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.
See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Anna Rosling Rönnlund presents Dollar Street, a project photographing homes in dozens of countries, from stoves to beds to toilets, and sorting them by income.
AI Live Painting in Krita - Interactive updates
A short demo of interactive AI live painting in Krita using the Stable Diffusion plugin, where canvas changes update the generated image immediately.
Guerrilla Public Service 2011
Richard Ankrom's account of his 2001 guerrilla project, in which he painted and installed a missing freeway exit sign on a Pasadena freeway.
INCREDIBLE ZOOM | Nikon P1000 | Ben Lomond | Scotland
Footage shot with a Nikon P1000 superzoom camera showing extreme optical zoom on distant targets from Ben Lomond in Scotland.
strandbeest evolution
Theo Jansen shows many of his Strandbeests, wind-powered walking kinetic sculptures, set to Khachaturian's Spartacus.
The Art Market is a Scam (And Rich People Run It)
A Wendover Productions video on how the art market works, arguing that prices are driven by wealth, storage and tax mechanics rather than artistic value.
The artificial skylight that you won't believe isn't real
A short look at CoeLux, an artificial skylight that recreates the scattering process that makes the sky look blue, producing a convincing illusion of distant sun and depth.
The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts
A Vox explainer on how many of the British Museum's treasures were taken during British imperial rule, focusing on the Benin Bronzes and requests for their return.
Hypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects
Applied Science shows how telecentric and hypercentric optics differ from normal lenses, producing no or negative perspective.
All Creative Work Is Derivative
A two-minute animated minute meme by Nina Paley, photographed at the Metropolitan Museum, showing how all creative work builds on what came before.
Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
A tour of Christian Schallert's 24 square meter apartment in Barcelona, designed so that it looks like an empty cube until he builds the furniture he needs.
Peru 8K HDR 60FPS (FUHD)
A travel video of Peru shot natively in 8K HDR at 60fps on a Red Helium sensor.
COSTA RICA IN 4K 60fps HDR (ULTRA HD)
A five-minute 4K 60fps HDR travel montage of Costa Rica by the Mystery Box video team.
Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal
Half as Interesting explains why the Eiffel Tower's night-time lighting is under copyright, which makes publishing photos of it at night legally problematic.
This Town Did The Impossible
A look at Le Plessis-Robinson, a French suburb transformed from modernist urbanism into traditional mixed-use fabric with local-style architecture, green space and a more balanced housing supply.
I can't show you how pink this pink is.
Tom Scott explains why a vivid pink pigment by artist Stuart Semple cannot be fully shown on a screen, and touches on the dispute over exclusive rights to the blackest black pigment.
Fluorescent Lights under High Voltage Power Lines!
Footage of Richard Box's art installation in which fluorescent tubes light up in the ground under high voltage power lines, showing the electric fields they produce.
Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert
An art project by Simon Weckert in which 99 smartphones pulled in a handcart create a fake traffic jam on Google Maps.