On Fly Tips and Voodle Povera

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"The timing could not have been better, because one of the factors that led to the Italian foothold in the late '60s art scene was the death of American Minimalism and Pop art, and to some degree, of painting itself. For the first time since the Futurist movement, Italy became the center for heady, humanist experiments."

Missing a touch of minimalism, amidst a sudden appearance of a fly-tip heap right on his own front porch, Sam Renseiw remembered Brut Smog's recent visual prophecy on the topic, and felt compelled to respond with a genuine Voodle Povera. Immerse in a candid moment of junk in a walk past powerty by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 521, 02'15'', 13MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 versions at Blip.tv)

On intuition and memory prolongation

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" One moment is added onto the old ones, and thus, when the next moment occurs, it is added onto all the other old ones plus the one that came immediately before. In comparison, therefore to the past collection of moments, it cannot be the same as the one immediately before, because the past is “larger” for the current moment than it was for the previous moment. One might say that Tuesday is different from Monday because Monday only includes itself and Sunday, while Tuesday includes itself, Monday, and Sunday. This first image, therefore, implies that duration is memory: the prolongation of the past into the present."

Speculating on matter and memory, Sam Renseiw voodled bouts of duration-lapses, queuing, while drifting into a Japanese prolongation. View the meditative attempt at visually re-framing an exercise complete with fine soundtrack by Gurdonark by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 520, 04'05'', 23MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 versions at blip.tv)

On circular cries and whispers

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"I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then."

After a two day marathon re-view of some 10 of Bergman's DVD's, Sam Renseiw, exhausted, remembered fragments of a short performance on Friday. View a moment of unfolding, speechless circling by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 519, 01'43'', 10.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 versions at blip.tv)

A round of Global Bingo Radio

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"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue...I wouldn't go up on a stage. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."

Toggling between comedy and drama, Global Radio Bingo is a feast to enjoy, while watching The Future of Cities muses Sam Renseiw while capturing footage. View the enhanced traveling by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 518,04'42'', 28.6MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at Blip.tv) # 518b - full color version, click here

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features an ultra short, lone junp-cut. (Lum # 47, short, lone jump-cut, 00'16'', 1.6MB, Quicktime/mov) As always: other's fine Lumieres at the site.

On speaking in fine parables

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"It is not style or rhymes or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity.... When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.... In good society, nay, among the angels in heaven, is not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense?... The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts; the voodler complains that the solid men leave out the sky. To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree. You must have eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes; you must have the vivacity of the poet to perceive in the thought its futurities."

With autumn lurking in front of the lens, Sam Renseiw captured some lonely out-door chairs, waiting for winter. View a short excerpt of the statics of life's candor by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 517, 02'23'', 14.3MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's - short - Bonus Lumiere video features the appearance of street cleaning .(Lum # 46: street cleaning, 3MB, 00'29'', quicktime/mov) More Lumieres: click here

On A Few Free Years

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"Then I say they’re thinking too much. Just do it like if you need to get it done. That’s how some weird spiritual thing happens – it’s like a fate or a faith. Within this piece here, it’s a strange way of working. That’s what the piece is about. Grabbing something, dragging it across, dragging it somewhere else. This mobility of things."

Pondering on the mobility of things, Sam Renseiw captures an enigmatic traveling of classical beauty, nostalgia and space. The reality of objects and places condensed, transformed, and re-viewed. Enter the game by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 516, 02'12'', 13.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features an urban street corner, complete with obsolete traffic control.(Lum # 45, 00'59'', 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov) All the other's Lumieres, click here.

Quiz winner! Zoe Tati made the mark, furnishing all the answers to the first quiz, thus winning a fine souvenir. More quizzes coming on the next post. Stay tuned to patalab and remember: links in the text provide both clues and context ;-)

Traveling Footage Quiz # 01

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"The Patalab City Quiz gauges your knowledge on a particular city, its past and its present... A hotbed of contemporary politics, the city in today's video has always been in the news. So, if you have just kept your ears and eyes open, the Patalab City Quiz will be a cakewalk."

As Sam Renseiw is shifting location, busy with new traveling footage, Patalab launches a quiz: First one to guess the name of the city featured via the architectural clues on today's video-post, wins a small souvenir ! View the moving puzzle pieces by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 515, 01'57'', 11.6MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)
Quiz rules: the first commentary with the correct answer (city + street name) wins the souvenir - and a bonus souvenir, should you also mention the correct name(s) of the architects !

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a confined room with a lofty view. (Lum # 44: room with a view, 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's fine Lumieres, click here.

On virtual airports and step footage

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"The way one dances and the selection of dance patterns should be governed by the size of the dance floor and the traffic. It is incumbent upon all dancers to be alert and watch out for others when changing imaginary lanes or executing a maneuver that may put them in someone else's path."

