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)

On the Problems of Narration and Who to Blame

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Who's to blame?

Well, we blame 'em all... the weather and rain, politicians and sparrows, cars and economists, boredom and talent ...but most of all we blame her... and Canada!!!

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A short and partly experimental docu-voodle by moi and bk featuring the search for content and the answer to it all. View what was captured in Oslo, Norway - 2009.10.03 - and try to make sense out of it... yet, lucky are those who do not try... they're the lucky ones... always, and by all means. Just listen to teru's 'hey kid / billy goat stomp' and you'll might get the hint.

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moi and b.k.: video 078 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'14''

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

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

Oneiric Views and Sceneries; A Moving Diptych

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A short experimental dooble-voodle by moi and bk featuring an oneiric view on sceneries - captured just outside Bari, Italy, 2008.06.21 - and other mindsets. View the moving diptych with Gurdonark's fine soundtrack 'Zugzwang', mashed-up with Skoria's 'Vocal Echo' and some additional local noise.

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moi and b.k.: video 072 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 4'40''

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

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

CCMixter And Moving Imagery : Stardust

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A short experimental docu-voodle by moi and bk dedicated to all the beautiful creative creators from the very audible class composed of persons who certainly do not lack noble or knightly or gentle rank and who prepare, form and re-shape the new ground for present and future fruitful pastures subject to common use and - most of all - mutual participation, inspiration, joy and... cultivation!

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View this (naive) moving (of) imagery captured in Oslo, Norway - 2008.06.28 - as moi and bk's expression of gratitude for all the exciting work made, and made available, by the ccmixter's at ccmixter.org - here in a beauteous and outmost sophisticated ambient way made aural present in a brilliant new work by two of LOMEG_ROM's favourite composers, samplers and re-mixters: teru's 'Gurditation' using samples from Gurdonark's 'Gurdonark Drone Sample Pack 1', 'one minute osaka sample' and 'Afterword'.

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moi & b.k.: video 059 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 5'36''

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

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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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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Decisions (NPM re-vision 11/12)

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The act of making up your mind about something – the burden of decision was his - he drew his conclusions quickly … The trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose - a man of unusual decisiveness … A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration - a decision unfavourable to the opposition - his conclusion took the evidence into account - satisfied with the panel's determination … The outcome of a game or contest - the team dropped three decisions in a row … (Boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred - had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision over his opponent".
...conclusion, conclusion, decisiveness, determination, determination, appointment, assignment, call, casting lots, choice, designation, drawing lots, final result, firmness, judgement, judgment, mind, move, naming, option, outcome, pick, predetermination, resoluteness, resolution, resolution, resolve, result, resultant, selection, sortition, split decision, termination.
Cutting off - division - detachment of a part … The act of deciding - act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue - determination, as of a question or doubt - settlement - conclusion – ‘The decision of some dispute.’ -- Atterbury. An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court. The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.

Decision}, {Determination}, {Resolution}. Usage: Each of these words has two meanings, one implying the act of deciding, determining, or resolving; and the other a habit of mind as to doing. It is in the last sense that the words are here compared. Decision is a cutting short. It implies that several courses of action have been presented to the mind, and that the choice is now finally made. It supposes, therefore, a union of promptitude and energy. Determination is the natural consequence of decision. It is the settling of a thing with a fixed purpose to adhere. Resolution is the necessary result in a mind which is characterized by firmness. It is a spirit which scatters (resolves) all doubt, and is ready to face danger or suffering in carrying out one's determinations. Martin Luther was equally distinguished for his prompt decision, his steadfast determination, and his inflexible resolution.

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Another short experimental associative-voodle by moi and bk. This one featuring several positions, opinions and judgments reached after very thorough considerations while standing on a terrasse in Oslo, Norway - 2008.02.17. Work commissioned by Nils Petter Molvær. Soundscape 'decisions' from the album 're-vison' (NIls Petter Molvær 2008).

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moi & b.k.: video 015 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 2'07''

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On Outlooks and Chairs

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This entire post is dedicated to Sam Renseiw and his spacetwo : patalab - the main inspiration of LOMEG_ROM : voodles on CONTIGUITY. With lumieres of windows, moi and bk state clearly that there can not be a distinct inside and outside... at least not as long as there are windows involved... only outlooks do excist... and heavy chairs. 'Wir sind soweit... wir sind soweit' remixed excerpt from Taxi's famous 'Campari Soda'. Cowbells excerpt from 's'Glüüt' by SwissCows (True Tone Vol.I).

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moi & b.k.: video 013 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 1'33''

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See the Cross-Posted Video patafilm # 600 featuring a Comforter Tree and being the cause for today's celebration of spacetwo : patalab. Go and say hello to Sam Renseiw, the founder of voodles.

