cog – IT IN Place

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).

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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Cog Changes

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

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ch ch ch changes

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.

Cog Studies.

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

More thoughts on cog sculptures

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.

Exit Stage Left

alex — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:21:52 +0000

I’m into the last notes of the video for “Pain”. The characters walk off stage a little like an old vaudeville comedy team. They are sort of based on me ex’s little dogs who are a little like a comedy team in their antics too. They’ve been running around my feet the whole time. Pain, isn’t it adorable?

COGitate

alex — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:53:10 +0000

The last cog in the machine.

On the Beach

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

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.

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.

Dird

alex — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:47:41 +0000

PAX

Hold On

alex — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:17:19 +0000

Cog Turns

alex — Fri, 03 May 2013 06:30:39 +0000

The cog paces the screen.

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.

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.

Trouble in Purgatory

alex — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:50:35 +0000

Well I’m back on the couch and or pulling vampire all nighters at the studio. This year is like last year and like the decade before that. They say the definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting different results… Guess I know some crazy people… but joy joy the cog has arisen Christ/Phoenix-like from the blood and ashes. Viva La Cog!

Surfs Up

alex — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:13:27 +0000

Pixies and painting with oils at 17 frost mini studio. Not to mention dropping the epoxy resin on the Cog finally and then Alex Garcia shows up and drums while it cures…. I mean he was like a jet engine and blew out the mike. You should have been in the room. Felt like making surfboards in some Zuma beach shack, or whatever.