Videojug's original site is sadly defunct, but their goldmine of masterclass shorts was apparently archived to Youtube with a vast array of critical life skills available to learn, such as "how to moonwalk", "how to determine your hat size", "how to mate chickens", "how to iron a shirt", "how to sound like donald duck", "start your own boyband", "rid your home of ants", "deliver a baby" and so on. Robert Heinlein would be proud. https://www.youtube.com/@videojug
Ask HN: Share your favorite YouTube channels focused on mastering a skill/craft
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#82SuperAntonioVivaldi
A legend in the Twisty Puzzling circles.
https://www.youtube.com/@SuperAntoniovivaldi/videos
I still cannot explain why I can spend hours watching his videos walk through a solve of a layer-by-layer solution and his Ghost Cube/Ultimate shape shifter explanations are just so easy to follow.
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#83Frank Howarth is an absolute gem: https://www.youtube.com/@frankmakes I've been following his woodworking channel for 10 years — and I have no interest in woodworking myself. I've never come across someone who is 1) 99th percentile at the craft, 2) probably better at videography than the craft itself, and 3) will literally walk you through his line of thinking while including all the dumb mistakes he thought along th…
Additional woodworking content I have not yet seen mentioned:
Twoodfrd, he repairs guitars https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC8wIqZCt9h6uJbOBCQVuUmg
PaskMakes, woodworker https://m.youtube.com/c/PaskMakes
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#84Sichuan cooking: Chef Wang ( https://www.youtube.com/@chefwang ) Seafood: Kimagure Cook ( https://www.youtube.com/@kimagurecook ) Asian (mostly Chinese) film analysis: Accented Cinema ( https://www.youtube.com/@AccentedCinema ) -- fills the 'Every Frame a Painting'-shaped hole in my life Anime-style drawings: Naoki Saito ( https://www.youtube.com/@saitonaoki )
+1 Chef Wang is the bomb!
Gonna check out the film channel… thanks!
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#85Mad4Motors, irish guy restoring cars but condenses projects into a single video rather than dragging them out - https://www.youtube.com/@Mad4Motors_
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#86https://www.youtube.com/@SVSeeker/
Doug has spent over 10 years building a 73ft steel hulled sailing vessel from scratch, to be donated for research use by students. He literally bought steel plates and welded it into a frame. The vessel launched mid last year and the channel follows just about every aspect of its construction. Doug learns and builds just about every component, from its desalination system, casting his own propellers, and just about everything else.
I'm a very mechanically inclined individual, and figured this out when I was about 8 years old. I spend multiple hours a week watching all sorts of DIY content on youtube and have pretty much learned how to fix just about anything. Doug is a huge hero in my book, and I wonder if I'll end up like him one day.
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#87Merrett Contracting - Australian Farm
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rF_r5JwMPLSu9sc0QjAkQ
One of many good modern real life industrial scale family farm channels.
Good use of fixed cameras, drone cameras, flying while driving big combines, etc.
Seeding, lambing, ripping out old foundations to build new sheds, water tanks, seed silos, it's all there.
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#88I have a number to share, maybe not all quite perfecting craft, but enjoyable for me! I did try narrowing to ones a bit more relating to learning or improving skills. Sustainable Gardening, Self Sufficient Me General cooking, Adam Ragusea Seafood Cooking, Kimagure Cook Chocolate mastery (demonstrations), Amaury Guichon 3D Printing Tips, Teaching Tech & CNC Kitchen Everything Coffee Related, James Hoffman
Do you have any suggestions for channels that are good for beginner cooks? I just got my first job in a new city and realized I have no idea how to cook anything other than eggs & chicken
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#89Stumpy Nubs for woodworking. Just a very competent, normal talking professional with none of the usual YT tropes and thirsts. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCstwpLSByklww1YojZN-KiQ
That's a really worrying name for a woodworker.
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#90Cooking and drink mixing:
Food wishes - https://www.youtube.com/@foodwishes
Cocktail time - https://www.youtube.com/@KevinKos
Security - https://www.youtube.com/@hak5