Some of my Favorite Videos

Short Videos:

"Day out in Los Angeles with Juno Birch" by Juno Birch



"Meet the Engineer Preserving The Last Analog Motion Graphics Machine" from VICE



"PAPERS" by よしながき



"IF THE THREE STOOGES WERE STILL ALIVE TODAY" by Hrabb

Long Videos:

"The Labubu Chronicles" by Ro Ramdin


"For-Profit (Creative) Software" by EndVertex


"Gambling and the desire machine" and "A real history of video games" by Jimmy Mcgee


"Girl's Club video review" by Polygon featuring Justin and Griffin McElroy


1001 Nights by Yoshitaka Amano and Mike Smith (1998)


MODEL RAILWAYS - All You Need to Know" (BBC Archive, 1975)


"I Rated Places With 0 Reviews" by coy

Channels

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Super high quality, super long video essays about videogames by the one and only Tim Rogers.
Recommended videos: Tokimeki Memorial and Boku No Natsuyasumi

Any Austin
Super strange and interesting videos about games that defy explanation.
Reccomended videos: Where Do Skyrim's Rivers Come From? and How Do Fallout’s NPCs Get Home?

Polygon Donut
Funny silly weird videos about aesthetics, games and Y2K nostaglia. Quirked up in a good way.
Recommended videos: The History of Nostalgic Screensavers, Understanding the Meaning of Weirdcore

Redlyne
Long-form videos, mostly about dead and abandoned videogames.
Recommended videos: Exploring Dead Games (there are several videos in this series), A Comprehensive History of Internet Horror

Ro Ramdin
Some of my favorite videos on YT. Artistic reflections on mental health, art and pop culture. I'm a long time patron of Ro and I think she deserves a lot more acknowledgement than she gets.
Recommended videos: The Ten Traits of Slop Content, The Labubu Chronicles, The Invisible Illness We Don’t Understand

Jan Misali
Very dense videos on a wide array of topics, but mostly music and linguistics.
Recommended videos: who wrote Caramelldansen?, w, c

The 5Ninth Avenue Project
From youtube: "5NinthAvenueProject is maintained online in memory of Nelson Sullivan, who recorded the videos, and his artistic partner Dick Richards, who created the channel and edited the videos with assistance from Robert Coddington." Lots of POV videos of gay life in 80s NYC. Sometimes featuring the likes of Rupaul, Mathu Anderson and Susanne Bartsch

Runner Eye
Essential videos if you desperately need to know the history of obscure RuPaul's Drag Race memes.

In My Homosexual Opinion The Show + Podcast
If you like watching humorous reviews of Drag Race spinoffs and cultivating parasocial relationships with the hosts of said review shows, then this is the channel for you. Or rather, me. Love these ladies.

Nisipisa
My tumblrina queen...
Reccomended videos: Anything in the "Window Shopping" series.

Emilia Fart
Now retired from making public videos, her archive is still one of my favorites to revisit.
Reccomended videos: I'm stranded on an island and I'm going to die, I remade CATS in one single take

On Cinema at the Cinema by Adult Swim
I'm not going to explain this one.

Artists/Animators

Naoki Saito
Amazing digital art advice by Japanese illustrator Naoki Saito (In Japanese with captions)

Takuro Okuda
Beautifully crafted art dolls by Takuro Okuda

Moonlight Jewel
Ridiculously professional resin-printed BJDs in a cutesy style

Meltss
Super relaxing wax sealing videos (captions only)


More animators:
SweetStench
Vivinos
Worthikids
Vewn
Joruzin
Ena by Joel G


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