On Instamatics & crossings in voodles

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“But since social relations are always ambiguous, since thought divides as much as it unites, since words unite or isolate by what they express or omit, since an immense gulf separates my subjective awareness from the objective truth I represent for other, since I constantly blame myself, though I feel innocent, since every event transforms my daily life, since I constantly fail to communicate, since each failure makes me aware of solitude, since I cannot escape crushing objectivity or isolating subjectivity, since I cannot rise to the state of being, or fall into nothingness, I must listen, I must look around more than ever, The world, my kin, my twin, and voodle on”

While mostly performing the gaze, Sam Renseiw, once in a while, seems to conduct some sort of workshop activity, involving his alter-ego. Yet, the acribic catalogue-i-zation of reality seems to subsist. View the altered imprints from Wednesday evening and Thursday from this week by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 691, 03'04'', 26 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another crossing, bridging. (Lum # 203b, " belt crossing " 01'01'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the nature of drone and voodle

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" Before going on to the particular problems of the nature of Voodles, it is important to define understandings of the ultimate aim of Voodling as such. Why does it exit? Who needs it ? Indeed does anybody need it? [...] Voodles, unlike Hollywood films, or TV soaps, have no practical goals in any material sense. Voodle is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and assimilate the experience of others. Yet, this sort of self-expression is meaningless unless it meets with a response. For the sake of creating a spiritual bond with others it can only be an agonising process, one that involves no practical gain: ultimately it is an act of sacrifice. But surely it cannot be worth the effort merely for the sake of hearing one's own echo ? "

Creating Voodles can be a drone-like state of mind, and, indeed, sacrificial in a prosaic world, muses Sam Renseiw while manufacturing more continuous visuals in sustained tonality. View the recent moving mash-up by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 690, 04'22'', 37.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On discoveries while passing by

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Stop-motion can be developed in various ways, not the least while roller-skating in urban environments states Sam Renseiw. View this Friday's condensed footage from FNS-Cph with a memorable situation caught on the fly by clicking here or on the links above. [ FNS09a, 03'30'', 32.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On fluid states and denial by voodle

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"And so he prefers to keep his convictions in the fluid state, check them instance by instance, and make them the implicit rule of his own everyday behavior, in doing or not doing, in choosing or rejecting, in recording footage to voodle or in other procrastinating activities."

Having foolishly and intensively practised voodling for about four years, Sam Renseiw is getting hit by harsh realities; although still in a state of denial, Sam's most cherished spaces and further elements of grounding might soon be gone, as the self inflicted crisis must financially be unravelled; Indeed, art is not always working. See the crisis-bogeyman driving slowly along by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 689, 01'41'', 16,1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features framed moments of daily life, passing by, while one is busy re-setting wall lluminations.(Lum # 203, 00'51'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On character casting in voodles

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" This Voodle testifies to beauty, drama, imaginative force, and history of thought from as far back as 2500 BC and up until the year 1600. The imagery and styles of antiquity have influenced all subsequent European art and continues to play a major part, even though this may sometimes be difficult to see. Shapes and ideals shift and change through history - there have been revivals, and there have been breaks with tradition - but the significance and importance of history is ever prominent..."

Walking past 4000 years of sculpture under one roof, Sam Renseiw deep focused on a collection of busts, neatly stored. View the casting of characters for the voodle, complete with added forgotten fields by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm#686, 03'52'', 36.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a transparent casting of family characters, looking out to other fields. (Lum#202, 01'00'' 6.2Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On frottage and interior colour spreads

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" It was a question of going back to the sources of poetic imagination and, what is more, of remaining there. Not that I pretend to have done so. It requires a great deal of fortitude to try to set up one's abode in these distant regions where everything seems at first to be so awkward and difficult, all the more so if one wants to try to take someone there. Besides, one is never sure of really being there. If one is going to all that trouble, one might as well stop off somewhere else. Be that as it may, the fact is that the way to these regions is clearly marked, and that to attain the true goal is now merely a matter of the travelers' ability to endure.."

Just passing by, actually, while visiting an extensive and overwhelming display of Ernst and then: serendipitously stumbling upon parts of the garden not yet explored, kept Renseiw musing while capturing footage to be shared and analysed. View the aberration(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 688, 52.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features an act of reflected projection upon a piece of illuminated artwork. (Lum # 201, " handling the inside of outside " 01'00'' 6,3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the nature of communicating vessels

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" I have insisted, specialy in Les Vases communiquants, on the fact that Voodling alone is, in many cases, capable of exhausting the content of reality, and that this analysis, if it is thorough enough, leaves none of the residue that might permit us to attribute a transcendental character to oneiric activity.[...] Similarly, Voodling could sometimes exhaust the content of real events, to the point of making them depend entirely on the least conscious prior activity of the mind..."

While closely paraphrasing, Sam Renseiw muses about the otherwise Derive-like characteristics of his Voodles work, drifting away from formal academic rationality... It might just be sudden parallels petrifying coincidenses or harmonies as if struck on a piano, that make one see the unverifiable intrinsic value(s)....View the diptych collage with appendixes and Galveston tunes by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 687, 04'04'', 38.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple room with a view in which time might be running out. ( Lum # 200," pendulum" 01'00'' &MB, Quicktime/mov .