Defence and Illustration of Classical Voodle

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"A voodle must be both abstract and figurative. Abstract as a wall, figurative as a representation of space. Voodling is optimistic because everything is always possible, nothing is ever prohibited: all you need is to be in touch with life. And life itself must be optimistic, otherwise everyone in the world would continue to watch TV soaps...To create a new world where man and objects exist in harmony, that is a voodle's aim. As much political as poetic, it explains this passion for expression...almost like painting."

As the voodle is not an art which films life, but is something between art and life, Sam Renseiw montaged footage from his recent application delivery for "The Silent Language", paraphrasing a JLG statement: "Unlike painting and literature, the voodle both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my voodles. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the voodle doesn’t." View the short piece by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 566, 02'21'', 12.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)[semanal08 week6 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short collections of cool, passing strides. (Lum # 83 "skating-non-skating" 00'59'', 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement also depicts an interior space, featuring almost nothing. Click here or on the bold text to view. (patafilm # 340, [22.01.2007 post] 01'05'', 5.4 MB, Quicktime/mov)

Anna Livia Plurabelle's dream

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“I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an voodler is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.”

Working in between the cracks, where doors start to open, where the body is staged and where theater becomes cinematic via a school play, Sam Renseiw noticed empty space, soon to be transposed in a montaged voodle. View the continuous excavation process where errors become portals of discovery by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 565, 03'12'', 20MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)[semanal08 week5 # 2 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a quiet moment before action. (Lum # 82 "death drome exterior", 00'58'', 5.4MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's Lumiere videos at the project's fine site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a different story, completely A Gu Gu, yet with knife throwing precision and humorous suspense. (patafilm # 267, 04'06'', 19 MB, Quicktime/mov[30.09.2006 post] Click here or on the bold text 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)

On candid narrative and visual auto-fiction

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"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility...If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

Immersed, for the moment, in some of both Miller's and Dostoyevsky's works, Sam Renseiw concocted a short, oneiric chamber piece. View the historical docu-drama voodle set-up with close encounters of (in order of appearance): Prince Myshkin, Generals Yepantchin and Ivolgin, and, last not least,lovely Nastasya Filippovna. Click here or on the links above.(patafilm # 561, 02'22'', 20.9Mb, [semanal08week3] Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a sort of traffic set-up, a bus-line that never, otherwise, would have passed by the spot... just film reality. (Lum # 78 " virtual bus-stop" 00'56'', 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the superb site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Voodle supplement features - in almost high definition - the perils that innocence and goodness face in a corrupt and paranoid world; (patafilm # 122, 02'27'', 9-9MB, Quicktime/mov)

On art exhibitions and other cosmologies

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"The current voodle theories are little more than a form of symbolism that is useful for representing inexplicable, natural phenomena; and are thus, similar to the videos which were invented during early vlog history to explain the stars, sun, thunder, lightning, life, consciousness, death, and so on. Quite likely, the ancients had a better natural understanding of film than the designing, anthropomorphic video representations that modern digital media now provide."

Recording the recent development of the local Danish art scene, Sam Renseiw accompanied Zoe Tati to an opening event. View the ensuing voodle ,with excerpts of some works, complete with higher, didactic cosmological audio overlay from down yonder by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 559,03'07'', 18.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short bout of touch-down exercise. (Lum # 76, " the touch-down exercise " 00'32'', 3.1Mb, Quicktime/mov) For other's Lumiere click here.

Today's Bonus Patalab Didactic Video features a fine and relevant, in- depth's illustration of voodle theories from the early, emerging vlogsphere. (patafilm # 94, 01'20'' 9MB, Quicktime/mov)

On dreaming while awake

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"As a voodler, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions, and I have to adjust them to make the voodles work. But in principle, the original dream does not change. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the spaces. I even remember the music, though it is mostly sampled from other's re-mixes. Very actually. Very vividly."

Having shown nothing for a while, Sam Renseiw just ran his fingertips along the edge of some gilded human-shaped figure footage-left-over, sending the music deep enough into viewers hearts so as to undergo a kind of simultaneous spatial shift. It's like giving birth to a kind of shared state, that can be viewed by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 552, 02'28'', 15.2Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features an additional corridor, a sort of condensed spatial lapse. (Lum # 70 "the freudian slip" 01'00'', 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

News: as Steven B. kindly mentioned, the voodles play superbly on an iPodTouch; Thus, from today on, Patalab introduces a direct WiFi download link(.m4v) for immediate iPodTouch voodle pleasure. Check it out... that is, if Santa blessed you with a new gadget.

On photographic art and receptions

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"Magician and surgeon compare to painter and voodler. The painter maintains in his work a natural distance from reality, the voodler penetrates deeply into its web. There is a tremendous difference between the pictures they obtain. That of the painter is a total one, that of the voodler consists of multiple fragments which are assembled under a new law. Thus, for contemporary man the representation of reality by the voodle is incomparably more significant than that of the painter, since it offers, precisely because of the thoroughgoing permeation of reality with mechanical equipment, an aspect of reality which is free of all equipment. And that is what one is entitled to ask from a work of art."

