On a house and a melody

"I don t need to know the details, perhaps I'm sitting under a palm. Or it's a room, with furniture, all that's required to make life comfortable, dark, because of the wall outside the window. What am I doing, talking, having my figments talk, it can only be me. Spells of silence too, when I listen, and hear the local sounds, the world sounds, see what an effort I make, to be reasonable. There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. I'm making progress, it was time, I'll learn to keep my foul mouth shut before I'm done, if nothing foreseen crops up."

on semi enclosed moves / two boring lumieres

 

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I feel it's not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there is no reason.”.....“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.” 

Paraphrasing Cage, Renseiw posts two short and utterly boring lumieres, after vineing for some time now, missing the patalab flow.

On observing: down to earth, again

"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."

 Just a momentary lapse of observation(s), while nevertheless continuing almost quotidian captures: enjoy a genuine moment of humble down-to-earth gazing to some cold exterior while sitting in a cool yet warm interior. The action start straight of, yet you might anticipate smaller happenings at 55'' and 1'10''. [patafilm # 855, 01'27'', 29MB, Quicktime/mov]

Notes on Voodling [happy new]

"An image must be transformed by contact with other images, as is a color by contact with other colors. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.

The truth of Vooodling cannot be the truth of theater, nor the truth of the novel, nor the truth of painting. (What the Voodler captures with his or her own resources cannot be what the theater, the novel, painting capture with theirs.) Voddles, where the images, like the words in a dictionary, have no power and value except through their position and relation.

If an image, looked at by itself, expresses something sharply, if it involves an interpretation, it will not be transformed on contact with other images. The other images will have no power over it, and it will have no power over the other images. Neither action, nor reaction. It is definitive and unusable in the Voodler's system. (A system does not regulate everything. It is a bait for something.)"

Closing this year with a short moving dipthyh featuring two distinct images and paraphrasing Bresson's notes, Sam Renseiw concludes this years pataphysical body-space morphological investigations. Thank you to all friends and viewers: Best wishes for a creative and peaceful new year. Sam R.

(patafilm # 854, 01'33'', 24 MB, quicktime/mov)

On reporting to an academy

"Esteemed Gentlemen of the Academy!
You show me the honour of calling upon me to submit a report to the Academy concerning my previous life as a Voodler.
In this sense, unfortunately, I cannot comply with your request. Almost eight years separate me from my existence as a Voodler, a short time perhaps when measured by the calendar, but endlessly long to gallop through, as I have done, at times accompanied by splendid men, advice, applause, and orchestral music, but basically alone, since all those accompanying me held themselves back a long way from the barrier, in order to preserve the image. This achievement would have been impossible if I had stubbornly wished to hold onto my origin, onto the memories of my youth.
Giving up that obstinacy was, in fact, the highest command that I gave myself. I, a free Voodler, submitted myself to this yoke. In so doing, however, my memories for their part constantly closed themselves off against me. If people had wanted it, my journey back at first would have been possible through the entire gateway which heaven builds over the earth, but as my development was whipped onwards, the gate simultaneously grew lower and narrower all the time. I felt myself more comfortable and more enclosed in the world of moving images."

Paraphrasing Kafka, Sam Renseiw continues his videographer roundabouts while at the same time closing a chapter in an academy, opening new vitas more north. View the short montage by clicking on the image above. (other link following soon)
(patafilm # 853,35,4MB, 02'32'', quicktimemov.)

More Lumiere and steady flow of voodles on the line. Best SamR 

more momentatry test upload(s)

on borrowed landscapes & other interiors (test2)

just a momentary test with vimeo embed

"In a time and in a country where everyone goes out of his way to announce opinions, hand down judgements or re-clip videos after the concepts of a famous film instructor, Sam Renseiw has made a habit of biting his tongue three times before posting any new video. After the bite, if he is still convinced of what he was going to post, he posts it. If not, he keeps his videopostings shut. In fact, he spends whole weeks, months in silence."

