On chasing clouds, spring and other signs

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"I cannot say ‘I see the blue of the sky’ in the sense in which I say I understood a book, or that I have decided to devote my life to mathematics... Every time I experience a sensation, I feel that it concerns not my own being, the one for which I am responsible, and for which I make decisions, but another self, which has already sided with the world, which is already open to certain of its aspects, and synchronized with them. Between my sensation and myself there stands always the thickness of some primordial acquisition which prevents my experience from being clear to itsel...[Yet] my perception is not a sum of visual, tactile, and audible givens: I perceive in a total way with my whole being: I grasp a unique structure of the thing, a unique way of being, which speaks to all my senses at once."

Continuing the quest for simultanous flaneur(ism)-albeit at a fast pace- while recording footage, Sam Renseiw pursued a cloud, in the mist of florist's side-walk arrangements. View the ensuing docu-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 585, 02'38'', 14.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a recent, warming Copenhagen street novelty. (Lum # 101 "mobile expresso vendor", 00'59'', 4.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features a bout of the harships of voodling, completely AGuGu. (patafilm #259 [23.09 2006 post], 12,4MB. 02'40, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to view, or for more info.

On art, craft(s), seeing and re-mixing

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"There is an inherent pleasure in making. We might call this joie de faire (like joie de vivre) to indicate that there is something important, even urgent, to be said about the sheer enjoyment of making something exist that didn’t exist before, of using one’s own agency, dexterity, feelings and judgment to mold, form, touch, hold and craft physical (and in this case, even virtual) materials, apart from anticipating the fact of its eventual beauty, uniqueness or usefulness."

Pondering on the nature of crafting v/s making and the subsequent labelling into "art" taxonomies, Sam Renseiw just observed three different settings, in motion. View the voodle triptych with polyphonic voice-over re-mix by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 584,02'43'', 15.1Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a composed space and light diptych, jubilee piece. (lum # 100, "composition in space, flickering light", 00'59'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features the same urban setting as in today's post, albeit in a much warmer perspective. (patafilm # 447," in my quiet hood" [26.06.2007 post] 01'22'' 6.4 MB, Quicktime/mov). Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more info.

On Play, Ritual and art massage

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“Both are highly social. Both make more than usual use of tension and release, out-of-context behavior, surprise, the manipulation of expectancy and anticipation. Both make more than usual use of the qualities of repetition, exaggeration, imitation, and elaboration. Play is much more concerned with change and novelty, spontaneity and unpredictability that ritual is. Ritual generally tends towards stereotyped, prescribed, and even inflexible activities. Most important, ritual, like play, is concerned with metaphor in that it is saturated with symbolism, the creation of another world in which once ordinary things acquire the potency of standing for extraordinary things. In this world, ordinarily incompatible things may be combined or reconciled into unprecedented and convincing unity.”

While first playfully recording artefacts in space during a ritualised visit to a local art gallery, Sam Renseiw later montaged a crude voodle, toggling between intended and intuitive actions, pondering on the multi-layered nature of message. View the mash-up massage of captured images by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 583b, 02'47'', 15.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a recent, short and serene moment of extraordinary quotidian, located just opposite (!) the visited gallery. (Lum # 99 "early easter 2008, snow", 00'36'',3.2MB, Quicktime/mov) The Lumiere site caters other's fine videos.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video is a complementary treat, as it is a previous walk-through the exact same spaces as in the day's voodle post, yet featuring other artists. (patafilm # 442,[21.06.2007 post] 03'10'', 14.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On distancing effect and other framework(s)

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"By disclosing and making obvious the manipulative contrivances and "fictive" qualities of the medium, the viewer is alienated from any passive acceptance and enjoyment of the voodle as mere "entertainment". Instead, the viewer is gently ordained into a critical, analytical frame of mind that serves to disabuse him/her of the notion what he/she is watching is necessarily an inviolable, self-contained narrative... Naturalistic voodles purport to depict life precisely as it appears, albeit in a new light, so one can consider things with closer pataphysical subjectivity, robbed of their conventional outward appearance."

Juxtaposing a broader view on artful frame-works with the Hatter's display in Hans Christian Andersen's favourite shop (Founded 1857 and still existing), Sam Renseiw montaged forth a speculative voodle. View the tripthyc, complete with JLG voice-over and a glimpse of Cronhammer's Cabaret by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 582, 02'26'' 12.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another night view, complete with embedded, illuminating screen(s).(Lum# 98 "the pharmacy, at night" 01'00'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an oneiric, colourful escalator view. (patafilm # 318,[16.12.2006 post] 01'48'', 8.2 MB, Quicktime/.mov). Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more information(s).

On preserves and oblique illuminations

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"When I travel through my room, I rarely follow a straight line: I go from the table towards a picture hanging in a corner; from there, I set out obliquely towards the door; but even though, when I begin, it really is my intention to go there, if I happen to meet my armchair en route, I don’t think twice about it, and settle down in it without further ado."

