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David Bull
Япония
Добавлен 22 янв 2011
Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull has created a number of video presentations of his work, including a number of videos showing the complete process of making his prints. A highlight of the channel is the series of videos chronicling the production of prints in the Ukiyoe Heroes series - his collaboration with US-based illustrator Jed Henry.
A great deal of the work for producing these videos is recently being assisted by the Patreon community: www.patreon.com/mokuhankan/ Thank you very much for your support!
Dave streams three times a week from our Twitch account: www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
A great deal of the work for producing these videos is recently being assisted by the Patreon community: www.patreon.com/mokuhankan/ Thank you very much for your support!
Dave streams three times a week from our Twitch account: www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
Japanese Papermaking in Asakusa!
This is a recorded version of a livestream from Mokuhankan in Asakusa Tokyo, on August 31, 2023.
Dave Bull and Ayano Okamura went to visit a nearby papermaking experience - Watashino - organized by a group of papermakers from Shikoku, who recently opened a shop near Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.
Dave and Ayano-san had a ton of fun making the paper and learning from the instructors, and happily recommend the experience to anyone visiting the area.
People in the video:
Dave Bull, owner of Mokuhankan
Ayano Okamura, staff member at Mokuhankan
Osamu Hamada, from family of papermakers in Kochi
Yasuhiro Nishimori, manager of Watashino
Relevant links:
The Watashino reservation page:
watashino.style/products/p...
Dave Bull and Ayano Okamura went to visit a nearby papermaking experience - Watashino - organized by a group of papermakers from Shikoku, who recently opened a shop near Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.
Dave and Ayano-san had a ton of fun making the paper and learning from the instructors, and happily recommend the experience to anyone visiting the area.
People in the video:
Dave Bull, owner of Mokuhankan
Ayano Okamura, staff member at Mokuhankan
Osamu Hamada, from family of papermakers in Kochi
Yasuhiro Nishimori, manager of Watashino
Relevant links:
The Watashino reservation page:
watashino.style/products/p...
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Видео
Mokuhankan Japanese Prints - 2023 Update
Просмотров 172 тыс.7 месяцев назад
This is the year-end update from David Bull's Mokuhankan printmaking workshop in Asakusa Tokyo. We begin with an overview of the subscription prints published over the past year. This is followed by the usual update on finances and staff, and things wrap up with a scattering of other small news items. Mentioned in the video: The Hokusai Reborn series: mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/reborn.html Th...
Hokusai Reborn - Episode 2
Просмотров 110 тыс.Год назад
In this video, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull continues the series discussing the Hokusai Reborn project - in which the Mokuhankan workshop is creating a series of twelve prints based on original Hokusai designs in the British Museum. Part one is here: ruclips.net/video/RjiR3sKEQtE/видео.html References: The Mokuhankan workshop: mokuhankan.com/index.html The description page for thi...
Mokuhankan Japanese Prints - 2022 Update
Просмотров 96 тыс.Год назад
This is the year-end update from David Bull's Mokuhankan printmaking workshop in Asakusa Tokyo. Of special interest is the announcement of the two new subscription series that will be taking place simultaneously through 2023~2024. - 'Hokusai Reborn', a project in collaboration with the British Museum, to create woodblock prints from Hokusai sketches in their collection. - 'A Kyoto Journey', a s...
2023 Series Announcement - Part 1
Просмотров 82 тыс.Год назад
In this video, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull announces his workshop's new series for 2023. (A note on the audio issue that is bothering many people: I _did_ carefully produce the audio track, recording it separately, then editing it to remove unwanted noise, etc, and properly getting it compressed and normalized. But at the time of exporting the project, I neglected to mute the ori...
Embrace the Delight - the August block set!
Просмотров 252 тыс.2 года назад
This next video from the Mokuhankan printmaking workshop in Tokyo is all about carving. Dave creates the block set that will be used to make the August prints in this year's subscription series: Embrace the Delight! Bonus content includes a trip to his Ome home/workshop, glimpses of the Ninja who work/play across the street from the Asakusa shop, a (rare) segment on inlaying boxwood into a cher...
