NIN The Great BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

Amy nailed this one by accident. I had to get it up here because I don't think I've ever noticed this before.

From Wired Interview - "We purposefully put one frame of the Blue Screen of Death in this collage of static that comes up at the end of 'Great Destroyer,' and right away people caught it," - Trent Reznor

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mattpdunphy says:

Hahaahahahahahahahahahahaha *inhale* aaaaaaaaahahhahahaahahaha
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

LtRandazzo says:

I'm going to find some way to get this into a Hotline post. Maybe if another show gets cancelled...
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

JessicaSarahS says:

It's famous now! Or, as famous as Web 2.0-social media sites can get :D
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Preston- says:

ahh... this is why trent hates windows.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

novascotian8 says:

thats the old school BSOD - is Trent running old operating systems?!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

parasitk says:

It actually flashes by in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x9BucfUYCE - about 4-5 seconds in. Just part of the visual noise it seems...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

alterbass says:

Wow. I feel so let down right now... WINDOWS on a NIN concert? WTF?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

blue_day says:

lololololol
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

czarkhan says:

if you watch the video it is obviously not a crash. It is an error message in a melange of distortion images.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Cormac Phelan says:

That is pure class! There's something a little Monty Python-esque about rocking out in front of a fatal exception!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

m4rlonj says:

Ooops, is a snapshot inside a video ?? or is NIN using Win....
I expect see NIN using OpenSource software like Linux
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

jenny_mac2007 says:

This was my desktop image within minutes of me finding it on ETS. Good to see it getting some web 2.0 notoriety!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

ratexla says:

Aahahaha, I used to think it was a photoshop. 8D
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Hybrid756 says:

Legendary!!

I am happy to see this today :-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

tehnoir says:

The Great Destroyer was one of the songs I shot video for at the Red Rocks show. Just went through and found the BSOD, though not nearly as clear as the original picture. The video I shot is 31 FPS. The image below is one frame and you can barely see it in the next frame.
www.flickr.com/photos/tehnoir/2848641143/
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

VeldaZ says:

Hah, maybe next time they will use an MBox media server instead.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Sandy Phimester says:

It was on purpose....... its part of the show, but man its great!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

kasey682000 says:

That's embarrassing!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

ehil bent says:

Watch the video–it's part of the show.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

BeelzeBob Loblaw says:

maybe it's actually suppose to be there and trent is trying to say bill gates is the great destroyerrrrrrrrrrrr
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

Juliana G. says:

hahahahaha!

WINDOWS.

Man, this is the greatest pic of the year to me.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

ceruleansnake says:

and that sure is the great destroyer hahah
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

ujnhunter says:

just so everyone is aware... that is a screen that is part of the video footage... it's supposed to be there... it's not "embarrassing" because nothing really crashed...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

clarkwoods says:

I linked this up when it was making the rounds on Digg recently, but didn't know who took the original until the post on The NIN Hotline came out. I've since added attribution and a follow-up post.

Thanks for sharing the awesome photo. The Nine Inch Fails caption that was added to it was funny, but the photo itself is the heart of the meme. Great shot!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

m4rlonj says:

www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/0 9/nin_show

"We purposefully put one frame of the Blue Screen of Death in this collage of static that comes up at the end of 'Great Destroyer,' and right away people caught it," Trent Reznor
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

richtaur says:

Always amazing to see how many people don't read the image description. It was intentional, people!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

springheeledjack says:

The number of people here who don't get that this was intentional amuses me. Seriously, even if Trent hadn't said that it was intentional, (a) he hates Windows with a passion, and (b) he's been known to do things like this in the past (the Year Zero ARG, anyone?).
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

tufinhas says:

LOLOLOL
intentional or not - very funny and actually appropriate for the song.
Go Trent! Go Rob!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

mistercharlie says:

Hey!

I used your image on the Gadget Lab at Wired:

Link
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Rami ™ says:

LMAO
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Lust4TrentReznor says:

Wow... I can only imagine Trent's reaction after that happened. He must have been PISSED!
Must have been another "PRESS THE FUCKING BUTTON!" night for Trent....
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

nantucket68 says:

This never gets old!
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

darenlim says:

two words: on purpose
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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