sasan behnood: [ project lead ]

Sasan Behnood is a litigation attorney based out of the Los Angeles and Orange counties, but more importantly, he is also a lover of music, performance art, and technology. As an avid Nine Inch Nails fan of almost 20 years, and having attended all four of their final Wave Goodbye performances, he considers it a distinct privilege and pleasure being given the opportunity to act as project lead for [ after all is said and done ], and to oversee the amazing team of professionals taking part in the creation of this prolific undertaking, who you see below.

For more information on the project, stay tuned to our twitter account: @atinylittledot, our youtube, as well as our our facebook page.

michael melahouris : [ video editor ]

Michael Melahouris is native of the Los Angeles area. A world traveler at heart, he had a chance to live in Switzerland for two years and hopes to return someday. He is currently a professional video editor in the Los Angeles area. Michael lives life with his eyes open and his heart on his sleeve. He has a wonderful wife and two amazing children. Michael has been a professional video editor of over 10 years, and a NIN fan for even longer. Having been there for the final show, he knew he wanted to be a part of this massive undertaking and endeavor when he first learned of the project on nin.com. Michael’s studio editing bay has acted as project headquarters and also the location of our twice monthly meetings. Most importantly, Michael’s involvement has been absolutely instrumental in creating the workflow for this extraordinarily complicated project.

chris nicholas: [ video editor ]

As an avid Nine Inch Nails fan, and lauded professional editor of more than 15 years, with a resume including such award-winning works as “Marilyn Manson: Demystifying the Devil”, Chris Nicholas’s work has been the subject of much accolade. But more so than just a professional editor, Chris is perhaps best described as professional storyteller – having created, written, edited, directed and produced countless works in the visual arts.
Those within the NIN community perhaps know Chris best for his viral YouTube video: “Hitler Reacts to NIN cancelling their show at the Henry Fonda Theater”, which Trent Reznor himself shared with the entire NIN community via nin.com. But what most people probably don’t know is that in 1991, Chris began his career in the entertainment industry as the keyboardist for Atlantic Records’ “Collapsing Lungs,” touring with such bands as Smashing Pumpkins, House of Pain and Cypress Hill, and going on to shoot a video for their single “Cracker Jack.” When the band parted ways, Nicholas got involved in television and film and went on to direct, produce, and edit the aformentioned award-winning documentary “Marilyn Manson: Demystifying the Devil.” and to produce the first season of A&E’s hit show, Criss Angel: MINDFREAK.

Learn more about Chris at www.chrisnicholas.net and follow him at @chrisnicholass

sean o’brien: [ video editor ]

Sean O’Brien is a young film-maker based out of Los Angeles, Ca. His primary focus is post-production which includes producing, editing, compositing, and motion graphics. Sean considers himself a child of the internet and wants to give back by producing content for his family. After graduating with a bachelor degree in film studies and production in Ft. Lauderdale, FL he was hired on as an in-house producer/editor at AgencyNet Interactive, a medium sized internet advertising agency. It was here where Sean developed a high standard for his work and was exposed to mixed media. Sean became just as comfortable with Illustrator and After Effects as he was with Final Cut Studio. After working on a series of award winning global brands including Bacardi, Sandals and Own Your C he was enticed to move to Los Angeles to pursue narrative film and episodic television. Since the move he has helped produce content for the Speed Channel, Actual Reality Pictures, and Chiat Day just to name a few. Sean’s desire to work in the film industry was inspired at the age of 15 when he took a job as a projectionist at a local movie theater. It was here where Sean was exposed to splicing films together on an old fashioned reel to reel. He became enthralled by the audience’s reaction to the medium and wanted to one day be apart of that experience. He is easy to stalk online and would appreciate the awkwardness.
You can follow Sean on twitter @shean or visit his website www.seanmobrien.com for everything Behind the Sean(s).

troy dovey: [ video editor ]

As a multi-award winning editor and producer, recognized film student, and the writer/director of the upcoming feature film “Fluxed”, Troy Dovey is rapidly rising figure in Hollywood. For more than 5 years now, his company, “Cruxstar Productions”, has been in high-demand – creating, editing and producing the entire spectrum of the visual arts including film, commercial & music video: an art form that Troy holds near and dear, as an avid musician of many years. Troy’s career began on a different note… as a professional Major League Baseball player pitching for the Houston Astro’s. But Troy’s passion for the arts has since brought him to Hollywood which he’s called home ever since. Troy is a modern, funky homo sapien.
Take a moment to visit his website at www.cruxstar.com

stu silverman : [ video editor ]

Stu Silverman is an editor and filmmaker hailing from New York but currently based out of Los Angeles. In his down time, Stu maintains a deep love and respect for live music and the communal experience generated therein. Stu is proud to have attended 24 earth-shattering, ear-piercing NIN shows including all four Los Angeles dates of the Wave Goodbye tour.