After checking-in to a virtual airport, Sam Renseiw caught some supplementary modern dance footage on the staircase in the main entrance hall. View the traffic congestion on the steps by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 514, 02'36'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a classic security check-in situation in all its virtuality. (Lum # 43: the airport check-in, 01'00, 6.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the principals of intricacy

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"The beauty of this kind of "mystic dancing," as the poets term it, depends upon moving in a composed variety of lines, chiefly serpentine, governed by the principals of intricacy. The dances of barbarians are often represented without these movements, being only composed of wild skipping, jumping, and turning around or running backward and forward with convulsive shrugs and distorted gestures."

Remembering some lines of Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty, Sam Renseiw re-viewed contemporary steps at a recent display of indoor footage, pleased that some of the ulterior efforts by his alter-ego ,in conveying the seemingly barbarian ways of choreographic conceptualization, where not wasted. View the intricacies of movements-in-space poetics in a longer excerpt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 513, 06'46'', 42,3MB!, Quicktime/mov - great direct streaming for Pc available at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a mute, uni-directional score, defining other moves. (Lum # 41: the traffic below, 01'00'', 6.5MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's fine Lumieres, click here.

On Conditions for Description

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"Context is a particularly critical distinction. In exploring context as a distinction, the first aspect to consider is the power that context has in our lives—whether it is a consciously created, generated context, or one that exists by default. Contexts are normally a background phenomenon—something we don’t normally attend to. But when we take the time to bring them to the foreground — to explore their pervasiveness, influence, and power — something becomes available. When our default contexts are brought to the foreground, and we recognize them for what they are, they lose their power and influence, leaving us free to create, generate, and call forth new contexts for our lives."

Pondering on Zinkernagel's "Conditions for Description", Sam Renseiw voodled some immersive footage into a short visual koan. View the emerging statement by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 511, 01'58'', 11.9MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a classical, fixed Danish context. (Lum # 41: "guard footage in sunshine", 00'59'', 5.2MB,Quicktime/mov) Other's fine lumiere , click here.

The intermezzo sonnet serving

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"The blue blanched figures – system of bird – possess the future in the singing spring, syrinx opulens, the eye a ring / noon will burn in like a perfect word / in a breathing sentence the silence blurred."

Intrigued by the untraditional seating configuration, Sam Renseiw proceeds to record the distribution of goodies at the concert's intermezzo. View the short voodle blur by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 510, 01'59'', 12.5MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a more prosaic, mute musical experience, combining a band and a bakery. ( Lum #40: the band at the bakery, 01'00, 6,6 MB, Quicktime/mov) More other's Lumieres there.

On the performance of Chladni's Bow

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"With titles and themes that allude to the conceptual world of antiquity, and with influences fro Oriental music and the technical and tonal universe of the renaissance, O traverses wide expanses. The relative technical complexity is often parried with a surprising immediacy born of his confident ear for acoustic texture and for the purely human experience of tonal transmutation"

Having found a random seat with a great conductive view, Sam Renseiw voodled with open ears in sound-around. View an excerpt of the psychoacoustic experience, synaes-thetically altereded by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 509, 03'13'', 16.7MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

The rehearsal - Physisonochromie III

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" I was about thirteen when I read an article in Look about Sam Goody's Record Store in New York. My memory is not too clear on the details, but I recall it was praising the store's exceptional record merchandising ability. One example of brilliant salesmanship described how, through some mysterious trickery, the store actually managed to sell an album called "Ionization". The article described the record as a weird jumble of drums and other unpleasant sounds."

Peeking into a rehearsal, Sam Renseiw caught some new nono-chromatic Swedish tunes, and very much hopes to get tickets for Friday, since the performance would also include Edgard Varese's Deserts, complete with a Bill Viola piece. Sneak in for a preview Sound-Around musical voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 508, 02'00'', 12.3MB, Quicktime//mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Travelling inside a broken clock

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"Street artists simply see urban space as an untapped format for personal artwork, while others may appreciate the challenges and risks that are associated with installing illicit artwork in public places. However the universal theme in most, if not all street art, is that adapting visual artwork into a format which utilizes public space, allows artists who may otherwise feel disenfranchised, to reach a much broader audience than traditional artwork and galleries normally allow."

Just passing by as usual, Sam Renseiw recorded the recent changes on the wall and its adjacent neighbour. Take a peek inside the travelling clockwork complete with People Like Us soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 507, 03'30'', 20.8MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a more traditional kind of street artist, working. (Lum # 39 the other street artist, 01'00, 6.1MB, Quicktime/mov) More of other's Lumieres here.

On junctures and follow-ups

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"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."

In the midst of the cold bowl and chamberlain craze at Vaterpas, Sam Renseiw paraphrases Dom Cheverti's credo "I am trying to throw something and to hit something, to see what throwing and hitting consist of" and resumes voodling with another boring, pataphysical voodle. Enter here or on the links above. (patafilm # 506, 03'02'' 19MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming version for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Complementary Voodle features Indian hot engine paraphernalia, complete with engine trouble, brut smog sound-extract. (patafilm # 504, 00'36'', 4MB, Quicktime/mov)