① memo 20181213 ~ The Correspondent Born ! ~ Unbreaking News – The Correspondent over 40,000 founding members now reached the $2.5 million target and their paper is being born ! That is amazing.
① memo 20181205 ~ Blackface ~ One of Al Jolson’s blackface acts performed by the dutch variety show artist Heintje Davids as shown in dutch movie theaters in 1930 in the ‘Polygoon’ cinema news. The blackfaced Al Jolson starred in the very first feature length ‘talkie’ (sound film) The Jazz Singer in 1927 – with a synchronized recorded music, singing and speech. In France , right after the liberation, Robert Clary was known as L’Al Jolson français.
Footage thanks to the Open Images (openbeelden.nl). audiovisual archive of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
① memo 20181129 ~ Clipper Wilhelmina Sailing the Wadden Sea ~ Almost 1 hour – slow – documentary film of weekend sailing the dutch Wadden Sea on the clipper Wilhelmina last summer (July 2018) from Harlingen to Vlieland and back to Harlingen.
Starting Friday , staying overnight on the clipper in the port of Harlingen on the Frisean coast of the Netherlands – next , Saturday, crossing the Wadden Sea , sailing to the Wadden Sea island Vlieland , and after spending the night in the harbor of Vlieland, sailing Sunday to Harlingen.
Filmed with an iPhone X using the Sennheiser ClipMic digital lavalier and music with the Sennheiser Ambeo headset for recording binaural 3D sound.
Published before in a series of short films , and now in this full documentary. Music by Sébastiaan on his handpan drum. Doc (① memo 20181129) Michel van der Burg – michelvanderburg.com | 1-memo.com
Advice :) Turn off all lights in the evening when watching Sébastiaan on his handpan drum.
① memo 20181112 ~ BioArt ~ Lecture on bio-art , Nov 2009 (course Studies in Art History – Aesthetics), by Robert Zwijnenberg in the Academy Building of the Leiden University
