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The Spirituality of Bob Ross
You’ll never estimate what came on the UPS truck the other day—a life-sized cardboard sever out of Bob Ross. You recognize, the curly-haired PBS painter who made painting look straightforward. I used to watch Bob Ross; he inspired me to want to be a painter. I tried to use my budget crayola water colors to create gleeful little clouds, snowy mountain peeks, and sweet looking pine trees. They never turned out, but that never stopped me from trying. Bob Ross has developed a cult following of sorts among young people thanks to Netflix and Deadpool. My kids told me they watch him at night when they can’t hibernate, his soothing voice reminding them that there is no such thing as a mistake, only happy accidents, giving them a perception of peace that allows them to gently drift off. They even generate baby and toddler clothes stating “I’m a happy accident.” (I know one little guy who’ll be getting one for Christmas.) That’s where I set up the life-sized cardboard cut out. The Religion Department at Northwestern needs a new bulletin board out in the hallway, so we’re going with a Bob Ross theme. My colleagues had some doubts, but when students k
The Threads That Keep Us Together: A Conversation with Ross Gay
Montserrat Andrée Carty: So much of your work is about the link between joy and sorrow, and about connection. You've said when we perceive sorrow is not unique to us, we might be less likely to be overcome by that sorrow. I had this recent experience at my MFA residency with a classmate of mine, we discovered that we distributed the same trauma. And when we had this finding, we laughed. I was thinking about this later because, of course, it wasn't funny, and it wasn't that we were laughing because it was funny, but I think perhaps it was sort of like this physical reaction to a lightness that we were not alone in our pain.
Ross Gay: Yes. I know that life of having my own devastation or sorrow or heartbreak, being made conscious that my heartbreak is not one-of-a-kind to me, that it is, in fact, common to others, at least someone else and probably lots of other people. That's kind of one of the things that I touch is why delight is really interesting; the way I think of it is a really interesting state or emotion or whatever you call it, because as far as I'm concerned, it implies or it understands or it carries with it the
Amongst the pantheon of notable general television personalities, Bob Ross easily ranks alongside the likes of Mr Rogers and Elmo as a star who is almost universally loved and respected by the public. Despite being famous the world over for his balmy, soothing demeanour, his show The Joy of Painting and his amazing ‘fro, we know surprisingly little about arguably one of the best famous artists in modern times.
This is partially because, for some reason, nobody ever really asked Bob Ross to do any interviews and he only gave a handful of them over the course of his life. In fact, in one of the surprisingly few quotes from the man himself that don’t appear from his show, he stated “I never turn down requests for interviews. I’m just rarely asked”. However, in another interview Ross gave with Egg Magazine, who specifically sought him out because they realised nobody knew anything about him, Ross sheepishly admitted that he liked to “stay hidden” adding that he was “sort of hard to find“. In fact, Ross was so hard to find that PBS once lost track of him, though it would seem not many , if anybody, noticed, until Ross called to le
Bob Ross, Populist Designer
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The Pleasure of Painting—a TV series hosted by American musician Bob Ross, on which he would conjure up Alaskan landscapes in just 27 minutes of airtime—ran for 403 episodes between 1983 and 1994. Eventually syndicated to almost 300 PBS stations nationwide, it attracted over 80 million daily viewers of varying ages and backgrounds. According to research conducted by Bob Ross, Inc., only three percent of these viewers actually painted along with Ross. The recover just watched, mesmerized by the pioneer of autonomous sensory meridian response.
Ross’s hushed, melodic tones, the gentle rasp of his brush against canvas, and the scraping of his palette knife combined to send the audience into a pleasurable stupor as enchanting snowy mountains or verdant bluffs appeared before them on a double primed 18” x 24” canvas. Ross succumbed to blood cancer in 1995 at the age of 52, but on what woul