On little bags of remembrance in voodles

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"…our brain contains something akin both to a photographic plate and a phonographic cylinder, and many other things of the same kind not yet discovered; not a sight or a sound or a smell is lost; not a taste or feeling or an emotion. Unconscious memory records them all, without our even heeding what goes on around us beyond the things that attract our immediate interest or attention. […]...the Voodle should not have to do with an exploit or record, it would be neither a peak to scale nor an ocean floor to reach ... [it] would not be heroic, or spectacular; it would be something simple and discreet."

Trapped by an overflowed harddisk and simultaneous chores, Sam Renseiw nevertheless managed to voodle around in his spare time, montage-ing bits of footage anyway. View a long overdue piece of fragmented memory from short visit to a somehow far-flung place by clicking here or on the links above (patafilm # 840, 02'45'', 49Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more distinct set-up of unintended narration in an abstract context. (lum # 330 "cold toasted bread" 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On contemplative abstractions

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"...I don't say that our isolation was meritorious, or that the people in general should know no language but their own. Yet the meek ignorance has these advantages. We did not travel for adventures, nor for company, but to voodle with our own eyes... and even in my own land, the things in which I have been least deceived are those which I have learned as their spectator..."

To paraphrase the topic further: ...Travel is thus not a release from but a luxuriating into the same rapt stare that is the medium of Sam Renseiw's daily life: And he glories in it, calling the style of voodling through foreign lands as a mode of " contemplative abstractions from the world"; Naturally, he has nothing but praise for the advantage of this abstraction. View a short montage bout of comtemplative abstraction by clicking here or on the links above. (patafil # 810, 03'13'', 68 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features yet another artful over-the-shoulder-repo-view.(Lum # 301, 01'00'', "watching pippilotti", 18MB, Quikctime/mov)

On [almost] inhabiting the Dolphin Hotel

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" Whatever it is one is seeking won't come in the form one is expecting...Thus I (also) often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. In these dreams, I'm there, implicated in some kind of ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity....It seems more like a long, covered bridge. A bridge stretching endlessly through time. And there I am, in the middle of it. Someone else is there too...Time weighs down on me like an old, ambiguous dream. I keep on moving, trying to sleep through it... Another possibility is just plain voodling. Voodling on and on. Entering the world of voodles and never coming out. Living in voodles for the rest of time...."

Paraphrasing Murakami's dance steps and while taking the Possibility of an Island as just that, Sam Renseiw recalls a recent trip to Fionia by concocting footage left-over into a parabolic space, in triptych form. View yet another voodle-detournement exploring (again) morphologies of body and space by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 784,02'35'',37Mb, Quikctime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a fine Danish shoreline, secured for bathers. [Lum # 280, "ishøj beach" 01'00'', 12Mb, Quictkime/mov)

Of greenmen appearances in skating voodles

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" A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Branches or vines may sprout from the nose, mouth, nostrils or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit. Commonly used as a decorative architectural ornament, Green Men are frequently found on carvings in churches and other buildings (both secular and ecclesiastical).....The Green Man motif has many variations. Found in many cultures around the world, the Green Man is often related to natural vegetative deities springing up in different cultures throughout the ages. Primarily it is interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, or "renaissance," representing the cycle of growth each spring. Some speculate that the mythology of the Green Man developed independently in the traditions of separate ancient cultures and evolved into the wide variety of examples found throughout history..."

While speculating on the actual origin of greenmen, San Renseiw recorded their sudden appearances while skating, last Friday night. View the classic abridged track-footage with induced greenmen and mashed-up remix greenery soundscape from Gurdonark's fine new Northern Texas butterfly compositions by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm#781,[CFNS2010/1], 106MB, 05'24'', Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

On Kuleshov effects in some spaces

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" This particular voodle studies the space-effective and filmic creative means such as framing, cutting and narrative perspective and transfers those from architecture: The filmic concept of framing which deals with different views of the frame introduces for example the concept of the offscreen into architecture voodles and explains how the imagination of the viewer can be stimulated by deliberately hiding parts of the space. The analysis of the voodle cutting assumes that space perception in architecture is no continuous process but consists of single segments, sections or visual spaces. This idea leads amongst other things to the formulation of the spatial cut, which describes the experience of space, taking into consideration the subject-related visual sensuous understanding. The narrative perspective finally investigates discursive structures and spatial narrative strategies transferring them into the architectural analysis."

