On (more) voodled paraphernalia

" Since a phenomenological inquiry on voodling aspires to go so far and so deep, because of methodological obligations, it must go beyond the sentimental resonances with which we receive (more or less richly-whether this richness be within ourselves or within the voodle) a work of art. This is where the phenomenological doublet of resonances and repercussions must be sensitized. The resonances are dispersed on the different planes of our life in the world, while the repercussions invite us to give greater depth to our own existence. In the resonance we hear the voodle, in the reverberations we speak it, it is our own. The reverberations bring about a change of being. It is as though the voodler's being were our being. The multiplicity of resonances then issues from the reverberations' unity of being. Or, to put it more simply, this is an impression that all impassioned voodle-lovers know well: the voodle possesses us entirely."

After some stressful time-lag not posting Sam Renseiw is back with a longer poetics-of-space voodle, paraphrasing with delight: "I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls." (A house that stands in my heart/My cathedral of silence/Every morning recaptured in dream/Every evening abandoned/A house covered with dawn/Open to the winds of my youth.) Enter for some peculiar inner paraphernalia by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 844, 05'47'', 86MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features a classic Lumiere moment, albeit in darkness. (Lum # 334 "classique Lumiere noir"01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On Kuleshov effects in some spaces

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" This particular voodle studies the space-effective and filmic creative means such as framing, cutting and narrative perspective and transfers those from architecture: The filmic concept of framing which deals with different views of the frame introduces for example the concept of the offscreen into architecture voodles and explains how the imagination of the viewer can be stimulated by deliberately hiding parts of the space. The analysis of the voodle cutting assumes that space perception in architecture is no continuous process but consists of single segments, sections or visual spaces. This idea leads amongst other things to the formulation of the spatial cut, which describes the experience of space, taking into consideration the subject-related visual sensuous understanding. The narrative perspective finally investigates discursive structures and spatial narrative strategies transferring them into the architectural analysis."

Sometime the compression of spaces is partly a re-po act of many layered space views just compressing the impression(s), muses Sam Renseiw while montaging recent footage from two interior locations. The first location is an fine academic one, while the second is a public x-room. View the spatial voodle with included oblique Kuleshov effects by clicking here, on the tumbnail, or on the links above. (patafilm # 773, 04'55'', 62MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a hanging biosphere.(Lum # 273,"biosphere" 01'00'', 11Mb, Quicktime/mov - .m4v)

On simple intermediate space voodling

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" I sometimes dream of a simple hut [...] such a shelter as you would be glad to reach in a tempestuous night, containing all the essentials of a house, and nothing for house-keeping; where you can see all the treasures of the house at one view, and everything hangs upon its peg, that a man should use; at once kitchen, pantry,parlour, chamber, storehouse, and garret; where you can see so necessary a thing, as a barrel or a ladder, so convenient a thing as a cupboard, and hear the pot boil, and pay your respects to the fire that cooks your dinner, and the oven that bakes your bread, and the necessary furniture and utensils are the chief ornaments; "

Almost Walden, almost, and then better, still: a short visit to a neat retreat recorded as a cognitive, spatial perception inventory, speechless. View Sam Renseiw's moving demonstration of perceptually averaging in a continuous visual world via closed voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 760b, 04'10'', 59MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a similar moment of quiet cabin/wood co-relation(s). (lum # 263, "walden in wood" 00'45'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the concept of farfelu in voodles

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“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness”

Drawing images, almost at random, form titbits of recently captured footage, Sam Renseiw concocts a short, montaged voodle essay, embracing the incomprehensible manifold as an opportunity, not to delineate the boundaries of aesthetics, but to transgress them. View yet another feeble attempt of transcultural voodle aesthetics, seeking to understand, as Empedocles advised, "by every means"; not only by the senses, or the intellect, but also emotionally & synaesthetically; Click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 726, 03'08'', 44MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a sudden morning encounter in the local commuter traffic: Proof that historical figures do indeed pass close by, should one happen to be there. (Lum # 229, "morning pass" 01'00'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov)

On corporeal form in voodles

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" The form cannot desert matter, because it is inseparable from it, and matter itself cannot be deprived of form, but I have proposed that it is voodle which posesses of its very nature the function of multiplying itself and diffusing itself instataneously in all directions... Therefore voodle is not a form subsequent to corporeity, but it is coporeity itself. "

Pondering on light matters and left-over footage, Sam Renseiw montaged a surprising sequense of interior and exterior overlaps. View the sequential voodle with incorporations by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 725, 03'18'', 44.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple ceremony, in transformed urban setting, with simultaneously incorporated views. (lum # 228, 01'00'', "ceremony assistance footage" 12.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the phenomenology of re-view & voodling

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"... The former (structuralists), proceeding out of a higher logic, can envision a utopia of signs, of knowledge, and of communication, producing video forms that will be clear, just, and demystified. The latter (phenomenologists) are anxious to change nothing but instead to comprehend a process which flows along perfectly well on its own. Indeed, phenomenologists/voodlers have a longstanding distrust of pure reason, viewing rationality as a single mode of consciousness among others, a mode whose unquenchable thirst to swallow all experience must be restrained precisely because life itself tells us that experience is dearer and more trustworthy than schemes by which we seek to know and change it. [...] The careful manufacture of Voodles is, indeed, part of a broader phenomenological practice. "

Slowly coming to terms with new equipment, new formats and editing platforms, Sam Renseiw montaged bouts of concentrated interior re-viewing, part of a recent workshop, led by his alter-ego, for choreographers, dancers and scenographers. View the concentrated imagery with visual microblends of femme mariee and gai-savoir French sound-bites by clicking here or, on the links above. (patafilm # 721, 01'59'', 31MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a senere, composed morning scene (Lum # 223, 00'57'',"interior triptych" 14,6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On figures in frames and voodled realities

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" The voodle eye is in itself a wonderful camera....The voodle image (im)printed, handheld as if an eye, and then transmitted to the brain....When it reaches the brain, a length of time is required to bring about its construction, for the brain is something like the photographic plate, and the picture requires developing. In this respect the brain is somewhat sluggish, for when it has formulated the image imprinted upon the eye, it will retain the voodle even after the reality has disappeared from sight "

Concentrating lately on describing moving figures in frames, Sam Renseiw focused on some serendipitous, poetic urban dance moves in Noerrebro, from a happy time when his ingenious Contax camera still worked, and gave such voodling freedom. View the Blind Spot: as a straightforward capture of movements on a busy street, complete with diegetic sound, by clicking here or on the links above. (pataflim # 716, 03'00'', 45 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a more pompous, nostalgic set-up of figures in frame. (Lum # 219," nostalgia lapsus" 00'48'' 7,2Mb, Quicktime/mov)