On No More Gloomy Nights

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"Sometimes we do not hear what we see... other times we do not see what we hear... and there are times where we neither can hear nor see at all... Yet, as it is fortunately given to the many of us; most of the time we actually see and hear - but what we see and hear are pure purviews; representing (only) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; purviews being that what makes us see and hear...

Sam says that 'a voodle must be both abstract and figurative. Abstract as a wall, figurative as a representation of space.', and bk says that this is oh so true since the voodle either is about the inconspicuous or a simple case of serendipity.

While the inconspicuous also has to bee seen first, it might as well be a representation of purview. Yet the focus on the inconspicuous can also be regarded as the abstraction of the figurative since it by definition is fighting purview. Serendipity on the other hand is no method since it occurs only in the realm of the waiting (a particular way to see and view) and thus can not necessarily influence the chain of action (possible purviews) that might or might not occur.

The voodle, or voodling, must be the greatest tool for any visual and creative craftswoman to experiment with and sophisticate her way of hearing, seeing and viewing... she learning to open up herself... giving new views back to the many of us... new views for new purviews...!

That's the paradox of the voodle; the inconspicuous, serendipity and purviews all happily mingled and producing each other... producing views and insights, documenting the unseen and creating new ideas or just cases of contiguity. The paradox of the inconspicuous, serendipity and purview coexisting... the voodle.

So far that's what bk thinks about the voodle and the voodling while he walks home one early morning... tired and with blisters on his feet... viewing only what is there to be seen... of course... hearing only what is there to be heard... of course... and forgetting it all soon after... of course..."

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A not too short experimental docu-road-voodle by bk featuring an unedited long take shot in Oslo, Norway - 2008.06.09 at 02:19 am. Two days ago did moi introduce ccmixter's artemisstrong to bk and thats how voodles happen; the oh-ah song made almost forgotten footage come alive again. See the norwegian midsummernight, some vertical lines, a not so gloomy horizon and a church wrapped ...all enthusiastically framed by ...oh-ah's.

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b.k.: video 023 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 7'53''

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JP08 Urban Scapes; The Beginning and The End

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Long you both laid in the sun's yellow stare...

On the edge with eyes rolled back, the waves were calling him.

As he teetered on the edge, the waves were calling him.

He had seen it, felt its might, bent under...

(Washing away, he thinks of you. Everything slows, light's flashing through.

The water flies over his head. You are me now as you lay on my bed.)

This is what he'd always known:

The promise of something greater beyond the water's final horizon. ISIS

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"No views can be the same - even though they decide on the exact time, purview and frame - they all will be different ...and together they create new views, new purviews and even trouble us on the reading of time...

Duration is freed in two simoultaneously shot views - that is the rule of the dooble-voodle ...and it's potential has yet to be discovered - the beginning and the end is just the start!"

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A not too short experimental docu-voodle featuring two simultaneously shot videos; the worlds first screening of a dooble-voodle is showing in two frames two views taken out of a window of a hiper-speed train traveling through Tokyo - 2008.03.08.

Be aware that the dooble-voodle starts with just one single frame and no sound... 'The Beginning and The End' starts after approximately three minutes runtime and ends at the end right before the voodle ends... Tokyo on the other hand never ends and ends and ends...

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Moi & b.k. are thrilled and extremely proud to introduce ISIS with their song 'The Beginning and The END' (from the 2002 album 'Oceanic') on LOMEG_ROM : voodles on CONTIGUITY. Thanks to the band for the permission to adapt their unbelievable persistent and insistant music for this world-premier of a dooble-voodle-video-work! Visit ISIS on their official site! and turn up the volume...

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moi & b.k.: video 025 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 11'48''

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for pc-users it is recommended to view the video either on safari or to stream it by clicking here or on the blip.tv-link.

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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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Time Lag

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"Sometimes a man rises from the supper table
and goes outside. And keeps on going
because somewhere to the east there’s a church.
His children bless his name as if he were dead.

Another man stays at home until he dies,
stays with plates and glasses.
So then it is his children who go out
into the world, seeking the church that he forgot."

