On fast-forward long take voodling (outbound)

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"Doing it in one" is a brave cinematographic choice a Voodler can make. Without shooting coverage you are leaving yourself zero options in post production. You have to get the vision in your brain to happen in three dimensional space right there on the day. And you also have to hope that that initial vision is compelling and will flow... "

Nothing brave in this long shot, actually, muses Sam Renseiw, as the path is a familiar and well proven one. No need for inner visions, except for outer attention; The recorded long take even leaves an interesting option, as time still can by manipulated in post production. View the first part of Sam's canned & condensed, almost quotidian morning race (including the scrunched diegetic soundtrack) unfolding by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 681, 05'40'' 53.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a view from the inside of (another) fast moving object in space. ( Lum #198 "high flying outbound " 01'00'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the long (almost) steady-cam voodle-take

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" The aesthetic qualities of Voodling are to be sought in its power to lay bare the realities [...] Only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, those piled up preconceptions, that spiritual dust and grime with which my eyes have covered it, is able to present it in all its virginal purity to my attention and consequently to my love. By the power of Voodling, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can know, urbanity at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the Voodler."

Endorsing Bazin's preferences for the authenticity of the long take, Sam Renseiw proceeded to walk the line in Oslo this Monday: While the actual purpose of the visit failed to come to terms, a fine moment of reality remains recorded from that day... Dean can, after all mean so many things...James Dean crashed straight on, while Sam keeps on Voodling without a cause, not taking charge of any administration. View the almost endless perambulate with underlapped Snatch Tape mix by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 683, 04'03'', 39MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature contrasting indoor footage with a fine development of the counter-shot technique. (lum # 197 " the counter-shot" , 01'00'', 7 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On metaphysics of the long take

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" Virtuosity itself, though an aspect of art, needs to be treated with caution; one can be impressed with the sort of sequences I am referring to without maintaining that they sum up the totality of voodle art. For there is, and there has always been, another kind of long take which is based on the contrary on simplicity. Here it is not the skill or the technical dexterity of the artist that is at issue, but the integrity and patient intensity of his gaze."

Thinking of Andre Bazin while walking home, Sam Renseiw decided to record an almost unending take past some yellow chalked barraks, remembering that they now would log almost four centuries, and still being a vital part of the city. View the floating passage of time and space with a particular fine ending by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 604, 03'10'', 17.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features some fine footage in front of Charles Simonyi super yacht "Skat"( the 7th largest yacht in the world). Charles is, by the way, the chief architect of Microsoft, and likes to cruise around in Scandinavia during summer. (Lum # 120 "footage past simonyi's yacht", Lum # 120, 00'59'', 3.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a limo passing, just around the corner from today's video location. (patafilm # 168,[13.05.2005 post recorded at 16:45 pm on thursday 11.05.2005 loc.: 55°41'26.98''N 12° 35'19.71''E], 00'45'', 3.7 MB, mov/quicktime)

On long takes and horizontal rule(s)

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" Only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, those piled-up pre-conceptions, that spiritual dust and grime with which my eyes have covered it, is able to present it in all its virginal purity to my attention and consequently to my love. By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can see, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the voodler.."

Speculating on both Bazin's theory on the long take and the horizontal rule, Sam Renseiw captured a short segment of a promenade, appearing seemingly as a pastoral setting, while remaining a carthesian construct, albeit demoted of its functionality. View the slowed, twice stabilised, depth-of-field concerned late afternoon walk complete with borrowed landscapes by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 602, 02'55'', 15.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of watership down, without rabbits, but with a baby carriage interruption. (Lum # 118, 00'47'', 3.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features another, more shaky walk trough a piece of urban nature (patafilm # 418, [11.05.2007 post], 01'03'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov )