abstract – IT IN Place http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:02:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.15 Mad Lib (rarian) s http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2015/01/02/mad-lib-rarian-s/ Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:55:04 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=5049 Rare Ians   IMG

Call me Sophie

From the fire of my mind  I have brought  fourth or back this  infinite spider’s web… like an idiot Star Wars.  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Wooh man… stop.  Babble bablle in cipher and code.  2001 as a rom com tear jerker.   Sci Fi which we know sells mixed with high concept Jungian psychosis.  It cant lose.

IMG_0001Sci Fi in the manor of Vonnegut in Dresden… babes in the woods  Romulus and Remus Asops fables.

Sophie gets a choice here…dark and white  every tendril another possible outcome.

Literature as video game. Hub with many wheels Eezikial, but mostly Blarney

IMG_0002The idea where danial day lewis makes a pair of boots for Christopher Walkin who dances in Flourece to Nancy Sinatra’s Boots are Made for Walkin

Imagine everything is exactly the same only played by famous actors.  God is digtal surveilance.  Know all your choices are marked like Hansel and Gretal in the Forest of your own mind, time, space and spot in the universe, or verses, versus other verses multiverses.

 

Four endings this one the happy one.  OMegg

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In this one Stanley never dies, Orson never dies, spalding never dies… all put down on glass like silicon Jesus reborn and rebooted.  These boots were made for Christopher Walkin and we are all Christopher Walkin, or not.

 

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OTTo http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2014/12/10/otto/ Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:42:29 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4973  

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Mr. Delicious wakes up on the psych ward of Stamford Hospital and Mr. Delicious says:  “I don’t want to die.”

Mr. Delicious changes out of his mother moldy shirt and becomes Mos Def, or rather changes into the shirt from the day before.  Back in Black, he thinks.  Even Mos Def can hear Bad Vibrations on the ward.  A strange disturbance in the The Force.

He marches down the hall, past the nurses’ station, around the day room to the activity room.  There, the new clock radio is pinging away… a window open.

A paranoid thought dances to the front of his consciousness that this could be a signal.  If he can hear it so could an outside intruder, conspirator, whatever…CIA, NSA Google Glass Ninjas!

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they’re not out to get you.

Twisted, drugged, limping in a rough footed teeter he returns to the glass cage and tells nurse Nathalia that something is wrong.  Nurse Nathalia is the precisely vague color of the caramel sauce on a vanilla sundae.  Her face the proverbial cherry on whole dessert.

“Something seems out of sorts in the group room,” he says.

“How so?”

“An alarm is going off… With the window open.  It could be a signal.  I assume it is.  It probably isn’t, but let’s assume it is a break out, or a break in?  What with Ebola as a vector, you know…”

“I’ll look into it,” she says and smiles and the world turns right side up for a precise toothsome moment of beauty.

But then she doesn’t look into it.  Instead, she sends Nurse Ratchet … not her perfect self.  Ratchet is Ratchet with an ass like a mini fridge but unlike Ratchet from cuckoo’s nest, she’s quiet and distant and vague and seemingly burnt out on crazy.  She’s not evil, she just doesn’t really pay much attention to the loonies any more.  It’s a job.  Like walking dogs… but less rewarding.

She opens the door and blamp blamp blamp it is the new clock radio.

“Thanks,” I say.
She shrugs.

 

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I walk back up to the hall to see Nathalia sitting like a jewel in a  glass vitrine.  She smiles at me and all of a sudden life is infinite and worth living in.

“Where are you from?” Mos Def asks.

Harbor Point Nathalia said.  And Mos Def remembers the ALE chimney of the Yale Lock Factory and Jesus shot down in the street and Cowboy and the Lost Wax Residue paintings.

“No I mean ethnically.  Where are your PEOPLE from?” I ask.

“Jamaica,” Nathalia says..

“Ting.  Ting,” He says.  “There had to be a Jamaican named Nathalia on this ship.  Nice casting gentlemen… and Ladies.”

And then he walks on down the hall wondering who is playing her in the movie.