Embrace the Delight (no narration)
Просмотров 69 тыс.2 года назад
A 'real time' printing video from the Mokuhankan workshop in Asakusa, Tokyo. We see both workshop owner Dave Bull, and staff printer Natsuki Suga, while they each create an edition of the first two prints in the 2022 subscription series - Embrace the Delight. [The video is being uploaded in two versions: this one with no narration during the workshop scenes, and another (visually identical) ver...
Embrace the Delight (with narration)
Просмотров 145 тыс.2 года назад
A 'real time' printing video from the Mokuhankan workshop in Asakusa, Tokyo. We see both workshop owner Dave Bull, and staff printer Natsuki Suga, while they each create an edition of the first two prints in the 2022 subscription series - Embrace the Delight. [The video is being uploaded in two versions: this one with Dave's narration explaining many aspects of what you are seeing during the wo...
Mokuhankan Japanese Prints - 2021 Update
Просмотров 148 тыс.2 года назад
This is the year-end update from David Bull's Mokuhankan printmaking workshop in Asakusa Tokyo. Of special interest is the announcement of the new subscription series for 2022 - 'Embrace the Delight', a unique collection of small prints, both reproduction, and original. Mentioned in the video: The 2022 subscription series: mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/delight.html The previous series - Scenes o...
The Great Wave - Part 17
Просмотров 216 тыс.3 года назад
Seven years after beginning his Great Wave project, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull brings the latest update ... episode 17. This one deals with an issue upper-most in the mind of many of the fans and collectors - what is the condition of the set of woodblocks? After seven years in production, can more good prints really be made from them? [ We're already getting requests ... I shoul...
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Workshop - A Printer's Tools and Workspace
Просмотров 57 тыс.3 года назад
This is the second in our ever-growing series of videos demonstrating various traditional techniques and tools in the Japanese mokuhanga woodblock printmaking style and how we use them today here at Mokuhankan. Today, Natsuki Suga gives us a tour of her printing bench and surrounding workspace. Watch to learn a bit more about each tool she uses in her daily work as a printmaker. We hope you wil...
Woodblock Printing Process ... in 3-D spatial audio
Просмотров 897 тыс.3 года назад
In this video, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull shows the entire process of making a batch of prints (8 sheets) from blank paper to finished print - in POV style (from the printer's Point Of View) - with each of the colour impressions happening in an uncut, unedited, uninterrupted flow. The viewers can get a very good feeling for the rhythm of the process, and can see just how the pig...
Trailer: Woodblock Printing Process ... in 3-D spatial audio
Просмотров 24 тыс.3 года назад
This is a 'trailer' for the video coming in a few days - Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull will show the entire process of making a batch of prints from blank paper to finished sheets, in an uncut, unedited, uninterrupted stream.The viewers will be able to get a very good feeling for the rhythm of the process, and will see just how the pigment/paste balance is controlled etc. etc.As a ...
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Workshop - Hakobi
Просмотров 46 тыс.3 года назад
This is the first in a series of videos demonstrating various traditional techniques and tools in the Japanese mokuhanga woodblock printmaking industry and how we use them today here at Mokuhankan. Today's video is about the pigment brushes our printers use, known as 'hakobi' (運び) or 'tokibo' (解き棒). First Suga-san tells us a little bit about what hakobi are for and why she makes her own instead...
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking - An Ukiyo-e Falcon
Просмотров 182 тыс.3 года назад
This is the next in the series of videos that show our printing process from start to finish. Today we are featuring the third print in our 2021 ‘Scenes from Nature’ subscription series. This image is based on an Isoda Koryusai design of a falcon and is one of the twelve nature prints we selected from his enormous portfolio of work. Carver: Noriko Kawasaki Printer: Natsuki Suga Cinematography: ...
