In 1783, two brothers demonstrated their invention, the hot air balloon, before a crowd of dignitaries in Annonay, France. Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, prosperous paper ...

To adapt the typical hot air balloon, Aitken and his studio tapped into the ballooning subculture in Albuquerque, New Mexico, home to an annual international balloon fiesta. ‘The transformation from ...