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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Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Another Body And Space Morphology

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A short experimental voodle by bk featuring some almost forgotten left-over footage brought back to life not quite as it was captured in Beijing, China - 2008.09.24 at 09:31 hours. View how the simple inversion of 'pieces of life' (ccmixter's cdk) makes 'pieces alife', and thus another body and space morphology.

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b.k.: video 061 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 3'56''

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The Power of: "Observing Body and Space"

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A short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring once more the subjective camera - bk's contribution to the scandinavian videomarathon 2008 on the subject of 'surveillance'. The power of observing body and space morphologies is as obvious as the docu-voodle is spontaneous. Shot in Oslo, Norway - 2008.08.22. Vibrant soundtracks by 'designs for the boneless' and 'etherdust' (featuring spoken words by Colin Mutchler).

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b.k.: video 043 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 4'59''

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Drawing no.1 (Excerpt/Trailer)

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Synopsis:

A short experimental documentary featuring 39’ 28’’ of pure Nordic concentration, revealing the silent magic of a conversation that comprehends a complete immersion from its participants.

An immobile camera frames two young women under a meeting. Unaware that they are filmed, the women are shown in deep concentration while they take notes and listen or respond to other, mostly invisible, participants. As viewers of the video we are not invited to participate in the meeting. Neither are we told about its content and remain 'completely outside' of the happening.

The women are shot from a low angle sitting at a table. Faces turned away from the camera we’re nevertheless able to recognize their features. The utmost attentiveness they signal is fascinating and the subtle body language that unfolds in front of us soon captures us. The drama reaches its first peak when they start to interact with an invisible person who is sitting next to the camera… and the women turn their faces towards us…

‘Drawing #1’ is a digitally enhanced video documentary on the issues of observing body and space morphologies. The role of the spectator is given but arguably not the one of the ‘voyeur’. Rather then the hidden and forbidden view, it presents us - not unlike the films of the Lumière Brothers - with a naive cinematic perspective on the phenomena of everyday life, only in this case it’s about the complete immersion of two Bergman-repertory like ‘protagonists’.

moi & b.k.: video 080 for lomeg-rom.blogspot com - 4'02'' (trailer, 520/390)

the soundtrack for this trailer is an AIR_LOMEG re-mix of Ugly By Now's "You Look Hot" (ccMixter.org)

Still Blind Voodle Hunting Head

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A short experimental (because first we do, then we see) voodle by moi & bk featuring a blind edit of what once was captured in DogA, Oslo, Norway - 2006.11.28. text to be added... lomeglumiere # 058 " content lumiere" (quicktime / flash / mpeg-4) included... not that it really matters... content is not provided... and what you see is what you construct... this is an automatic voodle... text should be added tomorrow... blind cut-up footage... blind like most of the voodles so far... you see what you see when you see it... soundtrack by biosphere recorded on location... needs a comment too... remember to establish links to records of a life-installation... body and space morphologies are unplanned or accidental (blind and coincidental). This voodle used two minutes and 12 seconds in the making and it takes the viewer exactly two minutes and 30 seconds to view it (if you just view it, that is). This voodle uses crapy footage from way before voodle time and like many voodles it has not the slightest clue what it all is about. Text to be deleted or changed soon...

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moi and b.k.: video 063 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 2'30''

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Histoire d'

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A not too short experimental voodle featuring a long-take captured in Chur, Switzerland - 2009.04.11 - as some sort of enumeration and calibration of and on the content in the previous post. Shooting from the hip is how a voodler copes with l'air immobile, and hence histoire d' becomes his sleuhting of all the heavy suspects there are. View yet another body and space morphology full of subject(s), object(s), figures, abstracts ... and character(s) - all at some time contextualized by DrFox' "Throat Singing Kargyraa Long Drone in D".

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"Histoire d'air immobile" is just one of many stories told on perturbative spaces and moving mass...

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b.k.: video 065 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 6'14''

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imm, em and ab

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A short experimental voodle featuring yet another body and space installation - the submersion and immersion and hence emersion and complete absorption of a morphological choreography as it was captured in Vaduz, Lichtenstein - 2009.04.07 - cut up, montaged anew and supplied with the heavy accommodated pure-metal-sonic-media 'bellsong' (by ccmixter's maurixxio).