David Bull - The Meaning(s) of Life
Просмотров 850 тыс.3 года назад
David Bull - The Meaning(s) of Life
David's Choice - Episode #12: The Mokuhankan Collection
Просмотров 228 тыс.3 года назад
David's Choice - Episode #12: The Mokuhankan Collection
Mokuhankan Japanese Prints - 2020 Update
Просмотров 119 тыс.3 года назад
Mokuhankan Japanese Prints - 2020 Update
David's Choice - Episode #11 Supplement
Просмотров 109 тыс.3 года назад
David's Choice - Episode #11 Supplement
Seditious Beauty - Can art change history?
Просмотров 138 тыс.4 года назад
Seditious Beauty - Can art change history?
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking - Tokugawa Tea Bowl
Просмотров 100 тыс.4 года назад
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking - Tokugawa Tea Bowl
Mokuhankan Japanese Prints - 2019 Update
Просмотров 97 тыс.4 года назад
Mokuhankan Japanese Prints - 2019 Update
Easter Eggs in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Просмотров 79 тыс.5 лет назад
Easter Eggs in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Woodblock Printing Process - A Japan Journey
Просмотров 808 тыс.5 лет назад
Woodblock Printing Process - A Japan Journey
lmao @ the obscure tax code bs."You didn't pay our obscure royalty collection, so uh YEA give it to us". I'm no tax expert but I always thought foreign workers would usually pay taxes on their own turf but in Japan I guess not.
I’ve used this “not garbage” pitch ever since I’ve seen this video years ago. It got me not only 2 jobs, but 2 high paying jobs that I don’t think just handing a resume in would’ve. I can’t stress enough how clever & raw this pitch really is.
Glad that str8edgedude has been posting the twitch streams! Hoping you are continuing to be busy!
0:12 welcome to midgard
it took me months to realize thats twilight princess ganondorf
I think the word David was looking for towards the end of Part 2 is ‘flow’ - the flow of life, existence and being in a Taoist philosophy sense. I could be wrong and I’d been interested to know what others think but that’s what sprung to mind.
Dave, I will give you $5 USD for the book. That doubles your money and is a pretty good deal, right? haha! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us.
The gradation of blue real brought it to life❤
Watching this I realized how many things so many of us have forgotten how to do, not just working with our hands, but telling stories as well?
Awesomeness ❤ love the falcon ❤
Amazing story 😮
Came here from an ASMR vid. Very good presentation and story telling skills and a great voice. Very pleased the business is doing well. The cheap Yen is drawing in lots of tourists looking for bargains!
Greetings from Winnipeg, Canada
We miss you Suga San! Do you both still keep in touch?.
Interestingly, your idea of gathering prints from museums and private collections around the world is probably well suited for artificial intelligence analysis. It can probably quite quickly detect the differences and then assess the order in which they were probably carved and printed. Fascinating project.
Dear Dave you should know that I received this recommendation from RUclips www.youtube.com/@VashtiMalley I saw your image but not your name in the description. Confused
My favourite is the miniature prints with little foxes bathing and going for a stroll on the snow. Maybe i will get that one day.
дуже гарно! а скажіть, яку фарбу ви використовуєте і який клей додаєте ?
Such a joy to watch this!
Trim beard; how did you get there
This is crazy good! I wonder how long it took you until the final result?
Thank you so much for the info in this video. I loved how you pointed out that the artists of that time used cut and paste and other techniques when building their prints. I do the same thing when designing my lino prints. I cut things out from my sketchbook, reference photos, text samples, etc and paste them to a sheet of paper the same size as my linoleum block which allows me to test elements, move things around, see what works and what doesn't. You showed how my methods are similar to the great artists of the past, giving me a connection to them that if otherwise have no knowledge of. Thank you.
Nice!
Who is still watching this video in 2024?
A few hundred people every day ... day after day ... (all thanks to the RUclips algorithm, it seems ...)
well I just finished watching it again for probably the fourth time
@@seseragistudio that's amazing, Dave. Congratulations.
@@seseragistudio thank you for producing it. Please, I know you are super busy, but I really enjoy your storytelling
Watching this video multiple times, I think the word you're looking for is "purpose"; we all have a purpose in the roles that we take, no matter how small that role is, it is still a profound quality of life. At least that's how I interpret your perspective on the meaning of life.
