I went down to the Brooklyn Promenade to try and shoot lower Manhattan in time lapse for Sineparade’s Zipperhead backgrounds. It had rained furiously all night and the news said there would be blustery winds blowing the system out to sea. I expected dramatic cloud movement, but what I didn’t expect was winds that could pick up my tripod and blow it down the boardwalk. I wore two sweaters and a jacket and still the wind went right through me and the tripod shook and vibrated in the wind. So I found a little spot at the beginning of the promenade where a sign reads: “end”. I set the tripod against the wall of a brownstone that acted as a windbreak. But now I was in shadow and I could suddenly see my breath fog and blow away and it was way too windy to read through my manuscript for an upcoming reading/ screening at Frost. Believe me I tried and I almost ended up with the whole sheaf of papers blown out to sea. So I just stood there freezing as the camera slowly clicked away the half minutes. I tried to roll a cigarette to pass the time, but it ended in comic disaster.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Back Seat Back Light
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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.
Johnny Cash Died of a Broken Heart
Disposable Film Festival
Polyethylene Bag in Disposable Film Festival on Vimeo is in the running for Audience Choice Award. This is mostly an attempt by the festival to drive eyes to their channel to watch the program, but Hey all you have to do is press the heart like button in the upper right corner of the vid and that counts as a vote for me. I could win a bleedin’ cell phone, or a remote controlled dinosaur. I’m actually more interested in the offspring of these two devices… a sort of remote controlled video cell phone dinosaur, but that’s maybe next year’s prize? Just press the DFF logo and it will take you to their channel. Vote Poly Ethylene Bag and vote often.
Humbert Humbert
I think I’ve finished this (maybe the first?) version of the Kubrick Lolita poster for Jauques’ SUpEr Trash Show. There could be others or even other movies, but strangely this fucked up raw thing actually took over a month to get finished. The head is painted in one of the Little Prince covers.
Three Princes
Some drawings I did in The Little Prince while the Neo Con’s hit 17 Frost. You can press the images to see them bigger and you can scroll down to see a timelapse of the crew at work.
Neo Con Opening
Some documentation of the Neo Con show at 17 Frost Street. We went to the opening last night and later had sushi where I drew on a napkin and had a delicious meal. Press the image to see it bigger
West Gorgeous
First day off and what a day it was folks. I went off with my rabbi to walk in snow flurries through Greenwood Cemetery and find tacos in Sunset Park. From there to the gym and back to the machine to download new audio mixes and then Chelsea to see one show by a College friend, one show by an Allan Stone Gallery friend, and one show by a Cousin… and for once I loved them all and mostly Leon Kossof who I know not and am related to not, but he feels like blood, or at least oil.
So the Posterboy, Aakash Nihalani, Ellis Gallagher opening is tonight at 17 Frost Street Space. You should come… or drop by some time. 
Guitar Hero
This little drawing has been sitting on the home drawing board for the last few weeks…slowly getting worked and reworked. Next I have a lot of video from the closing party to edit…lots of guitar heroes and keyboards and horns and squeeze box heroes too. But first I’ve got to get the paintings that didn’t sell into storage.[editor’s note:] this done, I uploaded lot’s of video and proceeded to fall asleep very early. At three thirty in the morning I awoke and found this photo of J. Armen playing for Sineparade on Javier Hernandez Miyares’ Flickr page. He’s got a lot of great photos of the closing party and some documentation of the show going in as I was tearing down.