On thresholds and contrivances

Such is the contrivance of the Voodler. And such is also that of our knowledge. Instead of attaching ourselves to the inner becoming of things, we place ourselves outside them in order to recompose their becoming artificially. We take snapshots, as it were, of the passing reality….We may therefore sum up…that the mechanism of our ordinary knowledge is of a cinematographical kind… Voodling is the one art form where the voodler can see himself as the creator of an unconditional reality…. In voodles man’s innate drive to self-assertion finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realisation. A Voodle is an emotional reality, and that is how the audience receives it -as a second reality."

Paraphrasing some older Bergson text quotes, Renseiw resumes a bit of voodling activity; As as fresh piece of docu-voodling, a short visual sequence of architectural (urban)thresholds and contrivances is layed-out anew, in another duration, for better (intro)spection. View the short elongated visual above, underlayed with a (sublime) bout of de Tapol soundtrack. [patafilm # 875, 01'53'', 208MB,Quicktime/mov, Vimeo]

On voodling deja-vu preambulations

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“ A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings […] When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.”

As if experiencing a deja-vu, Sam Renseiw wanders through corridors, entering new chambers and other spaces reminiscent of more influential and original ones View the almost complete perambulation through the hotel by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 830, 09'27''152MB(!), Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features one way of loosing oneself in an image. (lum # 321,"ways of loosing oneself in an image" 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On A Trip To Norway [music_voodle]

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"A dutch family went to Norway in the seventies. Mom, dad, their daugther and some friends. The pictures made on that trip are the only ones left of the girl's youth. And now they (the pictures) are going to travel themselves. Back to Norway where they were made. Site specific projections will fill the walls…"

Just passing by in the last minute, Sam Renseiw managed to capture glimpses of Marike Pool's fine projections in the notorious aquarium in King Oscar's Lane, while musing over Bergson's dictum of "the pure present as an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future… In truth all sensation is already memory." View the resulting short, montaged docu-voodle with distorted nostalgic soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 813, 01'35'', 36MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a marvellous, subdued, gridded sexandthecity scene at the Penguin's window.(lum# 304, 00'57'', 21MB, quicktime/mov)

On glimpses of space and duration

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"... We observe outside us at a given moment a whole system of simultaneous positions; of the simultaneities which have preceded them nothing remains. To put duration in space is really to contradict oneself and place succession within simultaneity. Hence we must not say that external things endure, but rather that there is in them sonic inexpressible reason in virtue of which we cannot examine them at successive moments of our own duration without observing that they have changed. But this change does not involve succession unless the word is taken in a new meaning on this point we have noted the agreement of voodling and common sense. Thus in consciousness we find states which succeed, without being distinguished from one another; and in space simultaneities which, without succeeding, are distinguished from one another, in the sense that one has ceased to exist when the other appears. Outside us, mutual externality without succession ; within us, succession without mutual externality."

Intuitively splicing together clips of recently voodled footage, Sam Renseiw ponders on the measure(s) of time, in some spaces; If real duration can only be experienced by intuition, voodling might be one (of many) speculative modes of inquiry, opening a dynamic relation between idea and existing reality. View the concocted flow of images from inner and outer space(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 672, 03'42'', 28MB, Quikctime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more defined space, with precise movements. (Lum # 186, 00'50'' "descent" 6.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the contraction of (skating) time

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“In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.”

Vaguely speculating about Bergson's concept of intuition that never gives us absolute knowledge of the whole of a series of actions' duration, Sam Renseiw intuitively compressed footage of recent urban skating moves into a short, sliced, perceptive docu-voodle. View the moving urban matter with Hepepe dub by clicking here or on the links above. (FNS08b video,03'40'', 20Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a theatrical, open-air, back-stage view.(Lum#132 "back-stage view", 01'00'' 5.2Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features quiet moves through a domestic interior.(patafilm # 210,[02.07.2006 post] 01'08'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the delimiting and fixing of images

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"To take pure perception first. When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. But then, our perception being a part of things, things participate in the nature of our perception."

Further investigating the potential of casual promenades inside old buildings and museums, Sam Renseiw recently visited two near-by museums. View the concocted, oneiric voodle sequense with staircases and pop-gun annotations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 572, 03'03'', 16.1MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for PC at Blip.tv) [semanal08 project, week 8 cross-post #2]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a somehow typical Jungian archetype set-up, complete with hurried by-passers. (Lum # 89, "framed wedding ", 00'58'',4.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement likewise features voodled artefacts glimpses from a fine Danish Museum with unmeasured sounds, added. (patafilm # 103 02'22''[26.02.2006 post], 11 MB. mov/quicktime) Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more info.

transition to attentive recognition

…” Also a memory, but a memory profoundly different from the first, always bent upon action, seated in the present and looking only to the future. It has retained from the past only the intelligently coordinated movements which represent the accumulated efforts of the past ; and it recovers those past efforts, not in the memory-images which recall them, but in the definite order and systematic character with which the actual movements take place. In truth, it no longer represents our past to us, it acts it ; and if it still deserves the name of memory, it is not because it conserves bygone images, but because it prolongs their useful effect into the present moment….”

Smile, you know . Yes, it is her, indeed. Re-collected by Sam R., fresh from the original location. Go into the matter here, or consult Henri B. on the subject.