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Nathan Vogel (a.k.a. DJ/VJ Doctor Spook) spends most of his time creating a wide variety of cutting edge digital projects, music videos, hot dance floor trance tracks, dance party projection graphics, DVDs, 3D interactive games, motion graphics, feature film special effects shots and original computer animated shows.
Doctor Spook has a new trance record company called GeoMagnetic featuring CD's and DVD’s full of original, digitally enhanced 3D music videos and fresh electronic music from around the globe. In October of 2005 GeoMagnetic released "GeoSpirit 1: Virtual Vortex" a 60 minute Maya 3D film featuring eleven new music videos and international trance songs from top artists around the globe. Doctor Spook helped write five of the eleven tracks on this new release created using Logic, Maya and After Effects. GeoMagnetic released the record label sampler DVD "Magnus" in May of 2004. Both of these DVD's are now available at many electronic music stores and online distributors.
Doctor Spook has also been writing his own music as Mindstorm and performing as a head lining musician, DJ and VJ around the world. The first Mindstorm CD and DVD will be announced soon.
August 2006 Update: GeoMagneticTv takes off! Nate's new record company just signed over 40 new psytrance, electronic and ambient music artists from around the globe. GeoMagnetic.Tv now features 100's of tracks on both iTunes and BeatPort and is quickley becoming one of the largest psytrance, ambient and electronic music labels and distributors in the world. GeoMagnetic will also be debuting their new TV show music videos on Comcast's Harmony Channel in August of 2006 - more information on this soon! One of Spook's Magnus music videos “Deep Step� is a featured case study in Sherri Sheridan's new how to make a film for no money, from script to screen book "Developing Digital Short Films".
Some of you may know Doctor Spook from his interview in the now cult classic film "Liquid Crystal Vision", a feature DV documentary on the worldwide trance music scene. Dr. Spook is an internationally renowned psychedelic trance DJ/VJ, who has recently begun writing his own trance music. Doctor Spook's first original song with his new musical collective called "The Phoenix Family" was picked up by Spun records for a recent compilation and is featured on the new GeoSpirit 1: Virtual Vortex DVD! This new Phoenix Family album/DVD is full of original music and videos created track by track with a vast array of international talent and collaborators.
Nate is a certified Maya Trainer for Alias and has taught thousands of students from around the world to realize their visions using all sorts of software. He has taught computer animation at Siggraph, The Academy Of Art College, Mesmer Animation Labs, The Center For Electronic Art and San Francisco State University. Nate is the co-author of "Maya 2 Character Animation" published by New Riders in 1999. He won the "Best Music Video Award" in 1998 for "Beyond", by Geffen's Young American Primitive, at the World Animation Celebration in Pasadena. His award winning animations are featured on several leading industry reels including Siggraph, Alias, and The Mind's Eye.
In 1992 Nathan Vogel won the MacWorld Quicktime Festival for his legendary four minute film "Media Man In The Net", one of the first all digital short films. "Media Man" was created on an Apple LC, with a Yarc board using Macromind 3D, COSA (After Effects) and Renderman. He was only 19 at the time, and heading up all of the computer animation and digital video classes at San Francisco State. Nate then went on to become the 3D Special Effects Director at a start up company called Media Bytes in San Francisco, where he created the award winning Neuromancer Opera footage from Bill Gibson's famous book, using Wavefront & Explorer on the SGI platform.
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San Francisco, CA USA |
| Hometown: |
san francisco |
| Birthday: |
Aug 31, 1972 |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Last Active: |
Jul 01, 2008 |
| Interests: |
PSYTRANCE, 3D ANIMATION, DIGITAL VIDEO FX, VJ, DJ, PARTY, OUTDOOR PARTY
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