Voodle Theory Videos

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC " The close up is the soul of the voodle. It can be brief because the value of the photogenic is measured in seconds.[...] It imposes a decoupage a thousand times more detailed that of most videos. Even more beautiful than a laugh is a face preparing for it. The mouth which is a bout to speak and holds back, the gesture which hesitates between right and left, the recoil before the leap,and the moment before landing, the becoming, the hesitation, the taut spring, the prelude, and even more than all these, the piano being tuned before the overture. The photogenic is conjugated in the future and in the imperative. It does not allow for stasis. [...] I have never understood motionless close-ups. They sacrifice their essence, which is movement..." Concluding the very last episode on The Oracle's Boat amazing performance, Sam Renseiw paraphrases Epstein once again, wondering what sort of work the docu-soap actually is, and how the work could , eventually, be labelled, categorised or interpreted. View this last, short episode, in which Sam, curious as always, does indeed trespass boundaries, while close-up voodling climbing a staircase: Click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 715 [The Oracle's Boat/Level: 08/0.8], 01'56'', 28.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

click for video. Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC "The fact that voodles have not been overrun by interpreters is in part due simply to the newness of voodling as an art. It also owes to the happy accident that voodles for such a long time (!) were just videos; in other words, that they were understood to be part of mass, as opposed to high, culture, and were left alone by most people with minds. Then, too, there is always something other than content in the voodle to grab hold of, for those who want to analyze. For voodling, unlike the novel, possesses a vocabulary of forms - the explicit, complex, and discussable technology of camera movements, cutting, and composition of the frame that goes into the making of a voodle. " Further pursuing the fine art of banality decoupage(s), Sam Renseiw carefullly pasted together a lower, alpine almalgam. View the composition by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 706, 01'44'', 16.5Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another angle at maritine crossing. (Lum # 217, "ludwig ,again, crossing ", 00'53'', 8MB, Quicktime/mov)

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC "A really scientific analysis must be real, simplifying, and explanatory". Voodle analysis reveals features that are real, in the sense that users of the visual language can recognise and respond to them. At the same time, a voodle is an abstraction from visual language – not a picture, but a category of pictures defined by the way it is distinguished from other categories through rules unique to the visual language. The entire visual-structure of a language can be generated from a relatively small number of rules." Just montaging bits of recent holiday footage, Sam Renseiw concocted an seemingly anthropological docu-voodle, complete with insisting carillon soundtrack. View the collage of quotidian elements, revealing both the picturesque and somehow disturbingly quiet rural settings by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 705, 03'15'', 30.6Mb, Quickltime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the passage of a motor paddle vessel, in [almost] HD. (lum # 216, ludwig, passing " 01'00'', 8.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC "The voodler is an mildly armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitring, softly stalking, cruising the urban complexities, a voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur voodler finds the world "picturesque"... One of the many aims of voodling could be to show how spaces are what they are, even that they are what they are, in a descriptive, subjective & conscious form, rather than to show what it all means, or could mean..." Changing location (again) for a moment, Sam Renseiw cruised new urban landscapes, inhaling: alpine brine, trickling down massively heaped blackthorn walls, while reminiscing odd situations...View the slow, promenade architecturale with ordered downpour and bovine mastication, by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 703, 03'02'', 25.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features (again) the popular summer theme of flora and fauna, this time as a fresh, genuine & live, outdoor impression. (Lum # 214," flora & fauna 2 ",01'00'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC "In analogue film, light leaves traces on the sensitive emulsion, imprinting on it permanent shadows. The manipulation of two realities - the superimposition of two stills, both traces of material realities - produces something that is already outside the logic of "realism". Rather than represent reality, it produces a new reality... " Vaguely remembering the insinuation that the only semiotic system capable of interpreting another semiotic system is to be language, Sam Renseiw realised while editing more finish(ing) footage, that voodling makes interior architecture something other, transforms it into a new item. And that new item is, in itself and apart from the fact to which it is referring, an event, that could also be called a "fact". View the new interior artefact by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 698, 03'28'', 22MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video takes a deep focused view on framing moving objects & persons on an island. (lum # 209, "silja, passing", 01'00'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov)

