On memory and body

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"Stuck, then, with the transition from image to memory, the same past seized as an object now emerges without the visual glare, now decomposed as a scene comprised from the kinesthetic remnants of a blurred image.The touch replaces the eye. I do not remember, but my body does.(1) With that shift, a horizon of undiscovered experience is undiscovered."

Side Effects can take various shapes. Generous and concisely written observations, out there, in the vast blogmaze, for one; Not as linguistically and scholarly eloquent, Sam Renseiw rescued a short part of the documentation of The Invisible Reality Show, to crudely illustrate a relationship of body and memory. View the elbow-memory by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 419, 01'50'', 8.7 Mb, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)
Previous posted video documentation of IRS/UDflugt click here for: "#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7

Permutations of jaguars and toucans

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"In my relations with the world I have moved from exploration to consultation, that is to say that the world is a collection of data which is there, independent of me, data which I can compare, combine, transmit, maybe even occasionally enjoy, but always slightly from the outside."

Returning as self-inflicted storyteller of the tribe, Sam Renseiw continues imperturbably to make his visual permutations of jaguars and toucans until the moment comes as a revelation: It was indeed carnival, even though it rained. View condensed footage from carnival i Copenhagen by clicking here on on the links above. (patafilm # 428, 01'38'' 7.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On Wabi-Sabi back yarding

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"And while smaller Japanese gardens are almost always delimited by a wall that frames the three dimensional space, larger installations often include the surrounding landscape as a backdrop for the entire composition, consciously removing the visual boundary between garden and landscape, thereby extending the space to generate a sense of continuity."

Palomar-like reflecting upon the nature of gardening, Sam Renseiw speculated on elements of Japanese garden composition as a whole, having a higher intrinsic value than its elements, inversing the western point of view. Merge into a quiet, meditative moment of absurd relaxation by clicking here or on the links above. It's not Kyoto, It's Darmstadt, Germany. "I have succeeded in having the bosom completely absorbed by the landscape, so that my gaze counted no more than the gaze of a seagull or a hake " (patafilm # 425, 00'54'', 4.1 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Pitched and rolled

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"Opportunities of this kind are not frequent, to be sure; but sooner or later they will have to arise: it is enough to wait for one of those lucky coincidences to occur when the world wants to look and be looked at in the same instant and we are to be rolling by. Or, rather, we do not even have to wait, because these things happen only when you are not awaiting them."

Further probing the limits of vloging in urban settings, Sam Renseiw rolls on again, Copenhagen Friday Night Skating. Interesting route this time, with fine new sights all along the way. Enjoy this Friday's rolling by clicking here or on the links above. (copenhagen friday night skate #2 2007, 04'21'', 20.4 MB, Quicktime/ mov - Flash available at blip.tv)
For the more dramatic version click here :-)

Supplementary hummingbird

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" Flowers should be chosen for their ability to produce nectar, to grow well in your particular region, and to be in bloom when the hummingbirds need them. These provide the fundamental basis for creating a hummingbird-friendly yard or garden."

Inspired by Ryanne and Cheryl's delicate hummingbird promos, Sam Renseiw encountered a moving installation by Tove Storch at Exit' 07 featuring yet another hummingbird. A promo tribute to the dedicated and enthusiastic work of the Pixelodeon team. View the flapping wing beats with added stormbugs flip-flap by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 426, 00'45'', 3.4 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On air mail peregrinations

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"I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences; So the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it;"

"…Because once you’ve begun," Sam Renseiw would preach, paraphrasing Calvino once again, "there is no reason why you should stop. The line between the reality that is video-graphed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been video-graphed is very narrow." View the detour of an air-mail post complete with St.Ex. reading by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 423, 01'29'', 6.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On invisible suburbia

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"After a series of intellectual misadventures not worth recalling, Sam Renseiw has decided that his chief activity will be looking at things from the outside. A bit nearsighted, absent-minded, introverted, he does not seem to belong temperamentally to that human type generally called an observer. And yet it has always happened that certain things -a stone wall, a seashell, a dancer, a shopping mall -present themselves to him as if asking him for minute and prolonged attention: he starts observing them almost unawares, and his gaze begins to run over all the details and is then unable to detach itself."

Thus paraphrasing Calvino, Sam decided that from now on he will redouble his attention: first, by not allowing these summons to escape him as they arrive from things; second, by attributing to the observer's operation the importance it deserves. "The universe will then become the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves". View the visual investigation of a deja-vu location by clicking here or on the links above. Remember too, the embeded links in the text. (patafilm # 424, 01'11'', 5.4 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

Pixelodeonfest promo

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The nickelodeon boom in Manhattan was an extraordinary phenomenon. At the close of 1905 movies were still a relatively marginal amusement, filling brief slots at the end of vaudeville shows or running on Sundays in melodrama theatres that aimed to evade New York's blue law against live performance. Two years later, "nickelodeons" had revolutionised urban recreation and altered the commercial landscape of Manhattan.

Going from Web 2.0 virtual to Hollywood, Sam Renseiw is honoured to have some of patalab's small video pieces screened at the upcoming inaugural Pixelodeon at the American Film Institute. View patalab's short promo trailer for the fest featuring some well known celebrities and soundtrack excerpt from People Like Us by clicking here or on the links above. (patalab pixelodeonpromo, 01'44'', 7.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On dogs and vacuum cleaners

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"Like a lot of dogs, I was unsure of this technology, afraid I would have to wag a lot of tail for something that wouldn't work. Well, I have never been so delighted or excited about a product - ever. This thing has made such a difference in my life! I love it. It works fantastic."

