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prairied0gs · 2 days ago
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I think this is genuinely badass artwork.
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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.
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l-14m · 1 day ago
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2026 te tengo fe para un show de NIN.
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March of the Pigs (1994) Nine Inch Nails
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cupidcreatez · 2 days ago
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Drawing I did based off one of my favorite photos of Trent
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lightofthewoods · 3 days ago
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More magazine clippings! Different mags, but cool all the same. That LiveWire is one of my favourite mag covers 💚🖤
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cult-rangoons · 1 day ago
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hi minecraft story mode tumblr im stopping by to put this here bye
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origampx · 3 days ago
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btw this is me if u even care
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angeljeonjkk · 1 day ago
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I NEED someone to make an art edit with this song please please pretty please with extra art crispies on top
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badhum · 2 days ago
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need-you-dream-you · 1 day ago
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Pretty Heat Machine
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Vent Reznor
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mostly-funnytwittertweets · 2 months ago
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triglyceride · 10 months ago
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ransomnote · 8 months ago
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transolar · 1 year ago
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«☼»Closer Nine Inch Nails Stimboard!
(pt: Closer Nine Inch Nails Stimboard! /end pt)
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milfweirdal · 1 year ago
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engravedlives · 8 months ago
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misc band/music blinkies
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aw4rmplace · 7 months ago
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