Sunday, December 14, 2008

On Video Sketching* and Body Takes

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* To draw;
Make a drawing; make, formulate or give a description of an (your) absorption; take in, also metaphorically, the representation of an (your) absorption/attraction
* To doodle;
Make a doodle; draw aimlessly
* To paint;
Make a painting of; paint (colour) an absorption/attraction; apply paint to
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Your intuition alert and with ‘Vertov’s subjective camera’ in mind; investigate in the properties/nature of body as the nude. Use the video camera as sketching tool and try to capture the properties of ‘body’ by drawing it, doodling it or painting it.
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Your awareness is focused on:
The body/nude only – the body/nude as a still (n; akt). The body/nude as an object/matter of mass, volume, surface, form, shape, etc. The body/nude as the undraped human figure in art. The body/nude as the starting point - and an expression (of yours). The body/nude as being a resistance, receiver, absorber, etc.
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You will not focus on:
The model as a person – the personality of the model. How the body is taking up space, how it is placed within the space and how it is grounded (standing, sitting etc). Sound/audible information.
A&F; MoBaS #2 – Fall 2008/AHO
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A short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring two simultaneously shot videos of a new doing* captured in Oslo, Norway - 2008.09.02. The second ever produced dooble-voodle shows in two frames two artistic and very different views on the body as the undraped human figure in art and hence proofes again that no views ever can be the same. See the classical lumiere to the right and the novelty of a video-sketch to the left - both for the sake of the dooble-voodle enhanced by digital means and very audible talents (soundtrack 'the dancers' by ccmixters onlymeith).
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b.k.: video 054 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 3'26''
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Lomeglumiere # 047 "the nude"

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A Lumierevideo by bk featuring (as in the above posted dooble-voodle captured too in Oslo, Norway - 2008.09.02) the nude as the human figure in art - yet this time without any artistry but as undraped as explained by the lumiere-principles; fixed camera, tripod, no audio, no zoom, no effects and going on for exactly 24'' (29'' with credits).
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b.k.: lumierevideo 047 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 29''
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

On Spectators and Grainy Views

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"Who will close my eyes for me?
When my last exhalation slips out unseen
No BPM left inside the machine
The piercing wink-out of a CRT screen-
Who will close my eyes for me?
Dust gathers on glass
Reflecting personal effects
Fingerprints and water remain
Bedside of what used to be
Who will close my eyes for me?
“Rest” is a verb; impossible now
“In peace” is subjective
-How can meat get upset?
Terrible solemn tenderness
As bald as lust,
As stark as an empty stomach,
Older than speech-
The frozen silence swells to fill the heart
Of the unknown one
Who will close my eyes for me."
Close My Eyes - duckett
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A short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring "a" spectator's interlaced and grainy view on the unfamiliar/familiar... or the mere reflection on his own personal effects? Welcome, associative viewers, associate with the spectator and the incident captured in Oslo, Norway - 2008.08.17. - and make up your own mind... but know that; you're guilty anyway! To 'close my eyes' is not an option - it never has been - but it sure is effective for the view presented (colab frozen silence remix featuring duckett)!
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b.k.: video 053 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com 5'44''
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This voodle is screened with the kind permission of The Viewed. To learn more about her doings and whereabouts; still pictures courtesy of Lisa Lindøe.
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Lomeglumiere # 046 "beijing sentience"

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A Lumierevideo by bk featuring yet another sentience of a kind; the Beijing interior concentration as the struggle of and in time - a vibrant, powerful, organic yet bewildered two-ways-mirror (or generator) longing for repose and thus consciousness - or not... Captured in Beijing, China - 2008.09.18 - and there is more to come. Principles; fixed camera, tripod, no audio, no zoom, no effects and going on for exactly 60'' (65'' with credits).
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b.k.: lumierevideo 046 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com 65''
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

On Outlooks and Views At Work

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"If it was not for the sky
you would not want to touch it,
if it was not for windows
you would not have any outlook,
if it was not for the promise
you would not have expectations,
if it was not for the bird
you would not have to say goodbye

... and if you did never move – you did neither have to stay nor go."
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A short experimental docu-voodle by moi featuring her view at work and a northern sky in fire - all captured in Oslo, Norway 2008.11.26. Gurdonark's 'I'll Touch the Sky' (excerpt) is a promise not kept and thus vital for the ambience... essential even, probably.
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moi: video 052 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 2'24''
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Lomeglumiere # 045 "interior domain - empire 60/65"

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A Lumierevideo by bk featuring quite another interior domain; the empire compressed into 60''/65'' as the background for own reflections, lumieres, views and projections of and in time captured in Oslo, Norway - 2008.11.23. Principles; fixed camera, handhold, no audio, no zoom, no effects and going on for exactly 60'' (65'' with credits).
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b.k.: lumierevideo 045 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 65''
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Lomeglumiere # 044 "venice indoors"

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A Lumierevideo by bk featuring a new worked space at work; another kind of Venetian window of and in time as the romantic dream of the clean, seamless and unconscious new captured in Venice, Italy - 2008.11.08. Principles; fixed camera, tripod, no audio, no zoom, no effects and going on for exactly 60'' (65'' with credits).
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b.k.: lumierevideo 044 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 65''
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