On the state of things

“As the hours, the days, the weeks, the seasons slip by, you detach yourself from everything. You discover, with something that sometimes almost resembles exhilaration, that you are free. That nothing is weighing you down, nothing pleases or displeases you. You find, in this life exempt from wear and tear and with no thrill in it other than these suspended moments, in almost perfect happiness, fascinating, occasionally swollen by new emotions. You are living in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum full of promise, and from which you expect nothing. You are invisible, limpid, transparent. You no longer exist. Across the passing hours, the succession of days, the procession of the seasons, the flow of time, you survive without joy and without sadness. Without a future and without a past. Just like that: simply, self evidently, like a drop of water forming on a drinking tap on a landing.”

As if a man asleep. That would be nice, indeed, Perec like. Yet, some  (obviously) nice things do happen: Furtherfields did recently publish Michael Szpakowski's generous (and very insightful) review of Renseiw and Sanderson's Lumiere & Son Project. Thank you Michael for the generous, focused, in-depth re-view(s)!

Same week: 'Pataphysics, a useless guide by Andrew Hugill /MIT press arived; Lo and behold: Sam Renseiw's work did make it (mentionably) into this first comprehensive pataphor in english. (page 26, references and index). The book is amazing in its cross-references and outlay of 'pataphysical matter. Very, very useful !

The patalab work should continue !!

Yet, the present (desperate) backlog of video posts is (again) due to Bliptv obstination(s) to administer their (ugly) to-embed Flash player. (black screen in iPhone/iPad), making it useless. (For some reason the present links do work again after the april disaster, but not the new posts). 

Yes, as much as I would love to continue the work, with blogspot and blip,  it does seems that re-hosting all work(s) on a new  site unfortunately has to be done. Would thus  appreciate all the help available.  Best Sam  
 

On winter tracings and transcendal voodling

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPhone/iPod / direct streaming for PC

"Good voodling is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added...We live amid surfaces, and the true art of voodling is to skate well on them, in winter...Thus we come to look at the world with new eyes. Voodles shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect..."

Almost embalmed by the continuous strain of winter weather, Sam Renseiw donned his skates to capture footage from otherwise inaccessible spots while musing over some particular transcended quotes. View the cool lake circulation space exploration with superb climat soundscape addition by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 750, 03'37'', 49MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another cool inquiry in space(s). (Lum # 249, "coolfootage, framed" 00'47'', 10MB, Quicktime/mov)

Update(s)

For some time now Philip Sanderson has been so kind (and creative) as to (re)adjust the missing sound from patalab's Lumieres with excerpts from vintage film soundtracks, thus re-creating both settings and contexts and propulsing the amalgam into quite different spaces. (Re)view the soundies at the newly created site for Lumiere & Son.

Michael Szpakowski from seminal DVblog has been so kind as to cross-link to patalab, featuring "Fragmented Occurrences" as DVblog's post # 1000 !