4 HN users recommended this documentary4 months2020–2026score 5.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN commenters hold it up as a top-tier long-form process video, recommended whenever the Great Wave or Hokusai comes up.
The first part of a long series documenting Dave Bull's Tokyo woodblock workshop as it produces a reproduction of Hokusai's The Great Wave. It follows the carving, proofing and printing of the reward print for Kickstarter backers.
“The series is up there with Clickspring's skeleton clock in my pantheon of "greatest long-form process videos” (HN, 2026)
If anyone is interested in Japanese wood block prints I really suggest checking out David Bulls channel on YouTube. He did a whole series on his own copy of the Great Wave. [this video]
I think there's a genuine reason for them to be worth more since they are closer to the original painting. There's a fantastic (and long) series on Youtube about this: [this video]
Long series on reproducing the Great Wave as a print.
I bought one of his prints of The Great Wave off Kanagawa. It's stunning. The series is up there with Clickspring's skeleton clock in my pantheon of "greatest long-form process videos" [this video]
Ranks among the greatest long-form process videos.
You may find David Bull's youtube content interesting. He is a Japanese woodblock printer living in Asakusa, Tokyo, where he runs a print shop. In 2015 he did a reproduction of the Great Wave and documented the progress online: [this video]
Printer David Bull documents his 2015 reproduction of the Great Wave.
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