17 Frost Street – IT IN Place

Polo Ticks

alex — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:45:05 +0000

A frank discuassion of the state of mental healthcare in the U.S. Solutions sought. All solutions, not just solutions of chemicals, but solutions of word, deed, experience and change.

Avoide the Red hooks… are these distractions or sacrafices? Or just the area of Brooklyn known as Red Hook. Is it the police? Or theAliens.

Burnt offerings and the temple mount. Is this a good idea?

Tell the Hemmingwayesque story of Cash and the 99 bottles of beer on the wall. All of them lost but for the ones Most Def took as brackets to hold his negotiation with nothing. Bad form and areal no no, but all the reast lost to a theif only the stolen remain. THe key to the bank (Banks Key is Becks in bippty boppty talk) The case of Canada one could drink a case of and thanks to three xxx it looks like a kaws dead Mingus 3 smiley Alien. Prince to Joni. Purple to blue queen. Heart is given not sold.

Memphis and the Ancient Greeks

alex — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:38:42 +0000

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Ellis Makes the Unseen Personal, Public

alex — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:53:34 +0000

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From a month of Thursdays and burthsday and 9111

The Anxiety of Influence

alex — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:02:19 +0000

munshani codex 2
late 90’s book pages

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Running around looking at street art in a new way after all that schoolin’ by ellis g. Also hanging out with Yoav as the street artists pick up their work from the OUT Door Gallery NYC group show to celebrate the publishing of his book of the same name http://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Gallery-New-York-City/dp/1584235535. Also available at Strand and many of New York’s finer Museum gift shops, so next time you exit through said such same, pick up a copy. It is a beautiful book full of great documentation of New York’s best street art murals, etc. If you are a New Yorker there will be one or a hundred of your personal favs. Also I watched Apox again. PBR street gang. Bravo rodger point 5.

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Codex munshani
late 90’s

Scholar Athlete

alex — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:27:10 +0000

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Running around brooklyn shooting things and sitting around brooklyn watching things

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Ketchup

alex — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:29:03 +0000

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Big Opening

alex — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:21:39 +0000

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The opening for Outdoor Gallery NYC was epic.

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Buff Monster

alex — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:46:32 +0000

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God buffed Brooklyn with snow while man buffed my show off the walls.

Aunt Elanor Rigby

alex — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:35:42 +0000

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catching up with vlogs

Sille G, Uncle Al, and Kid Kutzarug paint/dance off

alex — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:07:52 +0000

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The Ice Palace

alex — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:38:57 +0000

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Last state of Collab with Ellis G And Beauty amongst the beasts:

Catching Up

alex — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:24:52 +0000

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Cacthcing up witht the last few days at frost.

this state is gone.

A Catcher Drinking Rye

alex — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:41:30 +0000

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Last night Holdin took over the face of the Buddha

Asylum

alex — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:19:51 +0000

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LSG, CaanKnee, IT In, Yoko, and John collab

Excelsior!

alex — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:40:13 +0000

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Working out at Frost with Ellis G and big sheets of salvaged luan and sheet rock.

Nudes

alex — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:23:23 +0000

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Duchampian snap with UU from London.

Fatsexy

alex — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:34:18 +0000

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Before and after the opening and premiere (was too buzy yammering to shoot the rest of the time).

Like A Rhinestone B (itch) Boy

alex — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:40:36 +0000

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Ellis G came by to help fix up the bathrooms and trash cans with fresh tags… then we drove the brooklyn back streets looking for old tags of long gone writers. It was like a master class in street art history. Plus we laughed a lot.

Teaser

alex — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:55:56 +0000

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see you Saturday!

A Soft Machine

alex — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:27:07 +0000

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We had a soft opening for Cage and Uncaged last night. Some of my favorite Street Artists came by and borrowed the remaing cans of paint to knock up on a discarded matress from the luxury condo building next door. I told Javi who did what and gave him my leather man to cut out the muslin…. I said do what you will, but I’m not touching a matress…. I got bud bug bit once in Reno and I won’t suffer if for art, money, or love. Viva Slepton! Viva BAM!

It’s A Wrap!

alex — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:30:46 +0000

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getting things done in a hurry

Cold Cogging

alex — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:03:17 +0000

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beastly cold, but still making beasties and masks.

