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 the delimiting and fixing of images

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"To take pure perception first. When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. But then, our perception being a part of things, things participate in the nature of our perception."

Further investigating the potential of casual promenades inside old buildings and museums, Sam Renseiw recently visited two near-by museums. View the concocted, oneiric voodle sequense with staircases and pop-gun annotations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 572, 03'03'', 16.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for PC at Blip.tv) [semanal08 project, week 8 cross-post #2]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a somehow typical Jungian archetype set-up, complete with hurried by-passers. (Lum # 89, "framed wedding ", 00'58'',4.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement likewise features voodled artefacts glimpses from a fine Danish Museum with unmeasured sounds, added. (patafilm # 103 02'22''[26.02.2006 post], 11 MB. mov/quicktime) Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more info.

On Voodle-dialectics of seeing

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"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the present ground is the medium in which past spaces and artefacts lie interred and can be voodled forth... Thus, work on a good voodle has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an tectonic one when it is montaged, and a textile one when it is woven into a moving picture... Yet, a voodle real strength's lies in its improvisation. All the decisive framings should be struck in a serendipitous and left-handed flow."

Pondering on a recent statement that museums and old buildings might be too soporific environments, Sam Renseiw re-visited a local museum on a sunny Sunday afternoon. View the inspired voodle unfolding of the museum-interior gaze, complete with didactic, Godard-like whispers by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 570, 06'03'' 35.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08 project, week 7 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features a classic, architectural soft-reflection-on-granite from inside the above mentioned museum. (Lum # 87, "soft-granite-reflection",00'48'' 5.1MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at A&B's site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features a contrasting promenade, also through a museum: this time in a modern, contemporary white space, with nothing on exhibition. (patafilm # 223, 02'22''[01.08.2006 post], 8.3 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click here or on the bold links in the text to view.

Attempt of postcard essay to JLG

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" Experience of the aura rests on the transportation of a response common in human relationships to the relation between the inanimate or natural object and man. The person we look at, or who feels he is being looked at, looks at us in turn. To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return."

Concerned with the presence of objects as well as an obssesive - compulsive concern with JLG oeuvre's imagery, Sam Renseiw montaged a short voodle-essay, in the spirit of Montaigne. View the representation of interior with external voice-over by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 568, 03'27'', 21.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a quiet round of saddling-up in a marvellous interior.( Lum # 84, "quiet saddling up", 00'58'', 5.6MB, Quicktime/mov) As always, more of other's Lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video repay-supplement features a architectural space, seemingly with a view, with further pataphysical inserts: a genuine Lumiere (!), and Godard / Hitchcock voice-overs.(patafilm #242, 01'12'', 5.5 MB,Quicktime/mov- [06.09.2006 post]. Click here or on the bold links in the text to view.

On plectics and other voodle figurations

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" Style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can’t be separated...and Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, science, fashion, moral, passion..."

Re-assessing the concept of plectics in regards to aesthetic voodle-theory, Sam Renseiw montaged a few morsels of interior sun-casts into a figurative-abstract flow. View the unravelling of complex simplicity - or simple complexity - complete with Pseudo's sunrise on the reed by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 567, 03'32'', 21MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08, week6, # 2 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a still king and moving by-passers, in late autumn (Lum # 84 "king and bypassers", 00'58'', 5.9MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the project's main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features a fine - complementary - plectic night-daydream, further probing the simultaneous casting of seemingly disparate entities. (patafilm # 364,[02.03.2007 post] 02'09'' 10.2MB, Quicktime/mov) Click here or on the bold links to view.

On New Impressions of Africa

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" It seems likely that the outside world never broke through into the universe he carried within him, and that, in all the countries he visited, he saw only that which he had put there in advance... "

On a recent, quiet and somehow unusual sunny winter day, Sam Renseiw suddenly felt transposed into seemingly African contexts, thus quickly assembling a episodic chain of still-moving images into an impressionistic voodle. View the creative act, going from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions, by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 563, 03'05'', 19MB,Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08 week4 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a quiet, exotic view from inside Tranquebar, into a Copenhagen street. Lum # 80 " tranquebar " 00'58'', 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features something about Fluxus, complete with a turning table in the dark and colourful corridors. Click here to view (patafilm # 127,[patalab post 26/03/2006], 01'30'', 4.9 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On inconspicuous and overlooked details

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"Voodles represents the exact opposite of the Western ideal of great beauty as something monumental, spectacular, and enduring with meaning. Voodling is mainly found at moments of inception or subsiding. Voodle is about the minor and the openly hidden, the tentative and the ephemeral: things so subtle and evanescent they are almost invisible to vulgar eyes. The closer to the inconspicuous, the more exquisite and evocative they become. Consequently to experience voodles means you have to slow way down, be patient, and look very closely."

Conscious that observation is utmost attention while in a quotidian, aloof Zen state, Sam Renseiw also remembered that else one might step right into it. View the casual stroll in the hood along doorways, parked bicycles and natural discharges by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 557, semanal08week1b, 04'02'', 25MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features something more spectacular, on a street corner, seen from inside a local cafe. (Lum # 74 "the head-shot seance " 00'44'' 3.8MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the main site.

On close encounters of the royal kind

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" Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street... that is unless you right away start recording footage to voodle, while bicycling along."

Royal can be very down-to-earth when you happen to meet them on their way to the third new-year court levee while peregrinating to work on bicycle, muses Sam Renseiw, docu-voodling en passant. View the fine morning equestrian urban parade, complete with mint marigold, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 556, 03'16'', 19.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the same parade, from another angle. (lum # 73 " close encounter of the royal kind " 00'51'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)