On the space of waiting

 " You have changed lately. You don’t know whom you can trust anymore. Nothing seems to be, as you know it. You are confused. You need help. Therefore you have been called for observation in the psychiatric waiting place, the Laguna, for a five hour psychological screening…. The Laguna, is a temporary residence where psychiatric patients can stay for up to a year. The institution houses approximately 25 non-violent patients primarily of Non Danish European descent…. During your stay you will participate in different tests and activities with your co-patients….Waiting time may occur..."

Embedded (once more) in a new, challenging performative setting, Sam Renseiw managed to capture some snippets of (under-cover) footage under the duress of a five hours, continuous psychological screening session. View the short docu-voodle mash-up by cliking here or on the icon above. [patafilm # 866, 02'17'', 69MB, Quicktime/mov] 

On motor intentionality & best grip in voodles

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"..My (kino-eye)body has a grip on the world when my perception offers me a spectacle as varied and as clearly articulated as possible, and when my motor intentions, as they unfold, receive from the world the responses they anticipate. This Voodling-distinctness in perception and action defines a perceptual ground, a basis of my life, a general milieu for the coexistence of my body and the world." […] "Ordinary experience draws a perfectly clear distinction between sense experience and judgment. It sees judgment as the taking of a stand, as an effort to know something valid for me at every moment of my life, and for other minds, actual or possible; voodling experience, on the contrary, is taking appearance at its face value...This distinction disappears in voodling, because judgment is everywhere pure sensation is not, which is to say everywhere"

Sam Renseiw, having concocted a new docu-voodle from recorded footage during a sunny week-end, paraphrases (again) and realises that a “phenomenal field” in voodling is neither a representation nor a locus of representations. View the dimension of our bodily embeddedness in a perceptually coherent environment in the voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 836, 04'51'', 87MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a straight forward choreography (Lum # 327 "goalie" . 01'00''. 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On short atmospheric insert(s) and travelling

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"New voodles may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature…In large measure, voodling is the spatialization of thought…The voodle reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

Recapitualting short episodes from a stay in a summer school, Sam Renseiw continues investigating the lonely (docu)voodle genre, probing (once again) morphologoies of body and space with inserted repo-sounds underlay. View the visual cavalcade by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 827, 03'11'', 65MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more static yet blooming set-up. (Lum # 317 "me draw ipad",01'00'', 22MB, Quicktime/mov)

On cold attics as new art hotspots

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" Voodling, said Andre Bazin, substitutes for our view of the world a world that accords with our desires. Cold-attic is the sort of story of this world...in which the real exists only as perceived, in that situations can be said to exist only when a consciousness is engaged with something other than itself. In this Voodled view, reality is not a completed sphere the mind encounters, but an “emerging- something” which the mind essentially participates in..."

A day after JLG's 80th birthday, Sam Renseiw follows professor Ezik inviting him to climb an internal Jacob's Ladder to experience [new] elevated art-den revelations, to assert a reality according to our desires. View the polar-cabin demonstrating the same-same-but-different maxim by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 804, 02'34'', 65MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)For ulterior Vaterpas Research, voodled by yours truly, click here.

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple revelation: the planting of tulips in Copenhagen parks is done in early December. (lum # 294,"tulip planter" 01'00'', 16MB, Quicktime/mov)

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 more aleatoric landscape_capture

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" A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is... [thus] set up your voodle while shooting. It forms for itself knots to which all the rest clings...[for] what no human eye is capable of catching, no pencil, brush, pen, of pinning down, your camera catches without knowing what it is, and pins down with a machine's scrupulous indiference... the insensible bond connecting your images which are the furthest apart and most different, is your vision. "

Remembering Bresson's kind & inspiring words, Sam Renseiw paraphrases (Notes on the Voodler) while concocting a quick aleatoric triptych docu-voodle from recent Norwegian footage. View one more attempt (slightly disturbed) at capturing more landscaping details, while preparing for a -more intense- upcoming cinematographic project involving silent language, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 794b,03'47'', 53MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features old-fashioned space-mapping activities. (lum#286 "finishing touches" 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

PatArchive Video #2 features an older, box(ed) project, involving a dog and captured culture. (patArchive#2, 02'27'', 36MB, 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 over your cities grass will grow

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" A voodling device is less of a machine to produce order than a trap to catch randomness; A trap to transfix those small details that one would find banal, or farcical, or anecdotic, or just plain goofy, but that are, nevertheless, the intrinsic fabric of the voodle on its way to be made. Ultimately, the real enemy is rational intention. To me, voodling is what enables the elimination of all traces of intents. You must understand that I value such concepts as: randomness, serendipity, experimentation. These are things that interest me greatly in what may become, in reverberations, new reflections on the nature of voodles.."

Paraphrasing Labarthe, Sam Renseiw persist with his prolonged obsessive-compulsive voodle experiment, this time with yet another attempt at the repossession of space(s) with recently captured footage. View the discretely cut-up, hastily montaged docu-voodle of documented spaces with distinct songs without words overlay by clicking here or on the links above to realise how randomness and serendipity always seem so intentional after the creative act. (patafilm # 791, 02'14'', 33MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a distictive overview, fair to art .(Lum # 285 "art-fair-art " 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

And, regarding other ways of anticipating space: a special bonus-video, [©],a bookish treat, dedicated, from the patalab archive: abstract space(s) out-layed, cut-up, unfolded. (patalabarchive# 1, 02'32'',39MB, Quicktime/mov)