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and in other time and space issues….. New Years vlog

Coglapse

alex — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:21:29 +0000

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raw time lapse of making a new cog sculpture out of expanding polyurethane foam (aka Good Stuff). Show opens Jan 18th. File subject to updating/editing. Lots of plumber crack…. lucky you.

Frosty Cogs

alex — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:58:28 +0000

The snow came faintly falling on the Brooklyn Cog as I played around on the big white walls of Frost.

And Open To The Hound played a fare thee well show before going on tour:

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Frost Motion

alex — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:36:54 +0000

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click me to watch me dance

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things in motion.

Most Definitely

alex — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:11:06 +0000

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Timelapsing the cog and installing some masks while my private little band seranades me: Thanks, Steve, Javi, and Dave.

Cog Changes

alex — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 04:47:38 +0000

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ch ch ch changes

Frost Changes

alex — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:05:29 +0000

I got to frost a little late today due to plumbing adventures… but got some good work in… From top: A large cog study, Cog mural at night (with face now painted out), Joe Monster with new figure drawing, and last but not least some more work on Dirty Hippy Jesus below.

Big Mama Cog

alex — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:22:30 +0000

Even as I was calling my mom about thaksgiving my Ex tried was trying to flag me down at the pass…. It’s my mom’s birthday…. and like the shitty son I am I spaced it again. So this time lapse is for MOM. You were born and so you are free and so Happy Birthday mom….just start talking at the sound of tone. This one will be Romulus and Venus… and this was the inspirado of little dogs yesterday.

Moving The Past

alex — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:38:37 +0000

Lapsing and surveiling the installation at frost.

Rome: Open City

alex — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:43:59 +0000

I shall, like a bloated Hemmingway, be liberating Frost for the next couple of months. I plan to show some things, make some things, finish some things, premier some thing and also do this big Cog mural as an entrance. Romulus and Remus sitting on a fence. They’d get back to work if they had any sense…

Cog Studies.

alex — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:27:22 +0000

More thoughts on cog sculptures

Caged Cog

alex — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:47:59 +0000

Been drawing a lot of studies for a fairly large poyurethane cog sculpture I want to make during my residency at frost.

Taxi BQE

alex — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:24:29 +0000

I was coming home in the taxi when I called you and you were already home and getting ready for bed and so I hung up and asked the cab driver where he was from originally and he said, “Egypt” and so we spoke of pyramids, and the Old Testament, and Islam, and Israel and Palestine and terrorism and when we’d exhausted all that we spoke of dogs. He said his pit bull was having a bad allergic reaction to something in the Autumn air, or ground. His skin was all inflamed and the dog took to licking its paws to try and stop the itch. The dog’s paws were now a bloody mess and he’d scratched his belly raw in great spasms of back leg sharp claw digging. They had to put the dog’s head in a huge plastic cone.

“Space Dog,” I said

“Yes, like a space dog, exactly.”

It was nice to agree on something and we whisked through the Brooklyn night home to where I pet the dogs and checked their paws just to be on the safe side.

Last of a Dying Breed

alex — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 01:33:32 +0000

Vito and friends eat up Williamsburg and environs. Music is a couple of guys playing banjo and fidel from across the tracks at the Metropolitan stop on the L and G. It really created a great vibe. Folks were dancing with eachother from platform to platform. NY is nice in the fall sometimes.

Brooklyn Songs

alex — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 02:37:49 +0000

The sounds and sights of this week in the BK. A pop up show at Frost and a painting party in Prospect Park that I jogged upon on a lovely fall day.

The Red Hook Sea

alex — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:40:49 +0000

Storyboard: Cage

alex — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:10:57 +0000

I drew these with a sharpie on a big piece of paper as a sort of basic storyboard to guide us in chopping up Cage footage. Click on image to see it larger.

Finish Frost

alex — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 02:52:24 +0000

Finished drawings from the Last few weeks drawing at Frost. Over half of these are already sold, which is nice.

Norwegian Wood

alex — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:54:17 +0000

Some things I made above, some stuff I saw below:

And some starts on wood

Time

alex — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:41:36 +0000

And the crowd all gathers and screams for the same old shit. Won’t get fooled again? Ha.
Unless you have drunk the Cool Aid, you are left with a Split Personality on the whole thing

Willoughby and Washington

alex — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:17:13 +0000

I had this crazy experience. I googled Brooklyn brownstone to find an image for the master background of willoughby. When I went out for a film jog yesterday I think I found it. It is on the corner of Willoughby street. I don’t exactly believe in God, but I believe in art. It is these Coincidances that make me keep going. I love science, but art seems to be the way that the universe speaks to me.