Sometime the compression of spaces is partly a re-po act of many layered space views just compressing the impression(s), muses Sam Renseiw while montaging recent footage from two interior locations. The first location is an fine academic one, while the second is a public x-room. View the spatial voodle with included oblique Kuleshov effects by clicking here, on the tumbnail, or on the links above. (patafilm # 773, 04'55'', 62MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a hanging biosphere.(Lum # 273,"biosphere" 01'00'', 11Mb, Quicktime/mov - .m4v)

On the art of (voodle) memory

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"This art of [voodle]memory is but built upon two intentions; the one prenotion, the other emblem. Prenotion dischargeth the indefinite seeking of that we would remember, and directeth us to seek in a narrow compass, that is, somewhat that hath congruity with our place of memory. Emblem reduceth conceits intellectual to images sensible, which strike the memory more; out of which axioms may be drawn much better practice than that in use...Emblems bring down intellectual to sensible things; for what is sensible always strikes the memory stronger, and sooner impresses itself than the intellectual... And therefore it is easier to retain the image(s) of a [modern] landscape passing by, a portrait of a snow owl, a captured stork behind a window, a blue barrel of frozen water near a volliere, than the corresponding notions of invention, disposition, elocution, memory, action."

Further voodling away, Sam Renseiw muses on some of Bacon's illuminations while paraphrasing; The art of (almost) daily memories is an enlightenment indeed, and is part of Sam's research into the morphology of body in space(s). Enjoy this short perceptive visual by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 745, 02'28'', 36.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) - more prosaic research on the perception of obstacles by the blind can be viewed here.

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features a room with a view.(Lum # 244,"green kitchen & chef" 01'00'',8MB, Quicktime/mov)

BTW: Brut Smog is continuing the remarkable "Lumiere et Son" project, carefully adding new audio on to Patalab's mute Lumieres. Treat yourself to some, there.

On perception and memory in road-voodles

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"...The empiricist will concede that every object is presented against a background which is not an object, the present lying between two horizons of absence, past and future. But, He will go on, these significations are derivative. The "figure" and the "background", the "thing" and its "surroundings, the "present" and the "past" are words which summarize the experience of a spacio-temporal perspective, which in the end comes down to the elimination either of memory or of the marginal impressions..."

On a quick road trip to Surrey, Sam Renseiw records the architectural background, musing on figure-ground matter passing by as marginal impressions, while memory does not seem eliminated, after all. Enjoy the short road-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 738,03'05'', 54,3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions on Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video is also a road movie, albeit still and nocturnal.( Lum # 238,"night blink" 00'53'' 11.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On rethinking the implicit voodle

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“The starting point of RETHINK is the belief that art can inspire us to see the world around us in a new perspective. Art can act as a catalyst for public awareness and engagement in the climate debate. Art will change the visitors’ perception of the world by presenting a new angle on climate problems that often seem very difficult for individuals to comprehend.”

Recording footage in the proposed spirit of rethink, Sam Renseiw presents a new angle on visitors perceptions in the shadow of Bright Ugochukwu Eke delicate Acid Rain installation, while musing on the long term effect of blatant curator didactics on art. View the CO2 friendly turn-around-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 732,03'22'', 40MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features more interior footage, this time with added canine. (lum # 232, "interior footage with canine" 00'57'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov.

Today' s Patalab Metaphor Video features a 4 year old seasonal voodle (even before the coinage of the term), from the exiting times of Web 2.0's infancy.(patafilm # 86 [30.10.2005 post])

NOTE: the frst 3 months of video are freshly linked again, thus well functioning. Here is August 2005 - ages ago &mini formats enjoy ! Best, Sam.