Paraphrasing Mr. Palomar [again] Sam Renseiw posts a quite recent pataphysical body-space morphology recording (slowed)
(patafilm # 849, 03'49'', 9MB, .m4v, avaiblable at vimeo in other versions)
 

On the state of things

“As the hours, the days, the weeks, the seasons slip by, you detach yourself from everything. You discover, with something that sometimes almost resembles exhilaration, that you are free. That nothing is weighing you down, nothing pleases or displeases you. You find, in this life exempt from wear and tear and with no thrill in it other than these suspended moments, in almost perfect happiness, fascinating, occasionally swollen by new emotions. You are living in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum full of promise, and from which you expect nothing. You are invisible, limpid, transparent. You no longer exist. Across the passing hours, the succession of days, the procession of the seasons, the flow of time, you survive without joy and without sadness. Without a future and without a past. Just like that: simply, self evidently, like a drop of water forming on a drinking tap on a landing.”

As if a man asleep. That would be nice, indeed, Perec like. Yet, some  (obviously) nice things do happen: Furtherfields did recently publish Michael Szpakowski's generous (and very insightful) review of Renseiw and Sanderson's Lumiere & Son Project. Thank you Michael for the generous, focused, in-depth re-view(s)!

Same week: 'Pataphysics, a useless guide by Andrew Hugill /MIT press arived; Lo and behold: Sam Renseiw's work did make it (mentionably) into this first comprehensive pataphor in english. (page 26, references and index). The book is amazing in its cross-references and outlay of 'pataphysical matter. Very, very useful !

The patalab work should continue !!

Yet, the present (desperate) backlog of video posts is (again) due to Bliptv obstination(s) to administer their (ugly) to-embed Flash player. (black screen in iPhone/iPad), making it useless. (For some reason the present links do work again after the april disaster, but not the new posts). 

Yes, as much as I would love to continue the work, with blogspot and blip,  it does seems that re-hosting all work(s) on a new  site unfortunately has to be done. Would thus  appreciate all the help available.  Best Sam  
 

On other recapitulations

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"I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an animal, in a plant, in some inanimate object, and so effectively lost to us until the day (which to many never comes) when we happen to watch the voodle or to obtain possession of the object which forms their prison. Then they start and tremble, they call us by our name, and as soon as we have recognized their voice the spell is broken. We have delivered them: they have overcome death and return to share our life.

And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some voodled object (in the sensation which that voodled object will give us) which we do not suspect. And as for that voodle, it depends on chance whether we come upon it or not before we ourselves must die."

Indeed. Recapitulating with two new (late-spring) voodles and a quiet lumiere, Sam Renseiw resume the futile and delicate practice of free voodling.(paraphrasing Proust, again). Halted for a longer(and painful) moment by Blip.tv's imposed censorship, a ban recently lifted, the practice can resume for a while. (All Bliptv links now re-established again- hopefully lasting just clik on the image or the links under) (patafilm # 847, 02'58'', 64MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) ( patafilm # 848, 04'30'', 89MB, Quicktime/mov- other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a subdued pre-catwalk commotion in kimono. (lum # 337, 01'00'', 18MB Quicktime /mov )

Amidst a snowballing cacophony of mishaps and other rather serious life-altering ocurrences during the past trimester, Sam's voodling practice will in the future need to find some conclusion(s) and hopefuly alternative hostings for posting(s)/archival. In the mean time, many, many kind greetings to all the "old" viewers. More to come. Best Sam.

On memories and poetic(s) of space(s)

"Our memories are encumbered with facts. Beyond the recollections we continually hark back to, we should like to relive our suppressed impressions and the dreams that made us believe in happiness: Ou vous ai-je perdue, mon imagerie pietinee (Where did I lose you, my trampled fantasies?) If we have retained an element of dream in our memories, if we have gone beyond merely assembling exact recollections, bit by bit the house that was lost in the mists of time will appear from out the shadow. We do nothing to reorganize it; with intimacy it recovers its entity, in the mellowness and imprecision of the inner life. It is as though something fluid had collected our memories and we ourselves were dissolved in this fluid of the past."

