On winter tracings and transcendal voodling

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"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 !

On spatial occurrences in voodles

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" After I've slept many dreams, I go out to the street with eyes wide open but still with the aura and assurance of my dreams. I'm astonished by my automatism, which prevents others from really knowing me. For i go through daily life still holding the hand of my astral nursemaid; my steps are in perfect accord with the obscure designs of my sleeping mind. And I walk in the right direction; i don't stagger; I react well; I exist. [...] And it is then, in the middle of life's bustle, that my dream becomes a marvellous voodle. I walk along an unreal downtown street, and the reality of its non-existent lives affectionately wraps my head in a white cloth of false memories. I'm a navigator engaged in unknowing myself."

Paraphrasing Pessoa, Sam Renseiw begins to share the quiet anxiety of compulsive production while uploading yet another voodle. View the concoction of left-over footage from the past 3 months combined with some recent bits by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 747, 04'33'', 67 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On voodle as critical poem

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" The fact is that images say nothing, if I may put it that way....There are no images for the deepest experience. The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. Of course, not everything is unsayable in images, only the livin thruth."

Paraphrasing Ionesco (again) Sam Renseiw reconsecrates the inconspicuousness of commonplace in one, backward and shaky hand-held travelling. ("a critival poem: " If I am not mistaken, says Octavio Paz, the union of these two contradictory words (by Mallarme) means: that the poem that contains its own negation and that makes of that negation the point of departure for the voodle, equally distant from affirmation and negation") Enter the leafing by clicking here or on links above. (patafilm # 734, 02'30'', 33.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video displays another leafing. (lum # 234 "leafing through" 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On figures in frames and voodled realities

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" The voodle eye is in itself a wonderful camera....The voodle image (im)printed, handheld as if an eye, and then transmitted to the brain....When it reaches the brain, a length of time is required to bring about its construction, for the brain is something like the photographic plate, and the picture requires developing. In this respect the brain is somewhat sluggish, for when it has formulated the image imprinted upon the eye, it will retain the voodle even after the reality has disappeared from sight "

Concentrating lately on describing moving figures in frames, Sam Renseiw focused on some serendipitous, poetic urban dance moves in Noerrebro, from a happy time when his ingenious Contax camera still worked, and gave such voodling freedom. View the Blind Spot: as a straightforward capture of movements on a busy street, complete with diegetic sound, by clicking here or on the links above. (pataflim # 716, 03'00'', 45 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a more pompous, nostalgic set-up of figures in frame. (Lum # 219," nostalgia lapsus" 00'48'' 7,2Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On voodling at level eight_0.3

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" Many studies of object and voodle recognition focus on the ability to recognize different views of the same display. The problem of recognition across views is fundamental to understanding how we represent our visual world. Do we recognize objects by comparing our current retinal image to a stored set of previously seen images? Or, do we store a generalized description of an object that is independent of the particular views we've already seen? The first, a view-based approach, argues that object recognition should depend on the particular views we've seen before and their similarity to our current view. The second, a view-independent approach, suggests that recognition should be independent of the particular views we've seen before because the representation is equally appropriate for all views. "

Combining docu-voodling with investigative visual cognition research in enclosed spaces, Sam Renseiw assembled one more voodle from footage excerpts straight out of The Oracle's Boat. View the Godess in her enclosure and other, less bening happenings, by clicking here, or, on the links above. [patafilm # 710, [Oracle's Boat/Level: 08/0.3], 04'30'', 71.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On nature, space and inbetween-voodling

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" The wall returns to form the fourth side of the open courtyard, where the majority of it is missing, leaving nature beyond to complete the enclosure. Herein is an aura of immanence, of engagement with something in the process of happening. Fragments of collums fluting or stretching room-forms are in the process of transmuting towards growth or decay... The main room resembles something of the traditional multipurpose "tupa" space, with an open fire, and with the addition of a small loft studio, nestling between the apex of the roof. At the meeting of the two wings there is a small kitchen. The modest bedrooms and bathrooms are accessed by a cloister-like corridor which faces the courtyard, being either pierced by the sun through its doors and windows, or shuttered tight against the cold..."

Apparently taking a scrutinising, moving approach (in)to a memorable piece of Nordic architecture, Sam Renseiw stretches the limits of testing body-space morphologies in the apparent maze of the simple corridor. View the elementary observations, complete with boatshelter, book reviews and diary of a parachutist noise-art re-mix by clicking here, or, on the links above.(patafilm # 701, 06'45'', 62Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more static point of view, nevertheless representing an animated moment. (Lum # 212, 00'53''," window dog, tampere ", Quicktime/mov)....For a more psychedelic version, with sound, of the same scene, click here.

On the patamatics of interior voodle gaze

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" To live is to leave traces. In the interior these are emphasised. An abundance of covers and protectors, liners and cases are devised, on which the traces of objects of everyday use are imprinted. The traces of the occupant also leave their impressions on the interior....I can thus feel myself under the gaze of someone whose eyes I do not see, not even discern. From the moment this gaze exists, I am already something other, in that I feel myself becoming an object for the gaze of others. But in this position, which is a reciprocal one, others also know that I am an object who knows himself to be seen. "

Architecture is not simply a platform that accommodates the viewing subject. It is also a viewing mechanism that might produce the subject. It precedes and frames its occupants, and certainly exerts a moving theatricality in the expansive patamatics of the voodling gaze. View the cornered moves in a famed Nordic interior by clicking here or immerse first in Brut Smog's fine analytic dissection of voodling. (patafilm # 697b, 06'35'', 55.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of a walkway into a lake, recorded from a quite famous hut. (Lum # 208 " alvar's pond " 00'49'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On frottage and interior colour spreads

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" It was a question of going back to the sources of poetic imagination and, what is more, of remaining there. Not that I pretend to have done so. It requires a great deal of fortitude to try to set up one's abode in these distant regions where everything seems at first to be so awkward and difficult, all the more so if one wants to try to take someone there. Besides, one is never sure of really being there. If one is going to all that trouble, one might as well stop off somewhere else. Be that as it may, the fact is that the way to these regions is clearly marked, and that to attain the true goal is now merely a matter of the travelers' ability to endure.."

Just passing by, actually, while visiting an extensive and overwhelming display of Ernst and then: serendipitously stumbling upon parts of the garden not yet explored, kept Renseiw musing while capturing footage to be shared and analysed. View the aberration(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 688, 52.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features an act of reflected projection upon a piece of illuminated artwork. (Lum # 201, " handling the inside of outside " 01'00'' 6,3MB, Quicktime/mov)

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)