On discontinuous space and time flow

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“Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if only short glimpses appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form - it may be called fleeting or eternal - is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.”

Reflecting on remembrance of things past in fleeting voodles, Sam Renseiw montaged a short moment of recent chamberwork(s). Enjoy a moment of compressed time, with ancient hypology inserts, by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 610, 02'40'', 15.2Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a festive moment at a Copenhagen lectern. (Lum # 127," city-hall lectern", 01'00'',5.1MB, Quicktime//mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features another hypology study. (patafim #185, 00'48'',[31.05.2006 post] 3.6 MB, mov/quicktime)

On fathoming other channels of gaze

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"It has always happened that certain things - a lane, a bench, a comforter tree, -present themselves to Sam Renseiw as if asking him for minute and prolonged attention: he starts observing them almost unawares, and his gaze begins to run over all the details and is then unable to detach itself. Renseiw has decided that from now on he will redouble his attention. . . .He tries staring at everything that comes within eyeshot; he feels no pleasure, and he stops. A second phase follows, in which he is convinced that only some things are to be looked at, others not, and he must go and seek the right ones. To do this, he has to face each time problems of selection . . . he soon realises he is spoiling everything, as always when he involves his own ego. . . . But how can you look at something and set your own ego aside? Whose eyes are doing the looking? As a rule, you think of the ego as one who is peering out of your own eyes as if leaning on a window sill, looking at the world. . . . So, then: a window looks out on the world. The world is out there; and in here, what do we have? The world still - what else could there be? With a little effort of concentration, Sam Renseiw manages to shift the world from in front of him and set it on the sill, looking out. Now, beyond the window, what do we have? The world is also there, and for the occasion has been split into a looking world and a world looked at. And what about him, also known as ''I,'' namely Sam Renseiw? Is he not a piece of the world that is looking at another piece of the world? "

Today's post marks the appearance of the 600th voodle posted here on Patalab, with a paraphrased quote from Mr. Palomar. Another of Sam Renseiw's humble, low-grained and crude attempts to frame a morsel of reality, an inconspicuous capture of a fleeting moment of quotidian. The enjoyable research work will continue, further questioning the potential nature(s) of vision through a conscious application of the gaze. While the on-going, comforting low-tech procedures will be maintained for a while, expect some sharper digital experiments in the next months. In the mean time, click here to view the soothing, stabilised voodle. (patafilm # 600, 02'06'', 11.2Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)
Thank you to all faithful viewers until date , contributing with insightful comments on the site and for their own, inspiring works.

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a collective, moving view of an attractive photo-opportunity passing by, fixed behind the recording gaze. (Lum # 116, "the tourist barge" 00'48'', 3.8Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Cross-Post Video features a fine voodle from a newly started, affiliated Norwegian voodle vlog. A very hearty welcome to Lomeg-rom from Oslo!

On image as pure creation of the mind

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" The image is a pure creation of the mind, it cannot be born from a comparison, but comes from the bringing together of two distant realities... An image is not powerful because it is brutal and fantastic, but because the association of ideas is distant and true."

Contemplating the statement that the public demands that a video work transport it elsewhere, whereas voodling claims to fix the viewer's mind on the work as with a pin, Sam Renseiw montaged a brief juxtaposition of images . View the cut-up, syncopated brew by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 575, 02'35'', 13.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a short, shadowy indoor ball game. (Lum # 92 "indoor ball game", 00'57'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov. Other's Lumieres at the project's luminous main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a genuine view from Le Corbusier's Mother's Petite Maison's bath-tub to Lake Geneva. (patafilm # 71 backdated 00'44'',[10.01.2006 post],3.8MB, Quicktime/mov). Click on the bold links to view or for more info.

On voodles, brains and drawing(s)

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"You have two brains: a left and a right. Modern brain scientists now know that your left brain is your verbal and rational brain; it thinks serially and reduces its thoughts to numbers, letters and words... Your right brain is your nonverbal and intuitive brain; it thinks in patterns, or pictures, composed of ‘whole things,’ and does not comprehend reductions, either numbers, letters, or words."

Toggling adamantly between two brains, Sam Renseiw recorded some of the struggle with stand-ins, drawing in perfect weather conditions, today. View the pure, right brain manufactured voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 543, 02'57'', 17.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus left-over-video (wasting your time) was meticulously handcrafted by Sam, using both brains, while having a short, minor summer fit of vlog-disillusion. That was before videos could easily be snstncntnrs'erd, via a novel vlog-software that Nanoramas was so kind to share recently. (patafilm # 493/left-over, 00'49'', 5MB, quicktime/mov)

On the assessment of fruity and flowery

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"My working process I like to call voodle-cinécriture: I take my time to dream and to reflect. I do not follow theories but rather trust perceptions and feelings... I always want to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things but to give people the desire to see."

Paraphrasing Agnes Varda, Sam Renseiw further pursues to montage short reality bouts into blurred, dreamy voodles, hoping - likewise - to convey a certain desire to see anew. Check in to see if it somehow turns Mulholland drivey or just remains plain, colourful flowery & fruity by clicking here on the links above. (patafilm # 537, 01'33'', 9.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and other streaming version for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a meta-projection, a passionate illumination in the dark. (Lum # 58 " farrington's passion dryer " 01'00, 6MB, Quicktime/mov) As always: For other's fine lumieres click here, and bold enhanced lettering in the text are informative, contextual links.