Speculating on the nature of voodles in the age of digital reproduction, Sam Renseiw permeated into the web of a recent birthday reception at a famed photographic gallery, capturing multiple footage fragments. View the ensuing mash-up complete with sublime positivesound and a diegetic song by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 550, 03'07'', 19.2Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features more footage from the reception. (Lum # 68"dick and jane at the reception", 01'00'',6.2MB, Quicktime/mov)

Grauballe, Tollund and other tribulations

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Some day I will go to Aarhus/To see his peat-brown head,/The mild pods of his eye-lids,/His pointed skin cap.//In the flat country near by/Where they dug him out,/His last gruel of winter seeds/Caked in his stomach,/Trove of the turfcutters'/Honeycombed workings./Now his stained face/Reposes at Aarhus.//Something of his sad freedom/As he rode the tumbril/Should come to me, driving,/Saying the names/Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard...

In his many voodle trials, Sam Renseiw keeps on digging, twisting bogged-down footage, in waders and peaked cap, to uncover or just to disclose that surface is but skin deep. View the cover-up attempt complete with adequate machinery and pseudophone by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 548, 02'19'', 13.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a fixed in-door sport genre, night framed. (Lum # 65 "le baby-foot au resto " 01'00, 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

News: Great, thoughtful short video pieces from Leeds these days!

On thin ice voodling

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"I treasured a compliment the clown paid me on today's occasion. I liked to recall it against visitations of doubt and despondency. He came up to me after he had been overwhelmingly excellent and congratulated me on my own contribution, saying: ‘I never know whether I prefer to precede you or to follow you — you’re such a high-jumping voodler.’ It was very generous coming from a master."

Combining goofy voodling with urban ice-skating, Sam Renseiw donned his skates - the first time this winter season - to meet the local clown. View the short performance of docu-voodling-clowns-on-ice by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 547, 01'38'', 10MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the second, almost still-life bustle at a Christmas dinner in the shopping mall, of three Lumieres depicting the customs of Danish Julenisser. (Lum # 65, " julenisser 02", 00'54'',5.3Mb, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine videos at the Lumiere site.

On the psychogeography of voodles

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“ They travel to communicate, either to somebody. Or you just travel, driving, that means you are communicating with yourself through machines, like psychoanalysis. When you drive without reasons that is exactly like voodle feedback. Voodle feedback is communicating with yourself through machines. The psychic existence is the same whether you drive or if you do simple voodle feedbacks, it’s the same ontological structure.”

Exploring the ontology of psychocartography in voodles, Sam Renseiw paraphrases NJ Paik, while re-assembling a prospective projection, sequenced partly of exotic imagery, attentive voyeurism and remixed spoken word (including a monkey's grove). View the slightly scratched, non-mercator mind-map by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 540, 02'22'', 19MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video also features a short, fixed, visual charter taken straight out of a bus window. An almost complete architectural typology in under a minute ( Lum # 60 "bus ride - psychogeography" 01'00, 6.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

On flights of longing and monkey's grove

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In 'Air and Dreams' Gaston Bachelard provides a soaring account of the cultural oneirism of air. For Bachelard, air signifies reach, sweep, aspiration and eminence. What he calls the dream of air dreams dream itself, in its Romantic aspect as the faculty of yearning, as we say, longing, of the imagination stretching to go beyond itself. The airy imagination that Bachelard makes out is imagined predominantly in voodles - albeit dynamic, or kinaesthetic voodles, of flight and plummet. And these are always forms of peaceful longing, a longing that is in its element and at its ease."

Wondering how bouts of recorded reality actually constitute a vooodle's out-streched kinaesthetics, Sam Renseiw montaged some recent whereabouts sightings into a flight of longing. View the unfoldings by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 538, 03'07'', 19.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the silent pathos of a rotating artwork. (lum # 59 "holy booty" 00'58'', 4.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the assessment of fruity and flowery

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"My working process I like to call voodle-cinécriture: I take my time to dream and to reflect. I do not follow theories but rather trust perceptions and feelings... I always want to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things but to give people the desire to see."

Paraphrasing Agnes Varda, Sam Renseiw further pursues to montage short reality bouts into blurred, dreamy voodles, hoping - likewise - to convey a certain desire to see anew. Check in to see if it somehow turns Mulholland drivey or just remains plain, colourful flowery & fruity by clicking here on the links above. (patafilm # 537, 01'33'', 9.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and other streaming version for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a meta-projection, a passionate illumination in the dark. (Lum # 58 " farrington's passion dryer " 01'00, 6MB, Quicktime/mov) As always: For other's fine lumieres click here, and bold enhanced lettering in the text are informative, contextual links.

