On meta-voodle & ethos_thanatos reflections

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"States of schizophrenia are native to meta_voodle’s present-absence, its not quite-existence, its fictionalization of truth and its verification of illusion. For Kant, “This fundamental principle of the necessary unity of apperception is indeed an identical, and therefore analytical proposition; but it nevertheless explains the necessity for a synthesis of the manifold given in an intuition, without which the identity of self-consciousness would be incogitable”. Now, self-consciousness is indeed “cogitable,” but is it necessary? The axiom that communication is human may lead to individual human communicators, but it need not, since selfhood is a derivative of communication, a special effect of a particular historical mode of communication. Since self-consciousness is no longer a given but an effect, synthesizing the myriad sensations that crowd upon us into recognizable identities is also in question. I am thus never sure whether what I perceive is raw phenomenality, abstract identity, or synthetic truth."

Indeed, muses Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing from cinema effect, while capturing (pure meta-meta-voodling!) reflective dance footage produced by the local Bergen triad: Eckly, Spreafico and Cohen. View excerpted kill me baby one more time footage and other short non-carte blanche moves by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 816, 05'22'',117MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another short dance excerpt also in meta-lumiere.(lum # 307 "meta-dance-voodle", 01'00, 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On 7even necessities & voodling

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" 1. It is necessary for me to tell you that my body is curious about everything and I am my body / 2. It is necessary for me to tell you that I am not alone / 3. It is necessary for me to tell you that I can control my body and voodle with it at the same time / 4. It is necessary for me to tell you that my body is escaping / 5. It is necessary for me to tell you that I can multiply my body / 6. It is necessary for me to tell you that you have to turn your head / 7. It is necessary for me to tell you that I am leaving you and I am giving you my footage / [8] It is necessary for me to tell you that I keep voodling while moving "

Paraphrasing the 7 necessities and one-upping it, Sam Renseiw gathered footage from a recent birthday party-dance-voodle session in casual architectural office settings. View the compressed by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 749, 03'25'', 44.8MB, quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a fine view, seen from below. (lum # 248, "below pipilotti's" 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On perception in moving pictures

"...Duality, I suggest, is the essence of representation. Ordinarily one can perceive both the picture as a thing and the thing pictured. There is optical information to specify the surface as such and, in the same array, information to specify a quite different layout of surfaces. There are thus two concurrent levels of surface perception and two corresponding levels of depth or space perception. One is the space in which the picture lies and the other is the space in which the objects pictured lie."

Pondering on how fast technology actually can upset some (older) conflicting theories of what a picture might be, Sam Renseiw recorded two short moving pieces on the morphology of body in space. The first one, uncut,is animated by the camera's sensitive auto focus. Click here on on the above links to activate. (patafilm # 724, 01'03, 14.6MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) archive.org version here

The second video, apparently a simple picture, reveals definitely more complicated layerings than apparent at first glance, complete with in-build visual technological glitches. Today's Bonus Lumiere Video condenses many spaces in a flatness with added sign-language (lum # 227 " almost perfect flat-screen" 01'00'', 13.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On figures in frames and voodled realities

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" The voodle eye is in itself a wonderful camera....The voodle image (im)printed, handheld as if an eye, and then transmitted to the brain....When it reaches the brain, a length of time is required to bring about its construction, for the brain is something like the photographic plate, and the picture requires developing. In this respect the brain is somewhat sluggish, for when it has formulated the image imprinted upon the eye, it will retain the voodle even after the reality has disappeared from sight "

Concentrating lately on describing moving figures in frames, Sam Renseiw focused on some serendipitous, poetic urban dance moves in Noerrebro, from a happy time when his ingenious Contax camera still worked, and gave such voodling freedom. View the Blind Spot: as a straightforward capture of movements on a busy street, complete with diegetic sound, by clicking here or on the links above. (pataflim # 716, 03'00'', 45 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a more pompous, nostalgic set-up of figures in frame. (Lum # 219," nostalgia lapsus" 00'48'' 7,2Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On the everlasting flow of things

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" The everlasting universe of things / Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, / Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom—/ Now lending splendour, where from secret springs / The source of human thought its tribute brings / Of waters, with a sound but half its own.../ I seem as in a trance sublime and strange / To muse on my own separate phantasy, / My own, my human mind, which passively / Now renders and receives fast influencings, / Holding and unremitting interchange / With the clear universe of things around; ...// The secret strength of things / Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome / Of heaven is as a law, inhabits thee! / And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea, / If to the human mind's imaginings / Silence and solitude were vacancy?"

This post concludes the year's uploaded moving imagery; Thank you, viewers for your kind patience and elaborate, inspiring comments. Thank you, fellow Vloggers and Voodlers for your own inspiring video posts. The very best wishes for a prosperous, imaginative, creative and inspiring new year. Yours, Sam. (patafilm # 355, 04'12'', 27.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Todays Double Bonus Lumiere Video features (A) an illuminated shed and then (B) some more humane moves. (Lum # 172, 00'37'', 3.2Mb, Quicktime/mov // Lum # 173, 01'00'', 6.2MB, Quicktime/mov)

On language, dance moves and basketball

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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language... If dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body then Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Thus, to perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."

