On the morphology of space and body

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"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with moving images of provinces, kingdoms, streets, bays, ships, islands, chairs, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face."

Every voodle seems to be an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality, muses Sam Renseiw while compiling an intriguing, fairly complex and condensed montage of interior gazes, extracted back into outward appearances. View the puzzling, fragmented piece, encompassing a personal endoscopic travel, fixed interior tableaux of otherwise inaccessible theatrical spaces and reflective vistas of minute, fleeting passage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 601, 02'25'', 13MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more serenely framed platform for the application of contemplative gaze(s). (Lum # 117, "see, sea seating" 00'54, 4.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a short, instataneous ephemeral. (patafilm # 466 [31.07.2007 post),02'15'', 13.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On fathoming other channels of gaze

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"It has always happened that certain things - a lane, a bench, a comforter tree, -present themselves to Sam Renseiw as if asking him for minute and prolonged attention: he starts observing them almost unawares, and his gaze begins to run over all the details and is then unable to detach itself. Renseiw has decided that from now on he will redouble his attention. . . .He tries staring at everything that comes within eyeshot; he feels no pleasure, and he stops. A second phase follows, in which he is convinced that only some things are to be looked at, others not, and he must go and seek the right ones. To do this, he has to face each time problems of selection . . . he soon realises he is spoiling everything, as always when he involves his own ego. . . . But how can you look at something and set your own ego aside? Whose eyes are doing the looking? As a rule, you think of the ego as one who is peering out of your own eyes as if leaning on a window sill, looking at the world. . . . So, then: a window looks out on the world. The world is out there; and in here, what do we have? The world still - what else could there be? With a little effort of concentration, Sam Renseiw manages to shift the world from in front of him and set it on the sill, looking out. Now, beyond the window, what do we have? The world is also there, and for the occasion has been split into a looking world and a world looked at. And what about him, also known as ''I,'' namely Sam Renseiw? Is he not a piece of the world that is looking at another piece of the world? "

Today's post marks the appearance of the 600th voodle posted here on Patalab, with a paraphrased quote from Mr. Palomar. Another of Sam Renseiw's humble, low-grained and crude attempts to frame a morsel of reality, an inconspicuous capture of a fleeting moment of quotidian. The enjoyable research work will continue, further questioning the potential nature(s) of vision through a conscious application of the gaze. While the on-going, comforting low-tech procedures will be maintained for a while, expect some sharper digital experiments in the next months. In the mean time, click here to view the soothing, stabilised voodle. (patafilm # 600, 02'06'', 11.2Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)
Thank you to all faithful viewers until date , contributing with insightful comments on the site and for their own, inspiring works.

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a collective, moving view of an attractive photo-opportunity passing by, fixed behind the recording gaze. (Lum # 116, "the tourist barge" 00'48'', 3.8Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Cross-Post Video features a fine voodle from a newly started, affiliated Norwegian voodle vlog. A very hearty welcome to Lomeg-rom from Oslo!

On Mr. Knott's indoor wandering

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" Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window, from the window to the door; from the window to the door, from the door to the window; from the fire to the bed, from the bed to the fire; from the bed to the fire, from the fire to the bed; from the door to the fire, from the fire to the door . . ."

Continuing his ongoing spatial investigations, Sam Renseiw concentrated the gaze upon some Beckett-Watt-like situation, moving the observations indoors. View the Hotel lobby meeting montage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 597, 02'50'', 15.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Other video versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another Beckett-like morsel of absurd choreography. Lum # 115 "the ungentle guest" 01'00'', 5.3Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a surprising combination of indoor and outer-spatial research. (patafilm #215, 03'06'', 11.MB,[06.07.2006 post] Quicktime/mov). As always, click on the bold links in the text for more info or to view.

On Palomar-like framing a simple event

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"I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it; though all my actions are bent on erasing the consequences of previous actions and though I manage to achieve appreciable results in this erasure, enough to open my heart to hopes of immediate relief, I must, however, bear in mind that my every move to erase previous events provokes a rain of new events... Therefore I must calculate carefully every move so as to achieve the maximum of erasure with the minimum of re-complication."

