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NSFW: This Wired feature takes a look at a new 360-degree interactive video system that media lab Obscura Digital is creating to install in a Las Vegas penthouse.

The technology looks amazing – but it looks like the content they are preparing for the penthouse cinema install is pretty dumbed-down and sexist. That may be perfect for a Las Vegas install – but I’d like to see a system like this configured to create cutting edge generative graphics, based on music – something like the psychedelic graphics of Glenn Marshall. That would create an incredible dance environment.

Give this a look and leave a comment with your thoughts. Is there a future for this technology, beyond 80’s video graphics and dancing girls?

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This video is a demonstration of video being generated using Quartz Composer and Ableton Live:

The song is a performance of the song Now Now Now. All is done live.

There will be a tutorial showing how to set something like this up shortly.

via ThePurestData

The Party At The End Of The Earth

Mixed media 2D / 3D animation made with Maya, Shake, After Effects, Photoshop and Flash.

SFX by Roland Heap; music by Rob Jones and Shitmat; animation by Mat Stevens

Basement Jaxx – Scars (ft. Meleka, Kelis & Chipmunk) – Video by Jan van Nuenen

.Jan van Nuenen created an animation exclusively for the song “Scars” by Basement Jaxx. The animation can be seen during their 2009 European tour, where it is used at the beginning of the performance.

via EnterTheMothership:

Check www.janvannuenen.com and www.enterthemothership.com