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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 11 2015, @02:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the happy-little-tree dept.

Life is full of happy accidents. When we first discussed the idea of running an all-episodes marathon of “The Joy of Painting” with the Bob Ross folks, we weren't entirely sure what would happen. We knew it would bring attention to Twitch Creative and give the internet some enjoyment and inspiration for a few days.

[...] Well, all good things come to an end eventually. #RUINED! We've been as sad as you have, knowing the end of our marathon was approaching. Bob's voice sends many of us to sleep at night, and calms and inspires us throughout the day. Bob has reminded us of what's important in life, reminded us of our childhoods, time with family, and the days we've spent creating something. WE DIDN'T WANT THE END TO BE REAL.

So, we pulled out all the stops and came up with a new plan. #KEEPBOB. From now on, Monday night is Bob Ross night. Every Monday, we will be running one season of The Joy of Painting on /bobross starting at 3pm PST and ending at 9:30pm PST. There are 31 seasons, so repeats will happen only once every seven months. Whether you've had a great Monday and want to celebrate with a familiar crowd, or your day has plain sucked and you want to be calmed by his soothing tones, Bob will always be there for you every Monday night without fail.

The great people at Janson Media and Bob Ross Inc have been incredibly supportive. They're as excited as we are to see Bob getting the recognition and attention he deserves. So, as a thanks, they are allowing Twitch broadcasters to re-stream these mini-marathons. You can paint right along with Bob, add commentary, and broadcast the result to your own channel. Time to add your own favorite color.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:12PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:12PM (#261747)

    want to celebrate with a familiar crowd

    Does anyone actually paint along with Bob? I'm old enough, that when VCRs were new, back when Bob was new, back when I was new, my mom used that new fangled BetaMax Sony VCR to record Bob and then she'd watch a few times and then slap some acrylic on canvas and somewhere in my house (or hers?) I still have some "Mom and Bob Ross" original paintings. I particularly remember one pine forest landscape painting. Its kinda cool. If I could find that painting AND that episode, I think that would be awesome.

    Anyway, the point I'm making is quite possibly that's the worst possible TV show I can imagine live streaming and the best candidate for a 10 TB torrent file where you can hit pause any time you want or rewind and watch his technique 5 times till you "get" it.

    You see, Bob was kind of like a cooking show in that no matter what the host says, if Giada can cook it in 30 minutes, it'll take me at least two real hours the first time I cook something, and she wears hottie date night stuff which is highly distracting, but I'll come out of the kitchen with stuff all over my shirt and on the counters and the sink will be full.

    There are equally unrealistic woodworking and car repair shows. Just once I'd like to see a vocational show that isn't 100% bullshit and includes the reality of cut it twice and its still too short, fencepost start and stop errors, what boils down to "I aggressively don't know trig" and the like. The closest I can think of is the woodwrights shop on PBS where if the guy hurt his hand while recording he just kept going, that dude was tough as nails.

    Bob was a cool cat of a hippie and that's required for a noob painter instructor, keep noobs calm or they cannot learn due to stress or anxiety. I admired his teaching style and use it at work. I can when necessary verbally burn the hide off a hog, but its pointless to be anything but 100% calm and supportive of noobs no matter how badly they F up. Given decades of occasional mentoring I personally guarantee keeping a Bob level of chilled bloodstream is not the least effective teaching style ever. Bob is pretty cool but I'm too busy to watch him now. Maybe some day in the future. In my infinite spare time. Or in summary I once found him well worth watching but not so much anymore.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:20PM (#261752)

    Years ago I read that for a typical episode Bob would make three paintings, all at different degrees of completion. That way they could shoot the episode in a reasonable amount of time.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:31PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:31PM (#261765)

      Yes I can personally verify by direct observation that the numerous carpentry / woodwork shows explicitly use that strategy. Pretty much all of them.

  • (Score: 2) by WillR on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:26PM

    by WillR (2012) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:26PM (#261759)
    Giada (and everyone else cooking on TV) also has an army of kitchen minions doing all the un-sexy chopping and measuring, setting out all the pre-cut pre-measured ingredients beside the right pan and the right spoon, and washing the dishes afterward. Yeah, anyone could cook that dish in 30 minutes - if someone else has done an hour of prep work first!
    • (Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:46PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:46PM (#261781)

      doing all the un-sexy

      Hmm yeah well whatever, Giada could do nothing but grate Parmesan cheese for thirty minutes and most of her male viewers would find that highly satisfying.

      Someone ruined Giada for me by pointing out she dresses super hot so everyone notices the hotness, because she's quite aware that she's kind of odd looking once you get past all the goods being so well displayed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:20PM (#261801)

      That type of cooking is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_place [wikipedia.org]

      I use it all the time. Yeah cooking is actually the *smallest* part of cooking. You are usually done in 5-10 mins tops with actual cooking. Most of cooking is prep. 1-2 hours prep 10 mins of cooking. Much like sex ;)

      I like dishes where you can prep and cook at the same time.

      Doing mise en place is also pretty awesome for clean up as you can clean as you go very quickly as you end up with a nice assembly line sort of style.

