On nature, space and inbetween-voodling

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" The wall returns to form the fourth side of the open courtyard, where the majority of it is missing, leaving nature beyond to complete the enclosure. Herein is an aura of immanence, of engagement with something in the process of happening. Fragments of collums fluting or stretching room-forms are in the process of transmuting towards growth or decay... The main room resembles something of the traditional multipurpose "tupa" space, with an open fire, and with the addition of a small loft studio, nestling between the apex of the roof. At the meeting of the two wings there is a small kitchen. The modest bedrooms and bathrooms are accessed by a cloister-like corridor which faces the courtyard, being either pierced by the sun through its doors and windows, or shuttered tight against the cold..."

Apparently taking a scrutinising, moving approach (in)to a memorable piece of Nordic architecture, Sam Renseiw stretches the limits of testing body-space morphologies in the apparent maze of the simple corridor. View the elementary observations, complete with boatshelter, book reviews and diary of a parachutist noise-art re-mix by clicking here, or, on the links above.(patafilm # 701, 06'45'', 62Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more static point of view, nevertheless representing an animated moment. (Lum # 212, 00'53''," window dog, tampere ", Quicktime/mov)....For a more psychedelic version, with sound, of the same scene, click here.

On keeping Ithaka in the mind while voodling

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"Keep Ithaka always in your mind./Arriving there is what you're destined for, /but don't hurry the journey at all,/better if it lasts for years,/so you're old by the time you reach the island,/wealthy with all you've gained on the way,/not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. // Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey./Without her you wouldn't have set out./She has nothing left to give you now./And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you./Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,/you'll have understood by then/what these Ithakas mean."

The journey, the journey mumbled Renseiw, encountering numerous flash-backs and other deja-vus, circling the Villa while wondering on matters of morphology of body and space. View the unfolding around the pool by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 700(!), 05,14'', 46.4MB, Quicktime/mov -other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a contrasting balance, mixing location, semiotics and acrobatics. (Lum # 211 " jamaican superman, helsinki" 01'00'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov

On Benvenuto's summer punch

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" We are gathered here...we whose task it is to dream of the impossible...perfection...each one beleaves he carries a spark in him...but we understand, we realise that we are only one part...when will unity come, that unites it all? Both humorous and tragic, able to be building and torn down.... the loves for the spirit of matter ... the mystery of the world... the synthesis... and ladies... to that bottoms up "

Walking the flow of space from forest to prow along contours and elongated curves, Sam Renseiw goes almost all the way round a building's exterior, loosing most definitions on the way. Follow the curve to the forest, the amphitheatre and the prow by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 699, 04'41'', 41.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video happens to be a tad shaky in its almost surreal maritime set-up. ( Lum # 210," vesikko & viking", 01'00'', 5.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the production of new realities

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"In analogue film, light leaves traces on the sensitive emulsion, imprinting on it permanent shadows. The manipulation of two realities - the superimposition of two stills, both traces of material realities - produces something that is already outside the logic of "realism". Rather than represent reality, it produces a new reality... "

Vaguely remembering the insinuation that the only semiotic system capable of interpreting another semiotic system is to be language, Sam Renseiw realised while editing more finish(ing) footage, that voodling makes interior architecture something other, transforms it into a new item. And that new item is, in itself and apart from the fact to which it is referring, an event, that could also be called a "fact". View the new interior artefact by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 698, 03'28'', 22MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video takes a deep focused view on framing moving objects & persons on an island. (lum # 209, "silja, passing", 01'00'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the patamatics of interior voodle gaze

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" To live is to leave traces. In the interior these are emphasised. An abundance of covers and protectors, liners and cases are devised, on which the traces of objects of everyday use are imprinted. The traces of the occupant also leave their impressions on the interior....I can thus feel myself under the gaze of someone whose eyes I do not see, not even discern. From the moment this gaze exists, I am already something other, in that I feel myself becoming an object for the gaze of others. But in this position, which is a reciprocal one, others also know that I am an object who knows himself to be seen. "

Architecture is not simply a platform that accommodates the viewing subject. It is also a viewing mechanism that might produce the subject. It precedes and frames its occupants, and certainly exerts a moving theatricality in the expansive patamatics of the voodling gaze. View the cornered moves in a famed Nordic interior by clicking here or immerse first in Brut Smog's fine analytic dissection of voodling. (patafilm # 697b, 06'35'', 55.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of a walkway into a lake, recorded from a quite famous hut. (Lum # 208 " alvar's pond " 00'49'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On showing reality, just voodling-by

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"The last few nights he had had the most uncertain feelings about the sidewalk just around the corner here, moving in the starlight toward his house. He had felt that a moment prior to his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through. Perhaps his nose detected a faint perfume, perhaps the skin on the backs of his hands, on his face, felt the temperature rise at this one spot where a person’s standing might raise the immediate atmosphere ten degrees for an instant. There was no understanding it. Each time he made the turn, he saw only the white, unused, buckling sidewalk, with perhaps, on one night, something vanishing swiftly across a lawn before he could focus his eyes or speak."

