Saturday afternoon I went to Forest Park to read books, write, and nap. And by convenience, to watch a lot of people fly kites.
Two thoughts for the kite industry:
- How come nobody has ever made a kite shaped like an umbrella? I just imagine that it’d be really funny to see an umbrella on a string in the sky, floating in the wind. Might even be practical, too, for Seattle-based or Tropical Rain Forest-based kite enthusiasts. Those poor devils used to need to buy two pieces of equipment.
- Why hasn’t anybody commercially sold spring-loaded kites? I’m envisioning something like one of those t-shirt launchers you’d see at sporting events, except the rolled-up material is attached to a string. Once the string completely unravels, *POOF* you’ve got a kite. The hardest part of kite flying is actually getting the sucker in the air. Although you could argue that much of the pleasure of flying the kite is derived from doing that work. Still, I could see the short-term potential for some kind of informercial.
That’s all there is to say about that. Kites aren’t that complicated.