Combining footage from a recent dance performance show and from a sunny interior, Sam Renseiw pursues his docu-voodle investigations. View an excerpt of pieces of quiet at SMD and shadows on the wall with diegetic soundtrack and Danish lyrics by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 576, 03'17'', 17.6MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a lovely dancer's shadow (lum #93 "door, dancer, shadow", 01'00'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a blurred solo round-dance with a fall. (patafilm #124,01'52''[25.03.2006 post],4.6MB, mov/quicktime)

On chairs and hot-dogs

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" It seemed a logical progression to spend the next dozen years in the theatrical avant-garde staging the dramas of Samuel Beckett. Then, I realized that large cruise ships docked behind the stage and hot dog vendors were everywhere. That's when I turned from the theater to voodling ..."

Just enjoying the preparation of a quiet Danish (French) hot-dog, Sam Renseiw speculated for a moment on the absurdity of hot-dog swallowing contests, while recording the event, almost Lumiere fashion. View the ritual by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 448b, 00'45'', 3.5Mb, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv)
Today's Bonus Lumiere video is about the Zen of chairing. Click here to be seated. (Lum # 13, 00'58'', 3.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On quest and request(s)

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"It's a strange thing, ideas. They're not there, and then they're not there again, and then suddenly they're there. And it's a magical and beautiful thing when they do come. And then the next thing you know, there are some ideas you don't like. So those are discarded or saved until they find their place. When you fall in love with ideas, that's pretty close to euphoria."

Still pondering on the vlogging idea(s) and the consistency of the term "art", Sam Renseiw fulfils a voodle request, entitled "but you can dance to it", then proceed to the ritualised diptic production via a new Lumiere bonus video on today's post. View the disco trance by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 449, 01'27'', 6.6MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Bonus Lumiere video, a quiet Bellevue prospect - fresh footage from the day - can be accessed by clicking here (Lum # 07, 00'59'', 4.5MB, Quicktime/mov) And: remember to check the embedded links in the text. (context, you know !)

I am a dreamer of treated images

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“I am a dreamer of images, of accumulated images. I think I am seeing; a move stops me. I leave the context. The syllables of the image begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The gesture abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then another movement take on other meanings as if they had the right to be impertinent. And the picture wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of psychogeographical vocabulary for new company.”

Still having after effects from a recent choreographic exercise presentation, Sam Renseiw re-frames bits of footage, a creation of desire, not a creation of need. View the short footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 408,00'50'', 3.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On the art of memory mapping

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"In that Empire, the Art of cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Disproportionated Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds built a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided accurately with it."

Further mapping the tracing of his eye, Sam Renseiw encountered some memory moves i real time and framed them, with two slight cuts. View the reconfigurations of slightly inconspicuous variations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 403, 01'11'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On witnessing and tracing with the eye

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"Dancers, choreographers, writers and dance voodlers spend a lot of time looking, witnessing, tracing with their eyes, mapping with their gear. They are constantly taking in and trying out. Rehearsing. Making new space in their bodies for the writing down of performance. This act, in the words of Julia Kristeva is an “ordeal.”

Yet, the simple act of witnessing basic choreographic moves, casually framed, opens up confined spaces with their own liberating re-imaginations, muses Sam Renseiw. View the short quasi pataphysical footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 405, 01'30'', 6.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Condensing moves in elliptic associations

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" From its standpoint of its will to shape expression, the moving image is a physical reality which has its own relief. More precisely, it is the physical relief, the multilevelled psyche. It furrows or it raises; it finds a depth or suggests an elevation; it rises or falls between heaven and earth. It is polyphonic because it is polysemantic."

Re-viewing parts of overlooked footage, Sam renseiw investigates the polysemantic effects of a few chosen dance steps in a seemingly infinite space; Enjoy the short elliptic associations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 397, 00'40'', 2.4 MB, quicktime/mov - flash version at blip.tv)

Facing the serendipitous shadow

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" Synchronicity is no more baffling or mysterious than the discontinuities of physics. It is only the ingrained belief in the souvereign power of causality that creates intellectual difficulties and makes it appear unthinkable that causeless events exist or could ever occur. But if they do, then we must regard them as creative acts, as the continuous creation.."

Elephant in the room or more probably in Sam Renseiw's daydream,investigating the shadow with a piece of dance footage. View the serendipitous conversation by clicking here or enter through the looking glass by mousing in the shadow above. (patafilm # 359, 01'37'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

The resolution of binocular rivalry

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" One describes a tale best by telling the tale. The way one describes a story, to oneself or the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory."

Further pondering on the intricate relationships between symbol and object, Sam Renseiw prepared a short piece of semantic reactive footage - that can be viewed by clicking here or by mouse-mapping the territory behind the figure above. (patafilm # 357, 00'58'', 4.5 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the town, inside somehow

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" Gene Kelly warned me not to be a damned fool, but I'd seen the things those kids got up to on television doing all sorts of tricks. What a routine I could have worked up for a film sequence if they had existed a few years ago. Anyway I was practising in my drive-way."

Practising a slower, boring drive-way, Sam Renseiw, moving along, inside somehow, remembers some footage from on the town and a peculiar clip. View the cryptic montage by clicking here or step-in above.(patafilm # 349, 01'08'', 5,3 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version at Blip tv)