On patterns of Fionian derive(s)

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" If chance plays an important role in derives this is because the methodology of psycho-geographical voodle observation is still in its infancy. But the action of chance is naturally conservative and in a new setting tends to reduce everything to habit or to an alternation between a limited number of variants. Progress means breaking through fields where chance holds sway by creating new conditions more favourable to our purposes. We can say, then, that the randomness of a dérive is fundamentally different from that of the stroll, but also that the first psychogeographical attractions discovered by dérivers may tend to fixate them around new habitual axes, to which they will constantly be drawn back."

While on a short summer derive in Fionia, Sam Renseiw collected some bit of recorded footage into a rather crude mash-up; view the concoction by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 280, 02'56'', 33.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features a serene moment of court-yarded nature. (Lum#278, willow&weep, 01'00'', 20MB, Quciktime/mov)

On still moving in space(s)

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" If I could only describe this place - I who am so good at describing places! Walls, ceiling, floors, they are my speciality. Doors! Windows! What haven't I imagined in the way of windows in the course of my career! Some opened on the sea - all you could see was sea and sky. If I could put myself in a room, that would be the end of the voodly-gurdy. Even doorless, even windowless - nothing but the four surfaces (the six surfaces). I'd find a way to explore it: I'd listen to the echo. I'd get to know it, I'd get to remember it. I'd be home. I'd say what it's like, in my home, instead of any old thing. "

Still recording moves in space(s), Sam Renseiw, paraphrases Beckett (again) to fathom the depths of the possible nature of space vodoling. Patalab's 2009 activities (almost) conclude with two interior, investigative space-voodles (patafilm # 739, 02'467'', 38MB, Quicktime/mov // patafilm # 740, 02'52'', 37MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) and a fixed, enlightening planetary Bonus Lumiere Video (Lum # 243 " still moving", 00'48'', 11MB, Quicktime/mov). And: one more, happy-new post, tomorrow. ;-)

On hope in honest error

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" Voodle is the flower. Life is the green leaf. Let every voodler strive to make his flower a beautiful living thing. You must offer real, living, beautifully coloured flowers that grow above the green leaf. How beautiful the green leaf. How beautiful life often is, but think of the stupendous possibilities of the flower thus offered - of voodle "

" Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of images, that have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory ", stated Reynolds, yet, one has to capture some of them first, and then carefully re -insert them, best obliquely, as some places are more than well documented. View a crucial part of the Glaswegian heritage, recently captured, just in time for the centennial, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 742, 07'12'', 100,1MB (!), Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's [Double] Bonus Lumiere Video features both a day and a night vision from almost the same famed spot on Renfrew Str/Scott Str. ( Lum # 242 & 242b, 01'00'', 12 MB , Quicktime/mov)

On eye and mind in certain voodles

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" Scientific thinking, a thinking which looks from above, and thinks of the object-in-general, must return to the "there is" which underlies it; to the site, the soil of the sensible and opened world such as it is in our life and for our body - not that possible body which we may legitimately think of as an information machine but that actual body I call mine, this sentinel standing quietly at the command of my words and my acts. Further, associated bodies must be brought forward along with my body - the "others", not merely as my congeners, as the zoologist says, but the others who haunt me and whom I haunt; the "others" along with whom I haunt a single, present, and actual Being as no animal ever haunted those beings of his own species, locale, or habitat. "

Moving about in the world's first garden suburbia, Sam Renseiw reflects on the phenomenology of stability as exemplified in a particular house while further moving along graded interiors. View Sam's ramble on busy South Parade in full architectural bloom with added Safe Substitute by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 737, 05'13'', 63 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a letter boxed view from a later, more enclosed scheme, with school playgrounds (lum # 237 " letterboxed footage" , 01'00'', 13Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On looking back at re-presentation

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"... Occasionally legs and feet emerge in front of the camera as do overhead voices on the soundtrack but these are not voodles about people but about the resonance of space. Building day after day these two to three minute works create a library or repository of images from which the viewer can draw or withdraw. There is a willful denial of narrative progression and the audience is called upon to realize that they are re-tracing their own steps; going back to the same familiar passage. Forced to confront everything again till eventually seeing it all for the first time. "

Just returned from a trip to London, Sam Renseiw, overwhelmed by recorded footage, is busy editing the coming patafilms; Exhausted by the recent first public outing at a renown research centre and followed by an encore by his alter-ego, Sam hopes to maintain the future qualitative output of patamatic cinema. View the first footage from London by clicking here or on he links above. (patafilm # 736, 00'57'', 12.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a gliding ride. (lum # 236b,"your tube" 00'42'', Quicktime/mov)

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 state(s) of spleen and anxious voodling

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" Were I ten centuries old, could I remember more?/A weighty chest of drawers, crammed with a random store/Of voodles , writs, songs, balance sheets,/And heavy skeins of hair rolled up in old receipts,
/Hides fewer secrets, surely, than my sorry brain,/A pyramid and vault, whose corridors contain/More corpses than the potter's field, or late or soon./A graveyard, I, abominated by the moon,/Where, like a viscous worm, remorse thrusts out his head/To strike forever at my most beloved dead./I am an ancient Voodle filled with faded roses/In which a ruck of long-outmoded gowns reposes,/Where pastels all too sad and Bouchers all too pale/Alone breathe in the scents that uncorked flasks exhale./Nothing can be so long as days, limping and drear,/Under the heavy flakes of year on snowy year,/When ennui, fruit of dismal incuriosity,/Assumes the fearful scope of immortality..."

All those voodle morsels slowly pile up, moans Sam Renseiw, depressed, realising the agony of quasi-perpetual remembrance... All a grand illusion, somehow - futile, senseless and cluttered: a warehouse of forgetful movables, without any (more) comments; Take a walk through the ordered scatter by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 694, 03'35'', 31.6Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a benevolent view on a tripple Renoir action. (Lum # 205, " re-viewing Renoir(s) ",01'00'', 7MB,,Quicktime/mov)

On walking other alleys, reflecting

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"There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge. We try all ways that can lead us to it; where reason is wanting, we therein employ experience, which is a means much more weak and cheap; but truth is so great a thing that we ought not to disdain any mediation that will guide us to it. Reason has so many forms that we know not to which to take; experience has no fewer; the consequence we would draw from the comparison of events is unsure, by reason they are always unlike. There is no quality so universal in this image of things as diversity and variety."

Voodling further with crummy, low definition footage, Sam Renseiw re-views other territories; View the first promenade architecturale of week 42's escapade, edited into a short visual essay in idleness by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 635, 03'02'', 16.1Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a fleeting moment of exotic encounter. (Lum # 156 " serendipitous geishas ",00'49''. 4.8 MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Bonus HD Video (-almost) features a serene moment, cornered. (pataHD # 02, 00'35'',16.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

On now-that-it-is-time's furniture

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"To have one's own furniture shown by a third party voodler who doesn't know that the furniture in question is itself furnishing the story being shown, that's a technical refinement."

While still dabbling with both crude editing software and of-the-shelf camcorder, Sam Renseiw refines the interior-walk-through voodle genre, amidst a fine, utterly ambiguous flock of furniture apparitions - with strong living room reminiscences. View the tracing of a short promenade architecturale, complete with moodle excerpt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 544, 01'54'', 11.9MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features voyeuristic found-footage from the same space, simultaneously present, next to the above mentioned furniture. (Lum # 62 "found footage", 01'00, 6.1Mb, Quicktime/mov)