Likewise de Maistre's interior travels, Sam Renseiw just happened to stop at a surreally decorated shop window, on the way home from a opera evening with the grim tale of Heart in a Plastic Bag still echoing. View the resulting cut-up, slightly synaesthetic voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 582, 02'38'', 14.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video likewise features an unintended stop, further on the way, where luminous empty shop windows acted as attractors. (Lum # 97, "the empty shop, at night", 00'54'', 4.5Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an act of performed kindness in the Invisible Reality Show, voodled with closed eyes.(patafilm # 309, 03'25'', 15.6 MB,[30.11.2006 post] Quicktime/mov)

On Ether(nity) and the "ur" of simulation

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"Whether scientific or mytho-poeic, both kind of ether provide an imaginary solution to the problem of illumination. Even light itself must express the ontological expediency of an imagined paradigm. Just as quantum physics has shown that measuring a perception converts a potentiality into an existence by collapsing a wave function, realising reality rather that reporting it, so also does 'pataphysics reveal that the function of navigators was to make land - not to find it."

Further fathoming the expanses of Dr.Faustroll's Ether, Sam Renseiw recorded an interior stroll, ending with an ur vertigo - inducing staircase gaze. View the panoramic procession, complete with mirror-on-the-wall and fine positive surround-sound by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 579, 03'19'', 17.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other video versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a lone figure practising an interior, panoptic gaze (Lum # 96, "drawing, from inside" 00'54'', 4.2Mb, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the project's main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a floating Constellation: a huge interior, seen moored from outside. (patafilm #208, 01'32''[29.06.2006 post] 6.7 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to either view or for more didactic information(s).

On external and internal presence(s)

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"The external object had broken with its normal environment, and its internal component parts had, so to speak, emancipated themselves from it in such a way that they were now able to maintain entirely new relationships with other elements, escaping from the principle of reality but retaining all their importance on that plane."

Invited to view a rare typology of stored maritime artefacts, Sam Renseiw entered an old building to discover an interior space oozing with dignified, yet functional new poetic(s). View the somehow slightly surreal, condensed monumentality by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 578, 02'24'', 12.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a close-up from a fine Baroque interior, complete with boxed-in blondes. (Lum # 95 "blondes in grey box" 00'59'' 4.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a climbing corridor view from the same interior as the Lumiere, then proceeding to a broader impression of the intricacies of a particular space. (patafilm # 385, 02'22''[14.04.2007 post], 10.8MB, Quicktime/mov.

On idle details and protrusions

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“ Libraries are not built of stone; all is built on sand, but we must build libraries as if the sand were stone, then they will grow...and what is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists... I cannot walk through the library in the solitude of the day without thinking that the library pleases us because it accentuates idle details, just as our memory does; Thus, voodling from inside a library is nothing more than a guided dream, creating a momentary garden: a blurred, visual aide-memoire ”

Visiting the local library, Sam Renseiw focused on an protruding, seemingly idle detail on the back wall, oozing with a quiet, powerful poetic presence. View the palindromic loop by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 577,02'33'', 13.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the manufacture of an object, suddenly protruding from a heated, plastic surface. ( Lum # 94 "appearance of moulded object", 00'58'', 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor video re-play supplement features another art work, viewed flatly, ending as a sort of running fault. (patafilm # 119, 01'00'',[19.03.2006 post], 2.4 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On language, dance moves and basketball

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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language... If dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body then Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Thus, to perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."

Combining footage from a recent dance performance show and from a sunny interior, Sam Renseiw pursues his docu-voodle investigations. View an excerpt of pieces of quiet at SMD and shadows on the wall with diegetic soundtrack and Danish lyrics by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 576, 03'17'', 17.6MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a lovely dancer's shadow (lum #93 "door, dancer, shadow", 01'00'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a blurred solo round-dance with a fall. (patafilm #124,01'52''[25.03.2006 post],4.6MB, mov/quicktime)

On image as pure creation of the mind

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" The image is a pure creation of the mind, it cannot be born from a comparison, but comes from the bringing together of two distant realities... An image is not powerful because it is brutal and fantastic, but because the association of ideas is distant and true."

Contemplating the statement that the public demands that a video work transport it elsewhere, whereas voodling claims to fix the viewer's mind on the work as with a pin, Sam Renseiw montaged a brief juxtaposition of images . View the cut-up, syncopated brew by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 575, 02'35'', 13.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short, shadowy indoor ball game. (Lum # 92 "indoor ball game", 00'57'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov. Other's Lumieres at the project's luminous main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a genuine view from Le Corbusier's Mother's Petite Maison's bath-tub to Lake Geneva. (patafilm # 71 backdated 00'44'',[10.01.2006 post],3.8MB, Quicktime/mov). Click on the bold links to view or for more info.