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:
I’ve been dreading the ugly plastic convoluted clutter of accessories that seem to fill your world when you have a baby, but credit to @Steph_Sheridan_ for seeking out cool stuff that doesn’t look too suburban (but is still functional & reasonably priced) 🖤
There is no hardware more threatening than printers. A whole ass Chaotic Evil device category that society has universally loathed for decades. An ugly, angry presence in your home or office, a cursed appliance that isn't afraid to let you know it hates itself and it hates you.
We got a new generic printer for basic office shit, and it's still sitting in the box because no one wants to be the one to engage in battle with it. It's just sitting in the office emanating bad vibes, a looming chore that bums you out when you pass by and remember it exists.
Just look at the fucking box; it makes your hairs stand on end just *seeing* a box like this, triggered by a lifetime of printer trauma. Everything about it is mad that it exists. No other class of device triggers a fight-or-flight response merely from the packaging.
15 years ago today, the @nineinchnails#YearZero ARG experience I co-created w/Trent Reznor & 42 Entertainment kicked off with a message hidden in a tour t-shirt and a USB stick discovered in a bathroom stall at a NIN concert in Portugal. 1/
For months, fans around the world discovered our Year Zero mythology through a complex interactive community experience that was one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever worked on, and meant so much to fans who participated that people still bring it up to me regularly. 2/
Two years ago today my debut graphic novel HIGH LEVEL (co-created with artist Barnaby Bagenda) was released! It's a project very close to my heart, so today I'm celebrating with a FREE comic+music sample pack download to get the book out to more people! A THREAD: 1/
Contains a hi-res PDF of the full first two issues of @highlevelcomic plus MP3s of the first 14 tracks of our killer original soundtrack. 100% free/direct, no signup/DRM.
Please RT! 2/
For those of you who read High Level book 1 and keep asking "what's next?" here's where it's at: Our label Vertigo was sadly shut down (thanks AT&T) before the book was even published. But I can't get the rights back yet because Warner Bros is holding it for TV/movie options. 3/
One of the most depressing aspects of the pandemic for me has been clearly seeing these two paths from the beginning, and then watching how many of our leaders, institutions, & neighbors not only scoffed at the possibility of option 1, but have been actively FIGHTING for option 2
We haven’t even had a breath to deal with our collective pandemic trauma so no one wants to think about this yet, but the real depressing lesson of covid is: Good luck surviving the climate crisis. You’d better be rich, because we’ve made it VERY clear it’s every man for himself.