Just passing by, Sam Renseiw, impressed by a Fahrenheit 451 deja-vu, meticulously recorded the seemingly spontaneous raucousness in 3 , uncut, panoramic takes. View the docu-voodle with pure diegetic soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 696, 02.07, 18.7 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a new lofty departure. (Lum # 207, "oyutbound, again" 01'00'', 6.3 MB, Quicktime/mov)

Expect a more steady stream of finish[ing] docu-voodles on patalab until the end og august. Best summer wishes to all, Sam.

On problem(s) of empathy in voodle space

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"The point of the local epoché can perhaps best be brought out if we follow the voodle in applying it to the case of perceptual experience. The voodler is supposed to perform his descriptions from a first-person point of view, so as to ensure that the respective item is described exactly as it is experienced. Now in the case of perceptual experience one cannot, of course, both fall victim to and at the same time discover a particular perceptual error; it is always possible that one is subject to an illusion or even a hallucination, so that one's perceptual experience is not veridical. If one is hallucinating, there is really no object of perception. However, phenomenologically the experience one undergoes is exactly the same as if one were successfully perceiving an external object."

Still pondering on the nature of experiences in the quotidian, Sam Renseiw collaged footage from recent in-door activities. View the crude, manipulated subjectivity as part of what it might be for the experiences to be experienced and, partly, for what it is for the experience just to be, by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 695, 01'58'', 17.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video is a clear & phenomenological simple, interpretative -descriptive still-voodle, open to experience analysis. And also: a seemingly much larger space, denied. (Lum # 206, 01'00'' " horizon fence ", 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On state(s) of spleen and anxious voodling

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" Were I ten centuries old, could I remember more?/A weighty chest of drawers, crammed with a random store/Of voodles , writs, songs, balance sheets,/And heavy skeins of hair rolled up in old receipts,
/Hides fewer secrets, surely, than my sorry brain,/A pyramid and vault, whose corridors contain/More corpses than the potter's field, or late or soon./A graveyard, I, abominated by the moon,/Where, like a viscous worm, remorse thrusts out his head/To strike forever at my most beloved dead./I am an ancient Voodle filled with faded roses/In which a ruck of long-outmoded gowns reposes,/Where pastels all too sad and Bouchers all too pale/Alone breathe in the scents that uncorked flasks exhale./Nothing can be so long as days, limping and drear,/Under the heavy flakes of year on snowy year,/When ennui, fruit of dismal incuriosity,/Assumes the fearful scope of immortality..."

All those voodle morsels slowly pile up, moans Sam Renseiw, depressed, realising the agony of quasi-perpetual remembrance... All a grand illusion, somehow - futile, senseless and cluttered: a warehouse of forgetful movables, without any (more) comments; Take a walk through the ordered scatter by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 694, 03'35'', 31.6Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a benevolent view on a tripple Renoir action. (Lum # 205, " re-viewing Renoir(s) ",01'00'', 7MB,,Quicktime/mov)

On unicorns and helicopters in voodles

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" The fairly widely held view of Voodling as a system of signs seems to me profoundly and essentially mistaken. I see a false premise at the very basis of the structuralist approach. We are talking about the different kinds of correlation with reality on which each art form bases and develops its own distinct set of conventions. I this respect, I classify voodles and sound among immediate art forms since they need no mediating language. This fundamental determining factor marks the kinship between sound and voodle, and for the same reason distances voodle from literature, where everything is expressed by means of language, by a system of signs, of hieroglyphics."

Speculating on the notion of Home in voodles, Sam Renseiw concocted a simple diptych from recent footage, including a helicopter ride in a public space. View the juxtaposition with a cute winged unicorn by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 693,01'18'', 11MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a recent Belt crossing . (Lum # 204," morning little belt crossing" 01'00'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On meta-voodle & starring into amnesia

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'...What remains is a history of the movements of the hand - here a constellation of the jars and jolts of the journey. This is a history without historical clarity: cause and effect gives rise to illustration without reference. The footage ‘describe’ the journey, but in its description time has been flattened. The "event" is rendered as a single moment, the voodle existing as something between seismographic readings and the gestural...The camera moves across the floor: it no longer knows what will happen, and the hand that holds it has disappeared.”

