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Ediz PV

February 28, 2008

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I’m off to Portland for a few days to see the closing of my show at Night Gallery. Don’t know if I’ll be able to post while traveling, but I’ll be shooting some video and stills. I’ll miss you all.

Bottles

February 27, 2008

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Leave Laughing

February 26, 2008

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New Face

February 25, 2008

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Lemon

February 23, 2008

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Iron Snow

February 22, 2008

The snow on the iron fence reminded me of the drawing(s) I did yesterday in the time life book about collecting. In this case, collecting books. The word Youth is from A Matisse illstrated edition of Ulysees.youthskull.jpg

Main Street

February 21, 2008

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The Let Letter

February 20, 2008

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Wild Chorus

February 19, 2008

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Monkey Dance

February 18, 2008

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a long dance party made into a short, shadowy film

Sports

February 17, 2008

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Tex T

February 16, 2008

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BooksHelf

Sick with the flu or a cold or something the last few days. Life seen in an on going sleep fever dream. Some man in a coffin trying to become a crocodile… a crowd gathered around a television set predicting the impossible… the man becomes a crocodile only to have the jaws broken back to reveal his human head… and on and on…bookshelf.jpgbookshelf2.jpg

Waggis Thinking of a Joke

February 15, 2008

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2002

February 12, 2008

Some old footage of Fasnacht and a new drawing.bicycle.jpg

Waiting For Something

I took this a few weeks back waiting on the roof on a rumor of fireworks that never came. Now I’m watching Dawn in Basel and there is only one drummer running unseen through the streets, beating a march time… it rips and echoes up the street where the camera isn’t pointing.dscn6664.JPG

Morgestraich

February 11, 2008

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morgestraich Basel Fasnacht from Alex Itin on Vimeo.

Spoke

February 9, 2008

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Spoken

February 8, 2008

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Cycles

February 7, 2008

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The Loneliest Monk

February 6, 2008

The video is an experiment using piano notes from various Monk vids I pulled off of Youtube. I was watching Straight No Chaser last night and I’d always felt that certain moments in a Monk performance are like shards of colored glass from stained glass window… they sort of hang out there all alone. I wondered if it might not be fun to try and reassemble them into some new abstract shape. It would be an interesting electronic instrument that allowed you to play notes and video clips of you favorite musicians. It seems somehow related to how I’m using the page layouts of the Time Life book of Collectibles as a back bone for abstract paintings.facenotface.jpg

Rung

February 5, 2008

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Flung

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Purple

February 4, 2008

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I found this scrap of purple on the windshield. Mysterious delight.

Fly

February 3, 2008

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Bells Collecting Porcelain Sound

February 1, 2008

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Porcelain can opener
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ring out ring in
pabst the road to the city
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