On simple cognitive magnificence

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"Watching Voodles is a form of hallucination. The people we encounter among the frames are not there. The reality they acquire in our mind is equal to the effort we make in building them in our mind. Sufficient training will help understand the meaning of someone waving semaphores up and down but true watching requires something more of you than knowing how to (re) cognise moving images or understanding the relationship between a sign and its referent. The patalab voodles invite a cooperation greater than the peremptory commands of a traffic light. Whoever came up with the idea of separating green from red with the happy ambiguity of yellow was clearly someone who enjoyed watching Voodles."

Practising some simple cognitive R&R while momentarily working in Otternes Bygdetun near Flam, situated in the innermost part of the Aurlandsfjord, Sam Renseiw speculates on the nature of body and space morphologies, concocting a simple piece of kineplastic. (re)View the simple magnificence by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 799, 37MB,02'26'', Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another view from a room with a window. (Lum # 290, "passing ferry", 01'00'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov)

On sublime and beautiful in nature voodle

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" The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that voodle which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that, far from being produced by voodling, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force. Astonishment, as I have said, is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect."

While paraphrasing Burke, Sam Renseiw simultaneously converts recently shot footage of sublime-nature-passing-by into a remarkable docu-voodle with distinct (altered) cognitive features & thought provoking, multiple visual readings; View a tiny moment of slowed Osterfjord shore voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 793b,50Mb, 03'21'', Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video records and reflects on a more complicated mirror effect. (Lum # 287, facetted space" 00'42', 9MB, Quicktime/mov)

On nature, slow and fast moves

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" to look for ways to ask the question, wondering and looking for where... The question is not-yet-formed. It hovers at the racetracks, stadiums, theaters, and all public places, dripping beneath the stars."

Still slightly overwhelmed by gazing into the avarice, Sam Renseiw voodled seemingly absurd natural moves into a meditative, fixed piece of cognitive experience. Click here to view or on the links above. (patafilm # 494,03'04'',19.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the-fine-art-of-visiting-a-church-in-under-20-seconds. (Lum #35 "fast visitors", 01'00'', 6.4Mb, Quicktime/mov). More, other's Lumiere(s): here.

Distinction between analytic and synthetic

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" Metaphysical knowledge must contain simply judgments à priori, so much is demanded by the speciality of its sources. But judgments, let them have what origin they may, or let them even as regards logical form be constituted as they may, possess a distinction according to their content, by virtue of which they are either simply explanatory and contribute nothing to the content of a cognition, or they are extensive, and enlarge the given cognition; the first may be termed analytic, and the second synthetic judgments."

One may bungle in metaphysics in many ways, without any danger of being detected in fallacy reasons Sam Renseiw remembering Kant, yet amazed by radiations from Haugen Soerensen's "Stupidity's Mother" on recent display at SMK. View some short footage of reactions to the piece by clicking here. ( patafilm # 376, 01'52'', 8.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)