The patalab season greetings

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“You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed...Yet,it seems that laughter needs an echo.”

Voodling away with the latest footage for the holiday season, Sam Renseiw sends his warmest season greetings to all faithful viewers and friends. View the travelling poetic melancholy of lampshades, street corner and a barfly nicotine shelter by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 551, 02'18'', 14.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and other versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features an exotic performance at the traditional Hotel Pro Forma x-mas party. (Lum # 68," Danish Lakota Friendship Dance" 01'00'', 6.2MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the persistence of vision (revisited)

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"The time has surely come when only the creationists among us will cling to the myth of persistence of vision as an actual explanation of how movies come to be. Second, and more important, the concept of the passive viewer implied by the myth, the one upon whose sluggish retina (or brain) the images pile up, must be replaced by an enlightened understanding of how viewers actually interface with motion pictures."

As hang-around part of the small, unobserved circle of sceptics regarding the established premises of the persistence of vision theorem, Sam Renseiw enters the debate with a cryptic piece of fresh footage from a yet idle Copenhagen amusement location. View the curved spoke effect by clicking here or enter the multi-coulour above. (patafilm # 367, 01'35'', 14 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

Because, like a football

Stigmatism occurs when the cornea is shaped more like an oblong football than a spherical baseball, which is the normal shape. In most astigmatic eyes, the oblong or oval shape causes light rays to focus on two points in the back of your eye, rather than on just one. This is because, like a football, an astigmatic cornea has a steeper curve and a flatter one. Usually astigmatism is hereditary: many people are born with an oblong cornea, and the resulting vision problem may get worse over time. But astigmatism may also result from an eye injury that has caused scarring on the cornea, from certain types of eye surgery, or from videotoconus, excessive video viewing, causing a gradual thinning of the cornea.

A seemingly blurred view of the world; a short Renseiw astigmatic illustration, with singing. Enter here or on the cornea view above.