animation – IT IN Place

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

Ketchup

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

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Grey Valentine

alex — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:39:49 +0000

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When I made the couch video there were two versions: one with Jim Dine’s poem that I eventually released and this one combining some Zipperhead whiteboard animations using this song I wrote with Natalie. Finally got around to uploading the alternate take for Valentine’s day. My ex referred tot he song as : caterwalling, but I still like it and want to recored it properly some day.

Death Cards For Willoughby

alex — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:38:51 +0000

double_u UU sends cards for dead Mexican Kings my way and it made me think how much I’m playing cards these days. I’ve been spending a lot of time editing Cage with Dave S. and that feels like a poker game half the time. I’ve also been trying to storyboard Willoughby which feels like a card game too, in the sense of discreet rectangle pictures laid out like solitaire. More hands to come!

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!.

Pain

alex — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:16:02 +0000

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

The Kiss

alex — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:49:12 +0000

Maybe thole thing was an excuse to make an image that reminds me of some old paintings from 90’s? Anyway I actually enjoyed and am enjoying the big climax, as it were.

Exit Stage Left

alex — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:21:52 +0000

I’m into the last notes of the video for “Pain”. The characters walk off stage a little like an old vaudeville comedy team. They are sort of based on me ex’s little dogs who are a little like a comedy team in their antics too. They’ve been running around my feet the whole time. Pain, isn’t it adorable?

COGitate

alex — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:53:10 +0000

The last cog in the machine.

On the Beach

alex — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:19:49 +0000

Out To See Sea

alex — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:11:13 +0000

Coming Up For Air

alex — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:48:58 +0000

Breath

Mobyo

alex — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:37:43 +0000

Moby meets the Court of the Crimson King.

To Sleep With The Fishes

alex — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:26:49 +0000

Donyo meet Peshyo

Abyss

alex — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:37:25 +0000

Plop plop fizz fizz, the snowball melts back to the skull and sinks into the briny depths.

Low Lands

alex — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:58:00 +0000

Sort of on the beach really.

Vineyard

alex — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:27:06 +0000

A rolling stone, gathers no grapes.

Donyo Was A Rolling Stone

alex — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:59:59 +0000

Or actually a dislodged skull turned snowball rolling down a mountain…

Below the tree line and into the valley below.

Sonyo

alex — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:20:28 +0000

Melt

SnowYo

Dead Dird

alex — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:31:19 +0000

I think this might be a small ode to Hemmingway’s Snows of Killimangaro? Anyway the gag seems to be working and the moral is keep your eyes ahead of you.

Dird

alex — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:47:41 +0000

PAX

Bird on a Limb

alex — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:50:51 +0000

That was a lot of petals to move. Now to master flight.

Ch Ch Ch Ch Cherry Tree!

alex — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:23:17 +0000

She says, “What’s that ugly thing? Are you making cherries?” And I think, “No I’m destroying the world.” But I say, “Well yeah, I guess it could be a cherry tree. Do you suppose I could draw Donyo as a bird? A little thing with wings and a human head?” “That sounds ugly,” She says. “I think it will be funny,” I say. So tune in later this week to see the flying cog.

Chesskers

alex — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 03:05:11 +0000

Check Mate now King me.

Smile A While

alex — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:48:19 +0000

This clock is happy and noon and midnight.

Pop Art

alex — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:21:04 +0000

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.

Wonder Wheel One

alex — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:37:55 +0000

Went round and round till 3:30.

See Saw

alex — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:21:57 +0000

I saw a singing god eat the world and then suddenly I couldn’t see him, or hear him, or anything until I see a singing god…

Bicycle Rider

alex — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:37:35 +0000

Daisy Daisy.

Sun and Moon

alex — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:34:15 +0000

A bicycle built for two.

Time Piece

alex — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:23:50 +0000

Just trying to draw the world on a Friday night.

Hold On

alex — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:17:19 +0000

Donyoyo

alex — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:41:38 +0000

Going through the paces.

Donyo

alex — Sun, 26 May 2013 00:52:31 +0000

The bald man is jumping like a little dog, or the little dog is jumping like a bald man.

Head

alex — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:18:53 +0000

Things are looking up… or rising from the dirt… or something

Orbit

alex — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:14:57 +0000

Things go round and round…

Line

alex — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:51:28 +0000

Skyline

alex — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:34:32 +0000

Spain went to New York.

Empty Spaces

alex — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:15:58 +0000

The Spanish Inquisition

alex — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:05:44 +0000

I had wanted the animation I’m working on to go to the dark space of NYC in the sixties that my dad sort of played with in the seventies out of Paul Klee I think… mixed with the rising minimalism and Joseph Albers, however the nice thing about a consecutively drawn animation is that other things happen in the chess game of self against time and space. Spain showed up with it’s arenas of Roman smiles. Plans foiled. Blood spilled. Moving on.

Beasties

alex — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:53:51 +0000

Cold and faceless

Boats

alex — Wed, 08 May 2013 05:29:05 +0000

Time rocks on.

Cog Turns

alex — Fri, 03 May 2013 06:30:39 +0000

The cog paces the screen.

