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Photos I took of Nine Inch Nails' Tension 2013 tour, which was running 10 years ago this month. I also served as art director for the tour’s extensive visual design, working with lighting director Roy Bennett and production company Moment Factory (our team from the 2008 Lights in the Sky tour). Tension was the third full original stage production we designed/executed in 2013 (following the How to Destroy Angels live show and the NIN 2013 festival production), and its unique challenges damn year killed us (watch the Vevo behind-the-scenes feature for some insights into the creation of Tension), but we pulled off quite a spectacle both visually and musically.

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Robert Irwin: Double Mind, (installation view), Wiener Secession, Association of Visual Artists, Wien, July 5 – September 1, 2013 [Art: © Robert Irwin. Photo: © Philipp Scholz Rittermann]

Thierry Mugler SS1998

Ishii Tatsuya: 'Maria' Concept Bike (1999)

"Common Thread"

Courtesy: SO – IL for Belgium‘s 2024 Bruges Triennial.

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