On the psychogeography of voodles

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“ They travel to communicate, either to somebody. Or you just travel, driving, that means you are communicating with yourself through machines, like psychoanalysis. When you drive without reasons that is exactly like voodle feedback. Voodle feedback is communicating with yourself through machines. The psychic existence is the same whether you drive or if you do simple voodle feedbacks, it’s the same ontological structure.”

Exploring the ontology of psychocartography in voodles, Sam Renseiw paraphrases NJ Paik, while re-assembling a prospective projection, sequenced partly of exotic imagery, attentive voyeurism and remixed spoken word (including a monkey's grove). View the slightly scratched, non-mercator mind-map by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 540, 02'22'', 19MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video also features a short, fixed, visual charter taken straight out of a bus window. An almost complete architectural typology in under a minute ( Lum # 60 "bus ride - psychogeography" 01'00, 6.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

On visual metaphysical speculations

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" It was a day like a slow-motion video of twilight. Uneventful, to put it mildly. The lead grey of the sky mixed ever so slowly with black, finally blending into the night. Just another quality of melancholy. As if there were only two collectors in the world, grey and black, shifting back and forth at regular intervals..."

Meddling with bits and pieces of recent footage, Sam Renseiw montages further, still under the spell of Inland Empire, into the first part of Dance Dance Dance and quite puzzled by recent events. View the resulting blend, a mixture of gothic-voodle and deconstructed visual moving fragments, reassembled, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 539, 02'03'', 12.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions at Blip.tv)

On flights of longing and monkey's grove

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In 'Air and Dreams' Gaston Bachelard provides a soaring account of the cultural oneirism of air. For Bachelard, air signifies reach, sweep, aspiration and eminence. What he calls the dream of air dreams dream itself, in its Romantic aspect as the faculty of yearning, as we say, longing, of the imagination stretching to go beyond itself. The airy imagination that Bachelard makes out is imagined predominantly in voodles - albeit dynamic, or kinaesthetic voodles, of flight and plummet. And these are always forms of peaceful longing, a longing that is in its element and at its ease."

Wondering how bouts of recorded reality actually constitute a vooodle's out-streched kinaesthetics, Sam Renseiw montaged some recent whereabouts sightings into a flight of longing. View the unfoldings by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 538, 03'07'', 19.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the silent pathos of a rotating artwork. (lum # 59 "holy booty" 00'58'', 4.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the assessment of fruity and flowery

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"My working process I like to call voodle-cinécriture: I take my time to dream and to reflect. I do not follow theories but rather trust perceptions and feelings... I always want to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things but to give people the desire to see."

Paraphrasing Agnes Varda, Sam Renseiw further pursues to montage short reality bouts into blurred, dreamy voodles, hoping - likewise - to convey a certain desire to see anew. Check in to see if it somehow turns Mulholland drivey or just remains plain, colourful flowery & fruity by clicking here on the links above. (patafilm # 537, 01'33'', 9.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and other streaming version for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a meta-projection, a passionate illumination in the dark. (Lum # 58 " farrington's passion dryer " 01'00, 6MB, Quicktime/mov) As always: For other's fine lumieres click here, and bold enhanced lettering in the text are informative, contextual links.

On the nature of the oneiric voodle

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" For a neo-realist vlogger, a glass is a glass and nothing more; you see it taken from the sideboard, filled with drink, taken to the kitchen, washed-up, etc. But this same glass, contemplated by an oneiric voodler , can be a thousand different things, because each one charges what he/she sees with affectivity; no one sees things as they are, but as their desires and their state of soul make them see. I fight for the voodle which will show me this kind of glass, because this gaze will give me an integral vision of reality, will broaden my knowledge of things and people, will open up to me the marvelous world of the unknown, of all that which I find neither in the newspaper, on the Tv, nor the web - sometimes in cinema, though."

While pondering further on the potential nature of a voodle's relation to dreams, Sam Renseiw montaged recent footage from a provincial institution into a oneiric memory with fixed, lofty moments. View the subtle semiotic development(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 536, 02'22''. 14.7MB, Quicktime/mov - Other streaming versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short moment of multiple semiotics, impulsively shot from the outside. (Lum # 57 " photo-session at gallery asbaek " 00'43'', 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at A&B's site.

On the morphology of seeing

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"Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act. It is a lively, full act. Even if the action which follows, which ought to have followed or should have followed, remains in suspense, the consciousness-as-act is still completely positive or kinetic. In the present voodle we shall study this act only in the realm of movement and more precisely yet in poetic visual language when the imagining consciousness creates and lives the poetic image. Adding to voodle, creating from voodle, stabilizing and loving voodles, are all activities where the consciousness of seeing is increased."