The Other Night At Barbès

alex — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:38:32 +0000

The other night I was home alone and bored with drawing on the computer and bored with all manner of other digital media distractions and most importantly, bored with being alone. I became nostalgic for Paris. So inspired by the recent and past collabs with UU, I decided to grab the old Montmartre valise of magic (drawing supplies and paper scraps,etc.) and head out to a local spot I haven’t haunted in a while, Barbes. There to make a mess with ink and paper and people and the ultimate solvent: alcohol. Tango music filled the air as I made some scribbles. It was a nice time and today I am playing with the drawings and thinking about how mixing up video images and digital drawing for Willoughby could be as fun and sort of familiar as making Café Collages, or whatever you call those things I’ve been doing on books and maps and scraps since at least Paris and then Galapagos back in ’97 or 8 I think? Still, it seems important to keep people and place and paper involved at least on a conceptual level.

In other news, it seems official that I will be doing a residency at 17 Frost from November 3 Through the end of the Year! This will be a multimedia installation for the project we’ve been collaborating on since last summer, CAGE.

Faces

alex — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:56:53 +0000

Some paintings I photographed at a PopUp show I had at 17Frost a couple months back. Only getting around to looking at them now. The one above is spray paint on a Do Not Enter sign and those below are expanding polyurethane foam over wire with spraypaint and they are wearable masks made for CAGE, a film we are still editing.

Janus Redux

alex — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:20:29 +0000

While in a four month fever dream of animating Pain, I also shot some flip vid (much was lost in a tragic language change to French in my interface, but that is a different story) of goings on at Frost, etc. There is some Jillian Salik, some comedy nght, so x box, some editing Cage, and the world premiere of Pain in the garden on an airflow screen.

Premier

alex — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:05:39 +0000

We were editing Cage, when all of a sudden the kids decided to inflate a screen and show movies. It was a nice opportunity to see “Pain” projected with big speakers for the first time!.

At My Grave

alex — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 02:46:47 +0000

Spent the Holiday working on the animation and helping to edit the cage project. Here is some video I shot of Donald Johnson at Frost street witht he cage masks projected behind.

Sax

alex — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:52:33 +0000

Colin Stetson at LPR and general running around.

Your Reflection

alex — Sun, 05 May 2013 00:24:40 +0000

Last night at Frost…. everyone I could get at Zebediah Keneally’s show

ALoan

alex — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:55:55 +0000

rough and raw footage…. thought of doing a street live read poem. Magical thinking, mixed with realistic practice.

NOSTYLGIA

alex — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:40:39 +0000

Things keep getting codified into the opposite of what I wanted from blogging and e publishing in general…. well I’ll have to get over it and see if I can still make some IT IN posts. Right now I have Nostylgia…. which is some sort of graffiti nothingness about dischord as far as I can tell. The video here i just a haze of moments form the year wrapped up to suggest a way of editing a longer movie that seems to have stalled. But we are caged so how do we break out? I don’t know, but, I’m thinkg I finished a short (three month) animation tonight… so life moves on.

Donald johnson Sings

alex — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:27:18 +0000

Donald Johnson: All Tomorrow’s Parties from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

donald johnson from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

This Land Is My Land

alex — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:35:16 +0000

Some drawings towards an animation using the Woody Gutherie song interpreted Donald Johnson. Wait for it.

The Road To Poetry

alex — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:42:25 +0000

jim dine reading his poems as I haunt old haunts

The Devil In The Details

alex — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:12:49 +0000

. Experimenting with using the animations I did for Zipperhead against the narrations I performed.

Big Ideas

alex — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:42:14 +0000

Some of the large cardboard paintings I did at Frost Street. Leather King and Bank of Amorica are collaborations with Henry Matyjewicz (aka Poster Boy). Pouring Downtown was done with Javier Hernandez Miyares.

Zipperhead Shows

alex — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:25:12 +0000

documentation of the last two Zipperhead shows.

Red Robin

alex — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:01:22 +0000

The week in pictures and my tiny Kline.

Artown

alex — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:36:06 +0000

Naissance

alex — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:51:20 +0000

Off to the city to celebrate and paint the world grey… or at least the frost floors.