Re-collecting and montageing recent footage with batches from before christmas, Sam Renseiw continues the disparate quest of investigative voodling of body-space morphologies; View the present edit of the inside of a famous church with angel clippings by cliking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 846, 06'30'', 111MB, Quicktime/mov - Other versions at bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of local (red) spring (Lum # 336, 00'47'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On cognitive time-space synaestesia

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"Voodling removes one from the night and the day at the same time. It can neither bring into question nor bring into action this world that binds us.... the mind feels agitated, while in an aesthetic judgment about the beautiful in nature it is in restful contemplation. This agitation (above all at its inception) can be compared with a vibration, i.e. with a rapid alternation of repulsion from, and attraction to, one and the same object. If a thing is excessive for the imagination (and the imagination is driven to such excess as it apprehends the thing in intuition), then the thing is, as it were, an abyss in which the imagination is afraid to lose itself."

After another hectic work period, Sam Renseiw found time to re-collect parts of nevertheless acquired and amassed footage. Take a short peak into the concocted docu-voodled space of a (real) synaesthesia (psychology)lab with some added appearances. Click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 845, 02'43'', 47,1 MB,Quicktime/mov - Other versions on Blipv)


Today's Bonus Lumiere Video conveys a fine sense of contemplation. (Lum # 335 "Mr.Palomar" 00'58'', 16MB, Quicktime/mov)

On (more) voodled paraphernalia

" Since a phenomenological inquiry on voodling aspires to go so far and so deep, because of methodological obligations, it must go beyond the sentimental resonances with which we receive (more or less richly-whether this richness be within ourselves or within the voodle) a work of art. This is where the phenomenological doublet of resonances and repercussions must be sensitized. The resonances are dispersed on the different planes of our life in the world, while the repercussions invite us to give greater depth to our own existence. In the resonance we hear the voodle, in the reverberations we speak it, it is our own. The reverberations bring about a change of being. It is as though the voodler's being were our being. The multiplicity of resonances then issues from the reverberations' unity of being. Or, to put it more simply, this is an impression that all impassioned voodle-lovers know well: the voodle possesses us entirely."

After some stressful time-lag not posting Sam Renseiw is back with a longer poetics-of-space voodle, paraphrasing with delight: "I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls." (A house that stands in my heart/My cathedral of silence/Every morning recaptured in dream/Every evening abandoned/A house covered with dawn/Open to the winds of my youth.) Enter for some peculiar inner paraphernalia by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 844, 05'47'', 86MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features a classic Lumiere moment, albeit in darkness. (Lum # 334 "classique Lumiere noir"01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On key discoveries in dance voodles

"I like to produce moving images that seems out of range, to enlarge the range and add things to what we think of as video-blogging…. From the beginning — like the other discoveries, such as separating music and movement — Voodling has constantly brought up other possibilities. There is always some other way to do it…. Voodling is another way found to deal with the question of what movement can be. Voodling has opened it up to me. It has broadened what I think of as possible in dance-voodles."

Paraphrasing (again) and grossly cross-changing terminologies, Sam Renseiw enables some pataphysical observations through Cunningham's "Four Key Discoveries", while condensing some recent footage into clear-cut dance-voodles. View the new footage - two videos on one post- (yet clearly from late-last-year) by clicking here and here or on the links above. (patafilm # 842,03'09'', 65MB, Quicktime/mov; patafilm # 843, 03'29'', 67MB, Quicktime/mov - Other versions at bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video is a shaking still, making faces. (bonus Lumiere video # 333, 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

on stand-stills

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“Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.”

The best wishes for a happy, properous and fruitfull new year to all friends and dedicated viewers. Kind regards: Sam Renseiw.

On little bags of remembrance in voodles

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"…our brain contains something akin both to a photographic plate and a phonographic cylinder, and many other things of the same kind not yet discovered; not a sight or a sound or a smell is lost; not a taste or feeling or an emotion. Unconscious memory records them all, without our even heeding what goes on around us beyond the things that attract our immediate interest or attention. […]...the Voodle should not have to do with an exploit or record, it would be neither a peak to scale nor an ocean floor to reach ... [it] would not be heroic, or spectacular; it would be something simple and discreet."

