On still moving in space(s)

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" If I could only describe this place - I who am so good at describing places! Walls, ceiling, floors, they are my speciality. Doors! Windows! What haven't I imagined in the way of windows in the course of my career! Some opened on the sea - all you could see was sea and sky. If I could put myself in a room, that would be the end of the voodly-gurdy. Even doorless, even windowless - nothing but the four surfaces (the six surfaces). I'd find a way to explore it: I'd listen to the echo. I'd get to know it, I'd get to remember it. I'd be home. I'd say what it's like, in my home, instead of any old thing. "

Still recording moves in space(s), Sam Renseiw, paraphrases Beckett (again) to fathom the depths of the possible nature of space vodoling. Patalab's 2009 activities (almost) conclude with two interior, investigative space-voodles (patafilm # 739, 02'467'', 38MB, Quicktime/mov // patafilm # 740, 02'52'', 37MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) and a fixed, enlightening planetary Bonus Lumiere Video (Lum # 243 " still moving", 00'48'', 11MB, Quicktime/mov). And: one more, happy-new post, tomorrow. ;-)

On fast-forward long take voodling (inbound)

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"The laws of Voodling are subject to the more general laws of habit. Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. Breathing is habit. Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits, since the individual is a succession of individuals; the world being a projection of the individual’s consciousness, the pact must be continually renewed, the letter of safe-conduct brought up to date. The Voodling of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."

Habits can appear to be quite extravagant while at the same time remaining just what they are: almost quotidian pathways to be trotted. Nevertheless, Sam Renseiw consciously realises the magnificence of the view(s) every time anew, with awe and humility. Sometimes an urban bicycle trip unfolds like a fairy tale. And worth to remember, as stable conditions of departure and return suddenly might mutate to more bleak settings. View the condensed randonee pedale by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 684, 06'27'', 53.7MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more fixed deep focus on figure/ground relationships. (Lum # 199, "deep focus & figure" 01'00'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov

On witnessing the bestowing of decoration

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" The writing of, say, Racine or Malherbe, perpendicular, diamanté, is pitted, is it not, and sprigged with sparkles; the flints and pebbles are there, no end of humble tags and commonplaces[...] they give you the phrase, the sparkle, the precious margaret. Perhaps only the French can do it. Perhaps only the French language can give you the thing you want."

Or benevolent photography, then, muses Sam Renseiw, capturing on-the-go-footage of decorative bestowments at the local French dependance together with Yi-hua. View the roughed, tinted footage of Lars S'' knighthood, complete with buffet and city centre by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 648, 03'06'', 28MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a slow restoration of an older ferry scene ( Lum # 165 " the conservator", 00'59'', 4.9MB, Quikctime/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 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 side conquests of foreground

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"Focused on visual imagery and detached from social and contextual considerations, the celebrated architecture of our time - and the publicity that attempts to convince us of its genius - too often has an air of self-satisfaction and omnipotence. Buildings attempt to conquer the foreground instead of creating a supportive background for human activities and perceptions. Architectural projects of our day are often impudent, staged and arrogant, and our age seems to have lost the virtue of architectural neutrality, restraint, and modesty."

Visiting a notorious museum, the day before the next show opening, Sam Renseiw took a stroll in a gangway, crossing, while recording footage. View the resulting voodle-architectural-promenade, suspended between certainty and uncertainty, lure and repulsion, faith and doubt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 564, 02'49'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08 week 5 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a walled piece of visual public announcement in the act of fine-tuning. ( Lum # 80, "sudoku art board " 00'49'', 5.3Mb, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video replay-supplement features a contrasting architectural masterpiece interior, with annotated, Beckett commentary. Click here or on the bold text to view (patafilm# 49-back numbered- [03.11.2005 post] ,00'50'', 5.1MB Quicktime/mov)

The Assimil method

“... I can therefore let you in on a secret. Elizabeth is not Elizabeth, Donald is not Donald. And here is the proof: the child that Donald spoke of is not Elizabeth's daughter, they are not the same person. Donald's daughter has one white eye and one red eye like Elizabeth's daughter. Whereas Donald's child has a white right eye and a red left eye, Elizabeth's child has a red right eye and a white left eye! Thus all of Donald's system of deduction collapses when it comes up against this last obstacle which destroys his whole theory...”

A short Renseiw video remake of The Bald Soprano, stretched. Click here to enter, or use La Méthode Assimil above. (4 Mb)

The impact of modernist architecture

" For the poets of the Noigandres group, the concept of "concrete" was taken in an architectural sense: a structural material of "endless expressive possibilities," the element that not only would free architecture from the tyranny of beaux arts language, but also would enable it to address pressing social needs. This close association of concrete poetry with modernist architecture is revealing. The movement so strongly identified itself with modernism that its own modernity became obsolete; in other words, once the "concrete lexicon" was exhausted, the Noigandres poets were unable to develop their concrete project any further. Moreover, vlog concrete visual poetry also shared with modern architecture ideas that run from the broad social concerns of modernism-- such as utopia, utilitarianism, and sanitation-- to technical and stylistic matters involving structure, modules, form, and repetition."

A Renseiw concrete, material architectural (re)view, with clear links to futurism and Noigrandes. Join here or click in the crypt.

How I filmed some of my videos

“….Since Space is fixed around us, in order to explore it we must move in the vehicle of Duration. In kinematics Duration plays the part of an independent variable, of which the coordinates of the points considered are a function. Kinematics is a geometry in which events have neither past nor future. The fact that we create that distinction proves that we are carried along through them…”

A short view of a mechanistic punning device, probably shaped after Raymond Roussel’s perpetuum mobile engines. A Sam Renseiw enlightment, in patacolor. engage the machine or clik here to hear...