“She plays herself!  The Engenu roll,”  He announces to the surveillance equipment on the ceiling.

Maybe Mr. Delicious is directing?

Mr. Delicious wishes he’d packed a James Brown or a  Bruce Springsteen T. Shirt.  He has paid the cost to be the boss.  Maybe a Sinatra shirt… naaaah too Guido.

 

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Later I ran into Prudence Le Roc, or Molly Ringworm, or whatever you call her.  Crystal Meth.  Prudence had on a fright face of makeup and pink silk pajamas and her fashion glasses.

She says in the phone, “I’m not going up to see you.  You owe me two dollars and fifty cents!”  She hangs up and tells me, “He likes his cigars, but he was supposed to pay me back.”

 

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Memphis and the Ancient Greeks http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2014/12/03/memphis-and-the-ancient-greeks/ Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:38:42 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4968

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Scholar Athlete http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2014/03/09/scholar-athlete/ Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:27:10 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4921 Click here to view the embedded video.

Running around brooklyn shooting things and sitting around brooklyn watching things

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Leaving http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/11/07/4699/ http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/11/07/4699/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:00:22 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4699 abfall

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Free Botanic Garden Tuesday happened also to be great weather and peak leaves in the park day.  I’m glad I caught the fireworks before it all fades to a steel grey winter.

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Too Many Tear Drops http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/11/05/too-many-tear-tear-drops/ Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:05:56 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4687 abdripabdrip2dripping down…

 

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The Shining http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/11/04/the-shining/ Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:56:46 +0000 http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4680 abking

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Gearing up to start a Residency at 17 frost from Nov, thru Jan.  Most of the work will be of a narrative and more or less figurative nature, so I’ve been drawing abstracts in the spirit of contrariness.  I’ve never shown a lot of my abstract work, but I never stop making it.  I guess I’m afraid that even the best abstract paintings (like Kline and DeKooning and Twombly) sort of end up as decorations/trophies for rich idiots.  They can sort of drift into the background and be ignored.  I guess you can ignore Mozart too, so it shouldn’t matter,  but then I never wanted to be Mozart, I wanted to scream and rock.  Still abstraction is my first love and my favorite work to look at or make

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Willoughby and Washington http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/09/03/willoughby-and-washington/ Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:17:13 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4453
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.

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Arch http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/08/23/arch/ Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:03:25 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4414
Celebratearches

I recall reading someone’s speculation on the orgin of arches in architecture. They seemed to think it arouse in a Kubrckian manner from a confrontation with death. Specifically, they thought it grew from men seeing ribs and jaw bones on the battlefield. While I suppose there is a certain poetic lovliness to this idea, it occurred to me that the same discovery could be more easily traced back to coming upon a fallen tree as much as a fallen man. Something tells me lean tos predate stone arches. I was thinking about arches because of the Geodesic dome IN UU’s collage… and also the arch of the girl’s back as she put her ass in the air. The other thing that sort of fell into my head was how Buckminster Fuller always went back to stacking as the origin of all his work. As if perhaps it all really came from an engineering question that came up when trying to move stacks of cans, or more likely ammunition in the most efficient manner. I thought a nice monument to him would be to stack a pile of geodisc domes under the arch of a tree…. but in real life it should be huge and maybe bucky balls not domes…. or microscopic nanocarbon would be fun too: visible only by scanning elctron microscope installed in the gallery.
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More Collabs with UU

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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!.

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Pain http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/08/10/pain-2/ Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:16:02 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4365 And after much Pain:
An Animation for Donald Johnson’s song Pain. I made over 2,000 individual images iin Photoshop in an attempt to make something like a handmade digital animation. I call the characters cogs. They aren’t cats and they aren’t dogs and they aren’t people. They are part of a narrative machine.

Song written and sung by Donald Johnson
Music arranged, played, and produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares
Art and Animation by Alex Itin

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Out To See Sea http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/08/06/out-to-see-sea/ Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:11:13 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4344 1875

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Coming Up For Air http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/08/03/coming-up-for-air/ Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:48:58 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4340 whale1824
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Mobyo http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/08/02/mobyo/ Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:37:43 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4337 1789Moby meets the Court of the Crimson King.