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC " To live is to leave traces. In the interior these are emphasised. An abundance of covers and protectors, liners and cases are devised, on which the traces of objects of everyday use are imprinted. The traces of the occupant also leave their impressions on the interior....I can thus feel myself under the gaze of someone whose eyes I do not see, not even discern. From the moment this gaze exists, I am already something other, in that I feel myself becoming an object for the gaze of others. But in this position, which is a reciprocal one, others also know that I am an object who knows himself to be seen. " Architecture is not simply a platform that accommodates the viewing subject. It is also a viewing mechanism that might produce the subject. It precedes and frames its occupants, and certainly exerts a moving theatricality in the expansive patamatics of the voodling gaze. View the cornered moves in a famed Nordic interior by clicking here or immerse first in Brut Smog's fine analytic dissection of voodling. (patafilm # 697b, 06'35'', 55.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of a walkway into a lake, recorded from a quite famous hut. (Lum # 208 " alvar's pond " 00'49'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov)

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC " Before going on to the particular problems of the nature of Voodles, it is important to define understandings of the ultimate aim of Voodling as such. Why does it exit? Who needs it ? Indeed does anybody need it? [...] Voodles, unlike Hollywood films, or TV soaps, have no practical goals in any material sense. Voodle is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and assimilate the experience of others. Yet, this sort of self-expression is meaningless unless it meets with a response. For the sake of creating a spiritual bond with others it can only be an agonising process, one that involves no practical gain: ultimately it is an act of sacrifice. But surely it cannot be worth the effort merely for the sake of hearing one's own echo ? " Creating Voodles can be a drone-like state of mind, and, indeed, sacrificial in a prosaic world, muses Sam Renseiw while manufacturing more continuous visuals in sustained tonality. View the recent moving mash-up by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 690, 04'22'', 37.4MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC " I have insisted, specialy in Les Vases communiquants, on the fact that Voodling alone is, in many cases, capable of exhausting the content of reality, and that this analysis, if it is thorough enough, leaves none of the residue that might permit us to attribute a transcendental character to oneiric activity.[...] Similarly, Voodling could sometimes exhaust the content of real events, to the point of making them depend entirely on the least conscious prior activity of the mind..." While closely paraphrasing, Sam Renseiw muses about the otherwise Derive-like characteristics of his Voodles work, drifting away from formal academic rationality... It might just be sudden parallels petrifying coincidenses or harmonies as if struck on a piano, that make one see the unverifiable intrinsic value(s)....View the diptych collage with appendixes and Galveston tunes by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 687, 04'04'', 38.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple room with a view in which time might be running out. ( Lum # 200," pendulum" 01'00'' &MB, Quicktime/mov .

click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC "The laws of Voodling are subject to the more general laws of habit. Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. Breathing is habit. Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits, since the individual is a succession of individuals; the world being a projection of the individual’s consciousness, the pact must be continually renewed, the letter of safe-conduct brought up to date. The Voodling of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day." Habits can appear to be quite extravagant while at the same time remaining just what they are: almost quotidian pathways to be trotted. Nevertheless, Sam Renseiw consciously realises the magnificence of the view(s) every time anew, with awe and humility. Sometimes an urban bicycle trip unfolds like a fairy tale. And worth to remember, as stable conditions of departure and return suddenly might mutate to more bleak settings. View the condensed randonee pedale by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 684, 06'27'', 53.7MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more fixed deep focus on figure/ground relationships. (Lum # 199, "deep focus It helps to maintain my obsessive compulsive habit of recording the quotidian, however futile this endeavour might seem to some)

Short experimental docu-voodle featuring walking footage from one continuous long shot recorded at Aker Brygge, Oslo, 20.06.2009. Docu-voodle with Bazinian udertones. Non-deiegetic soundtrack underlay from Philip Sanderson / Snatch Tapes. [Sam Renseiw: video 683 for patalab02.blogspot.com]