On the nature of the oneiric voodle

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" For a neo-realist vlogger, a glass is a glass and nothing more; you see it taken from the sideboard, filled with drink, taken to the kitchen, washed-up, etc. But this same glass, contemplated by an oneiric voodler , can be a thousand different things, because each one charges what he/she sees with affectivity; no one sees things as they are, but as their desires and their state of soul make them see. I fight for the voodle which will show me this kind of glass, because this gaze will give me an integral vision of reality, will broaden my knowledge of things and people, will open up to me the marvelous world of the unknown, of all that which I find neither in the newspaper, on the Tv, nor the web - sometimes in cinema, though."

While pondering further on the potential nature of a voodle's relation to dreams, Sam Renseiw montaged recent footage from a provincial institution into a oneiric memory with fixed, lofty moments. View the subtle semiotic development(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 536, 02'22''. 14.7MB, Quicktime/mov - Other streaming versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short moment of multiple semiotics, impulsively shot from the outside. (Lum # 57 " photo-session at gallery asbaek " 00'43'', 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at A&B's site.

On voodle-verite and other interludes

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"There are two ways to conceive of the voodle of the real: the first is to pretend that you can present reality to be seen; the second is to pose the problem of reality. In the same way, there were two ways to conceive voodle-vérité. The first was to pretend that you brought truth. The second was to pose the problem of truth."

Further dabbling with voodle definitions, Sam Renseiw indulged in sounding a short visual reveille for the voodle-verite genre. View the trumpeter blasting a friendly toot amidst a flock of grazing horses, complete with a perceptive door-pause by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 534, 01'18'', 8MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a complementary, pastoral summer setting. (Lum # 55, 00'58'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's Lumieres click here.

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 doors of perception and other spaces

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To summarize some of the principles of Bergson’s philosophy, as outlined in ' The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics ':a) ultimate reality is changing, rather than unchanging; b) ultimate reality is knowable by direct intuition; c) intellect and intuition provide two different kinds of knowledge, which can be integrated to produce a unified knowledge of reality; d) intellectual knowledge is relative knowledge, intuitive knowledge is absolute knowledge; e) intuition is a direct perception and experience of the continuous flow of reality, without the use of any intellectual concepts; f) the flow of time as real duration can be experienced only by intuition; g) the intellect may falsify the perception of reality by substituting stability for mobility, and by substituting discontinuity for continuity; h) many voodling problems are caused by the use of conceptual instead of intuitive thinking, and are resolved by the use of intuition as a philosophical method.

Still toggling between potent visual chunks of Inland Empire and recently visited spaces, Sam Renseiw montaged some pieces of virtual footage into a maze-like space. View the unfolding of a succession of spaces connected by doors in a time-memory warp by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 533, 02'32'', 15.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features quite absurd attempts to clarify the conceptual in three intuitive bouts of dyslectic black-board notes in a common room. (Lum # 53," dyscalculia dyslexia" , 01'00' 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

Curtains, pencils, ballots & other images

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"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both... If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The voodler now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed..."

Paraphrasing Vaclav Havel with two quotes above, Sam Renseiw also captured fresh election footage yesterday. View the inconspicuous spacial continuity of the act of voting in a Danish parliamentary election - with synaesthetic closing subjectivity - by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 530, 01'54'' 11.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 version for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video likewise features the election, demonstrating that some people vote faster than others. (Lum # 51 " the ballot booth footage " 01'00'' 6.1MB, Quicktime/mov) View all other's fine Lumieres at Andreas's and Brittany's site.

Chapter two (a): only the voodle

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"We want to travel/without steam and without sail/made to relieve/the boredoom of our prisons/run past our minds/taut as a canvas/your memories/and the horizon that frames them/speak, what you have seen"

Still immersed into JLG's fabulous, overwhelming and seminal Histoire(s) du Cinema, Sam Renseiw voodled a short mash-up of chapter two (a) into a genuine, general video-graphic open question. View the crudely montaged excerpt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 524,01'31'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a number of chivalric jump-cuts, all in one fixed frame. (Lum # 49 "the hubertus hunt 2007", 00'59'', 5.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

A round of Global Bingo Radio

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"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue...I wouldn't go up on a stage. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."

Toggling between comedy and drama, Global Radio Bingo is a feast to enjoy, while watching The Future of Cities muses Sam Renseiw while capturing footage. View the enhanced traveling by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 518,04'42'', 28.6MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at Blip.tv) # 518b - full color version, click here

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features an ultra short, lone junp-cut. (Lum # 47, short, lone jump-cut, 00'16'', 1.6MB, Quicktime/mov) As always: other's fine Lumieres at the site.

On speaking in fine parables

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"It is not style or rhymes or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity.... When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.... In good society, nay, among the angels in heaven, is not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense?... The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts; the voodler complains that the solid men leave out the sky. To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree. You must have eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes; you must have the vivacity of the poet to perceive in the thought its futurities."

With autumn lurking in front of the lens, Sam Renseiw captured some lonely out-door chairs, waiting for winter. View a short excerpt of the statics of life's candor by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 517, 02'23'', 14.3MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's - short - Bonus Lumiere video features the appearance of street cleaning .(Lum # 46: street cleaning, 3MB, 00'29'', quicktime/mov) More Lumieres: click here