① memo 20181008 ~ Hotel New York ~ Diner at sunset last weekend in Hotel New York , set in the historic Holland Amerika Lijn building on the south bank of the Maas river in Rotterdam , Holland
① memo 20181007 ~ Captions for Cas ~ Help caption images in Cas Oorthuys photo archive. Last friday I visited the retrospective ‘This is Cas | Vintage Photography by Cas Oorthuys’ in the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam , Holland , and came across this great project :
The museum invites visitors of the exhibition to help with information on the many photographs , offering large iPads at a round table with Cas’ work. I searched for Normandie , and filmed browsing the results.
Online , I just checked , the project invites everyone to help . Below some info from the museum site and the link for visiting yourself.
“The Nederlands Fotomuseum is appealing to the general public for help in identifying the contents of photographs taken by Cas Oorthuys, among the most influential of all 20th-century Dutch photographers. Anyone is able to study the photos in the Oorthuys archive online and provide information on the contents…
Captions for Cas
All sheets are available online and work can begin on captioning them. In an extraordinary exercise in public participation, the museum invites the general public to help write Captions for Cas. Using the existing Vele Handen platform, it is open to everyone to contribute information on any of the images in the contact sheets. The museum is looking not just for photography lovers, but for a wide variety of experts and people with relevant personal knowledge. Oorthuys travelled widely and photographed a huge range of things. Input will be needed, for example, from experts on traditional costumes, the shipping industry and agriculture in the Netherlands, but also from people familiar with the various other regions and countries that Oorthuys visited. In addition to many countries within Europe, these included Canada, Congo, Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco, Syria and the United States.”
Note , though , the platform and project instructions , and photographer’s notes , all is in dutch .
① memo 20181006 ~ Flood Aware ~ Repairing and strengthening the dikes started this week here around Alphen , some 20 feet (6 meter) below sea level , in the Rhine-Meuse river delta of Holland
① memo 20181005 ~ Watertaxi Rotterdam ~ From the old harbor ‘Leuvehaven’ crossing the Maas river to Hotel New York in the Holland America Line building , Rotterdam , Holland
① memo 20181001 ~ Hang ~ Sébastiaan plays his handpan drum on deck of the clipper Wilhelmina last summer , July , in the harbor of the dutch Wadden Sea island Vlieland. (Part of this was published before.).
Filmed with an iPhone X – using the Sennheiser Ambeo headset for recording binaural 3D sound. Best listen with your headphones.
Update Oct 1 22:34 – Just learned from Sébastiaan about a new album “Hangen op Vlieland” recorded that July month … More soon ..