On winter tracings and transcendal voodling

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"Good voodling is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added...We live amid surfaces, and the true art of voodling is to skate well on them, in winter...Thus we come to look at the world with new eyes. Voodles shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect..."

Almost embalmed by the continuous strain of winter weather, Sam Renseiw donned his skates to capture footage from otherwise inaccessible spots while musing over some particular transcended quotes. View the cool lake circulation space exploration with superb climat soundscape addition by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 750, 03'37'', 49MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another cool inquiry in space(s). (Lum # 249, "coolfootage, framed" 00'47'', 10MB, Quicktime/mov)

Update(s)

For some time now Philip Sanderson has been so kind (and creative) as to (re)adjust the missing sound from patalab's Lumieres with excerpts from vintage film soundtracks, thus re-creating both settings and contexts and propulsing the amalgam into quite different spaces. (Re)view the soundies at the newly created site for Lumiere & Son.

Michael Szpakowski from seminal DVblog has been so kind as to cross-link to patalab, featuring "Fragmented Occurrences" as DVblog's post # 1000 !

On speaking in fine parables

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"It is not style or rhymes or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity.... When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.... In good society, nay, among the angels in heaven, is not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense?... The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts; the voodler complains that the solid men leave out the sky. To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree. You must have eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes; you must have the vivacity of the poet to perceive in the thought its futurities."

With autumn lurking in front of the lens, Sam Renseiw captured some lonely out-door chairs, waiting for winter. View a short excerpt of the statics of life's candor by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 517, 02'23'', 14.3MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's - short - Bonus Lumiere video features the appearance of street cleaning .(Lum # 46: street cleaning, 3MB, 00'29'', quicktime/mov) More Lumieres: click here