architecture – IT IN Place

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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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.

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!.

Skyline

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

Spain went to New York.

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.

In My Father's Woods

alex — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:18:43 +0000

Trying to “restore” my dad’s old Front Woods Frame sculpture; from the late sixties/ early 70’s about… back when Concrete puplic sculpture was all the rage, or about to be. I think my dad was still working at an add agency in Manhattan commuting by silver Mustang and he made these projects on the weekend. Now they are cracked and chipping… tomorrow they should look a little cleaner. They get a sort of WWII bunker look in their cleaned state… which I rather fancy, but I know my mother won’t… nor would the artist perhaps? Mash up of John and Brian rare takes.

AfteRain See Chelsea Sea

alex — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:34:30 +0000

Did a Birthday Art Crawl Friday and actually had a nice time talking to people in the Picasso show and running into old friends from the Allan Stone Gallery. It felt the Neo Good Old Days… and boy could that Picasso fucker paint. It was one of those rainy Chelsea spring days where you somtimes have to duck into a little pub for a whiskey while the rain blows over. It reminded me of this Coltrane song and also this older vide with The Velvets and Nico doing Chealsea girl. 2006 I think. It was raining then too.

Sheeeeeet BaltiMO' Mo' Mo' Derne (or The Triumph of Mies)

alex — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:33:34 +0000

My first draft of a Baltimore travevlog. Trying out the new HDV camera. Some technical glitches having to do with my learning curve perhaps, but maybe that’s part of this one’s charms. I shot HDV with a Canon HV-30, and shot flip, and shot stills on a Nikon Coolpix. Music is Brian Eno’s Music for Airports track 2 and ambient sound.

Looking Up

alex — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:23:51 +0000

The other day I walked home from midtown Manhattan and I noticed that there was a lot of new and interesting architecture going up around the city and it’s outer boroughs. It’s very strange that we are supposed to be in such a shitty financial state, when all of these interesting places are just coming onto the market. If anyone has a lot of empty office/residential space in one of these beauties, I here by volunteer to act as your artist in residence and turn the space into a fun gallery/installation/performance space. Seems like a good way to get people to see your new facility. Contact me. We’ll do lunch. This is a new residential tower near insurance row in the twenties and below that is the side of the new Cooper Union building (which given it’s location next to a tower that clearly borrows a glass idea from the Chelsea AIC building) looks like a sort of knock off Frank Gehry building… in the manner of Canal Street designer hand bags… but you know it still looks pretty good and goes with your shoes, or whatever.

Bitter Sweet

alex — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:27:08 +0000

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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alex — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:23:45 +0000

I was out with actor friends last night. I miss being an actor. But I’m doing a reading April 4 at Frost Street. Oh to strut the boards. This vid is an inside joke and mostly just raw. I got home at about 1 and just uploaded it with the Bealtles Revolution 9. Older vid that reverences Ellis Gallagher’s work.

Fuck Off, I Love You from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

Pratt Fall Into Love

alex — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:32:49 +0000

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.

Islam Fashion

alex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:35:11 +0000

Tom And Javier wanted a record of their performance at my 17 Frost Space opening. This is a live recording of their set mixed with some timelapses of opening etc…. more or less the stuff of my Nikon memory card and Saturday’s opening of Aakash Nihalani’s “Space Available” show on Atlantic Street, BK.

The Phonos project a psychedelic caleidoscope program while they perform, so I thought I’d give their performance the same treatment… and Aakash’s windows too and me doing a new long large crowd on craft paper…

The Red Lanterns

alex — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:49:14 +0000

Wondered around Manhattan wandering on my way to see Sharon at Washington Irving’s Library to grab what was left of the box of decommissioned Little Prince books (they were heading out to the dumpster before we came up with the idea of using them in art – both the students and me!). It was fun to tour the art studios on the seventh floor where there is a wonderful winter light pouring in. these kids don’t know how good they have it it. I haven’t painted to good natural light since SoHo and even ITIN space was spotty lightwise (not high enough). So in Chinatown I saw this string of red lanterns hanging off an International Style modern bank building and it looks to me now like the binding of a book that attaches the Old World to the new – The East to the West, etc.

Hanging Myself

alex — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:52:25 +0000

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…

blueingreeninred

alex — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:56:32 +0000

Another experiment with the glitched camera. This time I placed a layer of plastic wrap over my screen and shot old videos from Vimeo in full screen mode while drawing over them with sharpie markers on the protected screen. I then downloaded the archived films and re edited them. This is a fairly direct response to paintings I went into yesterday. The music here is a remix of Miles Davis and Bill Evans’ Blue In Green.

Conversations With Myself

alex — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:20:24 +0000

Recently, I’ve had cause to want to point out the documentary bits out of my last couple of shows in Portland and New York. They were extruded onto the blog in bits and pieces several months back. I thought it might be nice to have them all together in one entry so that I could just forward that link to people. It becomes something like a four channel video piece if you can play them all at the same time, or a story if you play them in order. The box gif is new.

Istanbullshit

alex — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:22:01 +0000

Somewhere in Istanbul there is a wall around the ancient part of the city. The houses in the city were made of wood and have all rotted away. I suppose it was dry rot as Istanbul looks like the desert and the thing of it is that with out all the little wood houses against the ancient stone walls, the walls have started to lean perilously inward. We are part of a group that go to see the walls before they fall. I think how funny it is to care about the walls, when the city they once protected has already turned to dry rot. I invent a cocktail with milk and some strange exotic yellow liquor. You pour the liquor into the milk and it just gathers in the center of the milk like the yolk of an egg. I call the drink a Humpty Dumpty in honor of the walls of Istanbul.

