Teaser trailer for my second @nineinchnails concert film, BESIDE YOU IN TIME, released 15 years ago #OnThisDay in 2007. An early entry in the new frontier of HD home video, it was the first live music feature released simultaneously on DVD, Blu-ray, and the ill-fated HD-DVD. 1/
My cover art for NIN's BESIDE YOU IN TIME concert film, released 15 years ago today. This marked the end of NIN's "With Teeth" era and the visual style I created for it; by the time this release hit we had already begun the #YearZero campaign. 2/
For the DVD version we could use a sleek cardboard package, but for the new Blu-ray & HD-DVD formats we had to use the standard ugly plastic clamshells. I was so bothered by how the blu-ray blue clashed with our red cover, I proposed a blue alt cover for it (label said no). 3/
Early cover concept for NIN: BESIDE YOU IN TIME. This was a clear reference to the WITH TEETH cover art, meant to bookend the era. We decided to go with the artier and more striking red cover, as this one was *too* similar to WT. This art became a promo poster for the release. 4/
To promote BESIDE YOU IN TIME we released daily wallpapers ahead of the release, featuring my live photos from the 2005/2006 NIN tours. A commenter has kindly shared their archive of those wallpapers here:
Totally cool and not at all defeating trying to make a living through art in a country that spends our tax dollars generously rewarding the ultra-rich for *destroying* art & defrauding consumers, all while claiming we can’t afford healthcare & childcare & loan forgiveness.
Between the refusal to pay writers, tax loophole bullshit, unchecked mega-mergers/layoffs, and increasing prices, it’s a good time to cancel some of your streaming services, support creators directly when possible, find your fav stuff on physical media, and if you can’t, well…
I spent years developing a whole world for a comic book on the promise that it could carry into a show or movie, and for a second that seemed possible until a series of buyouts cast my IP into the ATT/Warner/Discovery/? void, now collecting dust while I can’t do anything with it.
Friday night pizza party at THE PIZZA HUT BETWEEN WORLDS
In 1985 LIFE Magazine photographed the opening of the first interdimensional @pizzahut restaurant, where creatures from across the realms mingled with human Travelers as part of an ongoing galactic cultural exchange.
This was bothering me too, but perhaps the sci-fi setting overrode the retro Pizza Hut staple. So I tested AI with a straightforward prompt: "1980s candid photograph of a family dining at Pizza Hut restaurant." Some deranged approaches to eating pizza, and the cups are wrong. Hmm
Shame it has to go underground. I wanna walk through a theme park of giant gaudy animatronic mausoleums. Get the brands involved, pick your favorite burial mascot from a catalog like Baskin Robbins party cakes. Family discount if you all choose IP from the same corporate umbrella
My family will take the Taco Bell package. Embalm me in a giant cup-shaped tank of Baja Blast, my body on display floating in caffeinated aquamarine sugar water like a bacta tank. And it dispenses Baja Blast infused with my corpse for a twist of flavor, like snake wine.
“Valentine of the Flesh” was the theme of Satan’s debut show at #NewYorkFashionWeek last night, showcasing His range as a designer and dazzling critics with an unexpected floral twist on His signature themes of eternal torment and suffering in Hell. Happy Valentine's Day!🌹
“Valentine of the Flesh” my alternate-reality body horror fashion show, full gallery + backstory (NSFW): at.tumblr.com/robsheridan/va…
Need to have a talk with my eight month old baby about the type of filth he’s been viewing online
Going through my Dad’s shit, I found what I guess I’ll call my inheritance: casino bet slips he placed last year on 2023 NFL outcomes. Power move from beyond the grave to force his artist son to be invested in the outcome of a sports game for the first time.
Anyway, the 49ers and the Chargers are “my teams” now, I am a diehard fan, those of you who root for [the competing teams], you are my sworn enemies now.
Trolling my Seahawks family by telling them how much I want “my beloved 49ers” to eviscerate the water pigeons, and “Dad would have wanted it this way”
Looks like my last honor on this site is to make the list of "antifa" accounts right-wing trolls plan to try to get suspended from Twitter. That's like making a list of your enemies to give them the last lifeboats on the Titanic. Please, shitclowns, give me the final nudge I need
A lot of the interesting people who make this site what it is are already gone. Their accounts remain, but they're not posting/engaging much. You can feel the difference in your timeline. You can feel this place getting uglier, trashier, less useful and more combative.
People are finding a lot of the oldschool Twitter joy over on Hive right now that has been sapped from this place, and people are finding new ways to build communities on Mastodon. As the personalities who drive this place find alternatives, users will follow in droves.