Rilke’s Book of Hours – The Book of Pilgrimage

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A not too short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring an incredible beauteous moment of time lag captured in peaceful summer Oslo, Norway - 2008.07.23 at 19:05 hours. View three zoomed in glances at a fine young Norwegian woman (and thus time) standing still but not. It's neither Garbo nor 'filmkunst' but a docu-voodle with a very pleasant soundtrack by zikweb.

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The space Rainer Maria Rilke talks about is neither the space of the wanderer nor is it the space of hereditary but it is the potential of time lag - an interstitial space or state constantly between the lines, full of longings and regrets, but for those who know it it's the space that moves mass.

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b.k.: video 032 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'51''

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This voodle is screened with the kind permission of the woman waiting. The format of the frame is by (cineaste) means changed into wide-screen. For those who want to view Time Lag in it's original format please download the Quicktime-file and change the visual settings of the video-track into the size of 520x390 (640x480).

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Try on Nordic Light

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A short voodle-voodle by bk trying to capture the nordic light present (or not...) at the constitution of an inter-nordic and truly candescent, buoyant, ignite and airy body of light in Copenhagen, Denmark - 2008.06.02. Moi, btw, thinks that b.k.'s voodles are getting increasingly voodle-alike; full of imperefection and naive decision-makings... beautiful, she says. B.k. on the other hand wouldn't know of such things... Listen to the fine accordeons produced by puie (ccmixter.org).

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b.k.: video 017 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 4'09''

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On The Third Season

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"Four days ago, Oslo started its day by looking at itself covered in fresh snow. It was the first snow at this end of the year. That day it kept snowing until noon. By early afternoon the snow was about to disappear and the colours of autumn did slightly emerge again. They pressed through the vanishing white on the ground. They sparkled against the heavy sky - and indeed the veil of grey that Oslo knows so well, vanished too.

In other parts of the world a place had started its day by looking at itself after a hurricane of some sort just passed by. Noon with its bright daylight is far ahead and the veil of grey sits within the place - is stuck to the place - and there seems to be no melting white. Nothing is vanishing – nothing there to introduce a change.

A voodler captures moments – that’s what she can do. Yet sometimes she forgets to voodle but stands still and numb… because not all the moments can be captured… there are not enough cameras to voodle with and morning, noon and evening happen so fast… some moments remain unspoken and un-voodled.

A voodler captures moments – and she does that every time at least twice." b.k.

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A short experimental docu-voodle by moi featuring reflections and refractions of the third season captured at Slottsparken in Oslo, Norway - 2008.10.19. View the sparkling retirement of nature while listening to nhomas' 'October Air'.

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moi: video 049 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 3'41''

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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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Talking Hands and Confabulations

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A short experimental docu-voodle by moi featuring a schmooze of some sort and hence her confabulation on an incident that already seems long gone. The tattle of and on manus was captured in Oslo, Norway - 2008.09.13 - just the day after the world's first private screening of voodles and lumieres in a not so crowded public space near Kuba. Moi insists on that what we view are not only the (prehensile) extremities of the superior limbs of two voodlers and hence the representation of the female gaze, but it's the confirmation on and the commitment towards voodling and free subjective frozen frames. Talking hands are mashed-up with the help of Gurdonark and Colin Mutchler - both vital and vibrant members of ccmixter.org.

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After a break of almost two months - gathering voodle-footage from the far east and the now old east-vest - LOMEG_ROM waves a friendly and grateful hand at The Lumiere Founders and at the godfather of LOMEG_ROM, The Co-Coiner of the voodle-term and The First Voodler of them all; Sam Renseiw at spacetwo : patalab. Thank you all for an inspiring weekend in Oslo!!

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moi: video 047 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 2'49''

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Come Down; A Road-Voodle About Cloudburst

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A not so short docu-voodle featuring a long-take shot just right before and (literally) under a cloudburst captured in Oslo, Norway - 2009.07.03 between 7:28:22pm and 7:39:28pm. View the road-movie about the pelting inferno of the northern sky accompanied by the wonderful ambient environment 'eSSEN10' by ccmixter's Zikweb. If you'd prefer to view the sky as a place of complete bliss, delight and peace, please have a look at the previous posted lumiere shot after it all came down.

