Nate 'Igor' Smith is the Gaskets' manager, and has taken literally hundreds of photos of the band in the past five years. This is one of them. He is more well known, of course, for his popular nightlife photography on display, always, at Drivenbyboredom.com.

Jeff is both the principal of Studio Glendenning and art director of The New York Times magazines, Play and Key. He also teaches editorial design at the School of Visual Arts. From 2002 to 2007 Jeff worked at The New York Times Magazine. He had designed and art directed numerous covers, special issues, feature articles and style layouts. Jeff's work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club and Young Guns 5, the AIGA, the Society of Publication Designers and Print magazine. 

Rumsey Taylor is a graphic designer and film critic living in Boston, MA. He is the founder and co-editor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

The idea is it's the chord progression from the main riff in AC/DC's "What Do You Do For Money (Honey)", which is one of the best tracks off "Back in Black" -- at least, in my opinion, it's the best riff on an album full of legendary riffs. The chords -- E G D D A A -- are enumerated in capitalized Fette Fraktur.

Noah Scalin is the founder of Another Limited Rebellion, a socially conscious graphic design firm in Richmond, Virginia. He is also the profoundly talented designer and illustrator behind the popular web project Skull A Day, where he makes a new image of a skull every day out of a large variety of media.

Brian Jones is a graphic designer working at VSA Partners in Chicago. Chris Brennan is a friend of his from San Francisco.

If you were going to accompany the photo with some sort of short description like some of the previous posts, just say something along the lines of "This photo was taken by Chris Brennan, and inspires Brian daily. or is being promoted by Brian ..."

That clear shoe is part of Damon Dash's Pro Keds line. My brothers got me a pair for Christmas last year.

From New York Magazine:
By his own admission, Joe Swanberg has achieved as much success as an indie filmmaker could want. Each of the 26-year-old director’s three feature films debuted at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and this summer’s celebration of "mumblecore" indie filmmaking at IFC kicked off with a screening of his latest, Hannah Takes the Stairs. But he figures, all told, less than 100,000 people have seen his festival-circuit films. Compare that to Young American Bodies, the original series he directs for online consumption via Nerve Video. "More people than that had viewed the first episode within a month," he says. "By a lot."

Rob Giampietro is a principal at Giampietro+Smith, a design firm based in New York City. Rob is also an adjunct faculty member at Parsons School of Design and RISD, and a contributor to Design Observer and Dot Dot Dot. Rob blogs at Lined & Unlined.

From the MS Encarta entry on the image:
Despite his mother’s beckoning, an infant hesitates to cross the “visual cliff” — an apparently steep drop that is actually covered by transparent glass. Psychologists in the 1960s found that most infants 6 to 14 months of age were reluctant to crawl over the cliff, suggesting they had the ability to perceive depth.

From Rob:
I guess the idea that interests me would be that even babies in the earliest stages of cognition have certain expectations about the physical properties of the world, and violating those expectations leaves them a bit dumbfounded, confused, trying to make sense of why the violation occurred. I also think the description of the experiments themselves, the ball rolling through the wall, the idea of crawling into thin air on the visual cliff - they're really visually evocative.

For more, check out this entry at Lined & Unlined.

Teddy : Want to give me a quick bio / explanation of the work ?

Joel : Nah, Just be like “blissed out crotch shot floor mat” courtesy of Joel Holmberg.

We're very lucky and excited to feature this background image from Marian Bantjes. If you don't know her work, you should.

From a much longer bio on her site:
Now I live on an island near Vancouver, BC. That’s on the west coast of Canada, across from Japan. This coast is rich and lush and green all year ‘round. It seldom snows here. We even have palm-tree-like-things. We have beaches and mountains and giant trees. It’s absolutely incredible and I’m very, very lucky to live here.
     I have a very big virtual life. In fact, most of my life these days seems to exist in the ether of the internet. I’m not that happy about this, but … I live on an island on the west coast of Canada, so, uh …

Download Marian Bantjes 14-Second Themesong by Gaskets.

Adam spends most of his day working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he gets to see nice things like this gravestone on his walk to the office. His other time is spent being one half of Shields and Squires, a design and development partnership with his cousin, Dan Shields. He likes chips.

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"This is a screengrab taken while messing around with a 3D program."

Grier Hillman Dill is a designer/animator/director currently working in New York City.

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"Here is a favorite gif animation from my collection that makes absolutely no sense.  I found this gif in 2000 so who knows if it is even anywhere on the web anymore.  Vintage pre 9-11 shit."

Kevin Bewersdorf is an artist, musician, and CEO of GEAR T.E.K. Corporation.

From his website:

Hi! I'm Kevin. Within this website you will find some of my music, digital photos, electronic instruments, writing, and other projects. Nothing here has a copyright, so feel free to use the content however you like. I was born in 1980 and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. I graduated in 2004 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in painting and I currently live in Austin Texas.

"You know our work ... we mostly look for things and reuse.
This bg image may be our only original. We made it in 2003 for http://www.zombie-and-mummy.org/in/moscow.html episode."

From her Wikipedia entry:

Olia Lialina (b. May 4, 1971 in Moscow) is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator. Lialina studied film criticism at Moscow State University from where she graduated in 1993. She was one of the organisers and later, director of Cine Fantom, an experimental cinema club in Moscow founded in 1995 by Gleb Aleinikovm. Since 1999, she has worked and taught at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart.

Be sure to read her fantastic new essay, Vernacular Web 2.

From her blog Design Observer :

Jessica Helfand is a partner, with William Drenttel, in Winterhouse, a design studio in Northwest Connecticut ...
She is currently a Critic at Yale School of Art and is the author of several books.

When not catching up on re-runs of Cops, Cops 2.0, Dog the Bounty Hunter, First 48 and America's Top Model (hosted by Tyra Banks), Brendan provides design services for various print and web projects.