On chasing clouds, spring and other signs

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"I cannot say ‘I see the blue of the sky’ in the sense in which I say I understood a book, or that I have decided to devote my life to mathematics... Every time I experience a sensation, I feel that it concerns not my own being, the one for which I am responsible, and for which I make decisions, but another self, which has already sided with the world, which is already open to certain of its aspects, and synchronized with them. Between my sensation and myself there stands always the thickness of some primordial acquisition which prevents my experience from being clear to itsel...[Yet] my perception is not a sum of visual, tactile, and audible givens: I perceive in a total way with my whole being: I grasp a unique structure of the thing, a unique way of being, which speaks to all my senses at once."

Continuing the quest for simultanous flaneur(ism)-albeit at a fast pace- while recording footage, Sam Renseiw pursued a cloud, in the mist of florist's side-walk arrangements. View the ensuing docu-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 585, 02'38'', 14.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a recent, warming Copenhagen street novelty. (Lum # 101 "mobile expresso vendor", 00'59'', 4.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features a bout of the harships of voodling, completely AGuGu. (patafilm #259 [23.09 2006 post], 12,4MB. 02'40, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to view, or for more info.

On the limits of verbal expression

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" An author is often merely an x, even when his named is signed, something quite impersonal, which addresses itself abstractly, by the aid of video, to thousands and thousands, while remaining itself unseen and unknown, living a life as hidden, as anonymous, as it is possible for a life to be, in order, presumably, not to reveal the too obvious and striking contradiction between the prodigious means of communication employed and the fact that the author is only a single individual."

Remembering a passage of a letter from Kafka to Brod, Sam Renseiw speculates on the nature of his videographic endavours, musing if they could, in their totality and in spite of their contents, just as well be understood as the misleading imagery of a seducer, written behind clouds. View the unfolding blend of clouds, chimera lamps and royal pavillion rooftop by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 431, 01'47'', 8,3MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)