Continuing his investigations on matter and memory in voodles, Sam Renseiw paraphrases Bachelard and extends the voodle-verite to pure, moving matter-of-fact. View the generic line-up with the appearance of some quite particular moves by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 535, 04'33'', 28.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a classic act of procrastination, illuminated. (Lum # 56 "the procrastinating guitarist" 01'00, 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On voodle-verite and other interludes

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"There are two ways to conceive of the voodle of the real: the first is to pretend that you can present reality to be seen; the second is to pose the problem of reality. In the same way, there were two ways to conceive voodle-vérité. The first was to pretend that you brought truth. The second was to pose the problem of truth."

Further dabbling with voodle definitions, Sam Renseiw indulged in sounding a short visual reveille for the voodle-verite genre. View the trumpeter blasting a friendly toot amidst a flock of grazing horses, complete with a perceptive door-pause by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 534, 01'18'', 8MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a complementary, pastoral summer setting. (Lum # 55, 00'58'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's Lumieres click here.

On dyslexia and art on board

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" Sam R. (perhaps without wishing to) has enriched, by means of a new technique, the hesitant and rudimentary art of voodling: the technique is one of deliberate anachronism and erroneous attributions. This technique, with its infinite applications, urges us to run through a voodle as if it were filmed after the events experienced; This would fill even the dullest videos with adventure and cheerful party mood."

Battling with mild dyslexia, Sam Renseiw joined Zoe T. and guests at the Common Room's festive opening to tag a few supplementary doodles on the blackboard surface, all the while new and old ready-mades lurched artfully in all corners. View the festive set-up by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 532, 01'33'' 9.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a live drawing exercise with Studs Skarven and Susan Horsens at the Vaterpas Ball Room. (Lum # 54, "the drawing exercise" 00'58'' 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On doors of perception and other spaces

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To summarize some of the principles of Bergson’s philosophy, as outlined in ' The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics ':a) ultimate reality is changing, rather than unchanging; b) ultimate reality is knowable by direct intuition; c) intellect and intuition provide two different kinds of knowledge, which can be integrated to produce a unified knowledge of reality; d) intellectual knowledge is relative knowledge, intuitive knowledge is absolute knowledge; e) intuition is a direct perception and experience of the continuous flow of reality, without the use of any intellectual concepts; f) the flow of time as real duration can be experienced only by intuition; g) the intellect may falsify the perception of reality by substituting stability for mobility, and by substituting discontinuity for continuity; h) many voodling problems are caused by the use of conceptual instead of intuitive thinking, and are resolved by the use of intuition as a philosophical method.

Still toggling between potent visual chunks of Inland Empire and recently visited spaces, Sam Renseiw montaged some pieces of virtual footage into a maze-like space. View the unfolding of a succession of spaces connected by doors in a time-memory warp by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 533, 02'32'', 15.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features quite absurd attempts to clarify the conceptual in three intuitive bouts of dyslectic black-board notes in a common room. (Lum # 53," dyscalculia dyslexia" , 01'00' 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On voodling ontology

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A voodler - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art; Voodling is nothing more than a guided dream... Life itself is a quotation."

Continuing his quest for a plausible voodle ontology, Sam Renseiw took a short detour to the north, for a friendly and very inspiring assessment of visual bouts of Body and Space morphologies. View the first voodle of Friday's day-long excursion footage and deja-vu excerpts by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 531, 02'59'' 15.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a straight forward, prosaic night view - just around the corner - of another body/space morphology. (lum # 52, " morphological prospect of body and space" 01'00, 6.2MB, Quicktime/mov) As Always: for other's fine Lumieres, click here.

Reminder: bold enhancements in the pata-text are contextual links, allowing the reader/viewer an even broader perspective.

Curtains, pencils, ballots & other images

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"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both... If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The voodler now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed..."

Paraphrasing Vaclav Havel with two quotes above, Sam Renseiw also captured fresh election footage yesterday. View the inconspicuous spacial continuity of the act of voting in a Danish parliamentary election - with synaesthetic closing subjectivity - by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 530, 01'54'' 11.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 version for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video likewise features the election, demonstrating that some people vote faster than others. (Lum # 51 " the ballot booth footage " 01'00'' 6.1MB, Quicktime/mov) View all other's fine Lumieres at Andreas's and Brittany's site.

On to something completely different

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"From historical point of view, the experiments with abstract voodles were inspired by the search of true features of video art, at it's beginning. This led to a situation described in an Ancient India parable about blind men disputing elephant's nature. Just in the same way, in the absense of reliable knowledge, artists and theorists were giving quite diferent views on the nature of voodle art."

After the latest posts featuring quite realistic and un-blurred moving spatial vistas, Sam Renseiw remembered bits of footage from mid-October. Thus, here is an absolutely charming abstract voodle, unedited, posted for discussion. View Mia L.'s fine staging, in a black corner, of her endeavours with Isadora, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 529, 02'16'', 6.2MB,Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 versions for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short visual lecture with some glimpses of Palle Nielsen's images. (Lumiere # 50 "the palle nielsen examples", 0'58'', 6.1 MB, Quicktime/mov)

The detournement of space: Voodle # 03

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"At first I had planned a memoir of only a few moving images, but my subject carried me along in spite of myself, and imperceptibly the memoir became a kind of treatise, too large indeed for what it contained but too small for the matter with which it deals. For a long time I hesitated whether to publish it or not, and I have often felt while working upon it that voodling a few videos does not teach one how to compose a film."

Visiting a Rousseau inspired cottage, Sam Renseiw continues to investigate the relationship of spaces and how they might interact. View the short interior voodle that could also be titled "Emile, Julie or the new Eloise" by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 528, 01'34'', 9.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 versions for Pc at Blip.tv)
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The detournement of space: Voodle # 02

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"An existing space may outlive its original purpose and the raison d'etre which determines its forms, functions, and structures; it may thus in a sense become vacant, and susceptible of being diverted, reappropriated and put to a use quite different from its initial one. Each discovery or solution opens the door onto a new potentiality and a new set of 'problems'. And in this way voodle(s) organically develops and transforms: its techniques and vocabularies expand; its concerns change. None of these things can be called back or proscribed. If ignored they will not go away, undo themselves or cease to exert their transforming pressure on the whole vlogsphere."

Continuing a shorter pursuit in spatial voodle investigations, Sam Renseiw descended into an underground location that outlived its hermit coolness into another reappropriation. View the second voodle on the topic, presenting a crude Inland Empire visuality, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 527, 02'03'', 13.2MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 versions for Pc at blip.tv)

The detournement of space: Voodle # 01

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"Lefebvre points out that the single point perspective and visualisation are ideological constructs which define the perception of space and of bodies within it; and it is through these spatial relationships that subjectivities, or notions about individual actions and discourses and the individual’s understanding of his/her own experience, are constructed or socially agreed/imposed upon. Voodles and architecture can organise space following a logic of perspectival visualisation but they can also disrupt this logic by creating ‘in–between’ spaces ."

Exploring the nature of ‘in-between’, hybrid space(s) with pataphysical detournements, Sam Renseiw gathered footage to voodle for the next 3 posts. View the first one, from an abandoned church overhanging a cliff, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 526, 02'46'', 17.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash and MPEG4 versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

MacGuffin and 3 Hitch-hikes, illuminated

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"Every sign we receive is an index, Hitchcock tells us, but of what, we can rarely ever know. An index is a sign that is directly produced by a material effect, like a smoke signal. Only the index is always different from what it indexes. It tells us that something has happened, but only by being different from its cause. The index, in other words, need have no resemblance. It is not a representation."

Just returned from a short field-trip, Sam Renseiw posts a framed interior illumination from the middle of the week, complete with spoken word abductions by good old Hitch, a MacGuffin and self-inserted Cameo appearance. Expect more spatial footage in the next post(s) while viewing this one by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 525, 01'01'', 6.2MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 versions at blip.tv)

Chapter two (a): only the voodle

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"We want to travel/without steam and without sail/made to relieve/the boredoom of our prisons/run past our minds/taut as a canvas/your memories/and the horizon that frames them/speak, what you have seen"

Still immersed into JLG's fabulous, overwhelming and seminal Histoire(s) du Cinema, Sam Renseiw voodled a short mash-up of chapter two (a) into a genuine, general video-graphic open question. View the crudely montaged excerpt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 524,01'31'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a number of chivalric jump-cuts, all in one fixed frame. (Lum # 49 "the hubertus hunt 2007", 00'59'', 5.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the virtual real and telephony

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"For the great majority of players, virtual worlds encourage them to present different sides of themselves in a safe environment; challenges arise in the real world which enable them to reflect (consciously or otherwise) on their responses to those challenges, leading them to develop a greater understanding of themselves; over time, this brings about a gradual merging of the virtual side and the real side, as the player becomes increasingly attuned to their persona"

Concentrating on JLG's oeuvre while busy with other chores, Sam Renseiw missed an urgent call for telephony links, thereby feeling compelled to respond adequately with a short phone voodle. View the synaesthetic composition by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 523,01'33', 8MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 version at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a closed curtain call. (Lum # 48 "the curtain call", 00'59'', 5.4MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's fine Lumieres click here.

Almost like a sentence

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"How little we know,/and when we know it!//It was prettily said that “No man/hath an abundance of cows on the plain, nor shards/in his cupboard.” Wait! I think I know who said that! It was...//Never mind, dears, the afternoon/will fold you up, along with preoccupations/that now seem so important, until only a child/running around on a unicycle occupies center stage./Then what will you make of walls? And I fear you will have to come up with something,//be it a terraced gambit above the sea/or gossip overheard in the marketplace."

Investigating the inconspicuousness of daily-life, Sam Renseiw caught footage from a recent visit to the dentist. View the coming up of something by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 522, 01'57'', 3.6MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or Mpeg4 versions at blip.tv)