Trapped by an overflowed harddisk and simultaneous chores, Sam Renseiw nevertheless managed to voodle around in his spare time, montage-ing bits of footage anyway. View a long overdue piece of fragmented memory from short visit to a somehow far-flung place by clicking here or on the links above (patafilm # 840, 02'45'', 49Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more distinct set-up of unintended narration in an abstract context. (lum # 330 "cold toasted bread" 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the emergence of presence

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"The assembled material is extra-ordinary, on many levels. Not necessarily in size, but certainly in depth. […] On first glance, one might be struck by a seemingly anachronistic stance inherent in the material. In conception and obviously manufacture, a certain delightful time lag is ubiquitously present. It is the firm constancy of theses markers that acts as benevolent alonge, freshly propelling the work(s) into new, and more timely territories of classification. […] There is, obviously, one pivotal condition at stake. Acting as a magnanimous, crucial amalgam ingredient, the carefully crafted Artworks, ooze with refined discharges, to maintain a chartered, unflinching course. Encompassing a longing for “erotics of art instead of hermeneutics”, the overlapping works by POF and ERF establish broader territories of sensuous presence…"

After some arduous and intense work participating in the setting-up of Studiowork, Sam Renseiw montaged the first bouts of footage into a short trailer. Enter a moment of intense interior views with fine perhaps by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 837,02'02'', 36MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another sort of closing/opening.(Lum # 329, 01'00'',"unseenremains", 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On geological maze & enlightened screening

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'If a straight line is the shortest distance between two fated and inevitable points, digressions will lengthen it; and if these digressions become so complex, so tangled and tortuous, so rapid as to hide their own tracks, who knows - perhaps death may not find us, perhaps time will loose its way, and perhaps we ourselves can remain concealed in our shifting hiding places'

After wondering what the duality of juxtaposition of Geological-Museum-footage and screening-in-a-theatre-footage might actually reflect, Sam Renseiw starts with a quote by Calvino; View the (almost) straight line digression by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 838, 04'18'', 79Mb, Qicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short foyer screening. (lum # 328, "grobfoyer-future short" 00'22'', 5.5Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On motor intentionality & best grip in voodles

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"..My (kino-eye)body has a grip on the world when my perception offers me a spectacle as varied and as clearly articulated as possible, and when my motor intentions, as they unfold, receive from the world the responses they anticipate. This Voodling-distinctness in perception and action defines a perceptual ground, a basis of my life, a general milieu for the coexistence of my body and the world." […] "Ordinary experience draws a perfectly clear distinction between sense experience and judgment. It sees judgment as the taking of a stand, as an effort to know something valid for me at every moment of my life, and for other minds, actual or possible; voodling experience, on the contrary, is taking appearance at its face value...This distinction disappears in voodling, because judgment is everywhere pure sensation is not, which is to say everywhere"

Sam Renseiw, having concocted a new docu-voodle from recorded footage during a sunny week-end, paraphrases (again) and realises that a “phenomenal field” in voodling is neither a representation nor a locus of representations. View the dimension of our bodily embeddedness in a perceptually coherent environment in the voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 836, 04'51'', 87MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a straight forward choreography (Lum # 327 "goalie" . 01'00''. 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On re-viewing a local Faireytale

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" The OBEY voodle can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. Heidegger describes Phenomenology as “the process of letting things manifest themselves.” Phenomenology attempts to enable people to see clearly something that is right before their eyes but obscured; things that are so taken for granted that they are muted by abstract observation.The first aim of voodling is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one’s environment. The OBEY voodles attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the voodles and their relationship with their surroundings. Because people are not used to seeing voodles for which a motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with voodles provoke thought(s) and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer’s perception and attention to detail. The voodle has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the voodle. Because OBEY voodle has no actual meaning, the various reactions and interpretations of those who view it reflect their personality and the nature of their sensibilities."

