Nobuyoshi Kikuchi is a 75-year-old Japanese book maker, who devoted his life to the design of over 15,000 books. In this intimate documentary with 3 years in the making, director Nanako Hirose, who is an apprentice of a Japanese renowned director Hirokazu Kore-eda, explores Kikuchi’s expert craftsmanship and creative process as he produces unique books inspired by their content. Through Hirose’s lens, we catch a rare glimpse into the beauty of Kikuchi’s work as he meticulously handcrafts every aspect of the final book. This is, without a doubt, a must-watch film for all the book lovers out there in the world.
Director: Nanako Hirose
Year: 2019
Country: Japan
Genre: Documentary
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Arabic, English
Dur.: 94 mins IMDB
The idea for this library dates back to a horror film I worked on back in
2004 which involved someone reliving their childhood trauma with a (bad CG) monster in his wardrobe… While it wasn’t a great film, I came across some of the sounds we developed for it & I realised the scale & resonance of wardrobes was worth revisiting. After weeks of searching I managed to get this one on to the roof rack of my 4WD & took it home…
While it was intact it looked quite solid, but it only took a few hours to turn it into rubble and firewood! I rigged it with an MKH8020 pair inside and MKH8040 pair exterior, and before doing any structural damage, I performed impacts on every surface, then used a pair of vibe guns to shake the living sh+t out of it!
After rocking it, dropping it & dragging it across concrete I then smashed it apart, using a crow bar to wrench the more solid parts. Once I had a pile of rubble I put the 8020 mics inside another old bookcase & threw planks & wood panels on top, and then used the vibe guns to rattle the whole pile of wood debris.
By this stage I was getting physically tired, so I leveraged individual planks into the bookcase & broke them down until I had a stack of firewood.
Captured 32/192k with Sennheiser MKH8040 pair exterior and MKH8020 pair inside wardrobe
Released 24/192k with UCS metadata & photos
I’m not sure how these old AHOOGA horns work but they tend to make people smile rather than being startled… I’ve been waiting for a calm windless day to record this and last Sunday got the Chev out & drove to a quiet suburb to do some recording.
First I turned the engine off and performed a series of toots, but I noticed that somehow the horn didn’t reach quite as high a pitch as when the engine is running! This maybe due to current draw, although the car has a new fully charged battery… So I also performed some with the car idling.
Captured with MKH8050 close to the horn and MKH8040 pair a cable length away, included in this little library is:
Ahooga Horn Toots – no engine
Ahooga Horn Toots – engine start, idling, toots, off
Ahooga Horn Toots – toots with engine idle removed using RX
This is a free library for owners of VEH006 1927 CHEV as I didn’t record the cars horn when capturing onboard & exterior moves… If you own VEH006 you should have received an order already, check spam or email me!
Had to do a sniper bid as the auction closed at 1.30am NZ time, but scored this mint 90mm macro lens for a measly NZ$300…
Apart from being super well engineered metal 90mm macro lens with max aperture of F2.5 the Tokina AT-X M90 Macro also had a nickname back in the day apparently, aka the Bokina, in a combination of the Tokina and the beautiful Bokeh it creates… Had I known about it sooner, I could have saved myself $1k and got it instead of the plastic Canon 100mm macro lens that I’ve been using. Autofocus is its only advantage and with macros AF is rarely of any use….
So its like the tech bros went
“We haven’t degraded music enough via streaming,
so lets swamp the humans with slop…”
▶ interesting music DAW controller: LIOBOX designed for gig use: Launch songs instantly with the touch of a pad, all displayed clearly on the integrated screen. Create and manage your setlists. Manage all transport functions (play, pause, resume, stop, rewind, forward, play again), uninterrupted performance with native dual USB ports.