Iron Snow

alex — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:04:12 +0000

The snow on the iron fence reminded me of the drawing(s) I did yesterday in the time life book about collecting. In this case, collecting books. The word Youth is from A Matisse illstrated edition of Ulysees.

Streek

alex — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:03:25 +0000

Streekline from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

MoonSet

alex — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:19:09 +0000

Pavillion

alex — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:14:24 +0000

Alley Light Music

alex — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:14:33 +0000

Tower Lapse

alex — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:41:49 +0000

I’ve been meaning to shoot the Tribute in Light, but have never gotten around to it till tonight. The music is another garage band attempt.
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3 Poems from Mushmoon

alex — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:08:00 +0000

Was up on the roof the other day with my friend Francis. He is a poet by night and right and seller of wine by day. Nice thing about Francis is he always has a bag of “juice” when he shows up and the day turns to a tasting and talk of the other tiers in the trinity:women and song. Here he is singing for you and Pigato White.

Brooklyn Thermodynamics

alex — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:16:05 +0000

More drawings of dear old dad on a morphine nod. I went down to the Storage locker yesterday to find my staple gun to streatch some canvases I’ve been stitching together from a sample book and fell on old drawings and storm clouds.

Brown Ain't No Place For White Shoes

alex — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:13:33 +0000

Been on some sort of reunion vibe these last few months… some sort of black sheep returneth trip or what have you. So in keeping with that mode, I went for a little dumpling picknick with one of my favorite Alums of old Camp Bruno and we blathered for a long time and drank beer from paper bags in the park while the chinese kids played handball and layed out a pang thud thud pang soundtrack in the summer night.

Earlier, I had a near religious experience (not only was someone sky writing x and y all over brooklyn, but…) when I crossed Manhattan bridge by foot, the light came behind the brooklyn in such a way that it cast a magnificent reverse gothic arch shadow across the flaming sunset water… the key hole arches both cut out in fire on the water. It was only there for about sixty seconds, but good shit it was glorious and luckily I was on a nikon safari. New York is just a magnificent place sometimes and its filled with people that you know and love, but didn’t know were living so close to you. One big urban reunion project.

Fern Hill On Fire

alex — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:17:11 +0000

Dylan Thomas reads his poem and the day goes by with brunch and a bug and clouds and fireworks.

Kodachrome Nikon Daze

alex — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:20:26 +0000

the animated bunny is from Brian Raszka for The Library Project. The first image is of my archive under my house in CT where all the old days are stored… outdoors… it’s a long story… you should read the old days of the blog, etc…. anyways I made that shit to last and last they shall and fuck time and fuck space and rain and….

gee don’t I sound like king lear?

Well a house devided, etc.

Water Taxi Crabs

alex — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:24:01 +0000

Me and the gals floating around and eating crabs, etc. Drawings to follow

Collective Unconscious

alex — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:37:55 +0000

I spent the afternoon with Will Croxton of the Royal Wylds and his beatiful baby and we watched some old vids of the band at Magnetic Fields and talked about scoring the Let It Be Taciturn turn turn movie and the upcoming shoot for Kimbo single and finished off with watching Paul Simon rock Little Surfer Girl from the Brian Wilson Tribute concert at Radio City that Queen Sylvie got moi roi ticks for a past B. Day. The evening turned into a Future Book romp with the Institute gang and entourage going toThe Animal Collective show at South Street Seaport. Let’s face it. Mos Def had it right: Brooklyn Rocks the best and it’s fun when it rocks Manhattan and then you spill into Chinatown and blind delirious laughter.

Zarathustra's Secret Garden

alex — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:29:03 +0000

A vlog fooling with painting and Lou Reed and Bowie and thoughts on upcoming Royal Wylds music Video for Kimbo and some documentationof my work next to Crista Grauer’s at Artflux last week and just, you know, loving spring in Beautiful Sugar Mountain Brooklyn.

Drunken Boat

alex — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:10:45 +0000

Oh the honey and the wine and women and song did pour fourth from the mouth of a yellow whale, where I crashed upon the shore of some magnificent island populated by circe and her two sisters yin and yang. It was like the crystal noise from Zimmerman’s lyre and moaning of monica. There were the hebrews and the Romans and Celtic tribe as well, but I walked with silk guns and white arab charger to unite the world on one great drunken boat

or: I went eating and wine tasting at Tribecca festival. If you want to be treated well in life, I suggest you roll with beautiful Korean women, you’d be surprised what people will give you for free, just because of those lovely smiling eyes. Then off to the temple on the mount for Noahs Barmitzvah… havanagela and MORE wine and food and dancing of the horah and on and on. You cant make this sort of stuff up. It is just wild eyed JOY…. Be Attitude and Beat Less.

This is Harry Twep… an Id character that I drew on a retreat when I was maybe thirteen years old, or so… ironic…. My mom scanned it for a my fortieth birthday card. She’s some kind of witch or something… I mean that in a good way.

Big Mac

admin — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:40:53 +0000

Read more aboutGeorge M while trying to avoid thoughts of George W.

Steel And Glass

admin — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:44:49 +0000

On Friday’s walk I really wanted to see the glass going up on the Chelsea Gehry building. I’d heard bad things and I have to say It looks a little strange (though now doubt its some sort of green egineering to screen out too much direct sun… or something)… on the way up on the West Side I saw all the new Meier’s and few other things and I just kept thinking about Steel and Glass and how a lot of Recent New York architecture looks like something someone would’ve snorted coke off in the eighties… like those old glass stereo cabinets back when people had stereos so big you needed a cabinet: everything was flat surfaces, and shine and mirrors and inflated egos.