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Azad's Theme (NPM re-vision 10/12)

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People who are free; "the home of the free and the brave" - unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" - not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" - able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice" - without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" - not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" - not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man" - not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane" - not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands" - costing nothing; "complimentary tickets" - make available, as of assets; or free for sale or publication - let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" - free or remove obstruction from - remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" - part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" - relieve from; "Rid the the house of pests" - grant freedom to; free from confinement - free from obligations or duties - make available or free for sale or publication - grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam".
…absolve, at large(p), at liberty(p), atrip, autonomous, available, aweigh, clear(p), complimentary, costless, detached, discharge, discharged, disembarrass, disengage, disentangled, dislodge, emancipated, escaped, exempt, extricated, footloose, free of(p), free people, freeborn, freed, free-soil, give up, gratis(p), gratuitous, independent, inexact, justify, liberal, liberate, liberated, loose, loose, loose, on the loose(p), out-of-school, quit(p), release, release, release, released, relinquish, resign, rid, rid(p), self-governing, slaveless, sovereign, spare, unblock, unbound, uncommitted, unconfined, unconstrained, unfixed, unfreeze, unhampered, unimprisoned, unloose, unloosen, unoccupied, unpaid, unrestricted.
...bail, bail out, cashier, cleanse, clear, clear, cut, declassify, deregulate, derequisition, derestrict, dig out, disembody, disembroil, disencumber, disentangle, disentangle, disinfest, disinvolve, dispense, divest, eliminate, excuse, exempt, extricate, forgive, forgive, free, give, hand, issue, issue, let off, loosen up, obviate, parole, pass, pass on, people, reach, relieve, relieve, relieve, remove, rid of, run, sacrifice, set free, smooth, smooth out, spare, supply, supply, take, take away, take over, turn over, unchain, unclog, unrestrained, unspell, unstuff, untangle, wash one's hands, withdraw.

Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. “That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free.” --Locke.

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Another short experimental associative-voodle by moi and bk featuring seemless and unconstrained bodies at large in Oslo, Norway - 2008.02.17. Work commissioned by Nils Petter Molvær. Soundscape 'azad's theme' from the album 're-vision' (Nils Petter Molvær 2008).

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moi & b.k.: video 012 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 1'19''

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The Visitor (NPM re-vision 9/12)

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One who visits – one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship – ‘This great flood of visitors.’ – Shakespeare. A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspections to a corporation or an institution – ‘The king is the visitor of all lay corporations.’ – Blackstone. Someone who visits, visitant, caller, company, guest, invitee, traveler, traveller, visiting fireman … To have a visitor in your dream means good news will reach you. It also foretells of new conditions or changes. Seeing a darkly dressed visitor, forewarns of illness or accidents that might befall on you or someone you know.

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A short experimental associative-voodle by moi and bk giving particular attention to a quotidian occurrence and being nevertheless exceedingly habitually attentive to what passes... in Oslo, Norway - 2008.02.17. Work commissioned by the norwegian jazz-musician Nils Petter Molvær. Soundscape 'the visitor' from the album 're-vision' (Nils Petter Molvær 2008).

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moi & b.k.: video 009 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 1'38''

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Visitation (NPM re-vision 4/12)

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An official visit for inspection or supervision – the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations – the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese … Any disaster or catastrophe – a visitation of the plague … An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event – his mother-in-law’s visits were a great trial for him – life is full of tribulations – a visitation of the plague … Trial, tribulation – and/or – affliction, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, fire, tragedy, visit … The act of visiting, or the state of being visited – access for inspection or examination – ‘Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.’ -- Shakespeare. The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop … The object of a visit – ‘O flowers, … my early visitation and my last.’ -- J. Milton. The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search, visitation being used for the purpose of search. Special dispensation – a communication of divine favour and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance - retributive calamity - retribution; judgment – ‘What will we do in the day of visitation?’ -- Isaiah. A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July. The Order of Visitation of Our Lady – a religious community of nuns, founded at Annecy, in Savoy, in 1610, and in 1808 established in the United States – in America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls ...

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Another short experimental associative-voodle by moi & b.k. featuring a powerful visitation occurring every now and then in Oslo, Norway - 2008.02.17. Work commissioned by the norwegian jazz-musician Nils Petter Molvær. Soundscape 'visitation' from the album 're-vision' (Nils Petter Molvær 2008).

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moi & b.k.: video 006 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 02'08''

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Torn (NPM re-vision 1/12)

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Shattered or torn up – to tear him to pieces – to divide by violent measures – torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lighting or explosive – an old blasted apple tree – a tree rent by lighting – cities torn by bombs – earthquake-torn streets … Having edges that are jugged from injury – disrupted by the pull of contemporary forces – torn between love and hate – torn by conflicting loyalties – torn by religious dissensions … Blasted, damaged, divided, injured, lacerate, lacerated, mangled, rent, ripped …

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A short experimental associative-voodle by moi & b.k. capturing despair of abandoned hope and showing an uneasy student work on Cuba in Oslo, Norway - 2008.02.17. Work commissioned by the norwegian jazz-musician Nils Petter Molvær who also provided the soundscape for this video; 'torn' from the album 're-vision' (2008).

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moi & b.k.: video 001 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 02'58''

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Voodlers in Limbo

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A voodler voodling a voodler voodling the voodler most certainly breaks the unwritten voodle rule number one, yet it also does pay tribute to a dear friend and the worlds first voodler Sam Renseiw.

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A short experimental docu-video by moi & b.k. capturing multiple parallel yet non analogous historical events in a space of limbo in the centre of Oslo, Norway - 2008.01.24. Soundscape 'limbo; an opera bouffe?' recorded by lomeg on location, altered.

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moi & b.k.: video 000 for lomeg-rom.blogspot.com - 03'51''

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