Do you still make voodles ?

 "Yes. I think, if I may say so, it’s like a sentence by Picasso I was once struck by: “I like to paint until the painting refuses me.” I would say that vlogging won’t refuse me for a couple more voodles, a couple more years, so it’s a reconciliation. Not with what I want, because I don’t know what I want, but with what I want from what I have. And to be more able to not ask for something else, but to do only what you really like, to deal with what you have. It’s a more peaceful attitude. When I’m doing a voodle, I’m not angry anymore when it is not well done. Not to be angry that the video should be this way or against another way, but just to do it your way."

 In the midst of summer-DVD re-viewing, Sam Renseiw, immersed into "The "Idiots" and "The End of Language" fell prone to an irresistible recording urge… view the resulting dogma '95 inspired quick-shot docu-voodle complete with diegetic sound and the above JLG paraphrase by clicking on the icon above. [patafilm # 873, 04'10'', 445MB, Quicktime/mov > Vimeo]

On informal re-enactments

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“To concoct regular voodles destroys an infinite number of fine parallel story telling possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected re-discoveries”

Toggling between the use of montage and long-take in the depiction of reality, Sam Renseiw recently captured a modern Venus re-shuffling some postcards; Thus, establishing the under-60-seconds-haiku-voodle genre. View the short carabiniers like re-enactment of an almost forgotten filmic intermezzo by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 612, 01'00'' 5.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a surprising frontal animal parade in urban setting (Lum # 129 " duck passage", 00'23'', 2MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features an early attempt at haiku-voodling (patafilm 129, 01'16'',[05.04.2006 post] 4.5 MB, mov/quicktime)

On imbrication: everything is voodle

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"It's the voodle that made me discover life...with landscapes, people, houses, urban spaces, interiors, art-works... the whole generic quotidian and the particular festive within. I discovered it as if I were in Plato's cave and then there was a little window in it and a film being projected. So one day I said: 'Look, there is life; so I'm going to do voodles in order to discover life'."

Still imbricated in the subtle magic of simple things and situations, Sam Renseiw expanded a single long-take from a recent birthday celebration dinner into a situationist voodle. View the unfolding of a painter's universe, with Stein's monologue portrait of Matisse by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 609, 04'28'', 18.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a classical setting with a frozen dancer. (Lum # 126 "degas dancer", 00'45'', 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features another birthday situation (patafilm # 239, [29.08.2006 post]02'04'', 9.5Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On distancing effect and other framework(s)

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"By disclosing and making obvious the manipulative contrivances and "fictive" qualities of the medium, the viewer is alienated from any passive acceptance and enjoyment of the voodle as mere "entertainment". Instead, the viewer is gently ordained into a critical, analytical frame of mind that serves to disabuse him/her of the notion what he/she is watching is necessarily an inviolable, self-contained narrative... Naturalistic voodles purport to depict life precisely as it appears, albeit in a new light, so one can consider things with closer pataphysical subjectivity, robbed of their conventional outward appearance."

Juxtaposing a broader view on artful frame-works with the Hatter's display in Hans Christian Andersen's favourite shop (Founded 1857 and still existing), Sam Renseiw montaged forth a speculative voodle. View the tripthyc, complete with JLG voice-over and a glimpse of Cronhammer's Cabaret by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 582, 02'26'' 12.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another night view, complete with embedded, illuminating screen(s).(Lum# 98 "the pharmacy, at night" 01'00'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an oneiric, colourful escalator view. (patafilm # 318,[16.12.2006 post] 01'48'', 8.2 MB, Quicktime/.mov). Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more information(s).

On meta-reference(s) and voodles

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"The man with the magnifying glass takes the world as though it were quite new to him. If he were to tell us of the discoveries he has made, he would furnish us with documents of pure phenomenology, in which discovery of the world, or entry into the world, would be more than just a worn out word, more than a world that has become tarnished through over frequent philosophical use. A philosopher often describes his “entry into the world,” his “being in the world,” using a familiar object as symbol. He will describe his ink bottle phenomenologically, and a paltry thing becomes the janitor of the wide world. The man with the magnifying glass quite simply bars the everyday world. He is a fresh eye before a new object. The botanist’s magnifying glass is youth recaptured. It gives him back the enlarging gaze of a child. With this glass in his hand, he returns to the garden."

Pondering further on the nature of the seen and on how to montage bits of reality footage, Sam Renseiw dabbled with a plectic juxtaposition of disparate images. View the layered, godardian voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 573, 02'34'', 13.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for PC at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features quite an opposite gaze: the simplicity of a roll in sand. (Lum # 90,"water-music's roll" 00'44'', 3.7MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the Lumiere site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video replay-supplement features a more "arty" display of directions, in sign laguage. (patafilm # 345, 00'54'',[26.01.2007 post] 4.6 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more pata-info.

