On the instantaneous and ephemeral

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"For the favourable result of voodling resides in the defeat of coherent language, in the triumph of disorder, which only on occasions becomes, in those rare moments of joy during which the editing becomes lyrical, the inexpressible goal that is sought: lyricism, that harmony between being and language, can today only be instantaneous and ephemeral"

Reality can be perceived in many ways, each one would be an individual, instantaneous, sujective view, muses Sam Renseiw adjusting to upcoming invisible reality in Metropolis with a fresh voodle. View the ephemeral trailer condensation by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 466,02'15'', 13.7MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short excerpt from a match at the 2007 Homeless Soccer World Cup in Copenhagen. (Lum # 20 homeless soccer cup, 00'59'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov) For all lumiere videos see the fast expanding Lumiere site.

On walking with Anna K's voice

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" A chemist doesn't succeed every single time. One day the experiment goes along very nicely, and another day it doesn't; there are even experiments made in a vacuum...I am just an experimenter, without speaking well or ill of myself, not making films, just voodling cinematically about "

While exasperated by the continuous rain outside, Sam Renseiw crudely compressed some sunnier, archived footage into a natural voodle, complete with exotic tunes, JLG paraphrase and Karina voice-over from Alphaville. View the moving mash-up by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 464,03'15'', 16.7Mb, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video is quite prosaic: an afternoon prospect from the Copenhagen lakes, with universal moves; almost like being there. (Lum # 21 Copenhagen lakes afternoon, 01'00, 6.1 MB, Quicktime/mov) For more exiting Lumiere videos: clickhere.

On differance, vaults and landscape

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"The pataphysical videos are primarily intended to convey a poetic image or a complex pattern of poetic images; they are above all a poetical form. Voodled poetry is above all concerned to convey its central idea, or atmosphere, or mode of being; it is essentially static. A trifle, framed commedia dell' arte..."

Reshuffling recent recorded footage into seemingly absurd voodles, Sam Renseiw presents a tripthyc for today's post, featuring a vaulted interior, an enigmatic landscape and a borderline state. View the simultaneous frames one after the other, or vice-versa by clicking here, there, or on the links above. (patafilm # 460, 01'55'', 7.8MB and patafilm # 462, 01'04'', 4MB, both Quicktime/mov - streaming Flash versions available at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the borderline state, complete with clouds, horizon and passing cyclists. (Lum # 20 clouds horizon cyclicts, 00'53'', 3.7MB, Quicktime/mov) Many more, fine Lumiere videos at the Lumiere site.

Further into the gallery

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"... and if this performance, amid the incessant roar of the orchestra and the ventilators, were to continue into the ever-expanding, gray future, accompanied by applause, which died down and then swelled up again, from hands which were really steam hammers, perhaps then a young visitor to the gallery might rush down the long stair case through all the levels, burst into the ring, and cry “Stop!” through the fanfares of the constantly adjusting orchestra."

Voodling might indeed resemble a stretched, Kafkaesque merry-go-round trip, muses Sam Renseiw, further assembling footage from the open-air Tivoli fair. View the dreamy collage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 461, 01'46'' 5.7MB, Quicktime/mov - streaming Flash at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video acts as a sorbet to the semi-wild voodle and features a serene moment of sunset, complete with approaching ferry and beach shore.(Lum # 19 ferry-beach-shore, 00'59'',4.2MB, Quicktime/mov) Wholelotta other great Lumieres here

The white horse's silence

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" The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks at him in silence. They are so silent, they are in another world.... That which is beyond the rider and the horse, the inexplicable mystery of the stars whence no horseman comes and to which no horseman can arrive..."

Recording a serene moment of silence, complete with youth and white horse - just rhythmically punctuated by swallow chirp - Sam Renseiw speculates on the nature of pseudo-palindromic footage bits. View the expanded triptych voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 459, 00'51'', 3.7MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video consist of recent footage from a public dance lesson; (Lum # 18 dance lesson, 01'00, 3.9MB, Quicktime/mov) More Lumiere videos at the official site.

On the poetics of jellyfish shoring

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"The great vertiginous vertebration the zoospores and the leucocytes the wamroths and the holenlindens. Every one's a poem. The jellyfish is a poem too - the finest kind of poem. You poke him here, you poke him there, he slithers and slathers, he's dithy and clabberous, he has a colon and intestines, he's vermiform and ubisquishous."

Reflecting on the slithering nature of voodling, Sam Renseiw put together a clabberous poetic moment of ambient beach relaxation, featuring the late presentation of a jellyfish. View the appearance(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 458,01'28'', 5.1Mb, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a moment of fun, electrifying traffic. (Lum # 17 radio cars, 01'00, 4.1Mb, Quicktime/mov). For more enlightenment visit the Lumierevideo home.

On twin and sister ships

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"A true voodle is more than a visual structure or series of visual structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its viewer(s) and the intonation it imposes upon his/her gaze and the changing and durable images it leaves in their memory. A voodle is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

Voodling some recent windjammer footage into a new piece, Sam Renseiw realised that conditions of simultaneity sometimes resist fixed geographical positioning. Presence can be many places, all at once. What might be Passat could as well be Peking, and vice-versa. For ship-o-hoy experience click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 457b, 04'32'', 16.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video is also a maritime affair, featuring a departing ferry. (Lum #16, 01'00'', 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov) More on Lumiere videos here.