Hello Mr. Bull. So glad my brother and his daughters from Texas were able to visit with you. You were kind enough to take a picture with my brother. What a great thrill that at least someone in my family could meet you! I hear they absolutely loved speaking with you. I am happy my brother showed me the HoKoiSai woodcut/lasercut.
Luckily, it wasn't so crowded, so we had chance to talk for a while (that's sometimes just not possible ...) Nice to have met them, and maybe we'll see you over here one day too!
I love your videos!!! So well done with great information!!❤
@21:42 - Well, we're probably there.
Just visiting the page hoping there would be a new, updated video. Sure do miss them!
Filming in Fukui Prefecture next week ...
What type of paper you used for transfer the image on wood . I used many type of paper but thay won't pill that way please explain it.
This is covered in many of our videos: we use the thin strong Japanese paper known as gampi.
Don’t you have any back pain or some muscle issues since you have to sit in that posture for long? Or you excercise regularly?
Our benches are all pretty ergonomic, although of course nobody back in the old days used such terminology. The carving bench sloped towards me, the printing bench slopes away. All very comfortabloe. And yeah, I exercise ... I swim a kilometer at a local fitness center every week-day morning, before starting work.
@@seseragistudio Thank you for the replied master. Because, I could see from video that not only the precious artworks have created but also the quality contents that makes me wonder that how much discipline would be taken from such a man to do all this. With respect🙏
I feel like they function like postcards, t shirts, signs, posters, badges, and trading cards at a gift shop. A lot of US National park merch, is probably an analog. They feel like tourist, traveler, and collector merch. It's evidence that someone went on the travel or a memory from the travel. There's also escapism in it of course. Honestly, if you look at all the ideas that have come out of Japan in terms of art and products, wood blocks definitely feel like a major stepping stone.
Props for using binaural microphones for recording audio. Everyone should do this to record reality!
well.. I really didn't expect to be humbled like this. I found this channel while reading DK publishing's book "How Art Works".
This is beyond my expectation. I did not expect woodblock printing to be this intriguing.
Beautiful! Thank you!
"Lightly skating across the junction and plunging deeper only when it is safe to do so" 😂 Yes Dave!
This man is 72 years old... I hope have as much life and joy as this man does at that age. Should a wonderful man.
Where’s the fisherman’s wife stream ? lol
I put myself to the very end of the waiting list only a few days ago (i.e. first day of summer 2024). When the time will come up to me, half a decade from now, I would like to obtain one copy printed from Dave's original block set - don't care how worn out the print may look then. And an additional copy from your younger carvers - to encourage their continuous efforts for the future! BTW: Damn the RUclips algorithm for not suggesting this channel to me nine or ten years earlier!
So lovely, thank you for sharing
Amazing!!
Wonderful, and love the simplicity of only two colors !
Beautiful!
A better analogy would be a TRIcycle rather than a tripod... . Take one wheel from a TRIcycle and it becomes a BIcycle. You're still able to get where u need to be. JS
The meaning of life took a big hit when Richard dockings route the selfish gene and also, through the discovery of many facts by evolutionary anthropologists and psychologists. Specifically, when it could be deducted with enough certainty that morality is an evolutionary result, We sort of lost faith in the fact that life would have on ulterior meaning. The existentialists, particularly Albert Camus, were pretty much on to it already. I find that perfecting some skill is my Sysiphus Temporary solution to this problem. I am not so sure what the solution would be for large numbers of People.
Hello David, Could you tell me how do you call the ''little broom'' and that tool you use for adding nori paste? Thanks
They are called 'hakobi', and information on how to make them is here: woodblock.com/manga/hakobi/index.html
@@seseragistudio thanks!
3 AM… and I join Dave …
As an English teacher who is extremely passionate about the mandolin. It’s nice to see someone who made their dreams a reality. A tremendous amount of respect and admiration to you Dave. If you’ll excuse me, I got to go talk to the man in the mirror.
Stop talking and show something