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If you’re in the LA Area looking for a party tonight, then here’s one to check out.  BLVD, JD Hot Tub, AdamandEvil, Mid City West, with a special live painting installation by SHRINE and Amanda Sage, and the Editor of URB magazine will all be at the URB & Hunnypot Holiday PArty.  If you can’t make it, tho, don’t worry as the entire event will be Webcast live thanks to some sweet new technology the Confluence group is rolling out:

The Confluence will be will be web-casting the evening’s event on a multi-camera HD feed. This will be amazing content for your site’s visitors and it will most likely be in the form of an embeddable player.

This next generation technology is a completely self-contained mobile production unit. Affording all manner of events a means to communicate globally. Leaving no stone unturned in delivering excellence, they have brought on award-winning filmmakers and sound designers to produce the event.

Read the full announcement after the break.

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The Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper, Relentless7, and Gogol Bordello all participated in a huge concerts across the US that were recorded by inconcert3D and will now be presented to the masses at theatres nationwide!

Shot in Digital 3D–which renders a cinema quality comparable to that found in this fall’s other big 3D releases (A Christmas Carol and Avatar)–the format essentially brings viewers onstage, giving them a stunning 360◦ view of each live performance. Filmed by inconcert3d at critically acclaimed music festivals this summer, the performances include Dave Matthews Band–the highest-grossing American act of all time–at the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas, Grammy-award winning artist Ben Harper and Relentless7 at the Mile High Music Festival in Denver, and internationally acclaimed Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello at All Points West Music & Arts Festival in New Jersey.

It’s a limited run show, beginning this Friday (December 11th) and running through December 17th, and will never come to DVD (so they say), so if you want to see it you’ll have to go to the theaters.

UPDATE: Contest is over, see the lucky winners here!

But thanks to the kind PR people working the event, VizWorld can give you some memento’s to help you savor the memories!  Simply post a comment anywhere on VizWorld between now and Friday at 5pm (Central), and be entered to win one of four Dave Matthews Prize Packs.  The Prize Pack consists of:

• 1 T-Shirt
• 1 Dave Matthews Band Poster
• 1 Lenticular, with a Lanyard so you can wear it and look like you got backstage.. (Don’t worry, it’ll be our little secret)

So, the rules:

• Comments imported via BackType Connect (so Reddit comments, Digg Comments, and Tweets) don’t count.
• Trackback’s don’t count either.
• Obvious spam comments will be deleted & ineligible to win. (So don’t try to enter the contest & advertise your various enlargement meds at the same time)
• You’ll need to come here and leave a valid comment and leave enough information for us to reach you! That means you need to either authenticate before you comment (FaceBook, Twitter, GMail, we support several) or leave a valid email address to accompany your comment.
• Enter as often as you like!

So come on and enter now!  Read the full announcement, see the trailer, and see more pictures of the Prize Packs, after the break.

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The opening graphics for HBO’s “25th Anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert” later this week showcases work by Monkeyhead done with NetRender and MoGraph modules of MAXON’s Cinema4D.

“The functionality in the MoGraph module offers an incredibly dynamic range of tools to create motion graphics and advanced features like global illumination and caustics further allowed us to achieve the desired degree of realism. When we showed HBO the final spot they asked which images we created and which ones were pulled from existing sources because they couldn’t believe the photo-realistic quality we had accomplished,” added Sahley.

Read the full release and see the promo and some pictures after the break.

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InConcert3D, AEG Live, Action 3D Productions, and RealD have partnered up to bring the latest concert of the Dave Matthews Band nationwide in stereoscopic 3D using some new technology that brings the production costs down significantly.

“With the Dave Matthews [movie], the idea was to mimic a concert,” explains AEG Live’s John Rubey, who is executive producer and president of AEG’s Network LIVE. “The movie features Dave Matthews at the Austin City Limits festival, Ben Harper from the Mile High Music Festival and Gogo Bordello from the Pine Music Festival.”

via Studio Daily Blog » Dave Matthew Band in 3D on December 11.

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