On large scale gatherings and catering

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“Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or voodlers.”

Voluntarily acting as assistant cook for an evening, Sam Renseiw nevertheless managed to capture some footage from a larger event, catering to the employees of a Nordic Company. View the concocted cut-up docu-voodle complete with firework finale by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 623, 02'14'', 13.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a down-to-earth morning urban scene.( Lum # 142,"sweep'n move" 00'55'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an urban view from Asia. (patafilm # 158,[03.05.2006 post] 00'58'', 4.3 MB, mov/quicktime)

On precipitation and destination

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“The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold: our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements.”

Taking an early morning hike, Sam Renseiw reflects on the frailty of framing observance and the obstacles in casting an adequate vote while the rain is pouringdown. View the short walk by cliking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 622, 02'44'', 40.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a fixed running-shoe-test, in a dry frame. (lum# 141,"shoe test" 01'00'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement likewise features simple moves in a elaborate space...from the dawn of Vlogging; (patafilm # 75?, 01'36''[ 11.11.2005 post]Quicktime/mov)

On Smurfettes, transmutations and clones

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"Anyway, like I was sayin', smurf is the fruit of the sea. There's uh, smurf-kabobs, smurf Creole, smurf gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple smurf,lemon smurf, coconut smurf, pepper smurf, smurf soup, smurf stew, smurf salad, smurf and potatoes, smurf burger, smurf sandwich. That... that's about it."

And then there is the delightful urban smurfette chance meeting just after leaving a gallery, on the way to the next vernissage, ponders Sam Renseiw. View the straight-forward docu-voodle with local smurfettes and an endless clone, in a new, contextual setting by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 621, 02'59'', 15.2Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another view from a vernissage recorded just after today's voodle post. (Lum # 140 "vuggy vernissage" 00'59'', 4.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features yet again vernissage footage -a Lumiere-(Lum # 68"dick and jane at the reception", [16.12.2007 post] 01'00'',6.2MB, Quicktime/mov)

On street bric a brac and dada

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"Voodling is a state of mind. That is why it transforms itself according to conditions and events. Voodling applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and grasshoppers. Like everything in life, Voodling is useless. Voodling is without pretension, as life should be. Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Voodling is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions."

Pondering about certain elements in Tzara's Dadaism lecture, Sam Renseiw proceeded to cut-up recent footage of French bric a brac on a Copenhagen street and an excerpt of an art video sequence into an oneiric voodle. View the amalgam with added spoken word and street five soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 620, 01'52'', 10.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a tripple view on mind tricker at a gallery opening. (Lum #139,"video roulette" 01'00'', 4.6Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features footage from a celebration last year at the same gallery.(patafilm # 550, 03'07''[16.12.2007 post], 19.2Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On Kafka or just passing-by

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"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world...The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion,[in voodle and as voodle], etc."

Not really the Castle, just a row of facades and fine spaces gliding by, muses Sam Renseiw, capturing footage on a casual urban walk. View the ensuing promenade-architecturale voodle with fine Alvaro's Kafka Grosser Laerm voice-over and Cloudy Passage soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 619, 02'41'', 14.5MB,Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple crossing in a popular Copenhagen park. (lum # 138, 01'00'', "crossings" 4.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features a footage from a lecture on the topology of filmic space.(patafilm # 94,[17.2.2006 post] 01' 15'', 5,5 MB, mov/quicktime)

Ephemeral voodle intermezzo

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"...That only there where it came upon some darkened area, it showed more or less some colour, then at last, around the window sill all the colours shone, in the light grey sky outside there was no colour to be seen."

Substracting colour into chromatic, flooded water-stimmung, Sam Renseiw condensed a batch of dark, underground footage into a voodle blur, adding clutter at start and end of the peripheral vision. View the experiment by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 618, 02'00'', 11.7MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a (waiting) view from a lighter, yet also enclosed space. (Lum # 137b,"waiters, waiting" 00'46'',3.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features some unmeasured sound(s) compressed in a mow ancient format. (patafilm # 103,[25.02.2006 post] 02'22'', 11 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On chamber(work) and oblique conversations

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"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room...Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together."

We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! exclaims Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Musil, having concotted an oneric voodle with left over summer footage; (We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture). View the day-dream montage with sound-mash-up from a superb recent podcast by Sanderson + Pinsent. Click here or on the links above to view. (patafilm # 617, 03'04'',16.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv.)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a double, almost simultaneous view on more swiftly moving matters. (Lum # 137,"double image, racing", 00'57'', 4.4Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features another interior, this time with a short story on memory and body. (patafilm # 419, [30.05.2007 post] 01'50'', 8.7 Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On reflected reality portraiture

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"...What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context - nothing is, to him, what it is; everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a superwhole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling only an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is."

“Reality can only be portrayed when one constructs it,” ponders Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Gursky and reflecting on Musil's "The Man Without Qualities". View the cut-up docu-voodle with fine, intriguing soundtrack overlay from Gurdonark by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 616, 02'03'', 12.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a quiet, intense contemplative intermezzo of a space within a space. (Lum #136, "space in space",00'46'',3.3Mb, Quicktime/mov.) As always, fine other's Lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features diverse paraphernalia and a felt suit.(patafilm#217, 02'17''[23.07.2008 post], 10.2 MB, Quicktime/mov.

On the inhabitation of staged-set spaces (2)

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"What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we take the elevator,sit at a table in order to eat... How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare."

Further ruminating on the nature(s) of staged architecture, Sam Renseiw crudely investigated a spiralled edifice, somehow toggling between day-dream and benign nightmare, puzzled by the oozing, popular veneration of the place. View the short meander by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 615,01'48'', 10.9Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short scene of relief on a sweltering summer day. (lum # 135, 01'00'', 5.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a moment of flip-flop, goind through phases (patafilm #230, 01'34'[14.08 2006 post],7 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the inhabitation of staged-set spaces

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"How are we to inhabit/This space from which the fourth wall is invariably missing,/As in a stage-set or dollhouse, except by staying as we are,/In lost profile, facing the stars, with dozens of as yet/Unrealized projects, and a strict sense/Of time running out, of evening presenting/The tactfully folded-over bill?"

Sometimes a voodle may have the distinctive qualities of a Lumiere video; Yet, the subtleties of errant, limpid silence seem to prevail, ponders Sam Renseiw, returning with fresh footage from a short trip south. View the framed fixation with added soundscape by clicking here or try to turn the sound off.(patafilm#614, 01'14'',7.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features some more potent traffic on the way to the starting line ( Lum # 133, "cph. historic grand prix 08", 01'00'', 5.1Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a two year old night-concert.( patafilm #218, 01'47''[26.07.2006 post], 8.2 MB, Quicktime/mov)