Open Data Initiatives have been blooming all over the world recently starting from the US and Great Britain. Last Week the City of Vienna joined this trend and has published a first round of datasets including census, budget and location information. Of course I also had a look a the data and came up with some first thoughts.

I just finished my take on the data of Push Snowboarding and this post will get a bit into the details of how and why.

Ever since I’ve heard Branden Hall talk about Okapi at this years Flash on the Beach Conference I’ve been eager to get my hands on it and start playing around. To the right you can see what I have come up with by now.

So I thought a lot of other people might like to try that out as well, so why not write a simple Tutorial. So here we go.

As I just got informed one of my generative artworks will be featured in the upcoming “Written Images” book. It is a huge honour for me to be featured in a book together with a lot more famous artists like Casey Reas, Robert Hodgin, Golan Levin, Lia, Marius Watz and alike.

For last weeks Release-Party of the new Chimbiss Website I revisited the code from my Hype Logo Animation and added some After Effects fast-motion and that’s what I came up with: