artist, writer, photographer, meme grandpa, skeleton influencer, nerd, dad . co-founder & cco of http://glitchgoods.com . writer/co-creator of HIGH LEVEL on dc/vertigo . formerly: nine inch nails art director 1999-2014
photon decay 001 / 002 . Scanner glitch art created by manually dragging materials through an old broken flatbed scanner (the same scanner I used to make glitch textures in the Nine Inch Nails With Teeth album art). After a lot of work trying to get them right, I’ve finally translated these two pieces into new prints , and I’m excited to drop them today . Personally signed/numbered museum quality…
20 years ago , in March 2005, Nine Inch Nails ’ “The Hand That Feeds” music video premiered, the first music video I directed. To celebrate the anniversary, I have constructed this immersive 2005 simulator to transport you to an authentic media viewing experience of the distant past. “The Hand That Feeds” was the first single off of With Teeth , NIN’s first new album in…
robsheridan : Photos I took of David Lynch filming Trent Reznor at Lynch’s studio in Los Angeles, for NIN ’s “Came Back Haunted” video. Watch the video here . Cameras: Canon 5DM3 , Hipstamatic . RIP to an absolute legend. Forever grateful I had this opportunity to meet him and watch him work.
Three new signed/numbered limited glitch art prints out now , including two retro-tinged SoCal prints benefitting United Way LA’s Wildfire Relief Fund . Read all about the new prints and see shiny pictures in my latest newsletter , which is a free thing if you like to know stuff I’m up to. And you can grab the prints here , made and shipped worldwide direct from me .
Early Nine Inch Nails With Teeth sketches/explorations, circa late 2004 - early 2005. Some of the many unused/unfinished stops on the very experimental journey 20 years ago that would lead to the look and feel of the album and its surrounding releases/merch/tour. Methods include digital glitching techniques, scanner glitching, DV data glitching, scientific/medical imaging, and digital photography.…
Early Nine Inch Nails With Teeth art, January 2005. Scanner glitching, digital glitching, glass, gel electrophoresis. At this time 20 years ago, I was refining design mockups for With Teeth after over a year of visual explorations that had begun in New Orleans with the early Bleedthrough concept and gradually evolved into a new aesthetic as we moved to Los Angeles and the album became With Teeth .…
Very excited to give you a peek at my new series of glitch art video sculptures; a glitch skull for your space, rotating endlessly through waves of analog CRT modulations. Limited preorders begin friday jan 17 10am PT direct from me . Join my free newsletter for more details in the coming days. See also: modulation d i s s o c i a t i o n
Painting with light for the Pearl Jam Dark Matter tour visuals , one of the many ways we used practical film techniques to bring analog humanity to the show. Get a closer look at my visual work for Pearl Jam, and some rare photography prints for a good cause, at The Art Of Dark Matter exhibit at the Cove Gallery, Ohana Festival, Sep 26-29 . “ Crown of Light” Directed by Rob Sheridan Produced by…
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile released 25 years ago today . Here’s a 1999 digital camera photodump from the months surrounding the album’s release; a surreal, transformative time in my young life. Words can’t describe what it was like, but these photos and textures bring back the strangest hazy memories that feel like a dream: Not even a year out of high school, moving to New Orleans to work for my…
I’m honored to present my work for Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter tour at the Cove Gallery at the Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California next weekend, with a series of rare photography prints to benefit the great Vitalogy Foundation . The photographs were taken by me on May 1st, 2024, during the only dress rehearsals for the tour, at an empty Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. They showcase…
15 years ago today Nine Inch Nails played The Echoplex in LA as part of the final stretch of the beloved 2009 Wave Goodbye tour , an intimate concert series of unique setlists and special guests. Here are my poster and merch designs for the LA shows. See more of my Wave Goodbye art here .
10 years ago tonight the Nine Inch Nails / Soundgarden 2014 summer tour wrapped up in Auburn, WA, a spectacular night and fitting home-state conclusion to what would be the last NIN show I worked on. Here are some photos from that summer tour, the final tour production I designed for NIN with some of my favorite live visual work I did for them. I took the first photo, the group shot of the band,…
15 years ago today . Chicago poster and merch I designed for Nine Inch Nails ’ storied 2009 Wave Goodbye tour. See more of my Wave Goodbye art here .
Poster and t-shirt designs by me for the New York City shows of Nine Inch Nails ’ famed 2009 Wave Goodbye tour , 15 years ago this week. Here are a couple unused design concepts: See more of my Wave Goodbye 2009 designs here .
robsheridan : Spectagoria Magazine ’s 1978 “Swimsuit Issue” mocked the popular institution with themes of pollution and global warming, depicting melting, skeletal, oil-drenched models on apocalyptic beaches. “Just a decade after the carefree innocence of the ‘Endless Summer,’ we are careening towards an uninhabitable future of poisonous air and a deadly summer that truly does not end.” Editor…