"While not every Open Cul­ture read­er dreams of mov­ing to Japan and becom­ing a wood­block print­mak­er, it's a safe bet that at least a few of you enter­tain just such a fan­ta­sy from time to time. David Bull, a British-Born Cana­di­an who got his first expo­sure to the art of ukiyo‑e in his late twen­ties, actu­al­ly did it. Though he's been liv­ing in Japan and steadi­ly pur­su­ing his art there since 1986, only in recent years has he become known around the world."
"That's thanks to his YouTube chan­nel, which we've fea­tured here sev­er­al times before. In the video above, one of his most pop­u­lar, he lets his view­ers expe­ri­ence print­mak­ing from his point of view, see­ing what he sees and even hear­ing what he hears. Though Bull nor­mal­ly focus­es on the ear­ly stage carv­ing images into the blocks, here he spends about an hour on the final print­ing phase, going through a batch of eight sheets."
David Bull is a British-born Canadian who discovered ukiyo-e in his late twenties and moved to Japan to pursue woodblock printmaking. Bull has lived and worked in Japan since 1986 and achieved broader recognition recently through a YouTube channel. A popular POV video shows Bull performing the final printing phase, completing a batch of eight sheets and highlighting the labor-intensive, thoroughly analog nature of the work. Bull recorded with in-ear microphones to capture the sounds as he hears them and rose earlier than usual to avoid daytime Tokyo noise and better satisfy the ASMR audience. The term ASMR denotes pleasing sensations triggered by certain sounds.
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