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Okay, who remembers Bob Ross????

acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
He was the white guy in the 80's with the afro who would paint on TV.

" I think I 'll paint a happy tree right here. Ah yes right next to the babbling brook" (In a soft voice)

Haha, he was mesmerizing. He was on tv before my pot smoking years, but I would love to tok up and watch him ;)
So peaceful.
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  • chiquimonkeychiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i loved him, great way to zone out on a saturday morning/afternoon when he was on. i love watching the process of creating a beautiful painting, wish i knew how to paint like that :) never got into paints, more ink/colored pencils
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    OMG! I LOOOOOOOOOVED him!! He was on PBS, right?? I used to watch him when I was REALLY little...like 4 or 5...I loved his happy little trees and how he gave them friends. :)
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    What a great guy. Sometimes his show will pop up on PBS still and I will watch it and still be amazed at how he could do that.

    Painting w/ a blade? What a great idea.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    i loved him, great way to zone out on a saturday morning/afternoon when he was on. i love watching the process of creating a beautiful painting, wish i knew how to paint like that :) never got into paints, more ink/colored pencils


    best way to get over a hangover.....:)


    rip bob
  • senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    Hmmm...that's weird, I remember a Chinese Bob Ross, with a crew cut, and he sculpted on the radio.
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    cutback wrote:
    best way to get over a hangover.....:)


    rip bob
    without a doubt. my roomates and I had an autographed 8x10 photo framed over the couch in college.
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    I keep trying to put up a clip from you tube, they are all fake! hahaha.
    I just found my new halloween costume for next year, :D
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
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  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    I adored that guy! He was totally inside the painting walking around looking for the next spot to pop a tree or flower up. Causally strolling through the mental landscape of creation.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    transplant wrote:
    without a doubt. my roomates and I had an autographed 8x10 photo framed over the couch in college.


    that's pretty funny....cool....:D:D
  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    We don't make mistakes, we make happy little accidents.

    I loved Bob Ross!!
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  • Flannel ShirtFlannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
    I do. I am not shitting you, and I am sure there are millions like me, but when I was in my youth, I would smoke a doob on the way home from school, grab a bag of cheetos and watch Bob bust out one of the greatest paintings using a fucking RAZOR that I ever saw.

    The happy little trees and flowers, and animals and shit. It was great. His voice was so calming.
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  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    No Way!!!!

    http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1527820/20060404/id_0.jhtml
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    acoustic guy wrote:
    No Way!!!!

    http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1527820/20060404/id_0.jhtml

    I'm pretty sure that project has been dropped. That's a damn shame too.
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  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Posts: 3,636
    such a peaceful soul.

    http://gardenofstone.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10006/thumb_happyaliveguy.jpg
    Nice shirt.
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    QuarterToTen wrote:
    such a peaceful soul.

    http://gardenofstone.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10006/thumb_happyaliveguy.jpg

    Where did you find that?
    Freakin great!!!!
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Posts: 3,636
    acoustic guy wrote:
    Where did you find that?
    Freakin great!!!!

    i googled.

    wish it was bigger.
    Nice shirt.
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    ok i just said last night that if you ever watch 'This Old House' or 'Yankee Workshop', that dude Norm is cut from the same cloth as Bob Ross. he is mezmorizing ala bob. check it out.
    I love to turn you on
  • Be SoundBe Sound Posts: 199
    I used to watch him all the time!
    Don't it make you smile
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle Posts: 10,724
    I saw some other guy last week that was pretty close to Bob. He can't ever be replaced, but this guy was just like him. It was also on PBS too. :confused:
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    The Joy of Painting
  • ZanneZanne Posts: 899
    Flannel Shirt wrote:
    I do. I am not shitting you, and I am sure there are millions like me, but when I was in my youth, I would smoke a doob on the way home from school, grab a bag of cheetos and watch Bob bust out one of the greatest paintings using a fucking RAZOR that I ever saw.

    The happy little trees and flowers, and animals and shit. It was great. His voice was so calming.


    It's called a palette knife.. Just FYI. My dad did lots of happy and not-so-happy "little" paintings using palette knives (and others using brushes, sponges, conte crayons, pastels, charcoals, etc etc).
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Bob was so xen...his voice massaged my soul like a thousand tiny Japanese women.
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    I remember him! wow
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  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    aNiMaL wrote:
    The Joy of Painting

    I found a TON of spoofs on youtube.com...but couldn't find anything of the REAL Bob Ross.
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    AmentsChick wrote:
    I found a TON of spoofs on youtube.com...but couldn't find anything of the REAL Bob Ross.
    Oh, I wasn't looking for the real BR.

    What I posted is from the defunct Almost Live! TV show from Seattle's KING-5 TV. I always loved Pat Cashman's Bob Ross sketches. He's funny! :D


    Edit: Laughs, I just checked Youtube, and like you said, it's all stupid, homemade spoofs. Too bad the real show isn't on there. I haven't seen the real show in AGES!!
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Edit: Laughs, I just checked Youtube, and like you said, it's all stupid, homemade spoofs. Too bad the real show isn't on there. I haven't seen the real show in AGES!!

    What? Didn't believe me?! :p
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Steve Dunne wrote:
    ok i just said last night that if you ever watch 'This Old House' or 'Yankee Workshop', that dude Norm is cut from the same cloth as Bob Ross. he is mezmorizing ala bob. check it out.


    i love this old house and watching norm build something is really cool and fucking frustrating at the same time....he makes it look so easy.....dick...:p :D
  • dawngdawng Posts: 644
    I loved Bob Ross! A bunch of us used to sit around after high school smoking weed watching happy little clouds appear in the sky. Great memories :)
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  • NYbenbenNYbenben Posts: 1,020
    there is a happy tree that lives over here....

    that dude was the eternal stoner!
    4/12/92, 8/11/92, 9/28/96, 9/11/98, 8/23/00, 8/24/00, 7/9/03, 4/30/03, 10/1/04, 10/3/05, 12/9/05, 5/12/06, 5/17/06, 5/28/06, 6/3/06, 12/9/06, EV LA 4/12-4/13/08, 6/12/08, 6,19,08, 6,20,08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 7/1/08

    and still jonesing for another show....
    "the waiting drove me mad..."
  • seanw1010seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    he was in the beginning of a family guy episode once...
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
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