Going through almost overseen late-summer footage, Sam Renseiw rescued a traveling panorama. (while paraphrasing) View the central urban swoop, long gone by now, that nevertheless left more than one imprint in town that summer, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 835, 04'19'', 72Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions on Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple moment of shadowy exuberance.(Lum # 326 "lavazaz&light" 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On more internal negotiations

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" As in a hall of mirrors, everyday personal negotiations for recognition and respect, or about right and wrong, are distorted and magnified, along with the general human fear of loneliness, exclusion and alienation. In the work, AC Bey presents these worries and speculations, inviting reflection(s) in a tunnel’s polyphonic choir of absurdities, oddities and grotesque banalities.."

Simultaneously present, Sam Renseiw attends a fine musical performance while lingering into the artistic Tunnel of Fear. View the not so frightening walk-through with fine soundtrack overlay by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 835, 03'35'', 61Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more subdued, dancing hall (Lum # 325, 01'00'', tivoli ballet" 17Mb, Quicktime/mov)

and, it's a sad day: Steve Job departed. ( his fine commencement speech at Stanford, 2005 here)

On Your Blind Passenger

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“For me Voodling is tied to our ‘now’, to the moment between one second and the next. It constitutes a potential that is actualised and transformed into reality; an opening where concepts such as subject and object, inside and outside, proximity and distance are thrown up in the air only to be defined anew. Our sense of orientation is challenged, and the coordinates of our spaces, collective and personal, have to be renegotiated. Mutability and motion lie at the core of Voodling.”

Paraphrasing and taking a walk through OE's elongated, institutionalised Utopia, Sam Renseiw gets (almost) lost in coloured brume. Follow the formal perambulation from commencement to (re)emergence by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 833, 03'38'', 64MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv) NB: OE's original version here, showing that some original colours (yellow-orange?) seem to be missing during the voodled walk.

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features concentrated, desked, sitting moves, delineated. (Lum # 323, "analogue drafting", 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On voodling poetics of waste

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" The centerpiece of B’s exhibition at C is a new architectural installation created especially for Copenhagen. The installation takes the form of a giant pissoir which drains directly onto the gallery floor, and which visitors are invited to enter and use. The pissoir, like many of B’s works, evokes the monumental neoclassicism that is a recurring strand in Western art and architecture. B’s installation satirizes this tradition, but also suggests a more serious point: how power attempts to use architecture to direct behavior – and to define what it means to be a citizen – even down to the codification of pissing."

On a short visit to the local art temple, Sam Renseiw fulfills his art-appreciation duties accordingly to the artist's wishes. View a moment of chartered indoor architectural grandeur complete with minor leak by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 832, 03'09'',56MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a direct view on a paired moment of concentrated voyeurism. (lum # 323 "photographed photographers", 01'00'', 22 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On re-mapping(s) in memory voodles

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" We ought, then, to set up images of a kind that can adhere longest in memory. And we shall do so if we establish similitudes as striking as possible; if we set up images that are not many or vague but active; if we assign to them exceptional beauty or singular ugliness; if we ornament some of them, as with repetitive black painted stripes on the floor, so that the similitude may be more distinct to us; or if we somehow disfigure them, as by introducing one stained with blood or soiled with mud and smeared with red paint, so that its form is more striking, or by assigning certain comic effects to our voodles, for that, too, will ensure our remembering them more readily "

Affected, once again, by the task of facilitating a certain order in produced material(s), Sam Renseiw attempts to visualize the striped outlays for (arte)facts with some in-depth probes of adjacent spaces. View the short ars memoria with montaged inserts from ways of losing oneself in an image by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 831, 03'48'', 65MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a straightforward detournement of body and space morphology.(Lum # 322, "ways of losing oneself ", 01'00'', 23MB, Quicktime/mov)

On voodling deja-vu preambulations

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“ A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings […] When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.”

As if experiencing a deja-vu, Sam Renseiw wanders through corridors, entering new chambers and other spaces reminiscent of more influential and original ones View the almost complete perambulation through the hotel by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 830, 09'27''152MB(!), Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features one way of loosing oneself in an image. (lum # 321,"ways of loosing oneself in an image" 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)