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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 HN

8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box

GDC Festival of Gaming
13 HN recommender · 2018–2026
8 mo on HN

1. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow”

Stewart Brand
8 HN recommender · 2013–2020
5 mo on HN

Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture

Peter Petrash
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HN

The 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 HN

How To Be Alone

Andrea Dorfman
6 HN recommender · 2010–2026
5 mo on HN

Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4

Marc Levoy
5 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HN

How to Make an Attractive City

The School of Life
4 HN recommender · 2015–2018
3 mo on HN

VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage

Nicolas Bustos
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
3 mo on HN

KEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann

PyCon US
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

what did you do

Noodle
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HN

How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271

SmarterEveryDay
3 HN recommender · 2022–2022
3 mo on HN

BSidesLV 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 HN

Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)

Wei Yu
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HN

James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities

TED
4 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HN

Why are we changing maps? (from The West Wing)

SaltLakeUsersGroup
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HN

Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence

Jacob Geller
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

Building the Moroccan Court

The Met
2 HN recommender · 2015–2021
2 mo on HN

Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1

Kirsten Dirksen
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HN

Machine with Concrete - Arthur Ganson

Arthur Ganson
2 HN recommender · 2015–2025
2 mo on HN

Oldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro-lofts

Kirsten Dirksen
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory

ILFORD Photo
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN

Illustrating Crafting Interpreters

Bob Nystrom
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300

KraftZeitung
2 HN recommender · 2013–2022
2 mo on HN

See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund

TED
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
1 mo on HN

Guerrilla Public Service 2011

Richard Ankrom
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

INCREDIBLE ZOOM | Nikon P1000 | Ben Lomond | Scotland

The Hovering Scotsman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HN

strandbeest evolution

theo jansen
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HN

The Art Market is a Scam (And Rich People Run It)

Wendover Productions
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts

Vox
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Hypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects

Applied Science
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HN

All Creative Work Is Derivative

Question Copyright
1 HN recommend · 2012–2022
1 mo on HN

Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces

Kirsten Dirksen
1 HN recommend · 2012–2018
0 mo on HN

COSTA RICA IN 4K 60fps HDR (ULTRA HD)

Jacob + Katie Schwarz
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HN

Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal

Half as Interesting
0 HN recommender · 2019–2021
0 mo on HN

This Town Did The Impossible

The Aesthetic City
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025