On culinary voodling with dance bits

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" In this way, if we repeat the principal states of Voodling, the figure of a dancer - moving a foot, in mid-air, pirouetting - will even when not possessing its own trajectory or offering a dynamic sensation, be much more like a dancer, and much more like dancing, than would a single figure frozen in just one of the states that build up a movement. The Voodle therefore can be invaded and pervaded by the essence of the subject. It can be obsessed by the subject to the extent that it energetically invades and obsesses the public with its own values. It will not exist as a passive object over which an unconcerned viewer can take control for its own enjoyment. It will be an active thing that imposes its own extremely free essence on the viewers, though this will not be graspable with the insipid facility common to all videos that are too faithful to ordinary reality. To further this study of reality multiplied in its volumes, and the multiplication of the lyrical plastic sensation of these, we have conceived a method of Voodling, highly original in its mechanical means, which we have already made known to some of our friends."

Somehow futuristic, extravagant and certainly very moving, the performance and the various dishes pervaded Sam Renseiw with an exquisite fine flow of haptic encounters.(with some quite radical surprises, though) View the culinary docu-voodle complete with concrete nipples-in-the-bowl by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 679, 06'08'', 52.2 MB, quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features more free roaming footage from Madeleine's, albeit captured fixed & under the table. (Lum # 188 " table footage " 01'00'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

The persistence of an image on the retina

"...We turned our thoughts to cinematography, and it seemed to us that this medium, slightly modified, would give excellent results, since its light potency was the strongest one could desire. The other problem concerning the need to have hundreds of colors at our disposition was also resolved, since, by exploiting the phenomenon of the persistence of an image on the retina, we would indeed have been able to make many colors merge, in our eye, into a single hue..."

Amazing what can be done with B/W footage in early last century, Sam Renseiw muses, pataquoting Bruno Corra; Thereupon, attempting a bout of colorfull abstract cinema with some Marinetti boom-boom. View it here or click on the areoplane above. (patafilm #102, 00'41'', 3.6 MB mov/quicktime) / relinked 02.10.15