On fragmentation and long takes voodling

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" Fragmentation is indispensable if one does not want to fall into representation. To see beings and things in their separate parts. Render them independent in order to give them a new dependence...Displaying everything condemns voodling to cliché, obliges it to display things as everyone is in the habit of seeing them. Failing which, they would appear false or sham."

Toggling between Bresson and Bazin, Sam Renseiw voodled forth a fragment of quotidian by mean of a long take., accomodating both; View the short, poetic passage on a clear day from one-fixed-point-to-another via sublime urban shore(s) and full-rigger by clicking here or on links above. (patafilm # 805b, 03'55'', 71MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a sunny moment in the library office. (lum# 296," library shadows" 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On fast-forward long take voodling (inbound)

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"The laws of Voodling are subject to the more general laws of habit. Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. Breathing is habit. Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits, since the individual is a succession of individuals; the world being a projection of the individual’s consciousness, the pact must be continually renewed, the letter of safe-conduct brought up to date. The Voodling of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."

Habits can appear to be quite extravagant while at the same time remaining just what they are: almost quotidian pathways to be trotted. Nevertheless, Sam Renseiw consciously realises the magnificence of the view(s) every time anew, with awe and humility. Sometimes an urban bicycle trip unfolds like a fairy tale. And worth to remember, as stable conditions of departure and return suddenly might mutate to more bleak settings. View the condensed randonee pedale by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 684, 06'27'', 53.7MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more fixed deep focus on figure/ground relationships. (Lum # 199, "deep focus & figure" 01'00'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov

On voodles, brains and drawing(s)

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"You have two brains: a left and a right. Modern brain scientists now know that your left brain is your verbal and rational brain; it thinks serially and reduces its thoughts to numbers, letters and words... Your right brain is your nonverbal and intuitive brain; it thinks in patterns, or pictures, composed of ‘whole things,’ and does not comprehend reductions, either numbers, letters, or words."

Toggling adamantly between two brains, Sam Renseiw recorded some of the struggle with stand-ins, drawing in perfect weather conditions, today. View the pure, right brain manufactured voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 543, 02'57'', 17.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus left-over-video (wasting your time) was meticulously handcrafted by Sam, using both brains, while having a short, minor summer fit of vlog-disillusion. That was before videos could easily be snstncntnrs'erd, via a novel vlog-software that Nanoramas was so kind to share recently. (patafilm # 493/left-over, 00'49'', 5MB, quicktime/mov)

On subtleties in stasis

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" E.J Marey was not out to replicate the illusion of motion. On the contrary, he sought to demystify its illusion so that he might better contemplate its subtleties in stasis, at leisure. In this sense, chronophotography is at odds with film -- a kind of dissection without any attempt at simulation."

Still keeping it simple but moving, Sam Renseiw documented a bout of old fashioned draftsmanship in an alley. View the footage spacing out by clicking here or enter the set-up above. (patafilm # 366, 02'02'', 15.6 MB, Quicktime/ mov - Flash version at Blip.tv) And, by the way: great stop- motions in the embedded links above, too.