Assorted Urban Footage Gone Adjacency

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A not too short experimental docu-voodle by bk capturing the male gaze at work again. See some spectacular speculative footage and 'other' exciting features caught in late night Oslo, Norway - 2008.08.09. View what you have learned! It's a true story of known associations... a sane case of contiguity. Anyway, bk says he's innocent and causes all to artemisstrong only... almost...

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b.k.: video 039 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 7'50''

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On H.P. Lovecraft and Uncut Scenes from Real Life

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“When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring's flowering meads; when learning stripped the Earth of her mantle of beauty and poets sang no more of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into spaces whither the world's dreams had fled.”

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Certainly a not too short experimental lunch-break-docu-voodle by bk featuring a playful and fast-edit of early test-footage re-discovered and now screened as a friendly gesture to a very dear friend - all shot in Oslo, Norway - 2008.01.29 and edited 2008.08.05. It's not Bergman reinvented but a reflection on possible alternatives - yet most of all it's an expression of gratitude for a very inspiring work and many utmost stimulating deep perceptions! View what you probably already have seen - now altered in the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft made very much audible by ccmixter's artemisstrong.

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"During yesterday's short lunch break b.k. chewed over a recent comment by Gurdonark and the disturbing fact that Bergamn had to die the exact same day as Antonioni...!"

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b.k.: video 036 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 8'58''

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Dwell, Longings and Liquids

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"As soon as you acknowledge the possibility of a certain type of being or a certain type of environment, you create that environment, because you tend to select and nourish those facets of that environment … With human beings, what patterns our world is our perception of it. I had a very clear instance of this. I’d always had a problem with New York because it’s such a menagerie of craziness. My answer to that has been a tendency to retreat into high places – most of my apartments were at the top of buildings …"

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A not too short experimental docu-voodle by bk featuring a dwell about, and longing for, the cool refreshment he talks about in 'star diving and space travels'. Back in the city of Oslo and suddenly surrounded by 'tropical heat', bk recalls a quote by the famous video-painter Brian Eno and thus voodles about his desire for a certain environment... View the dwell on a slow-moving liquified pixelation of a cool but nevertheless completely dispensable habitual method of procedure - all accompanied by artemisstrong ambient soundscape 'tiger by the tail'.

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b.k.: video 031 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 9'05''

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The Transfixed Video Painted Horizon

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"the worst that can happen is nothing ever happening

but usually, under normal conditions, this rarely happens

yet, if it would happen - would it really be such a happening?"

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A short experimental lumiere-voodle by bk featuring it almost all together! bk uses some lumiere-footage of a distinct purview taken in Oslo, Norway - 2008.06.21, and voodles around apparent horizon, perturbative spaces, moving mass, the horizontal rule, figures on the ground/horizon/background/uncertain ground... you name it... and simply paints a video painting of and on contiguity... yet, at the end, he views his work and regrets all that happens. See almost nothing or far too much accompanied again by ccmixter's artemisstrong.

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b.k.: video 024 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'20''

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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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Preserved Rituals

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"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

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"Wind, flag, mind moves.

The same understanding.

When the mouth opens

All are wrong."

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A short experimental docu-voodle by moi capturing particular moments of reiterative but not redundant duration happening on the way in and out of one of Japans most known places of possible providers for direct intuitiv insights. Savings and rituals are well preserved in the land of the rising sun, yet, contrary to western civilisation, kept alive, build on and by no means conserved. See about four minutes of a total of 2 hours of footage (on the same issue) taken by moi and bk at the Ryoan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan - 2008.03.11, and enjoy the zen-like sound-coulisse 'catch and release' (excerpt) by ccmixter artemisstrong.

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moi: video 022 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 4'26''

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