Encountering Normann again after morning coffee, Sam Renseiw speculated who actually was in charge in the shop. View Normann supervising the assistant by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 422, 00'57'', 4.5MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Courrier du nord

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"J'ai donc dû choisir un autre passe-temps et j'ai appris à faire des petites vidéos. J'ai volé un peu partout dans le monde. Et la géographie, c'est exact, m'a beaucoup servi. Je savais reconnaître, du premier coup d'œil, la Chine de l'Arizona. C'est très utile, si l'on est égaré pendant la nuit dans le Tube. J'ai ainsi eu, au cours de ma vie de nomade d'écran, des tas de contacts avec des tas de gens sérieux."

Pondering on the possibilities of ways to study the role of video messages as part of social life on Web 2.0, Sam Renseiw posts a quick and volatile note, contributing to the disparate phenomena of vlogging semiotics. View the typing by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 421, 01'26'', 6.4 Mb, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Through a blowing, gauzy window curtain

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"When he peers out his apartment window through a blowing, gauzy window curtain, he sees the diminutive hit-man who had followed him earlier in the evening eyeing his apartment from across the street under a streetlamp. Brigid comes up to him and gushes: You are a god-send. Spade: Oh, now don't overdo it. Treasure-hunting Cairo joins them there, and notifies Spade of a "Sam" who is watching the apartment."

Just passing by, Sam Renseiw managed to capture a short , yet central blurry scene, giving rise to Maltese Falcon flash-backs. View the unfolding by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 420, 03'08'', 13.3 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On the road again

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"The Parisian Friday-night skate known as the Paris Roller, is considered the Grand Dame of night skates. This weekly ride attracts over 15,000 skaters each week making it the biggest night skate in the world. In September 2001, it attracted a record number of 28,000 skaters snaking across 4km of Parisian streets.."

The Copenhagen Friday night skate, while lingering on a much smaller scale, is growing this year. Sam Renseiw donned his in-liners and joined the first event for this season. View excerpts from Friday's rumble by clicking here or on the links above. (CFNS film 07/a, 04'44'', 22.3 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv, Windows wmv version here)

Machines take over functions

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"Machines take over functions of the central nervous system, and no longer, as in the past, merely those of muscles. And with this differentiation - and not with steam engines and railroads - a clear division occurs between matter and information, the real and the symbolic"

Further reflecting on experiencing synaesthesia in reaction to a variety of media, Sam Renseiw undertook the capture of limited footage using a non-authorised vehicle through a delimited public space. View the greenery by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 418, 01'03'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On synchronicity and mash-ups

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"The creative incorporation of what originally arises in our experience is but a overlapping disruption of the order or timing of our life-narrative. A talented jazz musician will take an accidental or mistaken chord or note and improvise with and around it, creating in the process an entirely novel passage within the context of a perhaps quite familiarly ordered piece of music."

Still fiddling around recent concert footage, never top-notch tuned at expressing musical rhetoric, Sam Renseiw instead mashed up some visual a-synchronicity: A whisper of inverted cello counterpoint, lightly marcato-ed; (with some inspired electronic drift studies in the three upper strings to follow); or an alluring, infinitesimal pianissimo: febrile, fickle, fey, inquisitive, insistent, jokey, puzzled, surprised, declamatory and somewhat messy. View the overrated piece by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 416, 01'00'', 4.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

About the missing middle reel

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"Because of the missing reels at the beginning and the end, this was a viewing experience that felt rushed and incomplete. Some of the audience let out a gentle laugh at the final intertitle which summed up a large remainder of the plot in a pithy sentence or two."

While still wondering about the disparate nature of jump-cuts in shorter video pieces, Sam Renseiw caught a serene spring scene in a pastoral urban setting and subtracted a tiny part. View the prospective by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 415, 00'57'', 4.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

A simple bridged down look

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The “eye of the imagination” radiates a tableau of images: thought-pictures or phantasmata, as Aristotle called them, envisioned by human consciousness. The inner eye, as figured by Robert Fludd, does not receive images: it projects them onto a screen that lies beyond the back of the head, floating in a space that does not exist except in fantasy.

Further pondering on the dialectics of "blur" v/s "clear"in the fields of vision, Sam Renseiw captured blurry footage appearing from the Copenhagen waterways. View the moving barge float away by clicking here or on the links above. Remember the links embedded in the text, anyway. (patafilm # 406, 01'06'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Abstract figurative intermezzo

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"In a entirely different way, abstract figurative videos represent an aspect of lyrical abstraction that provides a vital link to the basic identity and endeavor of human nature: mark-making, the rudiments of language, but in an abstract, virtual form, creating their own visual language..."

Remembering MarkTobey's painted "calligraphy" Sam Renseiw re-evaluates and explore recent footage with the tools he uses every day, abstracting figuratively; View the short visual intermezzo with sound-bites by Stan Brakhage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 411, 01'07'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)
And a Bonus babling video from DVblog: Mezza di Voce

I am a dreamer of treated images

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“I am a dreamer of images, of accumulated images. I think I am seeing; a move stops me. I leave the context. The syllables of the image begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The gesture abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then another movement take on other meanings as if they had the right to be impertinent. And the picture wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of psychogeographical vocabulary for new company.”

Still having after effects from a recent choreographic exercise presentation, Sam Renseiw re-frames bits of footage, a creation of desire, not a creation of need. View the short footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 408,00'50'', 3.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On the art of memory mapping

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"In that Empire, the Art of cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Disproportionated Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds built a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided accurately with it."

Further mapping the tracing of his eye, Sam Renseiw encountered some memory moves i real time and framed them, with two slight cuts. View the reconfigurations of slightly inconspicuous variations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 403, 01'11'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)