On the beholder's share in voodles

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" I lamented the want of a mechanical method sufficiently expeditious... to draw forth ides of an ingenious mind disposed to the art of designing. [..] To sketch.. is to transfer ideas of the mind to paper ... to voodle is to makes varied spots...producing accidental forms.. from which ideas are presented to the mind... to sketch is to delineate ideas; Voodling suggest them "

Mourning the functional departure of his beloved Contax, Sam Renseiw, struggling with the absolutely baffling amount of Gigabytes generated by the substitute's unfoldings, nevertheless (very) slowly regains his modest visionary abilities. View the first combo of old and new footage in a (not yet perfected) compressed version by clicking here, or on the links above.(patafilm # 720, 02'43'', 40 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a quiet morning scene, recorded in the new format. ( Lum # 220, 01'00'', " bicycle & dog, dragør " Quicktime/mov)

On the production of new realities

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"In analogue film, light leaves traces on the sensitive emulsion, imprinting on it permanent shadows. The manipulation of two realities - the superimposition of two stills, both traces of material realities - produces something that is already outside the logic of "realism". Rather than represent reality, it produces a new reality... "

Vaguely remembering the insinuation that the only semiotic system capable of interpreting another semiotic system is to be language, Sam Renseiw realised while editing more finish(ing) footage, that voodling makes interior architecture something other, transforms it into a new item. And that new item is, in itself and apart from the fact to which it is referring, an event, that could also be called a "fact". View the new interior artefact by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 698, 03'28'', 22MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video takes a deep focused view on framing moving objects & persons on an island. (lum # 209, "silja, passing", 01'00'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On character casting in voodles

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" This Voodle testifies to beauty, drama, imaginative force, and history of thought from as far back as 2500 BC and up until the year 1600. The imagery and styles of antiquity have influenced all subsequent European art and continues to play a major part, even though this may sometimes be difficult to see. Shapes and ideals shift and change through history - there have been revivals, and there have been breaks with tradition - but the significance and importance of history is ever prominent..."

Walking past 4000 years of sculpture under one roof, Sam Renseiw deep focused on a collection of busts, neatly stored. View the casting of characters for the voodle, complete with added forgotten fields by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm#686, 03'52'', 36.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a transparent casting of family characters, looking out to other fields. (Lum#202, 01'00'' 6.2Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On the nature of communicating vessels

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" I have insisted, specialy in Les Vases communiquants, on the fact that Voodling alone is, in many cases, capable of exhausting the content of reality, and that this analysis, if it is thorough enough, leaves none of the residue that might permit us to attribute a transcendental character to oneiric activity.[...] Similarly, Voodling could sometimes exhaust the content of real events, to the point of making them depend entirely on the least conscious prior activity of the mind..."

While closely paraphrasing, Sam Renseiw muses about the otherwise Derive-like characteristics of his Voodles work, drifting away from formal academic rationality... It might just be sudden parallels petrifying coincidenses or harmonies as if struck on a piano, that make one see the unverifiable intrinsic value(s)....View the diptych collage with appendixes and Galveston tunes by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 687, 04'04'', 38.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple room with a view in which time might be running out. ( Lum # 200," pendulum" 01'00'' &MB, Quicktime/mov .

On the practice of (almost) everyday voodling

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"In order to grasp the formal structure of this practice, I have carried out two sorts of investigations. The first, more descriptive in nature, has concerned certain ways of voodling that were selected according to their value for the strategy of the analysis, and with a view to obtaining fairly differentiated variants: 'pataphysical practices, practices related to urban spaces, utilizations of everyday rituals, re-uses and functions of the memory through the "medias" that make possible (or permit) everyday practices, etc. In addition, other investigations have tried to trace the intricate forms of the operations proper to the recompositon of spaces by familial practices, on the one hand, and on the other, to the tactics of the art of voodling, which simultaneously organizes a network of relations, poetic ways of "making do" (bricolage), and a re-use of everyday structures."

Reflecting on the nature of fluid interfaces in everyday life, Sam Renseiw pondered on the question of the development of a sixth sense's in future voodling. Passing reflecting puddles, various navigation vehicles and even crossing a fluid gap, Sam captured formal structures the old fashioned way. View the unfolding promenade with parallel Exurb by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 675, 03'11'', 25.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features traffic on a fluid interface. (Lum # 189, "fluid interface " 01'00'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On more blind-voodling for spaceships

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" Finally: a mesmerising magic blind oneiric voodle of the second kind for The Spaceship Earth Salon, an initiative started by an Oslo-based group with the intention to hijack the phenomenon of Scandinavian Design, rid it of retro-aestheticism, moralism and celebritism and forge a new current - embracing science, technology, magic and a radical paradigm of sustainable design."

