Nine Inch Nails "Survivalism" 2007 music video I co-directed, new 4K upscale of the uncensored version: youtu.be/FvVDlbzsKR4 The video, part of the Year Zero ARG, depicted ubiquitous surveillance of citizens in a "fictional" future dystopian christofascist USA, where protesting was illegal... - ThreadSky

rob-sheridan.com • 20 days ago

Nine Inch Nails "Survivalism" 2007 music video I co-directed, new 4K upscale of the uncensored version: https://youtu.be/FvVDlbzsKR4

The video, part of the Year Zero ARG, depicted ubiquitous surveillance of citizens in a "fictional" future dystopian christofascist USA, where protesting was illegal...

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benjaminblack.net•20 days ago

I got my music video in hi-def ultra-realism!

rob-sheridan.com•18 days ago

YouTube restricted the video due to an extremely tame brief appearance of *gasp* female nipples, so in case it gives you trouble I also posted it at https://vimeo.com/1063679289

azurelore.bsky.social•18 days ago

i see female-presenting nipples every day

what are they trying to hide

ratexla.bsky.social•18 days ago

*clutches pearls*
:O

onesmallduck.bsky.social•18 days ago

There's also two men boning but now one talks about that...

jerbivore.bsky.social•18 days ago

Somehow I missed the nipples in high school when this dropped.

jimmylee.io•19 days ago

And right on queue. I’ve never seen this warning until today.

tackycardia.bsky.social•20 days ago

Love living through year zero irl 🙃 can’t wait for ballgameover.mp3 🙃🙃🙃

stryder.bsky.social•19 days ago

...Credit card and a hardware store...

ft13.bsky.social•19 days ago

Was it a challenge to upscale this?

rob-sheridan.com•18 days ago

It took a while to find the right combination of model/settings and doing incremental passes (from SD to HD to 4K).

ft13.bsky.social•18 days ago

Gotcha. Thanks!

foxcoloredfall.bsky.social•18 days ago

Such a good era 🙌🏻✨

estevancarlos.bsky.social•19 days ago

Why would the be removed from Instagram? So weird.

rob-sheridan.com•18 days ago

Universal Music Group copyright scrapers DMCA’d it. I guess they don’t have the same licensing arrangement on IG that they have at YouTube, where Universal allows the video to stay but runs their ads on it.

anotherobrien.bsky.social•19 days ago

This week I threw the CD into my car and totally forgot THAT THE WHOLE THING CHANGED COLOR

What an ambitious and exciting artistic endeavor in totality; way cooler than this IRL experience...

leegoettl.bsky.social•20 days ago

This was such a kick ass video. Still is, but that fit that world so damn well, and now is more relevant than ever. Any thoughts on directing more frequently?

nayesayer.bsky.social•20 days ago

Heard it several times in the last months. Always thinking of what would happen next. Watching the German Nazis getting bigger and bigger but also seeing people acting for democracy. Will see Trent in July in Cologne. I like your artwork for NIN in the last years.

andherewego1.bsky.social•19 days ago

The weird thumb drives and the “leaked audio” stuff was SUPER fun.

That album is definitely a feeling

andy0m.bsky.social•19 days ago

is he wearing the keffiyeh? this prediction has turned out to be crazily accurate if so

insiderthre.at•19 days ago

I got so deep into this— I still have a bunch of patches, stencils, and art from that time period

fibonaccicascade.bsky.social•19 days ago

I remember after the 2016 election, I put on The Beginning of the End.

In 2024 it was Zero Sum.

rustvisionmusic.com•19 days ago

What do you use for these 4k upscales?

rob-sheridan.com•18 days ago

I’m using Topaz for these, which can be great with enough experimenting and the right material.

rustvisionmusic.com•18 days ago

Good to know! Thank you!

dogdisruption.bsky.social•19 days ago

Didn’t predict making the least charismatic person on Earth president, though.

rob-sheridan.com•19 days ago

What’s interesting is that we purposely didn’t really have a President character in YZ, the potus was a replaceable figurehead, the dark money consortium was really in charge, a dictator type felt too simple. Turns out now we have a dark money consortium AND a big dumb wannabe-dictator. Fun!

dogdisruption.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes, that was sort of the vibe I got — a kind of nebulous structure of control. It’s super-interesting to hear the actual thought process.