Trying to simplify the visual flow of a batch of serendipitous, shaky beach footage, Sam Renseiw applied simple software to re-frame the seen in an more "matrix" like manner, with semi-panoramic glides. Follow the voodle-promenade-in-frames while keeping your eyes locked on the horizon until the main protagonists appear to establishing a Kirkegaardian duality. Click here or on the links above to view. (patafilm # 599, 02'03'', 11.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a sea related monument. (Lum # 114 "mariners, angel and dogs"00'31'', 2.6MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the Lumiere site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a short, blurred glimpse of another wedding photo-shoot. ( patafilm # 270,[02.10.2006 post] 00' 47'', 3.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On wilderness and fields of golden rape

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"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self."

On a short Pentecostal leave to a renown country institute, Sam Renseiw pondered on the inter-connective wilderness of matter while driving along fields of oilseed rape. View the road-voodle with parallel, superb soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 598, 05'00'', 27.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08 project, week 20 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short, comparative remake of a straight story. (Lum # 113 "the parterre story",00'43'',3.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features a contrasting, slowed and more self-centered view of nature. (patafilm # 428,[04.06.2007 post] 01' 58'', 8.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On voodling the four-beat walking gait

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"All our intuition is nothing but the representation of appearance; that the things which we intuit are not in themselves what we intuit them as being, nor their relations so constituted in themselves as they appear to us, and that if the subject, or even only the subjective constitution of the senses in general, be removed, the whole constitution and all the relations of objects in space and time, nay space and time themselves, would vanish. As appearances, they cannot exists in themselves, but only in us. What objects may be in themselves, and apart from all this receptivity of our sensibility, remains completely unknown to us. We know nothing but our mode of perceiving them - a mode which is peculiar to us, and not necessarily shared in by every being, though, certainly, by every human being. With this alone have we any concern."

Further investigating the nature of the spontaneous and innate cognitive, Sam Renseiw walked along Water Music's stroll in a peaceful neighbourhood. View the concocted docu-voodle with fine Gurdonark off-beats by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 595, 02'43'', 15.1Mb, Quicktime/mov - other video versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features new and more choreographed moves. (Lum#112"sascha's moves". 000'54'',3.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features more confined hypology moves. (patafilm # 386,[08.04.2007 post] 01'26'' 6.5 MB, Quicktime /mov) Click on the bold text links to view or for more info.

On biopsies and ambiguities of relief

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"The relief becomes an image of the world as it comes into existence. The relief as the point between image and space. The moment when the figure breaks free of the surface and gains its own independent life. When geological contours divide and become land-masses, which in turn change. Or when we make a decision about who we want to be as human beings."

Further investigating visual matters and related semiotics, Sam Renseiw inconspicuously recorded the in-depth flatness of surface, confined. View the docu-vooodle pro forma excerpts with Ukrainian soundtrack overlay by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 596, 02'54'', 15.5Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a relief of image and space, lectured. (Lum # 111, "the goodiepal lecture", 00'54'', 3.8MB, Quicktime/mov) More of other's lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features another algebra of space, with smaller, poorer and cheaper overlays. (patafilm # 467,[03.08.2007 post] 01'57'' 7.4MB, Quicktime/mov.

On the intricacies of folk art and plunges

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"He says he has moved to the Faroe Islands retiring from making new music. Instead he works as a nurse in an old people’s home, while continuing to tour actively. “A genuine eccentric” are the words most often heard describing his live appearances, where he plays vinyl records and Faroe folk instruments and puts on display various small, inexplicable objects built by himself, such as mechanical birds and miniature models of planets."

Pondering on the nature of flow and oblique art education, Sam Renseiw attended a recent unannounced Goodiepal lecture. View the cut-up docu-voodle footage including an other art work and an unexpected jump from a local bridge by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 594, 02'08'', 11.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a boxed, rotating artefact by another artist.(Lum#110, "the friderichsens construct" 00'43'',3.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a different sort of aether waves correction, anaphoric. (patafilm # 275, [16.10.2006 post] 01'39'', 7.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)