On picket and horizontal travelling

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"An estimated 100,000 Danish nurses and other health care workers haven't been to work in two weeks as they demand long due wage concessions. Nurses, midwives, laboratory technicians, physiotherapists and nursing aides walked off their jobs last week to demand a 15 percent wage hike over three years to bring them on a par with their colleagues in the private sector. Over 20,000 members of the union Trade and Labour (FOA) that organizes nursing home and kindergarten employees also went on strike.The strike is the first major social conflict in Denmark since 1998 and is broadly supported by the Danish public."

Exploring the confines of Blazicek and Ball's Horizontal Rule voodle theory, Sam Renseiw travelled along the early morning picket line, using the low-tech dolly equipment at hand. View the fine travelling by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 593, 01'34'', 8.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features the fine hand-crafted, manufacture of a voodle badge.(Lum #109 "the voodle button" 01'00, 5.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an instructive black-board explanation of the repercussions of the Horizontal Rule in voodle procedures. (patafilm # 94,[17.02.2006 post] 01'15'', 5.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the aesthetic significance of the face

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"The eye epitomises the face in mirroring the soul. At the same time, it accomplishes its finest, purely formal end as the interpreter of mere appearances, which knows no going back to any pure intellectuality behind the appearance. It is precisely this achievement which the eye gives us the intimation, indeed the guarantee, that the artistic problems of pure perception and of the pure sensory image of things - if perfectly solved - would lead to the solution of those other problems which involve soul and appearance. Appearance would then become the veiling and unveiling of the soul"

Pondering on the task of creating a maximum of change of total expression by a minimum of change of detail, Sam Renseiw visited a royal cafe complete with adjacent local chinaware displays. View the cut-up footage including impressions of served hybrid smushi constructs by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 592, 02'34'', 13.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene, back-lit scene of smushi ordering. (lum # 108 "the smushi attendant" 00'52'', 4.3MB, Quicktime/mov) More: info on the fine Lumiere manifesto here and view other's at the main Lumiere site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features the entrance to a differnt space in an episode of the docu-soap voodle from Signa's "Circle Camp" performance. (patafilm # 479,[22.08.2007 post]03'49'', 19.5MB,Quicktime/mov.)

On the concept of figure and ground

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"The Theater of the Absurd dramatizes this recent dilemma of Western man, the man of action who appears not to be involved in the action. After three thousand years of specialist explosion and of increasing specialism and alienation in the technological extensions of our bodies, our world has become compressional by dramatic reversal. As electrically contracted, the globe is no more than a village. Electric speed in bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion has heightened human awareness of responsibility to an intense degree."

While being aware of the possibility of arranging the human environment as a work of art or as a didactic machine designed to maximize perception and to make everyday learning a process of discovery, Sam Renseiw passed by some cherry trees recently. View the ensuing, languishing, contextually geo-tagged, ambient spring voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 591, 04'24'', 24.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a feeble, flying advertisement banner over an old willow, quite apropos the figure/ground topic of this post. (Lum # 107 " flying banner" 00'38'', 3.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features riveting, bifurcated repetitions; Again, a very appropriate theme to the overall topic of today's posts. (patafilm # 436,[14.06.2007 post] 03'58'', 18.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On embodied semiotics and images

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"Whether or not images are inherently more polysemous than words, it is very common to find (and seek) words around exhibited or published images--titles, labels, placards, guides, "the artist's words" and so on. Classically, however, the words are peripheral to the work and confined to background information and perhaps a few interpretive hints and pointers to notable features of the work. Voodlers are notoriously sparing of words, preferring to let the image "speak for itself."

Continuing the visual investigations of serendipituous footage, Sam Renseiw probes the extent of silent language in cut-up imagery. View the embodied spaces and surfaces by clicking here or on the links above (patafilm # 590, 02'27'', 13.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a feed, in a pastoral setting. (Lum# 106,"pastoral bird feeding" 01'00'', 5.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a fine skate run through Copenhagen, with lots of sights. Enjoy! (classic vlog #6,[19.08.2006 post] 05'39'', 26 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the intangible of global in local

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"It is true that visual language considered as a code mapping shapes, colours, and shading into meanings will not get us very far with re-makings and allusions. It would seem we require the notion of visual literacy to understand and enjoy some works, where by "visual literacy" we do not mean a set of rules assigning significance to visual elements, but some knowledge and experience making and viewing art."

Yet, sometimes bits of reality can certainly adjust one's focus asserts Sam Renseiw, having experienced an arty preview. Enjoy the voodle, concocted with footage fragments from outside and inside Charlottenborg on a Thursday evening by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 589, 02'24'', 12.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a lobbying moment of illuminating, artful semiotics from the same location. (lum # 105 "semiotics preview"00'42'', 3.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features colours, shading and a door to perception from an-other exhibition. (patafilm # 119, 01'00'', 2.4 MB,[19.03.2006 post]Quicktime/mov)

On the intangible of local in global

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"The ecological absorption of the voodle and the obsolescence of the voodler precipitate the cultural dissolution of the videographic eye. A postvideographic culture has no need for a witness, a transcendent and discriminating eye, to testify to the significance of events by organizing and fixing them according to a chronological code of before and after. With postvideography there is no longer a point of view, but visual contexts; no longer an eye, but a continuous contextually interactive, visually educative process in which biological eyes reflexively commune with the fragments and possibilities of their cultures."

Recording a short moment of early spring, Sam Renseiw speculated on the nature of the correlation between sound and vision while alternating between chairs and the view to a peculiar tower in an exquisite site. View the instant-kitten-carillon-added voodle by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 588,02'24'', 13.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a revolving entrance with a fine panorama. (Lum # 104 "rotating entrance, opera", 00'58'' 4.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features the delicate attempt to sit on a chair.(patafilm # 141,[14.04.2006 post] 01'57'', 8.7 MB, mov/quicktime).

On career moves and other approaches

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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, or more art in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you really want."

And the double reverse seems to be unfolding at Karriere, mused Sam Renseiw while trying to find the entrance door, somehow. Enlightened by lamps, exotic installation(s), a fountain and Laerke's tatoo... Sam ended this short and enigmatic voodle with a classic vision. Click here to view or listen in karriere live here; (patafilm # 587, 01'55'', 10.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a happy crowd of young opera visitors, under a large canopy. (Lum # 103, "opera + canopy" 01'00, 5,2MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features episode # 1 of "The Inhabitation of Fiction" docu-soap. Enjoy!- and watch the other episodes...(patafilm # 476,[18.08.2007 post] 02'45'', 14.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On subtleties of matter and space

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"Materials and surfaces have a language of their own. Stone speaks of its distant geological origins, its durability and inherent symbolism of permanence; brick makes one think of earth and fire, gravity and the ageless traditions of construction; bronze evokes the extreme heat of its manufacture, the ancient processes of casting and the passage of time as measured in its patina. Wood speaks of its two existences and time scales; its first life as a growing tree and the second as a human artefact made by the caring hand of a carpenter or cabinetmaker. These are all materials and surfaces that speak pleasurably of time."

While visiting a very fine piece of interior architecture, Sam Renseiw pondered on the subtleties of haptic matters. View the casual walk through spaces, combining both history and fine novel sensuous approaches to building conservation by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 586, 02'26'', 13.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a view of a Copenhagen landmark, also present in today's videopost, albeit seen from another angle. ( Lum # 102, 00'54'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features the interior of the dome featured in the Lumiere and in the patafilm, including a rare live recording of Terry Riley's "In C". (patafilm # 311,[02.12.2006 post] 03'20'', 15.3 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more info.