On meta-reference(s) and voodles

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"The man with the magnifying glass takes the world as though it were quite new to him. If he were to tell us of the discoveries he has made, he would furnish us with documents of pure phenomenology, in which discovery of the world, or entry into the world, would be more than just a worn out word, more than a world that has become tarnished through over frequent philosophical use. A philosopher often describes his “entry into the world,” his “being in the world,” using a familiar object as symbol. He will describe his ink bottle phenomenologically, and a paltry thing becomes the janitor of the wide world. The man with the magnifying glass quite simply bars the everyday world. He is a fresh eye before a new object. The botanist’s magnifying glass is youth recaptured. It gives him back the enlarging gaze of a child. With this glass in his hand, he returns to the garden."

Pondering further on the nature of the seen and on how to montage bits of reality footage, Sam Renseiw dabbled with a plectic juxtaposition of disparate images. View the layered, godardian voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 573, 02'34'', 13.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for PC at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features quite an opposite gaze: the simplicity of a roll in sand. (Lum # 90,"water-music's roll" 00'44'', 3.7MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the Lumiere site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video replay-supplement features a more "arty" display of directions, in sign laguage. (patafilm # 345, 00'54'',[26.01.2007 post] 4.6 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more pata-info.

On dyslexia and art on board

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" Sam R. (perhaps without wishing to) has enriched, by means of a new technique, the hesitant and rudimentary art of voodling: the technique is one of deliberate anachronism and erroneous attributions. This technique, with its infinite applications, urges us to run through a voodle as if it were filmed after the events experienced; This would fill even the dullest videos with adventure and cheerful party mood."

Battling with mild dyslexia, Sam Renseiw joined Zoe T. and guests at the Common Room's festive opening to tag a few supplementary doodles on the blackboard surface, all the while new and old ready-mades lurched artfully in all corners. View the festive set-up by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 532, 01'33'' 9.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a live drawing exercise with Studs Skarven and Susan Horsens at the Vaterpas Ball Room. (Lum # 54, "the drawing exercise" 00'58'' 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the spectator's inner osmosis

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"People always speak of art with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered ? The onlooker is as important as the artist. In spite of what the artist thinks he is doing, something stays on that is completely independent of what he intended, and that something is grabbed, if he is lucky. The artist himself doesn't count. The work of art is always based on these two poles of the maker and the onlooker, and the spark that comes from this bi-polar action gives birth to something."

Voodling around while waiting with the rabitt and the co-driver for the next single audience in last week's invisible reality, Sam Renseiw caught a few surprising moves. Watch the unfolding of the deck for bi-polar action by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 473, 01'22'', 6.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a bout of seemingly absurd reality, caught while passing by a "rustur"s departure, demonstrating that reality is far more interesting in its ritualised posing. (Lum # 30 the rustur start - panum, 00'46'', 4.2Mb, Quicktime/mov) All Other's Lum Videos here.

Anémic Cinéma

" The 'rotoreliefs'' visual oscillation only results from spinning the disks. There is a double contrast here: between static image and the motion image, as well as between the two interpretations of the illusion of positive and negative volumes. It is not possible to "see" both volumes at the same time just as it is not possible to experience the illusion while the disk is stationary. The shift from one volume to the other makes the observer aware of the way biological vision gets interpreted into "seeing."

This cinematic blossoming is yet another Sam Renseiw knife sharp inlay, bollywood style. Experience the suspence by clicking here, or enter the yellow disk above. (02'15'', 5.9 MB, mov.version here) update 01.10.15