On contemplative abstractions

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"...I don't say that our isolation was meritorious, or that the people in general should know no language but their own. Yet the meek ignorance has these advantages. We did not travel for adventures, nor for company, but to voodle with our own eyes... and even in my own land, the things in which I have been least deceived are those which I have learned as their spectator..."

To paraphrase the topic further: ...Travel is thus not a release from but a luxuriating into the same rapt stare that is the medium of Sam Renseiw's daily life: And he glories in it, calling the style of voodling through foreign lands as a mode of " contemplative abstractions from the world"; Naturally, he has nothing but praise for the advantage of this abstraction. View a short montage bout of comtemplative abstraction by clicking here or on the links above. (patafil # 810, 03'13'', 68 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features yet another artful over-the-shoulder-repo-view.(Lum # 301, 01'00'', "watching pippilotti", 18MB, Quikctime/mov)

On similitudes and other cognitive rotations

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"The perfection belonging to one thing is found in another. This is the perfection of a knower insofar as he knows; for something is known by a knower by reason of the fact that the thing known is, in some fashion, in the possession of the knower. Hence it is said in The Soul that the soul is "in some manner, all things," since its nature is such that it can know all things. In this way, it is possible for the perfection of the entire universe to exist in one thing."

Even inconspicuous settings can often provide the background surface for somehow lunatic similitudes, mused Renseiw while standing still to capture a full turn. View the Thomistic docu-voodle with added conversations outbound to camelot by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 605, 01'34'', 8.5MB,Quicktime/mov other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short moment of silence. (Lum #121,"workshop break" 01'00'',5.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a domestic setting with space soundings (patafilm # 317, [12.12.2006 post] 01'52'', 8.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)

Traveling Footage Quiz # 01

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"The Patalab City Quiz gauges your knowledge on a particular city, its past and its present... A hotbed of contemporary politics, the city in today's video has always been in the news. So, if you have just kept your ears and eyes open, the Patalab City Quiz will be a cakewalk."

As Sam Renseiw is shifting location, busy with new traveling footage, Patalab launches a quiz: First one to guess the name of the city featured via the architectural clues on today's video-post, wins a small souvenir ! View the moving puzzle pieces by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 515, 01'57'', 11.6MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)
Quiz rules: the first commentary with the correct answer (city + street name) wins the souvenir - and a bonus souvenir, should you also mention the correct name(s) of the architects !

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a confined room with a lofty view. (Lum # 44: room with a view, 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's fine Lumieres, click here.