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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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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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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