Entering The Space Ship yesterday, blindfolded and lucidly dreaming away in visual languish, Sam Renseiw focused on magic pataphysical distortion clearances while simultaneously being guided through by a beautiful woman at the furniture fair. View the second blind-voodle by clicking here, on the links above, or come to the SpaceShipEarthSalon # 1 @ Teater Lacrimosa, Tengdahlsg 32 in Stockholm tonight . (blind voodle # 02 , 03'36'', 31.6Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On motivated conceptual metaphor mapping

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“Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of....yet, the camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”

After gathering some footage from his exosomatic memory, Sam Renseiw concocted a moving cognitive map, composed as a diptych; View the unfolding of profane moves in a sacred crimson path followed by a complementary green spatial botanical traverse by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 659, 04'09'', 33.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a mute, didactic and multi-framed composition, conveying the making of an architectural masterpiece. (Lum # 176, "sverre's didactics" 0'59'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov )

On lucid dreaming and gallery portraits

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" A Gallery Portrait is not just the anecdotic depiction of a private collection, it is also, in its play of succeeding reflections and in the near-magical charm that these increasingly minuscule repetitions create, a work of art which tips us into its own oneiric universe where its power of seduction has been amplified to an infinite degree and where the agonizing precision of the medium, far from being an end in itself, suddenly opens out into the vertiginous spirituality of the Eternal Return."

Surprised by an esquisite succession of straight foreward facades bathed in a magic winter afternoon sun, Sam Renseiw proceeded to capture the reflections, further adding some interior spaces encompassing a performative ritual. View the failed atempt at exhausting a Copenhagen space by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 657, 01'56'', 14.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple, yet quite effective blow apparatus (Lum # 174 "smoke-ring machine", 00'31'', 3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On branching the pursuit of happiness

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" Boutique L.U.I.S asks the classic question: "can one buy happiness?" Most theories within psychology believe the answer is no, still the experience economy has great success in selling various forms of happiness. Though it is paradoxical, many consumers will do anything in their power to attain happiness- thus they readily " buy" it. Does it make sense to pursue happiness? In doing so does one become happier? "

While pondering on the unique opportunity to acquire some happiness, Sam Renseiw, twiigged, caught a few glances from outside, editing the investigations with more inside information-footage. View glimpses of branching happiness-taxonomies, decoratively displayed, by clicking here or on he links above. (patafilm # 649, 02'20'', 14.7MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features yet another reflective decorum . (Lum # 168 " barber-shop reflections" 00'58'' , 5.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On space-voodling and sheer attention

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"As soon as a person appears who has something primitive about him, so that he does not say " one must accept the world as it is [...] but says " However the world is, I shall retain an originality which I do not mean to alter in accordance with the world's wishes" : At the moment these words are heard, the whole of existence is transformed. As in the fairy-tale, when the word is spoken, the castle opens after being enchanted for a hundred years, and everything comes to life: so existence turns into sheer attention."

Re-framing recent footage from two exquisite locations in Frogner/Oslo, Sam Renseiw pondered on the exuberance of the introverted ontological nature of space phenomenology. View the short visual meditation on the subject by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 628, 02'47'', 15.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of Norwegian blintz production. (Lum # 148, "oslo pancakes", 01'00'', 4.5Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features another interior space with fine chairs. (early patafilm # 96? [12.11.2005 post] Quicktime/mov)

On large scale gatherings and catering

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“Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or voodlers.”

Voluntarily acting as assistant cook for an evening, Sam Renseiw nevertheless managed to capture some footage from a larger event, catering to the employees of a Nordic Company. View the concocted cut-up docu-voodle complete with firework finale by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 623, 02'14'', 13.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a down-to-earth morning urban scene.( Lum # 142,"sweep'n move" 00'55'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an urban view from Asia. (patafilm # 158,[03.05.2006 post] 00'58'', 4.3 MB, mov/quicktime)

On reflected reality portraiture

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"...What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context - nothing is, to him, what it is; everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a superwhole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling only an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is."

“Reality can only be portrayed when one constructs it,” ponders Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Gursky and reflecting on Musil's "The Man Without Qualities". View the cut-up docu-voodle with fine, intriguing soundtrack overlay from Gurdonark by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 616, 02'03'', 12.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a quiet, intense contemplative intermezzo of a space within a space. (Lum #136, "space in space",00'46'',3.3Mb, Quicktime/mov.) As always, fine other's Lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features diverse paraphernalia and a felt suit.(patafilm#217, 02'17''[23.07.2008 post], 10.2 MB, Quicktime/mov.