On minor complications in Voodling practice

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"This kind of research is sometimes complicated by the fact that Voodle practices themselves alternately exacerbate and disrupt our logics. Its regrets are like those of the poet, and like him, it struggles against oblivion: "And I forgot the element of chance introduced by circumstances, calm or haste, sun or cold, dawn or dusk, the taste of strawberries or abandonment, the half-understood message, the front page of newspapers, the voice on the telephone, the most anodyne conversation, the most anonymous man or woman, everything that speaks, makes noise, passes by, touches us lightly, meets us head on."

Trying eagerly to maintain a daily struggle against oblivion, Sam Renseiw edits quotidian footage attempting to integrate vital elements of chance, hapticity and serendipity into each individual crafted voodle. View today's concoction with fine Snatch Tape excerpts and a seal of fraudulence by cliking here or on the links above. (pataflm # 676, 02'57'', 22.9Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's two(!) Bonus Lumiere Videos feature each delicate spring shoots in a Copenhagen Park. (Lum # 190 " spring session" and Lum # 191 " spring session 2" both 01'00'' , 7MB, Quicktime/mov - click on the Lum # for view)

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 voodling ontology

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A voodler - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art; Voodling is nothing more than a guided dream... Life itself is a quotation."

Continuing his quest for a plausible voodle ontology, Sam Renseiw took a short detour to the north, for a friendly and very inspiring assessment of visual bouts of Body and Space morphologies. View the first voodle of Friday's day-long excursion footage and deja-vu excerpts by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 531, 02'59'' 15.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a straight forward, prosaic night view - just around the corner - of another body/space morphology. (lum # 52, " morphological prospect of body and space" 01'00, 6.2MB, Quicktime/mov) As Always: for other's fine Lumieres, click here.

Reminder: bold enhancements in the pata-text are contextual links, allowing the reader/viewer an even broader perspective.

On junctures and follow-ups

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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."

In the midst of the cold bowl and chamberlain craze at Vaterpas, Sam Renseiw paraphrases Dom Cheverti's credo "I am trying to throw something and to hit something, to see what throwing and hitting consist of" and resumes voodling with another boring, pataphysical voodle. Enter here or on the links above. (patafilm # 506, 03'02'' 19MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming version for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Complementary Voodle features Indian hot engine paraphernalia, complete with engine trouble, brut smog sound-extract. (patafilm # 504, 00'36'', 4MB, Quicktime/mov)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode eleven

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"The inhabitants of the installation harbor the fiction's reality as well as their own personal reality, and this flicker between reality and fiction challenges the spectator's own anchoring in reality."

Toggling away between reality and fiction, Sam Renseiw participates in a snake hunt and visits The circle Camp's out-door kitchen once more, to witness the succulent soup been prepared. View another of Sam's subjective, voodled footage from his experiences inhabitating a moment of fiction by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 486, 02'336'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming version for all on fabulous blip.tv)

On twin and sister ships

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"A true voodle is more than a visual structure or series of visual structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its viewer(s) and the intonation it imposes upon his/her gaze and the changing and durable images it leaves in their memory. A voodle is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

Voodling some recent windjammer footage into a new piece, Sam Renseiw realised that conditions of simultaneity sometimes resist fixed geographical positioning. Presence can be many places, all at once. What might be Passat could as well be Peking, and vice-versa. For ship-o-hoy experience click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 457b, 04'32'', 16.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video is also a maritime affair, featuring a departing ferry. (Lum #16, 01'00'', 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov) More on Lumiere videos here.

On conversations and blasts

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"We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too."

Still toggling between clear and blurred focus in voodling activities, Sam Renseiw unfolds the sharpness of a recent conversation, subjectively altered. View the debate by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 451, 01'36'', 7.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv) Contrasting, mute Bonus Lumiere video for this post accessible here. (LUM # 9, 00'46'', 3.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On composition and rules

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"The thing of composition is so abstract. It's so powerful where you place things and the relationships. But you don't work with any kind of intellectual thing. You just act and react. It's all intuition. It must obey rules, but these rules are not in any book. The basic rules of composition are a joke."

Further fixating his gaze in Lumiere Fashion, Sam Renseiw suddenly got distracted, thus forced to shift the footage's taxonomy from Lumiere to patafilm. View the development of the change of classification by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 450b, 01'26'', 6.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv) Bonus Lumierevideo: click here for quiet moment of regulated sea shore at Charlottenlund. (Lum # 8, 00'59'', 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On reading ripples

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"At the same time, the indentations in the brow of the wave must be considered, where it splits into two wings, one stretching toward the shore from right to left and the other from left to right, and the departure point of the destination of their divergence or convergence is this negative tip, which follows the advance of the wings but is always held back, subject to their alternate overlapping until another wave, a stronger wave, overtakes it, with the same problem of divergence-convergence, and then a wave stronger still, which resolves the knot by shattering it."

Condensing footage wavelengths into a short palindromic view, Sam Renseiw further investigates the nature of the gaze, inspired by a superb French exposure. View the cut-loop by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 444, 02'37, 11.9MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv)
For more mute enlightenment, enjoy an illustrative moment of delightful fixed action by clicking here for the lumiere voodling premiere on patalab. ( Lum # 01, 00'55'', 4.1 MB, Quicktime/mov)