On forking paths

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"Meanwhile, looking from the window, they could see the world racing past them. At one moment, they were rattling through a solitude; the next, a village had grown up around them; a few breaths more, and it had vanished, as if swallowed by an earthquake. The spires of meeting-houses seemed set adrift from their foundations; the broad-based hills glided away. Everything was unfixed from its age-long rest, and moving at whirlwind speed in a direction opposite to their own."

Voodling happily along a different hood, Sam Renseiw pondered on the fact that every voodle creates its own precursors. The work might modifies our conception of the past, as it might modify the future, yet the original is always unfaithful to the translation. Although there is no video exercise which is not ultimately useless, this one can be viewed by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 455, 01'47'', 5.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video records a moment of multiple transitions, fixed in multiples. Click here. (Lum # 15 duck passage,00' 50'', 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov) Lots of fine other videos to be viewed at the Lumiere home !

On fenced worlds of sand

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"Ts'ui Pên must have said once: I am withdrawing to capture video footage of reality. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Everyone imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the videos and the maze were one and the same thing."

Walking on the outskirts of a crudely fenced sand world on the other side of the shoreline, Sam Renseiw, barefooted and puzzled by the following stroboscopic experience, recorded some footage while continuing his paytaphysical visual experiments. View the newest patafilm by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 456, 01'57'', &.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv) And, as usual: bold text are embedded links.

Bonus Lumiere video from another, darker, much more confined space, click here. (Lum # 14 museum door, 00'37'', 2.3Mb, Quicktime/mov) Note: For a overwhelming experience of all the frantic, ongoing moving video stills, visit the home of Lumiere videos.

On chairs and hot-dogs

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" It seemed a logical progression to spend the next dozen years in the theatrical avant-garde staging the dramas of Samuel Beckett. Then, I realized that large cruise ships docked behind the stage and hot dog vendors were everywhere. That's when I turned from the theater to voodling ..."

Just enjoying the preparation of a quiet Danish (French) hot-dog, Sam Renseiw speculated for a moment on the absurdity of hot-dog swallowing contests, while recording the event, almost Lumiere fashion. View the ritual by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 448b, 00'45'', 3.5Mb, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv)
Today's Bonus Lumiere video is about the Zen of chairing. Click here to be seated. (Lum # 13, 00'58'', 3.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On Zen and retelling in larger frames

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" Most of you have learned how to waltz, or are beginning to. You may have discovered that waltzing is a challenge to learn, at first, then it transforms into an easier, pleasurable experience. You may have also discovered dizziness. Although dizziness is the first "altered state" that you experience in waltzing, it is not an especially profound one. But there is another, higher, level that some people discover through whirling. And that is what this video is about. This other, higher state is indeed profound, at many levels, because it can have a beneficial influence that transcends the realm of dancing "

Sam Renseiw discovered that by adding kinesthetic motion to a quiet, contemplative state, one can become even more deeply receptive to direct experience. Like Zen, Voodling is a wordless doctrine. Chuang Tzu wrote that the "Voodle cannot be conveyed by either words or silence, just images” Enter here or click on the links above. (patafilm # 454 - remix of # 74 - 01'32'', 5.3 MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at Blip.tv) ---- Special Bonus: circus Lumiere video here, featuring a beautiful line dancer. (Lum # 11, 01'00, 3.1MB, Quicktime/mov) . Also : visit the home of all Lumiere videos.

On the missing sock phenomenon

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"But the fact is, on that night, I felt I’d come a little closer to understanding the mystery of the missing sock phenomenon – I’d actually discovered one hiding amongst my jeans and t-shirts. Perhaps they didn’t circle the globe in space after all, they where just marching.."

Concentrating periodically on subtle and utterly banal matters, Sam Renseiw pondered for a moment on the mystery of the missing sock phenomenon, editing some seemingly lost footage, re-found, re-told. View the step by step clarification by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 452, 00'57'', 4.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv)
Fast track, short and mute Bonus Lumiere video here (Lum # 10, 00'32'', 2.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On conversations and blasts

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"We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too."

Still toggling between clear and blurred focus in voodling activities, Sam Renseiw unfolds the sharpness of a recent conversation, subjectively altered. View the debate by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 451, 01'36'', 7.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv) Contrasting, mute Bonus Lumiere video for this post accessible here. (LUM # 9, 00'46'', 3.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On composition and rules

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"The thing of composition is so abstract. It's so powerful where you place things and the relationships. But you don't work with any kind of intellectual thing. You just act and react. It's all intuition. It must obey rules, but these rules are not in any book. The basic rules of composition are a joke."

Further fixating his gaze in Lumiere Fashion, Sam Renseiw suddenly got distracted, thus forced to shift the footage's taxonomy from Lumiere to patafilm. View the development of the change of classification by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 450b, 01'26'', 6.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv) Bonus Lumierevideo: click here for quiet moment of regulated sea shore at Charlottenlund. (Lum # 8, 00'59'', 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov)