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Visual arts, photography & architecture Videos Recommended on Hacker News (42)
Visual arts, photography & architecture is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 42 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 102 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Visual arts: painting, drawing tutorials, sculpture, photography, art history, museums, architecture, street art, illustration, art criticism.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on 8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box: “I recommend this talk to anyone who is interested in the details and history of working on limited colour palette games!” — an HN commenter, 2024.
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17 mo on HN8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
GDC Festival of Gaming
13 HN recommender · 2018–2026
8 mo on HN1. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow”
Stewart Brand
8 HN recommender · 2013–2020
5 mo on HNChristopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
Peter Petrash
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HNThe Great Wave - Part 1
David Bull
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HNHow To Be Alone
Andrea Dorfman
6 HN recommender · 2010–2026
5 mo on HNMarc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
Marc Levoy
5 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HNHow to Make an Attractive City
The School of Life
4 HN recommender · 2015–2018
3 mo on HNVLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage
Nicolas Bustos
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNKEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann
PyCon US
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNwhat did you do
Noodle
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNHow Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
SmarterEveryDay
3 HN recommender · 2022–2022
3 mo on HNBSidesLV 2013 3 2 7 Sixteen Colors Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII Art Doug Moore Bren
Adrian Crenshaw
3 HN recommender · 2015–2022
3 mo on HNFrancis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)
Wei Yu
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HNJames Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
TED
4 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HNWhy are we changing maps? (from The West Wing)
SaltLakeUsersGroup
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNGames, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
Jacob Geller
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNBuilding the Moroccan Court
The Met
2 HN recommender · 2015–2021
2 mo on HNExtreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1
Kirsten Dirksen
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HNMachine with Concrete - Arthur Ganson
Arthur Ganson
2 HN recommender · 2015–2025
2 mo on HNOldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro-lofts
Kirsten Dirksen
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNBehind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
ILFORD Photo
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNIllustrating Crafting Interpreters
Bob Nystrom
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300
KraftZeitung
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
2 mo on HNSee how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
TED
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
1 mo on HNGuerrilla Public Service 2011
Richard Ankrom
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNINCREDIBLE ZOOM | Nikon P1000 | Ben Lomond | Scotland
The Hovering Scotsman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNstrandbeest evolution
theo jansen
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HNThe Art Market is a Scam (And Rich People Run It)
Wendover Productions
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HNThe British Museum is full of stolen artifacts
Vox
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNHypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects
Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HNAll Creative Work Is Derivative
Question Copyright
1 HN recommend · 2012–2022
1 mo on HNLego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
Kirsten Dirksen
1 HN recommend · 2012–2018
0 mo on HNCOSTA RICA IN 4K 60fps HDR (ULTRA HD)
Jacob + Katie Schwarz
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNWhy Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal
Half as Interesting
0 HN recommender · 2019–2021
0 mo on HNThis Town Did The Impossible
The Aesthetic City
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025