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The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment
I'm a big fan of this genre of "a person got rich in tech and spent their wealth making an unrelated thing they wanted to exist in the world, untethered from the need to be profitable or self-sustaining."

See also, Jamie Zawinski's DNA Lounge[0] in San Francisco

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Lounge

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The website is either old or very retro cool:

https://www.dnalounge.com/gallery/2026/01-24/020.jpg

This picture from a recent concert looks how I imagine the Bay Area:

https://www.dnalounge.com/gallery/2026/01-24/020.jpg

Edit: There is a video streaming service of alternative music videos of which the complicated UI I can't quite understand:

https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/

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Hahahaha! You have to copy the links into the browser as the DNA greatly dislikes hacker news.

that place is absolutely gorgeous. like it or not, The Sphere is an amazing… cultural artifact, and stuff like this is absolutely the future.
Posting this here as a reminder that you can build a successful software company and use that to fund a cutting-edge experimental art and performance space under the cover of "it's a research lab".

The Voxel doesn't even take a cut of ticket sales - it's completely free for the accepted artists to use: https://voxel.org/artist-residencies/

Tech specs here: https://voxel.org/technical-information/manual/

Well I mean it’s not a stretch at all for this specific company…a theater like this is a perfect testbed for QLab
Department of Research Simulation