PickVidsBest Visual arts, photography & architecture Videos
The 42 Visual arts, photography & architecture videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 4 intermediate, 36 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a documentary. What they share is that the people and the sequence of events are put back before anyone argues. Channels you will keep seeing include Kirsten Dirksen, TED, Jacob + Katie Schwarz.
8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
Mark Ferrari, the LucasArts background artist, explains in a GDC 2016 talk how he draws 8-bit graphics.
1. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow”
The first episode of Stewart Brand's 1997 BBC series based on his book How Buildings Learn, covering how buildings change after they are built.
Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
Christopher Alexander's keynote at OOPSLA 1996 on patterns in architecture, addressed to the software community.
The Great Wave - Part 1
The first part of a long series documenting Dave Bull's Tokyo woodblock workshop as it produces a reproduction of Hokusai's The Great Wave.
!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen
A short conference talk from !!Con 2017 in which Kevin Chen explains the HDR imaging algorithm from a foundational paper, framing it as a system of linear equations, and implements it in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
How To Be Alone
An animated short film of Tanya Davis's spoken-word poem 'How To Be Alone', illustrated by Andrea Dorfman.
Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
The first lecture in an 18-part series on digital photography from Marc Levoy's Stanford CS 178 course, recorded at Google in 2016.
How to Make an Attractive City
The School of Life sets out principles for making attractive cities, arguing that the art has been lost in the modern world.
VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage
A timelapse compilation of the night sky above the Very Large Telescope at Paranal, Chile, using ESO photographers' footage set to music.
KEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann
Robert Erdmann, a materials scientist at the Rijksmuseum, gives a PyCon keynote on the ultra-high-resolution imaging of Rembrandt's Night Watch.
what did you do
Noodle explores how retro pixel art was designed for CRT displays and why games look different on LCDs, with input from pixel artists and CRT researchers.
How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day tours a Kodak factory to show how photographic film is manufactured.
BSidesLV 2013 3 2 7 Sixteen Colors Archiving the Evolution of ANSI and ASCII Art Doug Moore Bren
A BSidesLV 2013 talk from the Sixteen Colors project on archiving the ANSI and ASCII art scene.
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)
A BBC documentary on Francis Bacon, the loud, hard-drinking British painter, drawing on people who knew him.
James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
James Howard Kunstler's TED talk argues that American public spaces and architecture have become unworthy of care, damaging civic life.
Why are we changing maps? (from The West Wing)
A short clip from The West Wing in which staffers meet a group advocating the Peters projection and challenge the Mercator map.
Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
Jacob Geller's video essay examines how architecture in schools and in video games, such as cover shooters, is shaped by violence.
Building the Moroccan Court
A short film following Moroccan artisans from Fez as they build a traditional 15th-century-style Moroccan court inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Extreme transformer home in Hong Kong: Gary Chang's 24 rooms in 1
Kirsten Dirksen visits architect Gary Chang's 32 square meter Hong Kong apartment, which he has redesigned over decades.
Machine with Concrete - Arthur Ganson
Arthur Ganson's kinetic sculpture chains twelve 1:50 worm gear reductions so the final gear, embedded in concrete, would take over two trillion years to turn once.
Oldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro-lofts
Kirsten Dirksen visits the Providence Arcade, the oldest US indoor mall, which was converted into 225-square-foot micro-lofts classified as a rooming house.
Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
A behind-the-scenes tour of the ILFORD factory in Mobberley, England, showing how black and white film, paper and chemicals are made.
Illustrating Crafting Interpreters
Bob Nystrom shows his process for hand-drawing the diagrams in his book Crafting Interpreters, from pencil sketches to tracing and inking.
30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300
Trevor Paglen's 30C3 talk on photographing and documenting the secret state, including CIA flights, spy satellites and military sites, to reveal the geography of covert programs.