On imbrication: everything is voodle

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"It's the voodle that made me discover life...with landscapes, people, houses, urban spaces, interiors, art-works... the whole generic quotidian and the particular festive within. I discovered it as if I were in Plato's cave and then there was a little window in it and a film being projected. So one day I said: 'Look, there is life; so I'm going to do voodles in order to discover life'."

Still imbricated in the subtle magic of simple things and situations, Sam Renseiw expanded a single long-take from a recent birthday celebration dinner into a situationist voodle. View the unfolding of a painter's universe, with Stein's monologue portrait of Matisse by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 609, 04'28'', 18.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a classical setting with a frozen dancer. (Lum # 126 "degas dancer", 00'45'', 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features another birthday situation (patafilm # 239, [29.08.2006 post]02'04'', 9.5Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On glimpses of staged fashions

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“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages”

Capturing further footage from a recent catwalk just before midsummer, Sam Renseiw pondered about the nature of survey. View the fashionable montage with some added Beckett by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 609, 01'53'', 6.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a delayed appearance to the show. (Lum # 125,"catwalk delay" 00'53'', 4.1MB, Quicktime/mov.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a short moment of enlightenment. (patafilm # 96, [18.02.2006 post],01'06'', 3.8 MB, mov/quicktime)

On early morning traffic with clouds

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"Summer is best in the morning/on a cloud filled sky/Even if it is windy, it is lovely/when the bicycles dart all over,/or even one or two cars stopping in traffic/with cool lights./It is also wonderful when it rains/or when sun-rays reflect on window rows/ while slowly passing by/with recorded tunes"

All lovely observations can be recorded, even the most trivial ones, mused Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Sei Shonagon. View the languishing, early morning traffic voodle with diegetic sound by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 608, 02'48'' 11.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features ritualised, well-dressed pedestrian moves.(Lum# 124,"catwalk" 01'00'',4.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features last year's Midsummer's Eve footage. This year's might turn out somewhat rainy, btw. (patafilm # 445,[25.06.2007 post] 02'16'', 10.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the persistence of place - part two

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

"Oh longing for places that were not/Cherished enough in that fleeting hour /How I long to make good from far/The forgotten gesture, the additional act." remembers Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing some Rilke while assembling cottage footage, hermit-wise, back home. View the morning poetics of space by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm# 607, 04'39'', 20.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short, watchful moment of blind spot awareness in traffic. (Lum# 123,"blind spot watch" 00'54'', 4.2MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features an early miniature voodle depicting the embodiment of the passage of time; Chuang Tzu once stated: "Voodle cannot be conveyed by either words or silence, just images”. (patafilm # 56, "Zen and the Art of Whirling", 01'28'',[17.01.2006 post] 3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the persistence of place

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"Music, states of happiness, mythology, houses, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon."

No house is any house and one single house can be all houses, muses Sam Renseiw while capturing footage of the acquisition of a necessary key to open the doorway to yet another house. View the quiet, Saturday morning aesthetic phenomenon trailer, leading to the next voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 606, 01'34'', 8.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features various locomotion crossings. (Lum # 122, " cyclist, horses, pedestrian", 01'00'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features running footage in a room. (patafilm # 124, 01'52''[25.03.2006 post], 4.6 MB, mov/quicktime)

On similitudes and other cognitive rotations

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"The perfection belonging to one thing is found in another. This is the perfection of a knower insofar as he knows; for something is known by a knower by reason of the fact that the thing known is, in some fashion, in the possession of the knower. Hence it is said in The Soul that the soul is "in some manner, all things," since its nature is such that it can know all things. In this way, it is possible for the perfection of the entire universe to exist in one thing."

Even inconspicuous settings can often provide the background surface for somehow lunatic similitudes, mused Renseiw while standing still to capture a full turn. View the Thomistic docu-voodle with added conversations outbound to camelot by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 605, 01'34'', 8.5MB,Quicktime/mov other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short moment of silence. (Lum #121,"workshop break" 01'00'',5.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a domestic setting with space soundings (patafilm # 317, [12.12.2006 post] 01'52'', 8.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On metaphysics of the long take

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" Virtuosity itself, though an aspect of art, needs to be treated with caution; one can be impressed with the sort of sequences I am referring to without maintaining that they sum up the totality of voodle art. For there is, and there has always been, another kind of long take which is based on the contrary on simplicity. Here it is not the skill or the technical dexterity of the artist that is at issue, but the integrity and patient intensity of his gaze."

Thinking of Andre Bazin while walking home, Sam Renseiw decided to record an almost unending take past some yellow chalked barraks, remembering that they now would log almost four centuries, and still being a vital part of the city. View the floating passage of time and space with a particular fine ending by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 604, 03'10'', 17.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features some fine footage in front of Charles Simonyi super yacht "Skat"( the 7th largest yacht in the world). Charles is, by the way, the chief architect of Microsoft, and likes to cruise around in Scandinavia during summer. (Lum # 120 "footage past simonyi's yacht", Lum # 120, 00'59'', 3.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a limo passing, just around the corner from today's video location. (patafilm # 168,[13.05.2005 post recorded at 16:45 pm on thursday 11.05.2005 loc.: 55°41'26.98''N 12° 35'19.71''E], 00'45'', 3.7 MB, mov/quicktime)

On trashprint, trendy design & male gaze

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"In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness."

While voodling about at the recent presentation of Trashprint's fine new T-shirt, Sam Renseiw mused about the nature of male gaze, a feminist topic from the 70's[still] re-surfacing on some blogs. The male gaze certainly represents a problem to many. In some cultures this is solved by making women wear a burqa. In other cultures, even women develop yet stranger gazes on men, cultivating oblique standard operating procedure(s). The new T's from Trashprint - designed for Amnesty - with the slogan " People Are Not Trash", remind you to treat your fellow human with courtesy, respect and compassion, no matter the circumstances. View the montaged cut-up footage with Triotrash sound by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 603, 02'05'', 11.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video also features under-the-counter-male-gaze-footage. (Lum #119 "the amnesty T-shirt models" 00'52'',3.9MB, Quicktime/mov). Other's Lumieres at the fine Lumiere site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video replay-supplement features further footage from inside the same space as today's voodle.(patafilm # 498, 02'47''[18.09.2007 post], 15.4MB, Quicktime/mov.)

On long takes and horizontal rule(s)

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" Only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, those piled-up pre-conceptions, that spiritual dust and grime with which my eyes have covered it, is able to present it in all its virginal purity to my attention and consequently to my love. By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can see, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the voodler.."

Speculating on both Bazin's theory on the long take and the horizontal rule, Sam Renseiw captured a short segment of a promenade, appearing seemingly as a pastoral setting, while remaining a carthesian construct, albeit demoted of its functionality. View the slowed, twice stabilised, depth-of-field concerned late afternoon walk complete with borrowed landscapes by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 602, 02'55'', 15.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of watership down, without rabbits, but with a baby carriage interruption. (Lum # 118, 00'47'', 3.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features another, more shaky walk trough a piece of urban nature (patafilm # 418, [11.05.2007 post], 01'03'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov )