Next-level balloon glow, with LEDs. “Ballumination”!

And here’s part 2 of our fabulous flight last weekend at Red Rocks outside #Gallup. Ballooning like this - flying fractals in the fractal canyons - is a splendid form of performance art. #ArtAdventCalendar

Two of my favorite tiedyed balloons against a perfect blue #sky perfect for #blueskyartshow :)

Fractal balloon “Fibonacci” hovers over a mountain lake as its perfect symmetry is mirrored in the water below. #ArtAdventCalendar

Incredible beauty, joy and adventure flying Infinitude at the Red Rock #Balloon Rally in #Gallup. Catch the awesome high five at 0:55! #Newmexicotrue

This is fun and beautiful

Will always remember the joy of flying Gloria in the Red Rocks. #ArtAdventCalendar

Actually intoxicated by color #ArtAdventCalendar

Amazing fractal art ballumination! #ArtAdventCalendar

Fibonacci, the second flying fractal. An incredible hi resolution artwork, based on the simplest nonlinear equation, teaching the world that math is beautiful. #ArtAdventCalendar

Looking up! One of my favorite perspectives is gazing up at balloons lifting off - it’s magical. Imagine a sky full of flying art! #ArtAdventCalendar

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - my fourth flying artwork, and one of my favorites. What can I say, they’re like my children, they’re each magnificent I love all of them, can’t play favorites. #ArtAdventCalendar

Delighted to start off #ArtAdventCalender with a pic of my greatest tiedyed balloon (to date), Gloria Caeli. She was magnificent, will be hard to top.

Reflecting on the value of gratitude, one of my favorites. I named this balloon “Infinitude”, a contraction of “Infinite Gratitude”. The pic shows the dedication expressing my gratitude to Benoit Mandelbrot, but really it’s to all the scientists and artists who help us see and understand the world.

Another experiment with a 3D Mandelbox Flying Fractal. With Infinite possibilities - it’s so hard to choose the right one! Feedback please: what do you like or not like about this one?

Just set my latest fractal balloon creation rendering overnight, so I’ll post a fun new animation tomorrow. Successful creative weekend project!

Did you know? Tim Berners Lee explicitly designed the World Wide Web to be fractal! How cool is that?! Alas, with the rise of big tech monopolies, it has evolved in ways he didn’t intend or envision. But the original idea was so beautiful! How can we get that spirit back?

Ultimately I’m afraid it will come down to the military

Playing with balloon design ideas, working on future flying fractals, exploring something perhaps a bit simpler and more accessible than many of my other designs. Feedback?

Can’t stop thinking about this. Flying the balloon before sunrise while doing an LED skyglow is absolutely one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. Can’t wait to get up there again!

I just ordered an amazing book as a gift for my daughter, and realized not everyone knows about bookshop .org It’s wonderful! You don’t need to buy books on Amazon - and they’ll support your favorite local bookstore! Try it and get 20% off, perfect for the holidays! refer.bookshop.org/jonathanwolfe

Happy 11-11 at 11:11!

This is the most depressing chart. I feel for my family and friends in the UK who didn’t vote for and didn’t deserve this.

Had incredible fun doing the first ever LED #dawnpatrol SkyGlow. #Ballooning before sunrise is extraordinary itself, let alone in a giant luminous psychedelic artwork!

A beautiful flight early this morning, launched almost an hour before sunrise in total darkness. My first ever #DawnPatrol - amazing!

Beautiful day for high school soccer in #Abq. Go Bosque!

Glimpses of a crazy gothic Mandelbox fractal hot air balloon, just some ideas I’m playing with. Not there yet, but I’m having fun…

Crying for my country now

Had an extraordinarily beautiful flight today at Los Luceros #NM, playing in the foggy Rio Grande and the luminous cottonwoods - magical! Even caught sight of #Zozobra!

Proud how our people showed up today in #Abq. #NoKings www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerqu...

Playing with 3D #fractals. Would you fly a #Mandelbox #balloon?

Seems like the world could use more peace, joy and beauty, so I decided to fly a tiedyed peace banner at #BalloonFiesta. Did it help? I don’t know, but I hope it inspired some people. The world needs artists, this much I know.

Great to see people appreciating my art! Thanks for sharing - it’s always so good to see pics :)

Been having a terrific time at #BalloonFiesta in #Abq. So glad my crew was there to catch me during this high speed landing! That was an intense situation that worked out safely thanks to all involved. Amazing!

People people, a minimum of fact checking please - this is a gas balloon, not a hot air balloon. No fire, no heat. No pilot. And no color. Boring! Here is what hot air balloons can look like :)

The world could use a little more peace, so I decided to fly something a little special today at #BalloonFiesta. I call this tapestry the PeaceFlower.

I’ve had the huge honor of meeting Sir Tim - inventor of the WWW - a number of times and have the greatest respect for him. Here he shares a beautiful vision for putting people in charge of the governance of AI so it serves society’s interests, not big tech’s. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Had a great time in #pagosasprings playin with the paddle boarders!

I’m so excited about our fractal show tonight at the Guild Cinema in #ABQ. Come see a dazzling, exciting, inspiring glimpse into the infinite realm of fractals. Educational and psychedelic. Amazing! www.guildcinema.com/movies/fract...

Bad news got you down? If you’re in #Albuquerque please join us Thursday for a very special fractal show at the Guild Cinema. Educational, inspiring, and psychedelic! We’re making #ABQ the Fractal Capital of the World! www.guildcinema.com/movies/fract...

Such a beautiful ecosystem. I just read the amazing book Finding the Mother Tree by @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social and all I can think about is how trees are so connected with the creatures around them.

Proposal: Save 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030. Strong support by people around the world. That our economic and political system will resist this vigorously only means… they need to change! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I so appreciate the little things I see in other countries that show they value the little people. Free public toilets in parks in Canada; upper and lower handrails on stairways in Norway; months and months of parental leave almost everywhere…

So glad I discovered the wonderfully imaginative David Zinn on Bluesky! Follow and enjoy :)

Loving the book I’m in the middle of, “Finding the Mother Tree” by @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social Continually awestruck by the complexity of trees and forests, and now to learn about this amazing microbiome of trees…

It’s been a long time since I’ve made any tiedyes, and I’ve been having fun getting back into the art form! Here are a couple of fractal inspired tapestries that I’ve made and given to friends as backdrops for their bands. Cool!

This thread holds the wisdom we need to remember in these difficult times. Dr Sawin expresses it better than I can and uses the structure of fractals beautifully to illustrate how we can shift the system into one of coherence, care, and beauty.

So many interesting technological, social, legal and political issues with this app. It allows people to anonymously report sightings of ICE agents so people can avoid those areas. It’s done with complete privacy, no user accounts, and no data tracking at all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’ve re-read this fascinating and gripping article a couple of times over the years. And yet I still dream of moving to coastal British Columbia 🤷

In my mind I’m still up there, flying through this magnificent landscape. Flying fractals in the fractals. Intensely peaceful, magical, alive.