Walking the line, full corridor length, Sam Renseiw assembled a diptych of recorded footage obtained from two distinct places. The first one a haven of peace, the second one a kaleidoscopic fragment of a much larger entity, confined to a rolling, corridor-like setting, inserted in a modern nave. View the straight forward concoction by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 04'40'', 39MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a moment of carnival stall. (lum # 203c " fair booth" 00'34'', 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On Instamatics & crossings in voodles

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“But since social relations are always ambiguous, since thought divides as much as it unites, since words unite or isolate by what they express or omit, since an immense gulf separates my subjective awareness from the objective truth I represent for other, since I constantly blame myself, though I feel innocent, since every event transforms my daily life, since I constantly fail to communicate, since each failure makes me aware of solitude, since I cannot escape crushing objectivity or isolating subjectivity, since I cannot rise to the state of being, or fall into nothingness, I must listen, I must look around more than ever, The world, my kin, my twin, and voodle on”

While mostly performing the gaze, Sam Renseiw, once in a while, seems to conduct some sort of workshop activity, involving his alter-ego. Yet, the acribic catalogue-i-zation of reality seems to subsist. View the altered imprints from Wednesday evening and Thursday from this week by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 691, 03'04'', 26 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another crossing, bridging. (Lum # 203b, " belt crossing " 01'01'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the nature of drone and voodle

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" Before going on to the particular problems of the nature of Voodles, it is important to define understandings of the ultimate aim of Voodling as such. Why does it exit? Who needs it ? Indeed does anybody need it? [...] Voodles, unlike Hollywood films, or TV soaps, have no practical goals in any material sense. Voodle is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and assimilate the experience of others. Yet, this sort of self-expression is meaningless unless it meets with a response. For the sake of creating a spiritual bond with others it can only be an agonising process, one that involves no practical gain: ultimately it is an act of sacrifice. But surely it cannot be worth the effort merely for the sake of hearing one's own echo ? "

Creating Voodles can be a drone-like state of mind, and, indeed, sacrificial in a prosaic world, muses Sam Renseiw while manufacturing more continuous visuals in sustained tonality. View the recent moving mash-up by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 690, 04'22'', 37.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On discoveries while passing by

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Stop-motion can be developed in various ways, not the least while roller-skating in urban environments states Sam Renseiw. View this Friday's condensed footage from FNS-Cph with a memorable situation caught on the fly by clicking here or on the links above. [ FNS09a, 03'30'', 32.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On fluid states and denial by voodle

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"And so he prefers to keep his convictions in the fluid state, check them instance by instance, and make them the implicit rule of his own everyday behavior, in doing or not doing, in choosing or rejecting, in recording footage to voodle or in other procrastinating activities."

Having foolishly and intensively practised voodling for about four years, Sam Renseiw is getting hit by harsh realities; although still in a state of denial, Sam's most cherished spaces and further elements of grounding might soon be gone, as the self inflicted crisis must financially be unravelled; Indeed, art is not always working. See the crisis-bogeyman driving slowly along by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 689, 01'41'', 16,1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features framed moments of daily life, passing by, while one is busy re-setting wall lluminations.(Lum # 203, 00'51'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On character casting in voodles

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" This Voodle testifies to beauty, drama, imaginative force, and history of thought from as far back as 2500 BC and up until the year 1600. The imagery and styles of antiquity have influenced all subsequent European art and continues to play a major part, even though this may sometimes be difficult to see. Shapes and ideals shift and change through history - there have been revivals, and there have been breaks with tradition - but the significance and importance of history is ever prominent..."

Walking past 4000 years of sculpture under one roof, Sam Renseiw deep focused on a collection of busts, neatly stored. View the casting of characters for the voodle, complete with added forgotten fields by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm#686, 03'52'', 36.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a transparent casting of family characters, looking out to other fields. (Lum#202, 01'00'' 6.2Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On frottage and interior colour spreads

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" It was a question of going back to the sources of poetic imagination and, what is more, of remaining there. Not that I pretend to have done so. It requires a great deal of fortitude to try to set up one's abode in these distant regions where everything seems at first to be so awkward and difficult, all the more so if one wants to try to take someone there. Besides, one is never sure of really being there. If one is going to all that trouble, one might as well stop off somewhere else. Be that as it may, the fact is that the way to these regions is clearly marked, and that to attain the true goal is now merely a matter of the travelers' ability to endure.."