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 11 2015, @07:27PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @07:27PM (#261881) Journal

        Mise en place helps but TV magic is necessary to fit an hour of baking into a 22 minute show.

    • (Score: 2) by goodie on Wednesday November 11 2015, @07:00PM

      by goodie (1877) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @07:00PM (#261863) Journal

      This is how restaurants work, or should work at least. Prep the food so that when the "coup de feu" comes, everything is ready and things can come out quick. Of course it requires very good skills and discipline to ensure the food stays safe. and this is why if your sushi is too quick to get to your table, you should worry ;).

      More to the point, I've been pondering a variant of Iron Chef when I was watching it the other day: "Iron Chef cleans up their mess after cooking and we measure the amount of waste you create". I'd watch that and laugh at those guys scrubbing the pan they messed up 20 minutes before ;). Imagine: giving back a clean kitchen instead of the usual mess they hide when they show dishes :D

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:44PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:44PM (#261912)

        I wouldn't eat anything from those sweaty foreheads dripping into the food.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by donkeyhotay on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:35PM

    by donkeyhotay (2540) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:35PM (#261768)

    I'm with you on the woodworking and car repair shows. I absolutely hate and despise Bob Vila, for example. Every project he worked on went smoothly and was accomplished in a reasonable amount of time. I remember yelling at the TV, "Yeah, why don't you come to MY old house and do that, asshole!" I learned to feel the same way about Norm Abrams. At first, I liked his show, and used to dream of having a shop like his while I watched him turn out awesome furniture with his quarter-of-a-million dollars worth of tools. Then one day, while my (then) wife was watching it with me, she said, "Why don't you make me furniture like that?" I was incredulous. At the time we didn't have a lot of money, and all I had was a skil-saw, an electric drill, and a modest set of screwdrivers and wrenches. It was at that moment that I realized a divorce would sooner or later be in my future. I wonder how many marriages have tanked because of Norm Abrams. I loathe him.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:50PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:50PM (#261783)

      Every project he worked on went smoothly and was accomplished in a reasonable amount of time.

      Only get one guess how programming would be portrayed if it were similarly done on TV. In that way I'm glad no one watches me make sausage. (By that I mean program stuff... I think)

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:38PM (#261808)

      There was a bit of a missed opportunity in the shows where everything goes right. From what I've seen, reality TV is people dealing with things always going wrong. (If I still had cable), I'd be much more interested in This Old House where they find some really weird problem they have to deal with, and the solution they used to solve it.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:33PM (#261852)

        That is why I liked the older "this old house" series. Then everyone went with 'it must be dramatic and someone MUST cry'. They would spend like a whole season on one or two houses. These houses were usually in pretty rough shape. They would explain what the old code was why it was done the way it was. Then explain the newer codes and explain why they are doing it that way. Now not so much... :(

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:01PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:01PM (#261893)

        From what I've seen, reality TV is people dealing with things always going wrong.

        So it would be a good match for software development...

        More accurately reality TV is overly dramatic semi-scripted extroverts. So maybe not.

      • (Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday November 11 2015, @11:48PM

        by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 11 2015, @11:48PM (#261980)
        You might like Face Off. It's a reality show where aspiring Hollywood makeup artists compete to win a big prize. In one episode an artist smashed his hand, requiring a trip to the ER. Each of the contestants took a little time to work on his project, they helped out so he wouldn't be as far behind the next day. They compete with talent, not through back-stabbing. I love that show.
        --
        🏳️‍🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️‍🌈
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @05:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @05:33AM (#262052)

      He did the correct thing.

      Did you?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @11:24AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2015, @11:24AM (#262104)

        You mean, he killed his wife only to have an excuse to why he didn't get his file system to work reliably? :-)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:16PM (#261798)

    Does anyone actually paint along with Bob?

    Wait, you say "The Joy of Painting" is not meant as a sleeping aid?

  • (Score: 4, Touché) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:17PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @04:17PM (#261799) Journal

    > Giada ... wears hottie date night stuff which is highly distracting ... I'll come out of the kitchen with stuff all over my shirt

    Do it in the bathroom buddy, that's just unsanitary.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:42PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:42PM (#261856) Journal

    where you can hit pause any time you want or rewind and watch his technique 5 times till you "get" it.
     
    Can you not do that on Twitch TV? (Honesty, I don't know anything about this service)
     
    That's definitely how I played along as a kid...
     
    Veering off-topic a bit: Does anyone remember that kids art show where the guy drew all the Dr-Seus looking cities? I loved that one as a kid too.

  • (Score: 2) by ticho on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:52PM

    by ticho (89) on Wednesday November 11 2015, @08:52PM (#261917) Homepage Journal

    Most people who watch the stream don't paint (or at least don't paint along). For most, it is something to relax to - soothing and very positive voice, calm and pretty visuals, that kind of stuff. I watched a few episodes, and it is very nice to kick back for a few minutes and watch Bob paint.

    Of course, what with Twitch being primarily a platform for gaming-related streams, there is a lot of unruly "gamer kids" on the stream chat (lot of popular streamers redirect their audience to Bob Ross' channel when they go offline), and it is quite noisy there. However, if the stream can motivate at least a few of them to do something more creative with their time instead of gaming all the time, I'd say it's worth it.