On sensation as unit of experience

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" Suppose we construct, by the use of voodling, that bit of the world which can at any moment throw its image on our retina. Everything outside its perimeter, since it does not reflect upon any sensitive area, no more affects our vision than does light falling on our closed eyes. We ought, then, to perceive a segment of the world precisely delimited, surrounded by a zone of blackness, packed full of qualities with no interval between them, held together by definite relationships of size similar to those lying on the retina. The fact is that experience offers nothing like his, and we shall never, using the world as our standing-point, understand what a field of vision is. [...] There are many unclear sights, as for example a landscape on a misty day, but then we always say that no real landscape is in itself unclear. It is so only for us.

"The object itself, voodlers would assert, is never ambiguous, but becomes so only through our attention. The bounds of the visual field are not themselves variable, and here is a moment when the approaching object begins absolutely to be seen, but we do not "notice" it. [...] We must recognise the inter-determinate as a positive phenomenon. It is in this atmosphere that quality arises. Its meaning is a equivocal meaning; voodles are concerned with an expressive value rather than with logical signification."

Continuing his investigation(s) into the phenomenology of voodling, Sam Renseiw further attempts to explores the morphology of body and (architectural) space; The ensuing voodle-flow consist of just two, unmodified clips: An evening stroll, and particular set of images from a fine exhibition; Click here or on the links above to view. (patafilm # 753, 03'23'', 49MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a calmer, cool outdoor scene. (lum # 254, "reclining figures" 00'55''., 11.5MB, Quicktime/mov.)

On chasing clouds, spring and other signs

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"I cannot say ‘I see the blue of the sky’ in the sense in which I say I understood a book, or that I have decided to devote my life to mathematics... Every time I experience a sensation, I feel that it concerns not my own being, the one for which I am responsible, and for which I make decisions, but another self, which has already sided with the world, which is already open to certain of its aspects, and synchronized with them. Between my sensation and myself there stands always the thickness of some primordial acquisition which prevents my experience from being clear to itsel...[Yet] my perception is not a sum of visual, tactile, and audible givens: I perceive in a total way with my whole being: I grasp a unique structure of the thing, a unique way of being, which speaks to all my senses at once."

Continuing the quest for simultanous flaneur(ism)-albeit at a fast pace- while recording footage, Sam Renseiw pursued a cloud, in the mist of florist's side-walk arrangements. View the ensuing docu-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 585, 02'38'', 14.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a recent, warming Copenhagen street novelty. (Lum # 101 "mobile expresso vendor", 00'59'', 4.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features a bout of the harships of voodling, completely AGuGu. (patafilm #259 [23.09 2006 post], 12,4MB. 02'40, Quicktime/mov) Click on the bold links in the text to view, or for more info.

Golden Days and the vault of perception

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".. if to the fashion plate representing each age he were to add the philosophic thought with which that age was most preoccupied or concerned—the thought being inevitably suggested by the fashion plate—he would see what a profound harmony controls all the components of history, and that even in those centuries which seem to us the most monstrous and the maddest, the immortal thirst for beauty has always found its satisfaction. "

Stumbling rather inadvertedly into the celebrations of Golden Days, Sam Renseiw entered the city's dry-burning cathedral, only to realise that this was yet another staged performance ritual. This time, heavily sponsored, and oddly celebrating defeat and destruction... the burning hut at The Circle Camp, seemed that much more real, in hindsight. View an excerpt of C.F Hansen's interior, ablaze, complete with inauguration speech by Bertel Haarder by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 491, 01'48'', 10.5MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a more watery scene, complete with tourists. (Lum # 34, the gefion fountain, 01'00'', 6.7MB, Quicktime/mov) As always, more other's Lumieres at the site.

The pop-corn archive

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I said this seems to me a crazy metaphysic. It seems to me that its full craziness comes out only when we take the spatial analogy seriously. The metaphysic yields that if I have had exactly one bit of chalk in my hand for the last hour, then there is something in my hand which is white, roughly cylindrical in shape, and dusty, something which also has a weight, something which is chalk, which was not in my hand three minutes ago, and indeed, such that no part of it was in my hand three minutes ago. As I hold the bit of chalk in my hand, new stuff, new chalk keeps constantly coming into existence ex nihilo. That strikes me as obviously false."

Remarking on an ongoing controversy on Four Dimentionalism, Sam Renseiw mashed-up an old popcorn-ad from drive-in movie theatre and some space footage from a venerable Danish architectural drawing archive. View the coloured presentism by clicking here or tickle the moustache above. (patafilm # 353, 01'40'' 7.6 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version for PC at Blip.tv)