John DeGroof: [ video engineer ]

John DeGroof grew up in Houston Texas, studied computer science in college, then moved out to Santa Barbara California to pursue his dream of becoming a recording engineer. Having worked in most of the top recording studios in Hollywood with many well-known bands, he ventured into the world of post production at a small post production studio. He became a dailies colorist and studio engineer before moving into the mainstream Hollywood post production studio.

In 1997, John became a DVD author and compressionist, working on some of the first DVD titles released. Eventually, his compression experience grew beyond the world of DVD and into all forms of compressed media. John now works as a Digital Media Engineer at Ascent Media, the nation’s largest post-production facility, working with and supporting Digital Cinema, Digital Intermediate, Telecine, Encoding, and Transcoding departments.

jeroen berk : [ webdesigner ]

Inspired by the co-creation loving NIN-community I decided to contribute to the AVOTT project by translating the subtitles to my own native language, dutch. Being a part of such a project gave a stimulus to apply as webdesigner for this project when the vacancy appeared on the nin.com forum.
With more than 10 years of design experience in websites, graphic design, video editing and interaction design my life is pretty much design. This project is a perfect closer of the amazing 2 shows I saw during the Wave Goodbye tour in Amsterdam and on Werchter.
Learn more about Jeroen (@jeroenberk) at www.jeroenberk.nl.

erik hustad: [ colorist ]

Erik Hustad is a recent graduate of Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts, earning his MFA in Film Production with an emphasis in Cinematography. Aside from his production work, which has included shooting many short films and a music video, he took a keen interest in post-production, specifically in the realm of Digital Intermediates and Color Correction. He has graded dozens of film and video projects using Autodesk’s Lustre platform, comprising shorts and commercials. He was also the colorist on the recent Nine Inch Nails “This One Is On Us” project entitled: “Another Version of the Truth: The Gift,” which was released on Christmas Day, as well as half of the forthcoming “Another Version of the Truth: Las Vegas.” He works and resides in Los Angeles.

charlie terrell: [ motion graphics artist ]

Charlie Terrell is a renowned video artist and graphic designer who creates vivid visual backdrops and motion graphics for the live performing arts. His extensive background in music, touring and theater give him a unique perspective for enhancing the live experience for both the audience and the artist. His company, Daddy Van Productions, designs, creates, and produces motion graphics visual art for some of the world’s most famous musicians including Marilyn Manson, Keith Richards, Paramore, Dave Mathhews Band and Motley Crue. Charlie also wrote and produced the critically acclaimed rock opera Taking the Jesus Pill . For more information about Charlie check out his company website : Daddy Van Productions

ryan hartsell: [ motion graphics artist ]

Ryan is an award winning artist that has been working as a professional Art Director, Film Maker, Fine Artist, and Animator for over 10 years in the field. His professional work has ranged from titles such as Star Wars to Barney and he will be working with his long time partner Justin D. Hilliard on his fourth feature film this summer entitled “Swallow.”

jeff williams: [ blu-ray/dvd author ]

Jeff is the lead Blu-ray Authorer with Cinram International, Inc. His primary focus is BD-J programming and the development of new and interactive features for Blu-ray, such as BD-Live. He works with major Hollywood studios and several leading Blu-ray software vendors. He has also developed several patented features for both Blu-ray and DVD.

Jeff is a voting member of the Blu-ray Disc Association and has been involved with Blu-ray since its inception.

philip hodgetts: [ technical consultant ]

Philip Hodgetts is a technologist, metadata workflow specialist and software developer. He is part of the Big Brains for Rent consultancy and co-developer of the Assisted Editing range of workflow automation software tools as well as CEO of Intelligent Assistance, Inc. He is also a digital distribution expert in his role as President of the Open Television Network, and the author of many books including “The HD Survival Handbook”, “Awesome Titles with FCS” and “The New Now” (business development for video pros).
His personal blog is where he explores the business of digital production and distribution and where they are heading in the future.