On beginning(s) as revenant

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"[A spacious garden-room, with one door to the left, and two doors to the right. In the middle of the room a round table, with chairs about it. On the table lie books, periodicals, and newspapers. In the foreground to the left a window, and by it a small sofa, with a worktable in front of it. In the background, the room is continued into a somewhat narrowerconservatory, the walls of which are formed by large panes of glass. In the right-hand wall of the conservatory is a door leading down into the garden. Through the glass wall a gloomy fjord landscape is faintly visible, veiled by steady rain.]"

Upon beginning the first act in a series of repeated Nordic displacement(s), Sam Renseiw, having some slight deja-vue(s) from Ibsen, concocted an appropriate ghost-voodle from footage on the premisses. View the investigation into space(s) and body morphologies by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 786, 03'18'', 49MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video, supplementing the above voodle, presents a fine fjord landscape with moving, urban elements (Lum # 281 "chop & cruise", 00'56'', 10MB Quicktime/mov)

On the intangible of global in local

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"It is true that visual language considered as a code mapping shapes, colours, and shading into meanings will not get us very far with re-makings and allusions. It would seem we require the notion of visual literacy to understand and enjoy some works, where by "visual literacy" we do not mean a set of rules assigning significance to visual elements, but some knowledge and experience making and viewing art."

Yet, sometimes bits of reality can certainly adjust one's focus asserts Sam Renseiw, having experienced an arty preview. Enjoy the voodle, concocted with footage fragments from outside and inside Charlottenborg on a Thursday evening by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 589, 02'24'', 12.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a lobbying moment of illuminating, artful semiotics from the same location. (lum # 105 "semiotics preview"00'42'', 3.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features colours, shading and a door to perception from an-other exhibition. (patafilm # 119, 01'00'', 2.4 MB,[19.03.2006 post]Quicktime/mov)

On the practice of lucid dream-voodling

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“ I slept very well indeed, and after seven and a half hours in bed had my first lucid dream in the lab. A moment before, I had been dreaming... but then I suddenly realised that I must be asleep because I couldn’t see, feel or hear anything. I recalled with delight that I was sleeping in the laboratory, in front of my Mac... and that all parts of the dream where simply bits of recorded reality.”

Speculating on the oneric nature of certain voodle processes, Sam Renseiw manufactured a short, visual dream like brew. View the sequence by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 562, 01'43'' 10MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)
Note: As the patalab vlog project by now has attained absurd encyclopaedic dimensions, each new post will, in the future, also feature an older patafilm replay-supplement, acting as a visual note, complementing or even short-circuiting the posted voodle's apparent "meaning".

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features likewise a night scene this time in a modern urban setting. (Lum # 79 "copenhagen nighthawks " 00'51'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Voodle re-play-supplement features a round of oneiric, electronic touching hear-play (patafilm # 243, 01'48'', 7.8MB, Quicktime/mov)