On Voodle-dialectics of seeing

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"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the present ground is the medium in which past spaces and artefacts lie interred and can be voodled forth... Thus, work on a good voodle has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an tectonic one when it is montaged, and a textile one when it is woven into a moving picture... Yet, a voodle real strength's lies in its improvisation. All the decisive framings should be struck in a serendipitous and left-handed flow."

Pondering on a recent statement that museums and old buildings might be too soporific environments, Sam Renseiw re-visited a local museum on a sunny Sunday afternoon. View the inspired voodle unfolding of the museum-interior gaze, complete with didactic, Godard-like whispers by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 570, 06'03'' 35.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08 project, week 7 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features a classic, architectural soft-reflection-on-granite from inside the above mentioned museum. (Lum # 87, "soft-granite-reflection",00'48'' 5.1MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at A&B's site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features a contrasting promenade, also through a museum: this time in a modern, contemporary white space, with nothing on exhibition. (patafilm # 223, 02'22''[01.08.2006 post], 8.3 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click here or on the bold links in the text to view.

Attempt of postcard essay to JLG

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" Experience of the aura rests on the transportation of a response common in human relationships to the relation between the inanimate or natural object and man. The person we look at, or who feels he is being looked at, looks at us in turn. To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return."

Concerned with the presence of objects as well as an obssesive - compulsive concern with JLG oeuvre's imagery, Sam Renseiw montaged a short voodle-essay, in the spirit of Montaigne. View the representation of interior with external voice-over by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 568, 03'27'', 21.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a quiet round of saddling-up in a marvellous interior.( Lum # 84, "quiet saddling up", 00'58'', 5.6MB, Quicktime/mov) As always, more of other's Lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video repay-supplement features a architectural space, seemingly with a view, with further pataphysical inserts: a genuine Lumiere (!), and Godard / Hitchcock voice-overs.(patafilm #242, 01'12'', 5.5 MB,Quicktime/mov- [06.09.2006 post]. Click here or on the bold links in the text to view.

Chapter two (a): only the voodle

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"We want to travel/without steam and without sail/made to relieve/the boredoom of our prisons/run past our minds/taut as a canvas/your memories/and the horizon that frames them/speak, what you have seen"

Still immersed into JLG's fabulous, overwhelming and seminal Histoire(s) du Cinema, Sam Renseiw voodled a short mash-up of chapter two (a) into a genuine, general video-graphic open question. View the crudely montaged excerpt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 524,01'31'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a number of chivalric jump-cuts, all in one fixed frame. (Lum # 49 "the hubertus hunt 2007", 00'59'', 5.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the virtual real and telephony

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"For the great majority of players, virtual worlds encourage them to present different sides of themselves in a safe environment; challenges arise in the real world which enable them to reflect (consciously or otherwise) on their responses to those challenges, leading them to develop a greater understanding of themselves; over time, this brings about a gradual merging of the virtual side and the real side, as the player becomes increasingly attuned to their persona"

Concentrating on JLG's oeuvre while busy with other chores, Sam Renseiw missed an urgent call for telephony links, thereby feeling compelled to respond adequately with a short phone voodle. View the synaesthetic composition by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 523,01'33', 8MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming in Flash or MPEG4 version at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a closed curtain call. (Lum # 48 "the curtain call", 00'59'', 5.4MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's fine Lumieres click here.

Cine-Club Patalab: " bande a part"

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"Producing voodles at this moment means nothing else than: studying the changes undergone by the cinema from Lumière and Eisenstein to the present, and studying them in practice; that is to say, by making voodles about the inconspicuousness of daily life."

Continuing Patalab's Cine-Club sequel, Sam Renseiw invites you to a short, cinematic voodle-while-working piece, featuring Godard's exquisite, seminal and timeless choreography of Anna Karina in "Bande a part". Click here or on the links above to enter the club. (patafilm # 497, 03'27'' 2o.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features yet another, small-sized, badly composed, utterly boring, water video, illuminated by the great Gatstby's green light. (Lum # 36 horizon at bellevue, 00'57'', 5.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

On distantiation and jump cuts

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"Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening is poetically, pataphysicly reworked."

Voodling further around, Sam Renseiw mashed-up a short piece of red car footage into intricate jump cuts, complete with soundtrack remix by Polo& Solo's mesmerising scratch-Baudelaire. View the moving raod-movie still by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 392a, 02'07'', 9.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)