Atelier Photographer Lévêque | Falaise #157 | 20230823

Atelier Photographer Lévêque | Falaise #157 | 20230823 | 1-memo•com | TakeNode cae00c35-3210-4f21-932b-f7b04be5faea | Atelier Photographer Maurice Lévêque at 26 Grande Rue, Ault (Somme) France, date ca 1905 – 1913 (edited; original from Archives de la Somme #8FI2383).

Thanks to Maurice Lévêque’s postcards we now have many early 1900s images from the Picardy seaside resorts Onival and Ault, where he opened his atelier in 1905 at 26 Grande Rue. I found his atelier today in this postcard of the Grande Rue in Ault, he made before WW1. One of his postcards “3. – AULT. – La Plage et les Falaises, côté Cayeux” — which by the way shows 28. Grande-Rue — that was sent Aug 28th 1911 by Maria … was used in my recent film illustrating erosion of the coast over the last 100 years (see : Erosion Cliffs Ault 1911-2022 | Falaise #154 | 20230814 | 1-memo•com).

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Raging Fire | 20140915

Raging Fire | 20140915 | 1-memo•com | Heerenlogement building in Leiden, Sept 15, 1976.
In the early hours of Sept 15, 1976 the historic Heerenlogement buidling (1652 – Leiden , Holland) was on fire. I was living nearby then at the bottom of the ‘De Burcht’ (a 11th century shell keep). After midnight I was listening to music via headphones when I noticed the sound of the raging flames. I took my Asahi Pentax SLR camera and tripod and went up the hill of De Burcht to take pictures around 1.30 AM.
Image Michel van der Burg – scan of vintage print on silk-screened – grid – photo paper, making it difficult to scan and a lot of work to restore the image.

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Just before the fire it had been decided to start the restauration of this monument (once a ‘city inn’) as a future location for a new central public library. The attached scaffolding is showing in this picture.
Two weeks later a 17 year-old pyromaniac confessed having set fire to the buiding – he had actually helped that night extinguising the fire and getting coffee for the fire brigade. July 1980 the new public library moved in a the beautifully restaured Heerenlogement building. I – being a ‘poor’ student with a part time evening job – sold some negatives but not the copyright of my images 😉 for 400 dutch guilders (around $200) to the head of that library who planned to have a large print made for the boardroom … and, so I could have a short vacation in Normandie with my future wife and kids 😉 The official opening by queen Beatrix was in 1981.
The image below shows the front page and 1 page inside from the library pamphlet on the opening 11 june 1981.

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Out Of Service | 20140911

Out Of Service | 20140911 | 1-memo•com | In the morning of 9/11 2001 logistics forced me to officially announce a temporarily – 1 week – ‘out of service’ of our Leiden islet isolation and transplant center. Our center was started earlier that summer of 2001 at the Leiden University Medical Center. So, I decided to have a short vacation abroad – heaven, after being on call 24/7 almost non stop for years. Later that day at home, I was downstairs watching TV — because upstairs near my workroom the central heating was being replaced – when I saw the CNN breaking news about the plane crashing into the World Trade Center. That day would become a landmark in history and the course of my life.

Background image : Microscopy picture I took of purified human Islets of Langerhans – tiny clumps (size around 1/10 mm or 1/25 inch) of 10s to 1000s of cells that produce hormones like insulin – these cells are just visible when you enlarge this 50x microscopy picture : as tiny translucent ‘balls’ or ‘spheres’. The red color is from a stain that binds to the insulin cells.
Iodixanol-UWS purified human islets, stained with dithizone. Original magnification 50x.

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Creator: Michael P.M. van der Burg
Caption/Description: Iodixanol-UWS purified human islets, stained with dithizone. Original magnification 50x. Copyright Notice: Copyright © 2004 M.P.M. van der Burg. All rights reserved. Digital Creation Date: 18 Nov 2004

References

Image published in : Transplantatie van eilandjes van Langerhans bij patiënten met diabetes mellitus type 1. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2005 1 januari;149(1) – URL https://www.ntvg.nl/system/files/publications/2005100120001a.pdf

Efficacy of the novel iodixanol-UWS density gradient for human islet purification (Presentation publ. Archive Org – michelvanderburg, 19990125 )
https://archive.org/details/EfficacyOfTheNovelIodixanol-uwsDensityGradientForHumanIslet

25 Years of the Ricordi Automated Method for Islet Isolation. Piemonti L, Pileggi A. in CellR4 2013; 1(1): e128. – URL https://www.cellr4.org/article/128

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Left Luggage | 20140908

Left Luggage | 20140908 | 1-memo•com | Left luggage found last Saturday while walking in Leiden (Holland). ‘Bagage’ (Ram Katzir, 2010) in front of the former police station (Zonneveldstraat) where Jewish Leideners were gathered for deportation during World War II.

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Nazi Family | 20140907

Nazi Family | 20140907 | 1-memo•com | Berlin taxi driver anecdote “… my grandfather was a nazi…..”
That night last year in Berlin – Sept. 7, 2013 – returning to my hotel by taxi from the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin ( ilb’13 – at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele) – my around 55 years old Berliner taxi driver told me, he was working only at night for some 20 years now.
Just before he dropped me at my hotel near the Berlin Central Station – after he had silently listened during the ride, to my detailed account of my filming earlier that evening a reportage of the story of Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel at the festival – he finally replied : “I was told only very recently by my father , that my grandfather was a nazi…..” .

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Voice of Children Without Papers | 20140903

Voice of Children Without Papers | 20140903 | 1-memo•com | Children without papers no voice ? … Storyboard documentary Afghans & Belgians « We want justice » . NL – De Jafari’s hebben recent het statuut van vluchteling in België verkregen. FR – Les Jafari’s ont obtenu récemment le statut de réfugié en Belgique . EN – The Jafari’s recently obtained refugee status in Belgium.
The in Belgium living and studying Afghan youngster Amir Mohammad Jafari did speak up for his rights in the Belgian streets and the Kids Parlement. The Jafari family finally received the refugee status recently after a long ‘battle’. Film reportage and more info see the today updated post https://michelvanderburg.com/2013/11/24/genoeg-gezwegen-sans-papiers/
I updated that post today with the text of the French translation done by Philippe Renette of Amir Jafari’s speech of 20 nov 2013 in Brussels.
FR – mise à jour aujourd’hui – avec la traduction en français par Philippe Renette du discours de Amir Mohammad Jafari 20 novembre 2013 à Bruxelles.

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Transport XX Testimony | 20140902

Transport XX Testimony | 20140902 | 1-memo•com | Vive la paix et l’amitié entre les hommes – L’enfant du 20e convoi, Simon Gronowski / De Cirkel, Marja Pinckaers at the Institute St Sépulcre, Liège, Belgium, 19 Nov 2013.

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