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moi and b.k.: video 074 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 11'03''

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On The Abreact Compartmentalised Lull

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A short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring the compartmentalised lull from the previous posts captured in Oslo, Norway - 2009.03.12 at around 1545 hours. View the agitation of the common cycle as bk's abreact (because this is his favourite voodle so far and spring has just announced its (short-)coming) that not only fights the still but is also propelling cinema into new dimensions! Who needs MTV when there are such 'Mental Images' (soundtrack overlay by Kirkoid c/o ccmixter.org).

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b.k.: video 060 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'49''

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Appreciate the Moment

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A short and airy experimental test-voodle by moi. Enjoy the luminous flux-like incident on a unit area known by the name akari light sculpture memorialized in Oslo, Norway (2008.01.10.), by moi's ever first attempt to enlighten her latest voodle-machine. Recognize with gratitude the accompanying billowing from Neurowaxx at ccmixter.

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moi: video 007 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 01'27''

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The Golem Diptych Video Painting

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A short experimental diptych-voodle (aka dooble-voodle) featuring 27473 by two animated frozen frames. The Golem Diptych is a Video Painting once captured as two simultaneously shot long takes in Venice, Italy - 2009.11.06. Every single by two frame is now painted. The true beauty of a Video Painting Diptych resides constantly in its single by two frames. Thus this beauty recedes by the cinematic animation/automation of the video - like a Golem and animated, the moving imagery can never leave the singularity of the frames by two and hence recites the painting and beauty all over again - in each singular painted frame by two. The Golem Diptych is inspired by / and uses the work of Anchor Méjans (The Golem Variations - sawed-off cello sample), Speck (the golem calm heat variations cooling test) and rocavaco (From square till round) - all available and very much audible at ccMixter.org.

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b.k.: video 082 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 15'17''

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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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The Power of: "Subjective Camera II"

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A short and this time (everything went just smooth) truly (sc)a[i]ry experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring an almost continuous shot at a gloomy scene of crime with a prolonged yet blured view of the main-suspect. The voodle, based on a true story, took place in Oslo, Norway - 2008.08.10 (afternoon). View another masterpiece heavy supported by Neurowaxx' drum breaks.

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b.k.: video 038 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 2'40''

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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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Miniature in Beijing; A Road-Voodle

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A short road-voodle by bk featuring some sort of further cultivation of the temple of heaven; a miniature captured in Beijing, China - 2009.04.27. Soundtrack recorded by AIR_LOMEG on location.

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b.k.: video 068 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 1'30''

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Memorialized Portraits

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"Let us, since life can little more supply Then just look about us and to dy, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man." A. Pope - An essay on Man

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An unexpected incident brought an unexpected trip and a strong confrontation with the very ground and soil of origin. A not too short docu-voodle by bk capturing nothing new but representing a rough-edit of pre-voodle-footage (Oslo, 2006.07.03.) featuring the beautiful Marta Ferreira Alemao Mella doing her essay on man - a free interpretation of some of Egon Schiele's portraits.

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b.k.: video 021 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 8'40''

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The Power of: "Zoom Freeze"

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A short and (sc)a(i)ry experimental test-voodle by bk representing his ever first attempts with his latest voodle-machine - shot in Oslo, Norway - 2008.01.08. 'The Power of Zoom-Freeze' can be enjoyed either with a mid-winter soundscape by aegri somnia (darkwinter.com) or you turn of the sound and become scared all by yourself.

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b.k.: video 018 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 2'24''

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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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Remember Repose

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A short docu-voodle by bk remembering a recent repose in Risør, Norway - 2008.07.15. Although bk and moi somehow asked for the view, they could not have predicted this incident of smooth reverberating and beauteous development. See this uncut/unedited case of serendipity unfold while fireproof_babies (ccmixter.org) play the very pleasant 'memories of an old dog'.

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b.k.: video 041 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 3'16''

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