork. It’s not often one of their own forfeits their potential spot for the running of the coveted Most Normal I Swear prize, but when they do it’s bound to be good! But jazz is off hounding various heroes and punching the faces in of pedophiles and shit whenever there’s no cape within easy reach, and so is a mite bit harder to contact than Danny, who has innocently gotten an apprenticeship under a clockworker for access to their workshop and is gleefully going about doing nerdy shit with great abandon.

Plus this is Gotham. No one gives a shit if someone in the Mad Alchemist uniform and still smoking from their latest experiment pokes their head in a window to bother the local shrimp teen- none of the usual social rules apply, everyone’s crazy here! So everyone drops any and all attempts at masking and just acts their genuine unhinged selves, much to the alarm of the Bats and frustration of Danny.

Bc he cannot get these mfers to go. Away. Even liberal use of the creep stick has little effect when the interloper is calibrated for an opponent with super speed or laser vision or whatever, and he’s trying to maintain his guise as a Normal College Student Do No Investigate.

So he calls in the big guns. He’s not super active in the supervillain kids group chat ever since things in amnity calmed the fuck down post becoming King and then immediately using a loophole that says he will not take the throne until he is grown, as defined by finishing learning his trade a la the medieval standards Pariah set up. So he can just take his sweet ass time with his graduate degree and out of inter dimensional bull shit that much longer! Point is, he hasn’t taken the chance to rant over there in a while, so his Crazy friends are getting a lil worried.

The change to come over and shout at their batshit crazy but (mostly) well meaning parent AND see Danny? Score!

The bats, however, are getting awfully suspicious about this one kid that villains from all over the country are flocking to, especially young and upcoming ones as of recently! And he’s acting his engineering course- all the worst rogues are known to have flown through their PhD studies prior to Cracking. They seem to have a real problem on their hands with this Fenton guy.

[mapletine]

hi i woke up from my nap in a cold sweat with this on my mind hope y’all enjoy

[lesliemeyers]

i've been replaying Fractured But Whole and was hit with the urge to put my own spin on their hero Looks <3

some closeups + the initial design sketches

[snakepixel]

2024: Year of the wood dragon

As it happens, in my language, the word for 'kite' is 'dragon': Something that flies through the strings that control it.

[benetnvsch]

Silly Guy... Also I've officially been hyperfixated on bsd for about a year now yipppeee

(also Tumblr pls stop hiding this image there's nothing bad abt it I swear-)

[proteidaes]

HERE IT IS !!! HERE'S THE BIG NEWS!!! 📣📣📣

Random House Graphic is launching a series of DR. SEUSS GRAPHIC NOVELS and I'm making a very very special one ... for The Grinch!!!

Just a tease for now, I know!! You can read a little more in the Popverse article and get to know the other authors on board for The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham!! Can Confirm these books are going to be a delight!! 🎉🎉🎉

[moonelnone]

Here is the 2nd part!! Ty for being sooo patient :]

[adrielrook]

He’s so showstopping spectacular guys

🤧🙏🏻

[picturekites]

Coracias

| wanted to create a kite that flies in Light wind conditions and at a nice steep flying angle, so my eyes turned to the interestingly shaped Roller Kite. This type of kite is not readily available without having a large price tag attached, not to mention the limited designs available. Why not make one?

Contents

Kite Plan

Construction

Flying Behaviour

The name Coracias comes from the Latin for the genus species of bird called the Roller. Seemed like a relevant name for my kite, and some Roller birds such as the Lilac-breasted roller display strong contrasting colours.

Roller kites do not require tails to fly which makes them very interesting to watch, | have witnessed many people stop to view this Coracias in action!

This kite, in particular, has been adapted and improved multiple times providing me with valuable learning opportunities.

[activatebutterflyshield]

I was compelled last night and I’m quite honestly scared of whatever 11:59 PM me intended for those middle sections. At least I still know my colors when sleep deprived, and I’m sure someone else on here can fill the blank spots out better than I can on a full eight hours of shut-eye.

[orangebeetles]

druid kyle druid kyle druid kyle. shoutout to my boyfriend for listening to me explain why stick of truth kyle would definitely be a druid bc they never explicitly state what class he is in the same way we know stan is a ranger and butters is a paladin. i see a lot of people drawing kyle as a fox and i love red foxes so that would be one of his fav wild shape forms for sure… also the bird is a red kite (i am hilarious). i also gave him a staff in a similar shape to his golf club but that was just kind of thrown in there

[moeblob]

New OCs

(briefly, humans and supernatural beings have to team up for building better relations with each other and all the supernaturals can shapeshift and take on human appearances but also have their 'original form'.)

OK so I was GOING to draw fanart today - I had a fun idea and everything! But health anxiety (and anti-anxiety meds) wore me out so I kinda .... slogged through OCs as a treat to me. I am going to go to the doctor tomorrow so HOPEFULLY it's all okay.

[mapletine]

something something funny twitter post