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Pop Art http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/06/26/pop-art-2/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:21:04 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4269 pop
This accidental detail from the Wonder Wheel I’m animating sort of reminded me of the work my dad was making when I was quite young. 863

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Wonder Wheel One http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/06/21/wonder-wheel-one/ Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:37:55 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4261 789 Went round and round till 3:30.

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Orbit http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/05/16/orbit/ Fri, 17 May 2013 03:14:57 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4225 orbitThings go round and round…

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Line http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/05/15/line/ Wed, 15 May 2013 22:51:28 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4222 445

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Empty Spaces http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/05/13/empty-spaces/ Tue, 14 May 2013 00:15:58 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4216 402

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Beasties http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/05/08/beasties/ Wed, 08 May 2013 19:53:51 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4208 339Cold and faceless

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Without Memory http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/05/03/without-memory/ Fri, 03 May 2013 06:19:13 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4192

Brooklyn rising up in ocean purple fiction, crossing detail.
The Waitress smiling, hopping, hoping sangria slice.
Step branching around when spoken needles speak cannibal –
Entranced by Princess and a pea.
Flocking scribbles running wishbone assembly.
Light Hanging on drop gas.
Steeple steeple shinning, houses ghost story.
Brick and maple divinity lost glasses.
Signs, paintings, trophies spinning softly tulips.
Tiger running out minimal mash up detour.
Orange star dragon mountains –
Refined big bananas bloom pink fur phone reflection.
Wash hair enclosed chess horse zebra.
Zuzu’s Petals, missing lock sprung cat.
Stuffed school sport trees willing into existence perfect living guns and butter –
Reminds distressed turkey turning bananas.
Inflates power lit large.
Piped pitched paper bag lion remembers saying nothing and hoops the fix.
Spiral seeking one thousand parapets.
Ulysees granted sirens.
Bather hunted haunted rising setting rising out of piled out blue.
Held onto patiently – meeting wiggers becoming without memory

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NOSTYLGIA http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2013/04/07/nostylgia/ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:40:39 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=4137

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.

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wet http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/07/17/wet-2/ Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:52:15 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3779

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Ashen http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/05/19/ashen/ Thu, 20 May 2010 03:38:58 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3739 some more cards

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OMegOpen Mic http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/05/04/omegopen-mic/ Tue, 04 May 2010 13:37:08 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3697 Open Mics and some drawings I’ve been working on.

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Boxed Flowers http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/04/21/boxed-flowers/ Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:41:25 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3667
found this old start for a buddy pick about living on the east side of manhattan where everything is a brick, Moses, Stalanist, Shit box for about twenty blocks… from Stuytown to Chinatown

LENZ

X: What’s with the camera?

Y: Just act naturally.

X: I am acting naturally. It’s perfectly natural to ask someone sticking a camera in your face what he’s up to (beat) What’s with the camera?

X: I’m making a video.

Y: No kidding?

X: Do something.

Y: Smacks camera

X: Don’t hit the camera.

Y: I was acting natural.

X: I refuse to believe you have a violent nature.

Y: Believe it.

X: No.

Y: Believe It! (threatening)

BOXED

Next shot is of opposite character. Camera is out of focus looking around.

Y: (talking from behind camera): How do you work this thing? What’s this do.

X: That’s the zoom. Don’t touch that…..

Picture comes to rest at a box of books at the foot of X.

Y: What’s with the box?

X: Books.

Y: I can see that, but where are you going with them?

X: Going to sell them so I can buy more tape. The book is dead. Video is the new novel.

USED BOOKS.
X has camera again as Y digs through the box of books in front of a bookstore

Y: I can’t believe you’re going to sell this (Maybe Gatsby). It’s a first edition.

X: It’s not a first edition. It’s a copy of the first edition from the fifties.

Y: It’s old.

X: I’ve read it.

Y: It’s a beautiful copy.

X: They’re all beautiful copies…. But it’s worthless.

