NIN tour posters from 20 years ago this spring, during the Bush/Cheney wars. Same as it fucking ever was…
Art direction by Designers Republic, design by me.
Here's the title track from NIN's "Beside You in Time," with visual design by me and one of my favorite production tricks of my career: Trent smashing the glass with his mic stand at the end. 2/
19 years ago today, Nine Inch Nails released "Beside You in Time," their third concert film release, directed and art directed by me. Showcasing the 2005-2006 "Live: With Teeth" tours, it was one of the first concert films released on then-new high definition Blu-ray and HD DVD (RIP) formats. 🧵
Catching video feedback spirits with VJ Burle Avant and the Eternal Reseach team, with their Demon Box instrument, Burle’s impressive modular rig, and my circuit-bent Cybershot. It was cool to meet Burle, who was the VJ for MTV’s iconic late-90s dance/electronic show AMP (hence the music). 1/
anomaly_251125. circuit-bent #glitchart . 2025 .
Yeah, pretty much, just in this case each layer is basically the same image but each one glitched in different ways, so I paint on the masks to reveal parts of the layers above and create a blend. That way I have more control, I don't have to rely on one glitch pass being exactly right.
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In this case the pixel smearing is coming from a circuit-bent camera that is exceptional at that particular texture. For standard pixel sorting stuff I use apps, I'll usually generate a bunch of variations in a few apps and then layer them in PS and blend the best bits together in various ways.
anomaly_251117. circuit-bent #glitchart . 2025 .
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anomaly_251118. circuit-bent #glitchart . 2025 .
1970s/80s fantasy black light posters, artists uncredited
"Heart of Bone." A valentine for all my romantic goths out there. 💀🖤
@robsheridan.bsky.social first concert, finally framed. It is my grail. Thank you.
Beautiful! Congrats!
Anomaly_251116. Circuit-bent digital glitch art. One-of-a-kind 6" x 4" art piece, signed and numbered 1/1. Sold.
Each Anomaly is unique. New Anomalies will be dropped periodically at robsheridan.storenvy.com/collections/... as I make them.
Happy 25th anniversary to NIN’s “Things Falling Apart,” released on this day in 2000; significant for me as it was the first album I designed and created artwork for, at the tender age of 20, working a dream job for my favorite band. I wrote about it at www.patreon.com/posts/144077...
This is such a mood.
SIGHTING: HACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY, 1947. Created with actual pages from the FBI's declassified UFO files.
One of eight preview designs from my new TEST PATTERN collection, out now at testpattern.threadless.com
That one is my favorite!
If you enjoy these looks back at my work with NIN, consider joining my Patreon where you can read much more in-depth breakdowns of my design, photography, and tour production work over the years. 6/
The effect of the pixel grid and the harsh black-and-white static on the band members stuck with us, and we turned it into the production design for the song "Only" on the Live: With Teeth 2005 arena tour, and many tours beyond it.
So thank you, cheap shitty projector, for years of inspiration. 5/
Up close, when projecting pure white, you could see the fine grid of the pixel matrix (see the texture on the skin in these close-up portraits of the band members). Terrible for professional projection quality, but great for the With Teeth aesthetic! 4/
This was a sort of test shoot tacked on to the end of our main photo shoot, so I just brought a cheap portable consumer projector. It was a bit underpowered for a professional band shoot, but we discovered that the cheap lower-resolution quality had an unintended bonus... 3/
At the shoot, I had the projector taking input directly from my laptop so I could use my tablet to draw directly on the projected image and "scratch out" the faces of the band members. 2/
Nine Inch Nails band photos, 2005, taken in a studio in front of a white cyc wall using a low-resolution digital projector for lighting; experimenting with new ways to incorporate the digital glitch art elements of my "With Teeth" album art into the promo photos. 🧵 1/
Select signed/numbered prints of artwork from HTDA’s “An Omen EP” and “Welcome Oblivion” are available direct from me at robsheridan.storenvy.com/collections/... - including new pre-framed 12x12 "album editions." 3/
Analog VHS/CRT glitch portraits I created for the How to destroy angels "An omen EP" artwork, 2012. In this era the How to destroy angels collective was Mariqueen Maandig-Reznor, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and me. 2/
13 years ago today, Nov 13th. How to destroy angels “An omen EP,” a precursor to our full-length “Welcome Oblivion.” Here is artwork from the 2012 digital PDF, featuring my first published analog glitch work, created by manually disrupting analog signals through damaged VCRs and old CRT TVs. 🧵 1/
Also, I have no idea if that account is really Tony Hawk but I do like that the only account it follows is @robsheridan.bsky.social,whomst you should also follow.
His glitch art is my unlock screen