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b.k.: video 066 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 4'59''

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Fighted Space and Danced Bearings

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A not too short experimental docu-voodle by moi on body and space morphologies - witnessed in Vigelandsparken, Oslo, Norway - 2008.05.25 at exactly 1500 hours (as every Sunday). View the fit, diplomatic, fluent, repand and almost ceraceous bodies - together with a forth and backwards rocking 'pella called 'ginga' - creating assorted parallel spaces in a mesmerizing, never ending monotonous act of friendly but nevertheless martial arts. Capoeira, a bland of play, dance and fighting, has it's origin in Brazil but seems to flourish quite well in northern climate too... Don't miss the final view accompanied by fuzette's 'la lai' (ccmixter.org).

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moi: video 026 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'23''

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Abide, Dwell And Take

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A short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring an uncut yet somewhat heavy camouflaged long take as an archaic view of and on the voodler voodling. The abide ("You can stay with me while you are in town") is the dwell ("stay a bit longer - the day is still young") that captures various body and space morphologies in Paris, France - 2008.03.20. Follow the "desinvolture view" acting, capturing and loosing it all again whilst accompanied by zikwebs very own dramaturgy called 'Xanadu' - the place all voodles come from and end in, or?

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b.k.: video 062 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'13''

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for a slightly more archaic view click on Quicktime / mpeg-4 / flash / direct streaming

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Presages and Promises Made

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A short experimental docu-voodle! by bk about bk gone - in many ways - popular. There's really no excuse for what he did - except maybe that he didn't cut up and then montages a new... but he did prolong the already long take and he must have done other things to it too... yet if you ask bk about it he persists in this being just another morphology of body and space - captured in Venice - 2008.11.08 - and Kazuki Mishima providing the place.

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b.k.: video 051 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'32''

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Too Many Clowns, Not Enough Car and No Picture Taken

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A short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring a hidden humorous study in body and space morphology shot in Hella near Kristinehamn, Sweden - 2008.07.29. View the novelty of a 'lumiere-group-portrait' that takes the temperature on a very particular time lag. While nobody knows that no picture was taken, Gurdonark complains in a utmost merriment and gaiety way about too many clowns and not enough car.

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b.k.: video 034 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 2'00''

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L'air Immobile

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A short experimental voodle-voodle daydreaming on body and space morphologies of the common sort... pondering about why the results of all sportive events never are quite the same although the participants do practice year in / year out, day by day... wondering why some things move and some never do... why it is that air can stand still while heavy wind-casts are causing a headache... Immobile air is nothing to write home about - it's home as it was captured in Khur, Switzerland - 2009.04.09 at 11:59:00 until short after the 12:00:00 train passed by. Before the final is decided - AIR LOMEG want to express their gratitude for the runaway! Spoken words recorded by AIR_LOMEG on location, soundtrack overlay 'L'air immobile' by Anchor Méjans (search for more of this on ccmixter.org).

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b.k.: video 064 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 3'55''

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As a bonus view click on the lumierevideos lomeglumiere # 059 'Sprüngli' (quicktime / flash / mpeg-4), lomeglumiere # 060 'Von Rorschach' (quicktime / flash / mpeg-4), lomeglumiere # 061 'undurchsichtigkeit' (quicktime / flash / mpeg-4) and lomeglumiere # 062 'stillheiten' (quicktime / flash / mpeg-4).

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Lomeglumiere # 057 "red carpet"

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A Lumierevideo by moi witnessing 'lumiere-style' another body and space morphology as the premiere celebration of a very local moving imagery captured in Oslo, Norway 2008.12.19. Principles; fixed camera, handhold, no audio, no zoom, no effects and going on for exactly 60'' (65'' with credits).

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moi: lumierevideo 057 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 65''

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Encounter in the Dawn

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A short experimental docu-voodle by b.k. unveiling to us, once again, the brilliant beauty of nature and the compound complexity of body & space morphology. B.k. was participating in an intricate maneuver in the very heart of Oslo, Norway, and observing an almost esoteric encounter in the dawn - 2008.05.04 at 5:15am. Soundscape 'the birdmarchers march' by lomeg recorded on location, altered.

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b.k.: video 003 for lomeg-rom.blogsport.com - 03'12''

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Lomeglumiere # 056 "doing the bill"

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A Lumierevideo by moi featuring another ancient and monetizationized (there's the proof) not so very sustainable rite (or body because of space morphology) as captured in Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. - 2008.10.09. Principles; fixed camera, handhold, no audio, no zoom, no effects and going on for exactly 60'' (65'' with credits).

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moi: lumierevideo 056 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 65''

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