Webcam 'capture' sequence ...
This is a three hour sequence of images captured from the Woodblock Webcam, showing the process of carving one of the blocks for the scroll print I am making this year. As the webcam was set to capture a shot every ten seconds or so, it won't take you three hours to watch this ... just two minutes! (If you have come to this page directly from 'outside' you can find on the previous page a step-by-step explanation of what you are seeing.)
I love the part where the woodchips are 'dancing' across the carving bench under the bouncing caused by the mallet action! Now, for a little 'quiz'. Clearly visible in this video is a place where I make a major mistake, and until I correct it, I am not able to continue with the work. Can you spot it?
I've got some of my new year cards from January left over, and I'll send one to each of the first five people who can find it (if!) ... Use the 'Contact' link below to send me a note to claim your prize!
Update: a few of the 'entries' so far ...
- It looks like you made the mistake at 10:20. For about 1.5 minutes, you get into a "what the hell am I going to do about that?" posture, and then go back to work.
- ... you dropped a tool on the floor ... horrible man!
- Around 1:45 to 1:50 PM Tokyo time in your QuickTime movie of the carving of this scroll block, you had to stop clearing away the narrow strip of waste wood up against the carved border with the aisuki in the area of the woman's head, because you were forced to use the hangi-to again to get a deeper incision before being able to proceed with the aisuki.
- You've left off the registration- kento. I think you'd need these, yes?
- Is the image the wrong way? Did you paste her down backwards???
- It looks as though at 10:48 something fell over your work space and you had to stop to clean it up.
- Unless the depth of field bedevils me I would think the cups of pigment and paste are in the firing line of all those bouncy chips of wood. Covering them with a cloth would have saved you a lot of extra work before carrying on with the process.
- At 10.48 you remove the glass bottle and rope the clear the vision of the camera ... Otherwise nothing wrong. Hell, I have to phone Mrs. Marple
- at 10.48:50 - 10.48:59 am did you realise the big water glass bottle was blocking the video camera or your ability to move the block as freely as you would have liked and that is when you removed it?
- At about 10:20 is looks as if you get something in your eye maybe and you sit around for a minute or so and rub your eye and then continue working.
None of these are correct ... (did I really drop a tool somewhere?). The mistake is not such a fine detail ... and actually needs no specific printmaking knowledge to spot. I think my mother could even see it ...
Further update: after more than 1200 views of the video, the full quota of correct answers has finally been received, and the contest is now closed. But rather than put the answer here out in the open, where it might spoil your fun in hunting for it, I will put it on a small popup page.
Note: if you would like to see a more detailed set of photos of making prints, there are plenty more over in the 'How the Prints are Made' section of the website.