Just passing by, actually, while visiting an extensive and overwhelming display of Ernst and then: serendipitously stumbling upon parts of the garden not yet explored, kept Renseiw musing while capturing footage to be shared and analysed. View the aberration(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 688, 52.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features an act of reflected projection upon a piece of illuminated artwork. (Lum # 201, " handling the inside of outside " 01'00'' 6,3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the nature of communicating vessels

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" I have insisted, specialy in Les Vases communiquants, on the fact that Voodling alone is, in many cases, capable of exhausting the content of reality, and that this analysis, if it is thorough enough, leaves none of the residue that might permit us to attribute a transcendental character to oneiric activity.[...] Similarly, Voodling could sometimes exhaust the content of real events, to the point of making them depend entirely on the least conscious prior activity of the mind..."

While closely paraphrasing, Sam Renseiw muses about the otherwise Derive-like characteristics of his Voodles work, drifting away from formal academic rationality... It might just be sudden parallels petrifying coincidenses or harmonies as if struck on a piano, that make one see the unverifiable intrinsic value(s)....View the diptych collage with appendixes and Galveston tunes by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 687, 04'04'', 38.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple room with a view in which time might be running out. ( Lum # 200," pendulum" 01'00'' &MB, Quicktime/mov .

On fast-forward long take voodling (inbound)

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"The laws of Voodling are subject to the more general laws of habit. Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. Breathing is habit. Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits, since the individual is a succession of individuals; the world being a projection of the individual’s consciousness, the pact must be continually renewed, the letter of safe-conduct brought up to date. The Voodling of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."

Habits can appear to be quite extravagant while at the same time remaining just what they are: almost quotidian pathways to be trotted. Nevertheless, Sam Renseiw consciously realises the magnificence of the view(s) every time anew, with awe and humility. Sometimes an urban bicycle trip unfolds like a fairy tale. And worth to remember, as stable conditions of departure and return suddenly might mutate to more bleak settings. View the condensed randonee pedale by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 684, 06'27'', 53.7MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more fixed deep focus on figure/ground relationships. (Lum # 199, "deep focus & figure" 01'00'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov

On fast-forward long take voodling (outbound)

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"Doing it in one" is a brave cinematographic choice a Voodler can make. Without shooting coverage you are leaving yourself zero options in post production. You have to get the vision in your brain to happen in three dimensional space right there on the day. And you also have to hope that that initial vision is compelling and will flow... "

Nothing brave in this long shot, actually, muses Sam Renseiw, as the path is a familiar and well proven one. No need for inner visions, except for outer attention; The recorded long take even leaves an interesting option, as time still can by manipulated in post production. View the first part of Sam's canned & condensed, almost quotidian morning race (including the scrunched diegetic soundtrack) unfolding by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 681, 05'40'' 53.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a view from the inside of (another) fast moving object in space. ( Lum #198 "high flying outbound " 01'00'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the long (almost) steady-cam voodle-take

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" The aesthetic qualities of Voodling are to be sought in its power to lay bare the realities [...] Only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, those piled up preconceptions, that spiritual dust and grime with which my eyes have covered it, is able to present it in all its virginal purity to my attention and consequently to my love. By the power of Voodling, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can know, urbanity at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the Voodler."

Endorsing Bazin's preferences for the authenticity of the long take, Sam Renseiw proceeded to walk the line in Oslo this Monday: While the actual purpose of the visit failed to come to terms, a fine moment of reality remains recorded from that day... Dean can, after all mean so many things...James Dean crashed straight on, while Sam keeps on Voodling without a cause, not taking charge of any administration. View the almost endless perambulate with underlapped Snatch Tape mix by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 683, 04'03'', 39MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature contrasting indoor footage with a fine development of the counter-shot technique. (lum # 197 " the counter-shot" , 01'00'', 7 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On local sakura & out-door tatami shots

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" One thesis is that a Voodle is like a distorting mirror, or the coloured sweet wrapper. Like the distorting mirror or sweet wrapper, it releases us from a certain narrow or conventional way of seeing the world. It creates and also does not create the reality which exists within the borders of the footage. What matters crucially, however, is the way it does this. Before I pursue that line of thought any further, I want to come at the issue of Voodling from another angle. One might think that all one has to do is point a camera in any direction and press the shutter. What does it matter what you Voodle, or how? And yet it matters immensely. The agonizing thing, which any Voodler will tell you is how hard it is to record significant footage. In that particular mood, fleeing from the mundane, you look around a space — or up and down a street — and all you see is a chaotic world of jumble and rubble. From all sides one is assailed by the accidental, the pointless brute existence of things, even in exquisite parks "

