art – IT IN Place

Polo Ticks

alex — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:45:05 +0000

A frank discuassion of the state of mental healthcare in the U.S. Solutions sought. All solutions, not just solutions of chemicals, but solutions of word, deed, experience and change.

Avoide the Red hooks… are these distractions or sacrafices? Or just the area of Brooklyn known as Red Hook. Is it the police? Or theAliens.

Burnt offerings and the temple mount. Is this a good idea?

Tell the Hemmingwayesque story of Cash and the 99 bottles of beer on the wall. All of them lost but for the ones Most Def took as brackets to hold his negotiation with nothing. Bad form and areal no no, but all the reast lost to a theif only the stolen remain. THe key to the bank (Banks Key is Becks in bippty boppty talk) The case of Canada one could drink a case of and thanks to three xxx it looks like a kaws dead Mingus 3 smiley Alien. Prince to Joni. Purple to blue queen. Heart is given not sold.

Submarine Races

alex — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:37:31 +0000

I am fretting about Verner VonBraun and the rocket Nazis and Pedophiles and Nabakov. The sins of the father I mutter and think of hollywood as a crooked bank laundering bad ideas. But the movies do remind us that everything is a lie, or potentially a lie and maybe beauty is the only truth. The beauty of a great looking lie.

The two faced outer gouter smiles and cries alternatively while Mr. Delicious waits for lunch time. There is nothing to do but eat and figure out a means of escape, The Peruvian is marching the halls again sporting a face of rage. I think he’s going to flip out and kill us all. He is marching and marching like a soldier around the ward. Is he a guard for Sophie, or an assassin? Nothing better to do and growing pig gut sends Mr. Delicious marching right behind the Peruvian. He catches up and marches past and for a brief second the severe face of the Peruvian melts into a smile. Victory deosn’t smell of Napalm, but rather appears in the form of a smile.

The Peruvian speaks of the bands he played drums in and all the little rock bands that were on the scene back in his glory days. He has a list he is composing of all the bands from the Peruvian scene. I don’t know what he is talking about, but the bands have faboulous spansish names. The Incas, the Aztecs, The Bastardos, El Submarinos, etc.

And when the drugs come it like lowering the scope on a diving submarine… down down down and the voices cant get through the foggy water hidden in alps and dessert pyramids. He can see all possible moves on the chess board of his delusion. He dies, she dies, everybody dies in an elaborate auto de fe like Hamlet meats the Grand Inquisitor… or there is the so called Happy Ending in which the Ice Man Cometh… or maybe it’s just happy cause no one got hurt but that doesn’t seem real happy. Rather I like the circus tent glass house concert… the charity ball fundraiser concert with Bowie and Bob and Neil and maybe Bruce. Paid the cost to be the boss. Raise the red tent. No blood but wine, no torn body but bread and you know dancing.

Mad Lib (rarian) s

alex — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:55:04 +0000

Rare Ians

Call me Sophie

From the fire of my mind I have brought fourth or back this infinite spider’s web… like an idiot Star Wars. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Wooh man… stop. Babble bablle in cipher and code. 2001 as a rom com tear jerker. Sci Fi which we know sells mixed with high concept Jungian psychosis. It cant lose.

Sci Fi in the manor of Vonnegut in Dresden… babes in the woods Romulus and Remus Asops fables.

Sophie gets a choice here…dark and white every tendril another possible outcome.

Literature as video game. Hub with many wheels Eezikial, but mostly Blarney

The idea where danial day lewis makes a pair of boots for Christopher Walkin who dances in Flourece to Nancy Sinatra’s Boots are Made for Walkin

Imagine everything is exactly the same only played by famous actors. God is digtal surveilance. Know all your choices are marked like Hansel and Gretal in the Forest of your own mind, time, space and spot in the universe, or verses, versus other verses multiverses.

Four endings this one the happy one. OMegg

In this one Stanley never dies, Orson never dies, spalding never dies… all put down on glass like silicon Jesus reborn and rebooted. These boots were made for Christopher Walkin and we are all Christopher Walkin, or not.

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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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

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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True West

alex — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:55:49 +0000

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helped my brother move a couple of years back and this footage has been sitting on my desktop since. Somehow now is the time to recut. For Xtian the best/worst big brother I ever had. It was a trip to remember so here is a souvenire. I think you should do a narration. I’m sick of my own voice.

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.

Aunt Elanor Rigby

alex — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:35:42 +0000

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catching up with vlogs

The Ice Palace

alex — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:38:57 +0000

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Last state of Collab with Ellis G And Beauty amongst the beasts:

Catching Up

alex — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:24:52 +0000

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Cacthcing up witht the last few days at frost.

this state is gone.

Asylum

alex — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:19:51 +0000

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LSG, CaanKnee, IT In, Yoko, and John collab

Nudes

alex — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:23:23 +0000

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Duchampian snap with UU from London.

Fatsexy

alex — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:34:18 +0000

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Before and after the opening and premiere (was too buzy yammering to shoot the rest of the time).

Teaser

alex — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:55:56 +0000

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see you Saturday!

