On nuptial party footage pecularities

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" For the person who wants to capture everything that passes before his eyes," Sam Renseiw would explain, even if nobody was listening to him any more, "the only coherent way to act is to voodle at least one voodle an hour, from the instant he opens his eyes in the morning to when he goes to sleep. This is the only way that the exposed smart cards will represent a faithful diary of our days, with almost nothing left out. If I were to start making documentaries, I’d see this thing through, even if it meant losing my mind.."

Situationist voodling is a cheerful enterprise, generating quantities of concentrated, special footage of particularly memorable events. Voodling does remain a fine endeavour to rediscover the sublime in the quotidian, and to continually re-assess notions of the morphologies of body and space. View Sam's latest, almost classic, hand&foot(r)apture, tripthych voodle from attending a recent wedding, by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 772, 05'24'', 69Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more lonesome endeavour. (Lum#272,"kickback at funny house" 01'00'', 12Mb, Quicktime/mov - .m4v)

On the nature of expectations

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" One has worked vainly when one has done so without success, so that one has wasted one's time and effort: one has worked in vain when one has done so without attaining the intended goal, because of the defectiveness of the work. If I cannot complete my task, I work vainly; I am uselessly wasting my time and effort. If the task I have done does not have the effect I was expecting, if I have not attained my goal, I have worked in vain; that is to say, I have done something useless.... It is also said that someone has worked vainly when he has not been rewarded for his work, or when this work has not been accepted; because in this case the voodler has wasted his time and effort, without this at all prejudicing the value of his work, which can be very good.."

Concocting a speed-voodle from left-over footage from a recent visit, Sam Renseiw speculates on the actual possibilities of sustainable approaches and simultaneously wishing for more subdued, humble roles to assign architecture in retrospect. View the montaged derive vitesse with added stormbugs by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 770, 02'22'', 101MB(!), Quicktime/mov- other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a much simpler build-up, seen reflectively from below. (lum # 269,"reflective build-up" 01'00'',12MB, Quicktime/mov - .m4v)

On slow backyard derive

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" The sustainability analysis of the absolute or relative character of fissures in the urban network, of the role of micro-climates, of distinct neighbourhoods with no relation to administrative boundaries, and above all of the dominating action of centers of attraction, must be utilised and completed by psycho-geographical methods. The objective passional terrain of the derive must be defined in accordance both with its own logic and with its relations with social morphology."

Laying out psycho-geographical recordings from a recent urban back yard dérive in the form of an ultra slow, attentive documentation, Sam Renseiw regrets the very short time allocated to comprehend the complex site. View the slowed mapping of the situation by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 769, 05'22'', 82MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a rather odd fissure in the urban context. Note the disqualifying anomalies. (Lum # 268, 00'55'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov - or: .m4v )

On the revolution(s) of everyday life

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"Spontaneity is the mode of existence of creativity; not an isolated state, but the unmediated experience of subjectivity. Spontaneity concretizes the passion for creation and is the first moment of its practical realization: the precondition of Voodle, of the impulse to re-view the world in accordance with the demands of radical subjectivity. The qualitative exists wherever creative spontaneity manifests itself. It entails the direct communication of the essential. It is Voodle's chance. A crystallization of possibilities, a multiplier of knowledge and practical potential, and the proper modis operandi of space awareness. Its criteria are sui generis. The qualitative leap precipitates a chain reaction; Voodling is the organizer of creative spontaneity to the extent that it reinforces spontaneity's hold on reality. Voodling is an act which engenders new realities..."

Yet it all devellops from the apparent banality of the quotidian, muses Sam Renseiw while montaging recorded intricacies of around-mermaid-revolving moves. View the ritual assessment of an indian spring by cliking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 680, 02'39'', 27.4 MB, Quciktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features controlled revolutions, passing by (Lum # 195 " 01'00'', 6.3 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On outer and inner space walks (5)

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"There's a icon on this page, Maxine, just above. It's a portal and it takes you inside Sam Renseiw....You'll see some fine old parts of Kyoto through Renseiw's eyes... and then after about 8 minutes, you're spit out... Anyway, the point is... this is a very odd thing... I mean, it raises all sorts of philosophical-type questions, you know... about the nature of self, about the existence of a soul. You know, am I me? Is Renseiw Renseiw? Do you see what a metaphysical can of worms this portal is? "

Taking the voodling point of view further into the realm of the specific, Sam Renseiw re-fitted the captured (pulled) footage, adding one more vantage point to the seen, propelling the simple act of seeing into quite a dazzling, reflective and thus generically reflective, topic. View the unfolding of the outer gaze, complete with the re-enclosed, enhanced original soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 645 [©], 08'04'', 42.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more still, serene moment of reflection. (Lum # 164,"morning reflection(s)" 00'59'', 4.6MB, Quickime/mov)

On derive and psychogeographic voodle

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"One or more persons committed to the derive abandon, for an undefined period of time, the motives generally admitted for action and movement, their relations, their labor and leisure activities, abandoning themselves to the attractions of the terrain and the encounters proper to it....to be drawn by the solicitations of the terrain"

Abandoning himself to a short moment of derive, Sam Renseiw re-viewed some known, local locations from a different, drifting perspective. View the ensuing, abridged psychogeographic docu-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 624,04'01'',21.6Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features yet another recent drifting passage, fixed. (lum # 143, "water-housing" 00'56, 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a year old view from the same waterway. (patafilm # 549, [15.12.207 post]01'13'', 7.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

The detournement of space: Voodle # 02

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"An existing space may outlive its original purpose and the raison d'etre which determines its forms, functions, and structures; it may thus in a sense become vacant, and susceptible of being diverted, reappropriated and put to a use quite different from its initial one. Each discovery or solution opens the door onto a new potentiality and a new set of 'problems'. And in this way voodle(s) organically develops and transforms: its techniques and vocabularies expand; its concerns change. None of these things can be called back or proscribed. If ignored they will not go away, undo themselves or cease to exert their transforming pressure on the whole vlogsphere."

Continuing a shorter pursuit in spatial voodle investigations, Sam Renseiw descended into an underground location that outlived its hermit coolness into another reappropriation. View the second voodle on the topic, presenting a crude Inland Empire visuality, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 527, 02'03'', 13.2MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 versions for Pc at blip.tv)