Y: How can you say that?

USED BOOK STORE.

Clerk: I’ll give you two bucks for Gatsby.

X: Fine.

Y: Two bucks? Are you nuts. It’s a first edition.

Clerk: No. It’s a reissue from the fifties. But it has a nice binding. That’s why I’m offering two bucks.

X: Fine.

Y: I’ll give you five.

X: You want it?

Y: I’ll give you ten bucks (pulls out a twenty)

Clerk: I’m not going to give you ten bucks for the whole box.

X: Fine… Hands Y the box.

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Open to the mic http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/04/08/open-to-the-mic/ Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:15:34 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3647

Rabbit Run from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

now before I forget:

those not busy being born are busy dying.

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La Familigia Rex http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/04/03/la-familigia-rex/ Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:03:37 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3642 Since I’m all about Press these days, I wanted to share with you all my favorite interview ever. It was given to me as an Xmas gift by my nephew Max. I thought I’d share it here for Easter… the whole death birth death rebirth thing feeling appropriate. In the end, blood is thicker than salt water.

Play mingus while you read:

A Mingus Amoung Us from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

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Fin Again http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/02/28/fin-again/ Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:48:09 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3593

Fin Again from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

Another mundane epic.

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Santan Klaus http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/02/02/santan-klaus/ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:53:20 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3558

Post Festivus For the Rest of Us from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

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Zipperhearsals http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/01/24/zipperhearsals/ Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:01:36 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3547

Z1A1 from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

ZipTING from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

Mash it up if you dare. You are a dj and you have believers.

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Catch http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2010/01/07/catch/ Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:20:13 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3524 One for the archives anyways.

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From Wall Street To The Tombs http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/11/25/from-wall-street-to-the-tombs/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:22:41 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3448 Wanted to try a traveling time lapse. I jerry rigged a tripod with a counter weight to try an make a sort of steady cam jib. A bit more wobbly than I’d hoped. Maybe do it right and do it HD, but I like the idea. We wanted to go from power to prison, but it turns out they will try and take your video if you shoot a NY prison. Luckily me and my partner in crime threw around a whole lot of charm and rescued the shot.

Music Psychopop by Javier Hernandez-Miyares.

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Shabbos http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/05/31/shabbos/ Sun, 31 May 2009 13:58:11 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3128 The weekend so far. Friday through Sunday early morning and on Sunday I rest (probably not).

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http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/05/05/3053/ Tue, 05 May 2009 05:53:51 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3053 Stayed late after rehearsal to work on some paintings. Not done, but I thought it might be nice to save these stages. Happy Birthday To Me and my Pops wherever he is (Sylvia says he’s playing cloud fetch with Bailey which is a very nice image).

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Pablo Neruda York http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/04/28/pablo-neruda-york/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=3024 Everything feels like a love poem in New York. The place is littered with the confetti of a million flowers. Alas my beloved has allergies.

A picasso I saw down in Baltimore and the Court house hidden by cherry blossoms.

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Bitter Sweet http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/04/12/2934/ Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:27:08 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=2934
Played this mashup edit along with the original movie last night at Frost. I may play some more with it some more but right now is a sort of fluxus collage.

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Pratt Fall Into Love http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/02/13/pratt-fall-into-love/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:32:49 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=2686


Spring sprung for a brief February moment and I decided to run through the Pratt campus. It made me nostalgic for university life and slightly jealous of all the art students who were climbing in trees and building geodesic domes, etc. They have a lot of great public sculpture there and I was surprised by how much of it I’d never seen before. In the studio, I worked on a long parade drawing and the next day the winds came in to town and tried to blow down Brooklyn like an angry wolf. Music is Al Green preaching about love. So happy V. day and you’d better be good to me.

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Further Forward http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/01/23/further-forward/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:50:07 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=2597

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It snowed and so the world looked better already. I went to see the inauguration at Monkeytown and Obama gave a great speech and the world looked better still. So I went to 17 Frost to try and make the installation look a little better too.