A Soft Machine

alex — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:27:07 +0000

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We had a soft opening for Cage and Uncaged last night. Some of my favorite Street Artists came by and borrowed the remaing cans of paint to knock up on a discarded matress from the luxury condo building next door. I told Javi who did what and gave him my leather man to cut out the muslin…. I said do what you will, but I’m not touching a matress…. I got bud bug bit once in Reno and I won’t suffer if for art, money, or love. Viva Slepton! Viva BAM!

Cold Cogging

alex — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:03:17 +0000

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beastly cold, but still making beasties and masks.

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and in other time and space issues….. New Years vlog

The Hounds of Christmas

alex — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:24:57 +0000

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Coglapse

alex — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:21:29 +0000

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raw time lapse of making a new cog sculpture out of expanding polyurethane foam (aka Good Stuff). Show opens Jan 18th. File subject to updating/editing. Lots of plumber crack…. lucky you.

Frosty Cogs

alex — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:58:28 +0000

The snow came faintly falling on the Brooklyn Cog as I played around on the big white walls of Frost.

And Open To The Hound played a fare thee well show before going on tour:

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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.

Cog Changes

alex — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 04:47:38 +0000

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ch ch ch changes

Frost Changes

alex — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:05:29 +0000

I got to frost a little late today due to plumbing adventures… but got some good work in… From top: A large cog study, Cog mural at night (with face now painted out), Joe Monster with new figure drawing, and last but not least some more work on Dirty Hippy Jesus below.

Big Mama Cog

alex — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:22:30 +0000

Even as I was calling my mom about thaksgiving my Ex tried was trying to flag me down at the pass…. It’s my mom’s birthday…. and like the shitty son I am I spaced it again. So this time lapse is for MOM. You were born and so you are free and so Happy Birthday mom….just start talking at the sound of tone. This one will be Romulus and Venus… and this was the inspirado of little dogs yesterday.

Moving The Past

alex — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:38:37 +0000

Lapsing and surveiling the installation at frost.

Leaving

alex — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:00:22 +0000

Free Botanic Garden Tuesday happened also to be great weather and peak leaves in the park day. I’m glad I caught the fireworks before it all fades to a steel grey winter.

Too Many Tear Drops

alex — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:05:56 +0000

dripping down…

The Shining

alex — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:56:46 +0000

Gearing up to start a Residency at 17 frost from Nov, thru Jan. Most of the work will be of a narrative and more or less figurative nature, so I’ve been drawing abstracts in the spirit of contrariness. I’ve never shown a lot of my abstract work, but I never stop making it. I guess I’m afraid that even the best abstract paintings (like Kline and DeKooning and Twombly) sort of end up as decorations/trophies for rich idiots. They can sort of drift into the background and be ignored. I guess you can ignore Mozart too, so it shouldn’t matter, but then I never wanted to be Mozart, I wanted to scream and rock. Still abstraction is my first love and my favorite work to look at or make

Cog Studies.

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

More thoughts on cog sculptures

Taxi BQE

alex — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:24:29 +0000

I was coming home in the taxi when I called you and you were already home and getting ready for bed and so I hung up and asked the cab driver where he was from originally and he said, “Egypt” and so we spoke of pyramids, and the Old Testament, and Islam, and Israel and Palestine and terrorism and when we’d exhausted all that we spoke of dogs. He said his pit bull was having a bad allergic reaction to something in the Autumn air, or ground. His skin was all inflamed and the dog took to licking its paws to try and stop the itch. The dog’s paws were now a bloody mess and he’d scratched his belly raw in great spasms of back leg sharp claw digging. They had to put the dog’s head in a huge plastic cone.

“Space Dog,” I said

“Yes, like a space dog, exactly.”

It was nice to agree on something and we whisked through the Brooklyn night home to where I pet the dogs and checked their paws just to be on the safe side.

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!

Last of a Dying Breed

alex — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 01:33:32 +0000

Vito and friends eat up Williamsburg and environs. Music is a couple of guys playing banjo and fidel from across the tracks at the Metropolitan stop on the L and G. It really created a great vibe. Folks were dancing with eachother from platform to platform. NY is nice in the fall sometimes.

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.

UU Baazaar

alex — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:10:07 +0000

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Some more digtital collabs with UU… in honor of fashion week I guess?

Time

alex — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:41:36 +0000

And the crowd all gathers and screams for the same old shit. Won’t get fooled again? Ha.
Unless you have drunk the Cool Aid, you are left with a Split Personality on the whole thing

Clark Comes Down

alex — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:23:04 +0000

Clark comes down as if somehow gentically engineered to interrupt the peace of my morning cigarette and he is all burning and fire; when all I wanted, or needed was smoke. He is, as always, too much: Too many words, too many laughs, too many tears and too many needs. Naturally he needs to bum a cigarette. I want to tell him to buy his own, but his mother just died and I don’t know… I think you just have to give things to people in mourning in the morning. So I do.

Mashup Sketch – Willoughby

alex — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:06:24 +0000

Here we go with a period exploring the old Willoughby performance tape I made probably in 2003?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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…

Time Piece

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

Just trying to draw the world on a Friday night.