April Showers

alex — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:02:24 +0000

The head in the clouds, or rather the head becomes the a cloud. Another from from the animation I’m playing with.

Head

alex — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:11:15 +0000

Cog to Head.

Cog

alex — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:42:25 +0000

Playing with the Wakum pad to make an erased animation. Starting with the cog….. see where it goes from there.

The Chain Unwindes

alex — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:51:41 +0000

After a long wait, here is Donald Johnson’s song Chain. It took a few months to make and now I’m shocked that it is only about four minutes long. Crazy.

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.

Planet Blake

alex — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:23:05 +0000

A few hundred photos of a mural I did for Blake Whitman.

Alpha Beta Ground Control 0011

alex — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:55:41 +0000

Sequestered in Connecticut in this triangle of an ark like building that was my dad’s studio and is now mine and I’m editing music video and confronting old paintings. It’s funny but some of these are ten to twenty years old and I remember the ones I never quite felt were finished and I’m finishing them. Bizarre. It’s like old friends and you pick up where you left off. Bessos

Underground Man

alex — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:31:13 +0000

An improv from the last Zipperhead rehearsal. Mostly for the archives, but enjoy if you care to watch the process of writing some new parts using video instead of a pen. I was watching Orson in Touch of Evil and I DreWrote this. Boy was he good at playing bad.

Head Ache

alex — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:17:09 +0000

Scanning and drawing on Zipperhead. Here’s some thoughts.

Wyld Kings

alex — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:28:51 +0000

Here’s Collabamation of Loxy Fady, IT IN, and Poster Boy. Feeling quite the Feral, Ham-Lear(let) as all around me the kingdom is in flux and being torn to pieces… Demolition and Deconstruction abound around… There’s only oneplace where I can go:

Red Door Stomp

alex — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:17:43 +0000

Royal Wylds playing my closing party at 17 Frost. This was their last song. It took a while to find time and hard drive space to edit.

Novel Ideas

alex — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:26:15 +0000

My spies in Canada (Aunt and Uncle) sent these snaps of the opening last night at Oakville Galleries. I gather that the curator gave a talk about the show and chose Orson Whales as a kind of lens to focus her discussion on the issues surrounding the show. I was in a bit of a funk yesterday and I have to admit that put a brief smile on my face.

Wyld Bites

alex — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:43:32 +0000

In what feels like a flow of collaborative energy, I spent yesterday editing some footage shot by Dave Scarborough from my opening party of The Royal Wylds playing 17 Frost Street. I quite enjoy how the talking head sometimes seems to synch with Will Croxton’s vocals. A great software program would be to take the thousand head man and build a audio sensitive logarithm that could fit the face to certain key vowel and consonant sounds in speech so that the head would be like a giant Wizard of Oz and would synch up behind the singer, or comic, or performer, or whatever. Oh if I knew anything about computers I’d do it. But even in this ambient accidental method, it’s a pretty funny trick. Later that afternoon I played with some of Akaash’s tapes on the floor: letting them and the tiles dictate some abstract gestures, etc. I’m hoping he’ll swing by and work into it. Ironing out details on the closing party. More on that later.

The Addictions

alex — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:09:40 +0000

So I’m back. The better half is back and sleeping has become less an act of rolling around in lonesome sheets till sunrise and more like, you know, sleeping. The screening is done and I was happy with the narrative arc of the pieces together as a group. I feel like I’ve been composing about a half hour stream of consciousness narrative over the last two, or three years in video. I have composed it all out of sequence and semi unconsciously and every time I do a screening (which is more and more frequent) I try to take the opportunity to chip away the extraneous bits and get to the core themes and images. I get closer and my present feeling is that I will have to overlap and edit the present sequence into a more coherent and shorter whole… Or Mash it up into a two channel diptych which worked beautifully at Monkeytown several months ago. Speaking of Mash ups, My favorite part of the weekend was hearing David Scarborough play some of his songs. He has appeared in cameo on several of the Frost Vlog videos helping me hang the big paintings, etc. I knew he sang, but it’s always nice when someone exceeds your expectations. At some point I did some timelapses of him playing (and his wife watching the whole set, sitting at his feet in what has to be the most romantic tableau I’ve seen in months). After we got the video equipment set up on Saturday night and after we’d had a few beers, I shot a video of him on my little flip cam singing in front of my animations. It was strange how the song and the pictures seemed to collide in happy tragedies.

Lolitapuss Rex

alex — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:01:59 +0000

Back at work at 17 Frost trying to get back at neglected projects like HUB and the Lolita movie poster for the upcoming Supertrash show and just to paint and draw and make something instead of installing stuff. I feel much more relaxed in the space now having got over the first hurdle of the opening. Now I want to change things around and make something truly fantastic! I also want to explore the “stage” quality of the room and the little sound stage/ face installation, but the show is UP and open for a visit by appointment (and when we do some upcoming events). So if you find yourself in New York (or Bburg) give me a holler at: 718-755- 9317 and I’ll show you around.

Emily Bites

alex — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:55:09 +0000