On the consistency of vining & voodling

“…Sam Renseiw does not lose heart and at each moment he thinks he has managed to see everything to be seen from his observation point(s), but then something always crops up that he had not borne in mind. If it were not for his impatience to reach a complete, definitive conclusion of his visual operation(s), Vining could save him from neurasthenia, heart attack, and gastric ulcer. And it could perhaps be the key to mastering the world's complexity by reducing it to its simplest mechanism: 6 seconds moving recordings. Sometimes shorter, always looping...” 

With the demise of the Vine app in January, the social-inter-activities will change. Yet, Investigating the coming Vine Camera as active app, more Renseiw (vine)compilations can be expected appearing here, next year. Interactive check on twitter: @SamRenseiw or IG: sam_renseiw. Since last year, some links on the Vlog have been repaired, yet about over 580 remain..If you find non working links in the in-between, try see if they might be on archive.org (sam patafilm/lumiere #(s) as in the posts texts) 

In the mean time: thank you so much (again) for (maybe still) following the work here or somewhere else…(somehow, somewhere in theses times of multiple platforms. Yet: the voodles (still)look great on iPhones and ipadminis, even the oldest ones. Try. A happy, prosperous and hopefully peaceful 2017 to all of you from your's sincerely: Sam R. (vine compilation #15, 10' 22’’, 950 MB, quicktime/mov /Vimeo)

On Vine as combinatorials

vine compilation # 8

 "Vining is a combinatorial game that pursues the possibilities implicit in its own material… The short video footage captures places the voodler//viner inside a strange loop of production: The so-called personality of the voodler//viner exists within the very act of voodling//vining: it is the product and instrument of the video capturing process. The voodler//viner's creative act becomes one of re-creation, in the sense of both a playful act and a derivative one…" 

Paraphrasing Calvino's "Cybernetic & Ghosts", Sam Renseiw, in a state of calm OCD, ammassed a great deal of short Vines lately. As this end-of-year's treat, enjoy the comprressed, chronological compilation by cliking on the icon above to re-view the undfolding of body-space morphologies. [vinecompilation # 8, 948MB, 27'22'', Quicktime/mov - other versions at blip.tv]

A happy new year to all viewers. More next year.  Best Sam R.

on stand-stills

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“Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.”

The best wishes for a happy, properous and fruitfull new year to all friends and dedicated viewers. Kind regards: Sam Renseiw.

On geological maze & enlightened screening

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'If a straight line is the shortest distance between two fated and inevitable points, digressions will lengthen it; and if these digressions become so complex, so tangled and tortuous, so rapid as to hide their own tracks, who knows - perhaps death may not find us, perhaps time will loose its way, and perhaps we ourselves can remain concealed in our shifting hiding places'

After wondering what the duality of juxtaposition of Geological-Museum-footage and screening-in-a-theatre-footage might actually reflect, Sam Renseiw starts with a quote by Calvino; View the (almost) straight line digression by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 838, 04'18'', 79Mb, Qicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short foyer screening. (lum # 328, "grobfoyer-future short" 00'22'', 5.5Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On more meta-voodling & framing

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" Let's see. Perhaps at first you feel a bit lost, as when a person appears who, from the frame, you identified with a certain face, and you try to make the features you are seeing tally with those you had in mind, and it won't work. But then you go on and realize that the pad is viewable nevertheless, independently of what you expected of the voodler. It's the voodle in itself that arouses your curiosity; in fact, on sober reflection, you prefer it this way, confronting something and not quite knowing yet what it is."

Just pictures from an exhibition muses Renseiw while following a guest recording her own footage with a brand new device, re-po_capturing imagery in self-referential mode.. View the meta-voodling footage by clicking here on on the links above. (patafilm # 817, 02'54'', 37MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video also features meta-footage, this time even meta-meta., from another exhibition (lum # 307, "fourth wall", 01'00'', 14Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On closing-up

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" The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same."

Season Greetings with a quote from Calvino: with everybody apparently busy on facebook or elsewhere, Sam Renseiw (still) keeps on voodling short voodles to be posted on his antiquated blog. Thank you for watching to those of you still hanging around: very much obliged and grateful: click here on the image or the links above. (patafilm # 759b, 01'40'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On voodling negotiable panoramas

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"...There is a hint of complicity hovering in the air: the refinement of the taste buds and especially of the olfactory organs has its moments of weakness, of loss of class, when the cheeses on their platters seem to proffer themselves as if on the divans of a brothel. A perverse grin flickers in the satisfaction of debasing the object of one's own gluttony with lowering nicknames: crottin, boule de moine, bouton de calotte.[...]The elaborate and greedy order that he intended to make momentarily slips his mind; he stammers; he falls back on the most obvious, the most banal, the most advertised, as if the automatons of mass civilisation were waiting only for this moment of uncertainty on his part in order to seize him again and have him at their mercy..."

Paraphrasing Calvino- somehow cheesyly, Sam Renseiw proceeds to amalgamate footage from three recently visited installations/performances, creating a peculiar spatial mash-up with appended soundtrack. View excerpts from TNT's KAFAK (aka FAKAK, aka AKFAK), Bricks of Enlightenment and your negotiable panorama by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 758,04'24'', 54MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more profane, rolling installation.(Lum # 262, "autobahn busride" 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

In mutual observation and speculation

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“Think of what it would be to have a work conceived from outside the self, a work that would let us escape the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language, to the bird perching on the edge of the gutter, to the tree in spring and the tree in fall, to stone, to cement, to plastic…”

Trying to voodle some older footage into something of consistency, Sam Renseiw pillaged his archives, pro forma, finding traces of a sand-child, to mash-up a short visual landscape with a duo and side figures. View the move into meditation, complete with de Campos poetics, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 440, 01'51'', 8.5MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version for PC: click on "it's on blip.tv" widget at right)

Permutations of jaguars and toucans

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"In my relations with the world I have moved from exploration to consultation, that is to say that the world is a collection of data which is there, independent of me, data which I can compare, combine, transmit, maybe even occasionally enjoy, but always slightly from the outside."

Returning as self-inflicted storyteller of the tribe, Sam Renseiw continues imperturbably to make his visual permutations of jaguars and toucans until the moment comes as a revelation: It was indeed carnival, even though it rained. View condensed footage from carnival i Copenhagen by clicking here on on the links above. (patafilm # 428, 01'38'' 7.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On air mail peregrinations

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"I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences; So the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it;"

"…Because once you’ve begun," Sam Renseiw would preach, paraphrasing Calvino once again, "there is no reason why you should stop. The line between the reality that is video-graphed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been video-graphed is very narrow." View the detour of an air-mail post complete with St.Ex. reading by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 423, 01'29'', 6.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On invisible suburbia

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"After a series of intellectual misadventures not worth recalling, Sam Renseiw has decided that his chief activity will be looking at things from the outside. A bit nearsighted, absent-minded, introverted, he does not seem to belong temperamentally to that human type generally called an observer. And yet it has always happened that certain things -a stone wall, a seashell, a dancer, a shopping mall -present themselves to him as if asking him for minute and prolonged attention: he starts observing them almost unawares, and his gaze begins to run over all the details and is then unable to detach itself."

Thus paraphrasing Calvino, Sam decided that from now on he will redouble his attention: first, by not allowing these summons to escape him as they arrive from things; second, by attributing to the observer's operation the importance it deserves. "The universe will then become the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves". View the visual investigation of a deja-vu location by clicking here or on the links above. Remember too, the embeded links in the text. (patafilm # 424, 01'11'', 5.4 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)