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[Update: Apocalypse in Pink part 2 is out now]
Before Barbenheimer, there was “Apocalypse in Pink,” the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issue’s controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, “revel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,” an “anxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.”
“It’s The Hot Pink Cold War,” Clairmont wrote in her introduction. “It’s ‘Material Girl’ on the radio and ‘WarGames’ at the drive-in. It’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ interrupted by the emergency broadcast signal. We’re told to look sexy, dress fashionable, make money, and spend money, but be sure we’re just the right amount of terrified about the bomb. Get that Malibu dream home, keep working on that perfect body, sip cocktails by the pool in your little pink bikini and watching the stocks go up — but STAY VIGILANT! and for God’s sake vote Republican, because that dream home could melt into a pink plastic inferno at any given moment. Just don’t stop smiling as the blast liquefies your skin into bubbling ooze like a Barbie doll in a microwave - it’s bad for the economy.”
***Continued in PART 2***
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#rob sheridan#barbie#barbie movie#barbenheimer#synthography#nightmAIres#ai horror#ai art#synthography horror#alternate history#writing#spectagoria#sera clairmont#horror fashion#ai fashion
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From 'Sisters of the Solstice', Rob Sheridan, 2023
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#music#nin#rob sheridan#with teeth#2005#albums#2000s#trent reznor#dave grohl#atticus ross#nine inch nails#halo 19#hologram parade#nothing records#promo poster#poster#right where it belongs#all the love in the world#the hand that feeds#every day is exactly the same
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Absolutely stunning looks at the #MetGala2022 . I know it was a controversial decision, but I think opening a portal to Hell was exactly what this year's event needed to spice things up.
#met gala#2022#rob sheridan#art#portal to hell#horror#metgala 2022#fashion#nightmare fuel#spooky#autumn#halloween#body horror
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Nine Inch Nails | Live at Ford Ampitheater
Tampa, FL
May 9th, 2009
#nin#nine inch nails#trent reznor#ilan rubin#rob sheridan#musicedit#musicgifs#ninedit#ningifs#2000s music#2000s gifs#2000s alternative#concert#concert gifs#ts era#gifs#my edit#my gifs#flashing gif warning
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if you see this fucking post (i cut out the middle images though it would have been really funny if i just stole and reposted them for a reason i'll explain in a sec) i suggest not reblogging it
i thought the "this is an art piece from 83, before barbenheimer" caption with two paragraphs later a disclaimer of "this is a work of fiction :) it's totally me capitalizing on barbenheimer but writing a misleading caption because i know people won't read more than two paragraphs" was weird, was curious, checked notes, realized replies are turned off, did some extra digging and
oh no
do you wonder what "synthography" is? because it's just a euphemism for "AI art". fucking cowards realized that saying ai art made them persona non grata in most circles and decided to just try and obfuscate that fact.
so. that's fun.
#it was in my drafts idk how relevant it still is#just thought i'd say something#barbie#barbenheimer#robsheridan#rob sheridan#anti ai art
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Rob Sheridan, A.I creations from the 2022 Met Gala
#Illustration#artist#ai art#artificial intelligence#body horror#met gala#met gala 2022#rob sheridan#art#grotesque
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IN UTERO was released in the United States on this day 30 years ago. This laminted promo stuff was sent to me by @robsheridan.
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rob sheridan and trent reznor and russell mills.
- Some things that I consider important to publish since they are unpublished. Again, look at the alfodo paintings, do you see it? "march of the pigs" and "something from the closure vhs" ARTWORK, whatever it is, enjoy it.
NOTE: the further down the spiral painting is real, not fake.
#nine inch nails#closure#trent reznor#nin#the downward spiral#further down the spiral tour#russell mills#rob sheridan
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Hard to believe Nine Inch Nails' classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here is some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release, which I had the unique honor of designing, and somehow that is now 20 year old.
Everyone has that one album that hit at just the right moment of adolescence to change their perspective on music and get them through their teenage angst. The Downward Spiral was that album for me, released as it was in 1994, when I was a freshman in high school (and an absolute banner year for music/films/games all around). I must have stared at the artwork for hours over those years, without even much detail to draw from on its tiny 5” CD slip case. So five years later, when I found myself inexplicably working for Nine Inch Nails, it was surreal to see the actual original painting in the flesh, hanging as it was at the time in Trent Reznor’s office at Nothing Studios, New Orleans.
I was struck by how much dimension and texture there was in the artwork that never translated on that tiny slipcase printing, how much detail was happening in the physical materials of the art: Flies, moths, wires, blood… I had been staring at this “painting” for so long, yet suddenly it was like I had never seen it before. I also noticed that it had aged - the wires had wilted over the years, drooping down from their original position as captured in the original album cover (interestingly, judging by the photo posted today by NIN, the piece has since been restored); a tooth was missing from the other main piece.
That experience stuck with me and it was the first thing I thought about when the task of re-imagining the album package fell upon me in 2004. I wanted to re-photograph the artwork, subtly updating the cover to show that ten years had changed it physically, much like our perceptions of art and music and memories change over time with perspective. I also wanted to dig into the previously unseen details of the work and explore it with my macro lens, so that fans like me, old and new, could have new layers of texture to pore over for hours while listening to a legendary album.
Happy birthday, old friend.
#nine inch nails#the downward spiral#nin#trent reznor#90s nostalgia#90s music#industrial#rob sheridan#Russell mills#photography#album art#album design
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Disappear 007, Rob Sheridan, 2018
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#music#cd#music videos#music video#2005#david fincher#nin#rob sheridan#compact disc#hologram parade#2000s#nine inch nails#trent reznor
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Gothmas Flaming Skull Yule Log on YouTube created by Rob Sheridan (NIN Art Director '99-'14) with original audio design by Steven Alexander Ryan.
"My 2020 Gothmas Flaming Skull Yule Log is now on YouTube in an uninterrupted 10-hour video. Set some goth ambience in your holiday home with a color-shifting 70s cult-horror VHS fireplace that melts into psychedelic madness every 45 minutes."
#Rob Sheridan#Steven Alexander Ryan#yule log#Christmas#VHS#psychedelic art#fireplace#dark art#goth#gothic
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Trent Reznor in London, shot by Rob Sheridan (2007)
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