I was also struck at how Cheney in a wheel chair seemed to channel Barrymore as Mr. Potter in Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life:
The abomination of the last eight years gives way to the ObamaNation seeking inspiration.

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A document of the week so far using a broad brush mash up montage concept. The music is from Richard Young’s Saphie and was sent to my by my friend Dan the day we put my dog down. We listened to it during the last hours of Bailey’s while lounging and time lapsing life until Sly screamed: “What is this music you are playing!? Does it have to be so FUCKING sad!?” I think I put the Beatles on. They are good for most any occasion if currated properly: Across the Universe…. was the last song she heard from S.’s iphone, while playing fetch and rolling in the grass…. but I digress.

Anyways the Poem is actually Vladimir Nabokov himself reading Humbert’s Love Poem to a rapt audience… Boy can that fucking Russian read. He sounds like Welsh poet. To think that English is maybe his third language? I found it somewhere online and there’s a clip from an Italian dubbed version of Kubrick’s Lolita with James Mason (youtube)… I was looking for Mason’s reading of the first page of the Novel. There is a recording of him that I used to have on cassette. He did it brilliantly. Titles abound: Lolita 2000, Fire, Catch A Fire, Bailey’s Building and Loan, Humbert’s Butterfly, Kubrick by Brick…. I could go on, but in the interest of brevity a shall relent.

Red writing is from Paris 1998, in a cafe, trying to remember the opening page of Lolita… and failing.
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]]> Drawings For Dental Floss http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2009/01/03/drawings-for-dental-floss/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:17:08 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/?p=2528 I made these doodles a few weeks ago while reading The Ascent of Money. They’ve been at by bedside table ever since. Last night I ate Korean Bar-B-Q (Kalbi) and needed a good flossing before turning in. I dropped the blue floss on the stack of doodles and when I woke up in the morning I was greeted by this funny mash up of thing and thing itself. Press the picture to see it larger.

]]> Remain In Light http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/10/22/remain_in_light/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:53:30 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/10/remain_in_light.html This whole process of writing is fraught with deep oceans of doubt. I try to remain positive about my self and my memories, but of course I am reliving some idiot times. This is an old video from two or so years ago, but is now in HD and properly deinterlaced. The sound track is a mash up of Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, playing at various speeds.

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The Cartesian Grid as it relates to the bound book.

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With Without http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/10/16/with_without/ Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:48:24 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/10/with_without.html The old man dies.

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I started a new fridge door drawing/movie. Might as well start at the start: Sacré Couer. It’s kind of raw and fucked up and will no doubt change, but I wanted to keep this as a souvenir.

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First Frost http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/10/07/first_frost/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:58:28 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/10/first_frost.html
The folks at 17 Frost Street were kind enough to give me some space to start knocking out drawings in The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince as it’s actually in French) while Aakash Nihalani installed his tape show and the band rehearsed. It was a nice way to start this new projet which I am imagining as a sort of modular, multi platform, multimedia memoir of my time at the turn of the century in Paris…

Though I hope it will be open enough to use as part of my ongoing blogging/vlogging experiment, the end result should be a fairly focused narrative electronic book.

I learned recently that they found St-Exupery’s downed plane in the sea. Not only this, but the German who shot him down came forward to own the kill. The irony was that Exupery was the Nazi pilot’s hero and had inspired him to fly in the first place. He had carried with him the fear and dread for all these years that he had shot down the writer/aviator and when they found the plane he knew from his flight log that it was his mission and his gun. Small world indeed.

Anyways the opening of Aakash’s show is thursday:

17 Frost and Bose Pacia Present: Aakash Nihalani
Thursday, October 9, 2008
7 – 10 pm

Located in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, 17 Frost, an auxiliary venue of Bose Pacia New York, will now begin hosting performance and studio arts projects. We are excited to announce the inaugural event on Thursday, October 9. Please join us as we host New York based street artist, Aakash Nihalani, who will present his impromptu and ephemeral tape installations.