Following the local trail of cherry blossoms, Sam Renseiw stumbled straight into the crowded, annual Sakura Festival at Langelinie. Free- voodling in Ozu's tatami shot height (aka the picnic blanket view) albeit in a genuinely more restless way, Sam later concocted the footage into a lone visual hanami experience. View a bout of mono no aware by clicking here or on the links above. (patafafilm # 682, 03'00, 26.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video likewise features local hanami. (Lum # 196, " langelinie sakura '09 '', 01'00'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the revolution(s) of everyday life

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"Spontaneity is the mode of existence of creativity; not an isolated state, but the unmediated experience of subjectivity. Spontaneity concretizes the passion for creation and is the first moment of its practical realization: the precondition of Voodle, of the impulse to re-view the world in accordance with the demands of radical subjectivity. The qualitative exists wherever creative spontaneity manifests itself. It entails the direct communication of the essential. It is Voodle's chance. A crystallization of possibilities, a multiplier of knowledge and practical potential, and the proper modis operandi of space awareness. Its criteria are sui generis. The qualitative leap precipitates a chain reaction; Voodling is the organizer of creative spontaneity to the extent that it reinforces spontaneity's hold on reality. Voodling is an act which engenders new realities..."

Yet it all devellops from the apparent banality of the quotidian, muses Sam Renseiw while montaging recorded intricacies of around-mermaid-revolving moves. View the ritual assessment of an indian spring by cliking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 680, 02'39'', 27.4 MB, Quciktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features controlled revolutions, passing by (Lum # 195 " 01'00'', 6.3 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the simple joys of not moving

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"To voodle and walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of an appropriation. The voodling about that the city multiplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place- an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations, compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City."

As the conscious practice of voodling everyday life may [also] lead to simple, yet effective tactics to stay phenomenologically put, Sam Renseiw remained at home. View the cut-up footage become the ennobling of Balconia into a sunny, situationist eldorado-deportation by clicking here or on links above. (patafilm # 678, 01'36'', 14.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versiona at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video reflects a short, abridged moment of walking in the city, continuing the enlightning tactics of voodle practice in everyday life. (Lum # 193 " dog-bridge-train" 00'56'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On travelling and camera phenomenology

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" The general absence of characters in [Patalab's] Voodles reflects but one part of the ongoing research into a visual morphology of body and space. On one hand, the main concerns centre around efforts to depict more realistic points of views in the recording of movements through space(s); On the other, there are the continuous attempts to establish feeble visual languages devoid of the "talking-heads-in-frames" as conforming to TV and Hollywood standard scenario of story telling. The actual meaning in voodling remains in the factual flow of images, conveying a possible haptic massage with the overlay and inclusion of non-diegetic soundtracks. Basically, Voodles remain a poetics of spontaneously crafted visual antidotes, camouflaged as meaningless placebo video"

Conscious of the apparent futility of the whole voodling endeavour in the midst of the flooding of moving imagery in the web, Sam Renseiw stubbornly maintains a level of consistent ongoing research with the regularity of the postings. After almost five years of activity, the endeavour nevertheless takes its toll in the midst of the present crisis. View yet another walking attempt to capture the quotidian by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 677, 03'56'', 32MB, Quickltime/mov - other versions and feeds at Blip.tv )

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video actually features moving characters in a fixed frame, thus enabling some sort of reading of bodies in space (Lum # 192 " the art elevator" 01'00'' 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Spring and season greetings! Thank you for watching. Best, Sam.

On minor complications in Voodling practice

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"This kind of research is sometimes complicated by the fact that Voodle practices themselves alternately exacerbate and disrupt our logics. Its regrets are like those of the poet, and like him, it struggles against oblivion: "And I forgot the element of chance introduced by circumstances, calm or haste, sun or cold, dawn or dusk, the taste of strawberries or abandonment, the half-understood message, the front page of newspapers, the voice on the telephone, the most anodyne conversation, the most anonymous man or woman, everything that speaks, makes noise, passes by, touches us lightly, meets us head on."

Trying eagerly to maintain a daily struggle against oblivion, Sam Renseiw edits quotidian footage attempting to integrate vital elements of chance, hapticity and serendipity into each individual crafted voodle. View today's concoction with fine Snatch Tape excerpts and a seal of fraudulence by cliking here or on the links above. (pataflm # 676, 02'57'', 22.9Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's two(!) Bonus Lumiere Videos feature each delicate spring shoots in a Copenhagen Park. (Lum # 190 " spring session" and Lum # 191 " spring session 2" both 01'00'' , 7MB, Quicktime/mov - click on the Lum # for view)