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http://www.twitch.tv/bobross

For the next 8 days, Twitch is streaming every The Joy of Painting episode ever. There are 50,000 people watching right now. Every time he finishes a painting, there are a flood of gg's in the chat.

This marathon is an extra bonus for those who experience ASMR.

lol

The comments can be quality if you can keep up

All hail Bob

He's managing to maintain a pretty steady 60k

Wondering though, are his paintings worth anything ?, I'd imagine snobbish art people wouldn't consider his work as excellent ?

Bob introduced a guest painter and the chat spammed "noooooo". Then she started painting what she called a "little indian baby" she named "One Feather" and the chat lost its collective shit.

"ruined,CTRL+Z! "

losCHUNK wrote:Wondering though, are his paintings worth anything ?, I'd imagine snobbish art people wouldn't consider his work as excellent ?

Probably worth a bit not because they are particularly great works of art, but more for the celebrity value. It's like getting a signed album from your favourite band. His art isn't anything special, he's just very good at doing a particular subject matter considerably fast while being good at narrating his process. And he says stuff like, "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

Ironically, I bet the paintings he did on TV are worth more, even though they were intentionally rushed and he did a ton of other more elaborate paintings off air.

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Relevant.

Bob Ross' paintings aren't exceptionally expensiive, mostly die to therr being over 30,000 of them.

obsidian wrote:His art isn't anything special, he's just very good at doing a particular subject matter considerably fast while being good at narrating his process.

basically this, and he comes across as a genuinely nice guy

i haven't seen more than a dozen or so, but he seems to have cornered the market in speedy impressions of the north american wilderness that would look good on the wall of someone with no taste whatsoever, like geoff

Transient wrote:http://www.twitch.tv/bobross

For the next 8 days, Twitch is streaming every The Joy of Painting episode ever. There are 50,000 people watching right now. Every time he finishes a painting, there are a flood of gg's in the chat.

This marathon is an extra bonus for those who experience ASMR.

i've never watched anything on twitch before. the chat goes by so fast. how do people actually follow it?

they don't, they just wanna be part of the spam train... notice that it's mostly nothing but 1-2 word phrases posted.

obsidian wrote:

losCHUNK wrote:Wondering though, are his paintings worth anything ?, I'd imagine snobbish art people wouldn't consider his work as excellent ?

Probably worth a bit not because they are particularly great works of art, but more for the celebrity value. It's like getting a signed album from your favourite band. His art isn't anything special, he's just very good at doing a particular subject matter considerably fast while being good at narrating his process. And he says stuff like, "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

Transient wrote:Bob introduced a guest painter and the chat spammed "noooooo". Then she started painting what she called a "little indian baby" she named "One Feather" and the chat lost its collective shit.

lol I seen that, there was also a string of comments saying "free bob !".

and gg on completion

Apparently, Bob Ross filmed his Joy of Painting show for free. He made his money selling art supplies, videos, and taught classes.

Also, he didn't sell any of his 30,000 paintings, most of them ending up in the hands of charities and PBS.

That doesn't surprise me at all.

you like free stuff

No he doesn't. He just likes to complain how stuff sometimes isn't free.

Tsakali wrote:they don't, they just wanna be part of the spam train... notice that it's mostly nothing but 1-2 word phrases posted.

you would think people would get bored of that kind of thing after a minute

Bob Ross? We had Neil Buchanan when I was growing up. A true artist .

Tsakali wrote:"ruined,CTRL+Z! "

Chupacabra wrote:

Tsakali wrote:they don't, they just wanna be part of the spam train... notice that it's mostly nothing but 1-2 word phrases posted.

you would think people would get bored of that kind of thing after a minute

I did, and they should, but it's something about belonging to something bigger than yourself (even if completely fruitless and pointless) at that moment which apparently people find irresistable.