Bose Pacia
508 West 26th St, 11th FL
New York, NY 10001
T: 212.989.7074
F: 212.989.6982
mail@bosepacia.com
bosepacia.com

The music here is The Replacements: Can’t Hardly Wait

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Fluxed Up from MariaNYC on Vimeo.
Wonderful documentation of my USSA show by Maria Niro with some real live fluxus (well recorded and found on Ubu Web) music and poetry: Poem Whispered History of Art / Robert Fillou
Overlaid on Symphony Natura/ Henning Christiansen.
Followed by Ground Swell solo sax by Colin Stetson

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Monday I went to see my old friend Javier rehearse with SINEPARADE in a new space, tucked away in a little hidden corner of Williamsburg. I did some timelapses of the band and Aakash Nihalani making a mural out of tape. Plus there’s some footage that MariaNYC shot at my installation last week and a garbage truck full of tomatoes, and the music here is an old song Javier made for an e-book of mine: Morococo, and then on the way to the L train we passed a parade of cop cars: 20 fucking cop cars. A good Monday.

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The show is up at USSA. You can visit Friday nights from 6-8, or by appointment. These are Just some stills I shot. Exhausted now. quite brain dead. Will vedge and think about Paul Newman. Last time I did an installation like this (2001 in D.C.) it was full of drawings of him from a Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

]]> Hanging Myself http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/09/23/me_hanging_myself_right_now/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:52:25 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/09/me_hanging_myself_right_now.html studyinjoyce.jpg
Not funny really in this time of Infinite Jests, but maybe it is really exactly how I feel. I mean in the sense of eternal return, or Metampsychosis, or however you spell it and whatever Joyce was talking about…. I’m hanging the show. I feel like a worker… in the Marxist sense of that word: working on the ladders with the back into it. I mean to say that hanging a book is a physical act. I’ve been training for it like a boxer at the gym.. but my fucking thumbs are still weak for the push pins and the map pins and the pins and needles and needles and pins…..feel like a carpenter… feel like Christ crucified… stigmata on my thumb. LOL. music here is some odd Brian Wilson post Smile mid mad period song. Fucking lovely and perfect fit for my raw time lapse. More to come…

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A collaborative souvenir of my last show at Monkeytown made mostly by MariaNYC with some shots of mine and the voice over. A strange sad tale told by an idiot.

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Stacking http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/09/19/stacking/ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:42:06 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/09/stacking.html stack.jpg
Running along I saw this and it somehow reminded me of what I’m thinking about all the time… hanging a lot of drawings.

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The Dark Side of the Loon http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/09/16/the_dark_side_of_the_loon/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:16:28 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/09/the_dark_side_of_the_loon.html darksundry.gifThere was a rainbow around the moon tonight at ten and I ran up to the roof to watch the lunatic clouds flowing by all back lit in a Pink Floyd prism and I was thinking about Rick Wright dying and David Foster Wallace hanging himself from the end of an infinite jest and the stink of sepsis fills the house from the necrotic tumor of my slowly dying dog and it was another day at the vet with free falling finance and the threat of reemergent Republicans buzzing in my ear from my little A.M. radio I use to keep my self from going insane, or it’s opposite. So I thought of the Organ opening to Us and Them from the Dark Side of the Moon and decided to share it with you. A little memorial service from the cathedral of cold front clouds.

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Absundry http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/09/15/absundry/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:58:15 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/09/absundry.html sundretail.JPEG
Abstract timelapse of the rainy weekend.

]]> The Book of Meat http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/09/09/the_book_of_meat/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:28:38 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/09/the_book_of_meat.html bkmeat.jpgbkbook.jpgbkhand.jpgMeet me at the Met.

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Impossible Monsters http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/09/03/impossible_monsters/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:48:37 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/09/impossible_monsters.html
The summer seems to end in a late night taxi ride.

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Four Screen and Fire http://futureofthebook.org/itinplace/2008/08/29/four_screen_and_fire/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:47:55 +0000 http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/wp-content/archives/2008/08/four_screen_and_fire.html housebox.jpg
cigar box to I work on and rework on since last summer. This was yesterday’s state.

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