Brooklyn Bridge – IT IN Place

Cog Traces

alex — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:41:20 +0000

Here is one of the halfs of the cog tracing I did. These were used to protect the floor from epoxy resin stains and to have a model to recut a new cog if the epoxy some how destroyed the cog. There is another side to this but only one of the photos came out. I gave the drawing to the cog’s owner as a sort of bonus memento of the restoration.

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.

Visiting

alex — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:53:00 +0000

While the blog was down, Justin Ho visited from Minnesota and I showed him around New York on a couple of long photo Safaris. Here are a couple of vids we made together. Two years ago we collaborated at a distance on this short film:

die Alpen Lumen from eat a bug on Vimeo.

Walking Home

alex — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:33:47 +0000

Went on a epic walk home from 34th street. The whole city lit up electric as the sun set and CMJ is in town so all down Bowery I saw the guitar carrying hipsters and rock and roll chicks with leather and lipstick and cigarettes dangling on line to get into this or that party and hear these and those bands. None of that could be as good as the view from the bridge. Glorious.

The Works of Fire

alex — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:37:13 +0000

first impression of the fete for BK bridge. 125 years of hero sandwich. The rapper called himself “Sane” I think. So that if you called out, “You’re Sane” it would sound so much nicer than “You’re Insane!” but frankly at three in the moring we were more in than not.

The Works

alex — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:33:22 +0000

Went to the fireworks last night. Got to visit old friends; both human and painted. Video should be appearing soon.

Scratching Out

alex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:49:15 +0000

Scratchline from Alex Itin on Vimeo.
I was interested in the motion of foreound (scratched window) midground (passing girders) and background (Skyline) and how that might relate to individual sounds in a piece of music. The music is from Autechre.

Pax Perspective Quilt

alex — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:20:59 +0000

Been sewing canvas and steatching canvas and editing vids and contemplating peace and perspective… now I’m turning my thoughts to cogs and cog repair.

Apocalypse Now and Then

alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:05:40 +0000

weekend fun. Including a thing on the block called the STUPENDOUS… where at sunset everyone made noise… very fluxus I thought.

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.

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.

Monkey Boy Types and Scribbles

alex — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:29:06 +0000

Monkey Book 2 was a rather mind blowing lecture by artist/information engineer and all round great guy, Brad Paley… this is sort of a Mother’s day card meets portrait of the artist as a success story, rant of a lunatic, art history lesson… or something?: you tell me.

Music is a mash up of Animal Collective, some annoying kid kicking the subway seat with glorious train glee, and The one and only John Lennon and his fabulous Beatles, produced by Phil Spector if you can believe it Jackson Pollock.

http://wbpaley.com/brad/biosImagesCvs.html

http://monkeytownhq.com/monkeybook2.html
W. Bradford Paley has been doing visual work on computers since 1973, has been recognized for contributions to the design and art worlds (e.g. at MoMA and the Whitney, by NYSCA and NYFA). He practices in New York City and often teaches at Columbia University. For details see didi.com/brad.

post in progress… tune back later.

image: Library Project collab of driftwould and Bradley Wind… AKA driftwind (Say I).

Saint Stephen The Bovine

admin — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:53:37 +0000

Tangiers

admin — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:21:02 +0000

this is from Paule Sharits… Dumbo open studios again today…

her say hello, she might be in Tangiers
She left here last early spring and is living there I hear…

Pops

admin — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:28:18 +0000

The War At Home (or Pug Nose Redux)

admin — Sat, 20 May 2006 04:48:56 +0000

Well we started in Veitnam a few days agao and I thought it was an odd transition into the Arc Along The Watchtower, but as I thought about it, it felt sort of fitting…. I would never have guessed then that we would be here now… but so it goes… so much for reunions… so much for unions… so much fo onions… so much for so what… Still working on this painting… I’ll update the gif later… tired.

Arc Along The Watchtower (Part 1)

admin — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:57:22 +0000

this is an experiment with some new technology, using an old piece. I’m temporarily replacing the videos with silent versions, pending some permissions on music (sound versions here… Meanwhile, you are encouraged to play d.j. and dramaturg and mess with quicktime players to create a soundscape.

They hadn’t seen much of eachother lately, but toninight was the night of Phil’s big opening… It was a small show, in a small gallery, of small drawings… a group show.

It was the big opening only because it was Phil’s first opening in a long time.

(temporarily silent version) Vimeo
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Arc Along The Watchtower (Part 2)

admin — Thu, 18 May 2006 07:33:28 +0000

Ealier that same day, Phil started over the Manhattan Bridge:

temporary music: