Rob Sheridan

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

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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 fine art archival matte giclée prints, limited to 30 pieces. Made and shipped worldwide direct from my home studio.

Also available as desktop & mobile wallpapers here.

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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 five years, and first of the new millennium. The album and this video will always be special to me as it was the first album I art directed end-to-end, creating all of the album art and visuals surrounding the era, which included bringing the aesthetic into this music video and the production of NIN’s 2005/2006 tours. The lofi digital glitch look was something yet unseen in popular culture, as in 2005 digital media was still fairly new / rapidly evolving and the general professional approach was to showcase the latest crisp clean “perfect” technical abilities. By choosing to use technology the “wrong” way and make the texture of its flaws central to my art, I gave NIN a new visual identity for the new millennium and began a glitch art journey that defines my career to this day.

Happy 20th, old friend.

For more, see all of my With Teeth posts. For behind-the-scenes insights, Q&As, and tutorials, join my Patreon.

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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.

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RIP to an absolute legend. Forever grateful I had this opportunity to meet him and watch him work.

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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.

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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.

See more of my early With Teeth visual explorations here

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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. This piece would become a poster for the album when it released in May 2005.

See more of my early With Teeth visual explorations here

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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

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modulation d I s s o c I a t I o n. Part of a new video art series of analog / CRT / glitch explorations. YouTube / Instagram

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Isolation Fields. Calgary, Alberta. Photos taken with a circuit-bent 2002 Sony Cybershot camera. (more: The Last Beach)

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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 Stephanie Sheridan Post production, animation, and compositing by Joybird Studios Camera Operator: Donovon O'Neil PA: Ilana Rahaman Filmed at Rob Sheridan Productions, Tacoma, WA. Based on the Dark Matter album art light painting photography by Alexandr Gnezdilov

Tour production design by Spike Brandt / Nimblist Tour lighting director: Kille Knobel Tour video programming: Grant McDonald

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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 heroes as they were in the final year of recording a dense, challenging masterpiece of an album. Not everyone was ready for The Fragile at the time, but it now stands as one of the seminal works of pre-millennium art. If you’ve never experienced it, or haven’t in a while, it deserves a focused, solitary beginning-to-end listening in the highest fidelity, on your best sound system, at the loudest volume.

1: Recording The Fragile, Nothing Studios. 2: Various Fragile concept art by David Carson, Nothing Studios. 3: Gear, Nothing Studios. 4: Early NIN website concept screenshot. 5: Control Room A, Nothing Studios. 6: Live room, Nothing Studios. 7: The Fragile printer proofs, David Carson’s office, NYC. 8: Meeting with David Carson in his office, NYC. 9: Mixes, Nothing Studios. 10: Recording journals, Nothing Studios. 11: Filming the “We’re In This Together” video, Guadalajara, Mexico. 12: Band rehearsals, Bahamas. 13: Gear, Nothing Studios. 14: Robin Finck, Nothing Studios. 15: Charlie Clouser and Danny Lohner, band rehearsals, Nothing Studios. 16: The Day The World Went Away artwork, Nothing Studios. 17: MTV Awards rehearsals, NYC. 18: Skull, Nothing Studios. 19: Control Room B, Nothing Studios. 20: Various images posted to nin dot com teasing The Fragile in the months prior to its release.

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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 my visual art on the tour’s 155-foot projection screen as it united with a full band performance for the very first time; the only time it would ever be seen (by just a handful of people) in the surreal setting of an empty arena, the lights and video reflecting off the surface of the open floor.

Limited signed/numbered framed metallic pearl fine art prints will be available exclusively through Cove Gallery from Thursday September 26 at 5 PM through Sunday September 29 at 11 PM. Whatever prints are not sold at the event will be made available online at a later date.

Additionally, video screens in the gallery will present extended looks at video art pieces I created for the tour for the first time ever. I’m excited to show more of the beauty I found on my journey through states of matter and the connective tissue of the universe.

I’ll share more info, including some times that I’ll be on-site to talk about the work, as we get closer to the event. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks again to everyone at Cove Gallery, Ohana, and Pearl Jam for creating this event, supporting great causes, and inviting me to be a part of it.

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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.

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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, minutes before they walked on stage for that final show.

You can see more of my work and photos from the NIN 2014 tour here, and you can read about the production and design process of that tour as it began in 2013 here.

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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.

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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.

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Poster I designed for Nine Inch Nails' 2009 Wave Goodbye tour, which was happening 15 years ago this month.