art – IT IN Place

Beer Stein Codex

alex — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:52:52 +0000

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The beer stein codex gets its name from a beer stein graffiti that adorns the door to the 17frost shitter.

cover and vers0

Part of the idea was to play with drawing the way graff people play with stickers and do variations on tags that spell their name… so this one spells mine sometimes.

Sacre couer 3 tits tag I started doing in Paris in 1997 because sacre couer reminded me of the tajamahal somehow

you’re dreadin it

crowd variations

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and here is a shot of the xt 300 i found on wikipedia. I think this paper is from the time he was doing the users manual which was a ton of work plus he had to hire a copy writer who spoke French I think to come up with step by step pages for setting up and using the machine. Plus he did all the in house marketing brochures and PR. This terminal was our whole world for a year or two and I think GTE sold about a half a dozzen of thme. LOL.

Memphis and the Ancient Greeks

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

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Filter Feeder

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

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Been managing so much info from the gopro and sony that is very difficult to color compress without making duplicate files and filling up my strainting hard drive…. so long story short, I thought I’d try some of Vimeo’s new “instagramstyle” filters for video. THere are a lot of options and I am lazy, but I like the saturation and contrast on this filter. What say you, dear reader?

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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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Boddy Rockin

alex — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:58:04 +0000

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moving and shooting in brooklyn

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.

Ellis G. and RaydiesNYC

alex — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:44:32 +0000

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Mural for Fort Greene bodega near Pratt.

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.

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.

Cog Studies.

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

More thoughts on cog sculptures

Stoop

alex — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:58:38 +0000

Been working on Cage, but still trying to figure out some sylistic questions for Willoughby. So been doing a lot of drawings.

Muses Musing

alex — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:15:29 +0000

Some drawings from the end of a sketchbook.

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

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.

Arch

alex — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:03:25 +0000

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.

Mexican Standoff

alex — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:58:02 +0000

More Collabs with UU

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.

Digital Doubleyouing.

alex — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:36:16 +0000

While not as fun as drawing in a cafe in Paris, Double You and I are starting to play with the notion of digitally collaborating. This may lead to a series of limited edition digital prints with an international crew of artists… or maybe we’ll just have to go back to Paris:

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.

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

On the Beach

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

Vineyard

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

A rolling stone, gathers no grapes.

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.

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.

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…

Sun and Moon

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

A bicycle built for two.

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

Your Reflection

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

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

Without Memory

alex — Fri, 03 May 2013 06:19:13 +0000

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

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.

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.

attic

alex — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:26:46 +0000

too many old things around me. Feel the need to dig a hole and bury them.

The Attic of My Mind

alex — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:40:35 +0000

Lots of junk and unfinished construction.

Voices

alex — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:40:01 +0000

What was a whisper…

Dark

alex — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:24:27 +0000

When the lights go out here, they really go out and I find myself in nothing with my arms out searching for a wall.

Miss Me?

alex — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:59:05 +0000

I have been away for too long, mostly sitting like this. I want to stand up again.

Estragon and Vladamir

alex — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:10:43 +0000

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Back to Back and Falling Over Lucky

alex — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:33:07 +0000

2 Boots, Three Hats

alex — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:29:12 +0000

Sniff Boot, Remember Last Night

alex — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:42:10 +0000

Dance Think Sit

alex — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:50:00 +0000

Cry Kick Piss

alex — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:26:45 +0000

Coat Basket Bench Tobacco

alex — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:26:26 +0000

Piss Carrot Rope

alex — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:34:13 +0000

Boot Hat Dream

alex — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:57:59 +0000

A Country Road. A Tree. Evening

alex — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:16:03 +0000

When in doubt, draw over a good text.

Festival Pocket Films

alex — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:47:18 +0000

There should be words, but I have none at the moment.

You You and Me en Paris

alex — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:48:22 +0000

wet

alex — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:52:15 +0000

Gone Swimming

alex — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:09:43 +0000

Splash.

Kissy Face

alex — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:54:37 +0000

Leopold Bloom kisses with reckless abandon. It’s adorable and disgusting.

Broken

alex — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:18:49 +0000

How I feel

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.