Here's to 60 years!

In honor of this day, Amy and I made a couple of timelines to mark the occasion.

Select individual items to learn more!

You can use the slider on the bottom to narrow the timeline below...It makes seeing the separate years a bit easier :)

(click me for more photos!)

Every year, the last weekend in July, is the Berkeley Kite Festival put on by Tom McAlister of Highline Kites. Which means that the 2008 festival was a couple of weekends ago. This year Matt Bush and I volunteered to fly a train of giant fish (22' long) along with other general duties such as setup and breakdown for the festival. The weather was gorgeous the first day, but completely overcast on day 2. That didn't stop the crowds from coming out though, both days being quite busy. Unfortunately, because I was working the festival, I didn't get the chance to take as many photos as I'd have liked. But to see what photos I did get (many of them were actually taken by Amy during the first day), and to get a sense of the scale of the festival, click the photo above.

(Click photo for SF Gate article)

(Click HERE for full res pig flying fun)

Amy's pig is famous now that he's graced the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle's 96 hours section which highlights the weekends coming events. The photo and the article that follows (click the image above for the article) are all about the Berkeley Kite Festival which happens this weekend. In the article, both online and in print, there are also photos of me flying my giant fish kite. What's funny is that despite Tom's (the owner of Highline Kites and festival director) best efforts to coordinate with the media, the Chronicle randomly sent someone with a camera to the park several Mondays ago. Coincidentally, Matt and I happened to be down there flying, and it's a good thing since we were the only ones down there flying. Once we knew who the guy was, I made a point of pulling out some more stuff such as the fish, but sometimes you just can't beat a giant flying pig.