The Story of Sushi, told in video with handcrafted miniatures

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Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia, who works with me to create our in-flight Boing Boing Virgin America TV channel, shares his latest project. This delightful short film was 7 months in the making, all done with hand-made miniatures. It's a promotional video for Bamboo Sushi, a restaurant in Portland.

Joe says:

Lori Nix/Kathleen Gerber were the brilliant miniature model makers. Vincent Peone directed. Michael T scored. Matt McCorkle did Sound FX.

Full cast and credits here.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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joncro

Wonderful film, but technically not really animated is it?
- robdobbs
  
  The fish in the net was on a pole and moved… that bit was animatish.
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  no, you’re right, I screwed up. fixing.
robdobbs

Is it just my feed or is the audio soundtrack too loud and the voice too quiet? I can barely hear the narrator. Maybe I need a hearing aid.
- polossatik
  
  nah, it’s kinda softly spoken. maybe mastered on a sound system that pushed voice freq a bit?
grimc

Seems like more of a promo for Portlandia than a sushi joint.
Brad H.

I was fully engrossed in the world of miniature. Then that hand swooped in, and I was sent back to my world of big problems, like the big amount of dishes I have to clean up soon.

Luckily, price keeps me away from seafood for most of the year. But I can’t help myself in summer when I gorge on sashimi and oysters. The fish of which is local and pole-caught and the oysters… well oysters are pretty much the top non-guilt choice, and good for those who don’t eat meat (B12).
http://www.chucksteel.com/ csteelatgburg

Your link for Bamboo Sushi is broken.
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  derp, fixed
chaopoiesis

Embedding “Camptown Races” as a cryptomelody (bycatch sitting at the table scene) seems an odd bit of semiotic meta-commentary in a story about competing “journeys”. Realism with style… place your bets.
http://www.facebook.com/anothertucker Tucker Teutsch III

Bamboo was the setting for the most epic sushi meal I have ever had, courtesy of my whiskey-swilling, sake-guzzling, high epicurean friends at Outstanding in the Field
jackjackjack

Aw, it doesn’t include a scene with the King of the Ocean- “I have the entire system worked out, starting with boat building,” (Reverend) Moon said” http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/chi-0604sushi-1-story,0,656681.story