On outer and inner space walks (4)

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"As we all know there’s scarcely a literate culture on earth that doesn’t have some translations of Japanese haiku in its poetry anthologies. From this, an international non-Japanese haiku movement has begun, which takes the idea of haiku hundreds of new directions. School teachers in Denmark, Italy, or California have no hesitation giving translations of Japanese haiku to their students, and then also reading locally-written brief poems to them, telling the children to look around, see what they see, have a thought, make an image, and write their own brief poem."

In under two minutes, the path is infinite, yet already clearly defined, as if bridged, ponders Sam Renseiw, shortly afterwards to be obliquely introduced to Snyder, just to have a recap on return. View a very short walk along the Philosppher's Path , stepping aside for a visit, and moments of gravel artfully heaped by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 642 , 02'40'', 13.6Mb, Quicktiem/mov other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short monet of waiting. ( Lum # 160 " kyoto bus stop" 00'52'' 3.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the flow of ascent and descent

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"...We notice that the failure of the vital impulse is most infallibly interpreted by the appearance of mechanism. Reality falling asleep or breaking up is the figure under which we finally observe matter: matter then is secondary. Finally matter is a kind of descent; this descent as the interruption of an ascent; this ascent itself as growth; and thus a principle of creation is at the base of things: voodling.."

On his way to a bookshop to purchase a new copy of The Idiot, as the old one apparently got lost, Sam Renseiw took fancy to a bout of concentric, geometrical ascent on foot. View the climb, complete with matter, memory, elan vital and various audio overlays by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 560, 03'40''22.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a more straight-forward, rigourous walk, seen and recorded just around the corner of the bookshop. (Lum # 77 " straight-forward walk " 00'38'', 3.8Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Bonus Patalab Train Video features the poetics of compressed descent as seen from a cable car window. (patafilm # 165, 02'13'', 9.8 MB, Quicktime/mov)