Ever had a “feeling” about something?
Looked in the direction of somebody looking at you?
Do your dreams come true?
My name is Nick “BADBOOB” Rubinoff.
An intuitive artist in the Appalachian Mountains.
Born of Jewish and Korean descent, I was raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before relocating to the Philadelphia area.
After enough overstimulation, I’ve since relocated to Appalachia.
Despite a complicated childhood, I discovered kick ass music (thanks to my family): The Clash, Santana, REM, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Alice In Chains, Radiohead, Metallica, Portishead, Massive Attack, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, James Brown, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck… And to my grandparents who adored classical music: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr.
Whenever a family member passed, I inherited a plethora of records, CDs, cassettes, or MP3 players.
The early influences of music and geographical surroundings (cities and rusting industry), provide the landing zone for distorted beats and intrusive glitch-scapes.
In fourth grade, a night after school meant tuning to WDVE, awaiting the new My Chemical Romance single, or bumpin’ 50 Cent’s “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”, the first album I bought with my own money. A jewish, white suburban listening to “P.I.M.P” and “Poor Lil Rich”.
Starting drums in third grade, I experienced trouble finding bandmates with similar tastes. Heavily inspired by the likes of Slipknot, Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, The Descendants, Minor Threat, TOOL, Korn, System of a Down, Rage Against The Machine, Death Grips, and Black Flag, I sought themes of aggression, politics, and dark human nature. Due to a lack of attention during childhood, I also desired to be a frontman- a difficult task for a drummer.
Despite a mental health collapse during the summer of 2013, I attended college.
For better, for worse.
Studying media production and English at Ohio University, I became disillusioned and pursued the psychedelic underground: dropping out of school, dropping acid, throwing parties and shows, spreading psychedelics for cheap, attending festivals, and learning electronic music production. The goal was to finance an underground music festival in Colorado, featuring experimental bass and psychedelic jam bands.
The rebellion was short lived and I spent years recovering from betrayal and attempted imprisonment, lodging me into a broken mental health system, once again.
Due to court cases, overmedication, hospitalizations, and terrible doctors, I was immobilized.
After a spiritual awakening in modern psychoanalysis, I’ve since returned to life with a new perspective and message to spread regarding narcissism, repression, spirituality, intuition, and psychedelics.
In between serving restaurant tables and psychoanalytic sessions, I manage a portfolio, The BADBOOB, featuring essays, short stories, and interviews; multimedia glitch, video production, photography, street art, and Ableton music production.
Themes of grit, darkness, and decay are pervasive throughout my works, primarily related to a pandemic of biological narcissism, a confusing psychic childhood, and the impact of decaying American infrastructure.
During a chaotic childhood, violent media was an escape from a household of repression. Anger and resentment, easily channeled into the brain blasting episodes of South Park, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Family Guy, or MADTV’s claymation bloodbaths.
Although my parents were strict, Mark and Betsy brought me into the world of The Terminator, The Godfather, Rambo, and Excalibur from a young age. A destiny of cinematic blood and gore; squibs, food dye, and corn syrup.
Not before long, I stumbled upon horror classics like The Shinning, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Amityville Horror, The Ring, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This interest in fictional death and decay would soon become an obsession, as well as a pervasive interest in True Crime. Often watching Forensic Files or FBI Tapes in my spare time.
Themes of nostalgia, technology, and repressed trauma are highlighted throughout my works, primarily through an exploration of 90’s and early 2000’s technology like the PlayStation 2, internet influences like Newgrounds and eBaumsWorld, musical influences like nu-metal, and the nostalgia of analogue, psychedelic fuzz accomplished with the aid of my CRT TV and Canon ZR830.
The mid 1990’s to early 2000’s provided the rich landscape of the internet through forums, blogs, articles, videos, gifs, memes, and music. I hope to recapture the exciting atmosphere with my own vintage style website in the spirit of childhood influences like ebaumsworld or newgrounds, websites that left an endless impression.
With an interest in Modern Psychoanalysis, psychedelics, consciousness, rave counter-culture, philosophy, narcissism, and the macabre, I attempt to synthesize portals to underground worlds & subconscious dimensions.
I believe art and modern psychoanalysis may save the world!
Will you help me?
Are you THE BADBOOB?
FAQ:
Who is your psychoanalyst?
Dr. Anthony Tereo
tel:+12159223040
221 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, 19106
My process of awakening to narcissism, inter-dimensional consciousness, and the rise of authoritarianism was accomplished in Modern Psychoanalysis.
What is your music production setup?
Ableton 10 Studio
MacBook Air 2020 (1.1 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5)
Audio Technica M50X
–Audio Plugins:
Valhalla Vintage Verb, Serum 2, Trash 2, Native Instruments Standard Library, Skanner XT
What is your video production setup?
iPhone 16
Canon ZR830 Mini DV
Canon T4i DSLR
Decaying Electronics Dirty Video Mixer
Lullaby Machines Glitch Enhancer
Zenith Z Television
Sony DVD Player
-Software:
Final Cut Pro (editing software)
Serato DJ Lite (DJ software)
Audacity (Glitch)
Hyperspektiv App (Glitch)
–Lens:
Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens
Canon EF-S 55-250mm F4-5.6
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (Kit Lens)
THE BADBOOB 