Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2007, 05:39:01 PM
Quote from: Thorin on April 26, 2007, 04:13:41 PM
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=1825&pageid=1
I think I like cracked.com...
Understatement ;)
Cracked also has a nice collection of "local access TV" clips including of course The Spirit of Troof (http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=1649&pageid=5) and The Most Patient TV Host In The World (http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=1649&pageid=4). Swearing being broadcast live with a probably-single-digit audience is FUNNY! ;D
I hadn't seen one of the clips that Cracked.com now introduced to me.
Now it's my fave.
LET'S PAINT! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbL_5rH1QQ)
It's unintentionally funny even from the beginning, but if you are impatient, the really insane stuff starts around 3.5 minutes in -- not sure if it was the director or the cameraman whose drugs finally kicked in? :o
the host is on eBay, selling his painted wares
http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=johnkilduff-fineart
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...After a couple of years spoofing talk shows and the Home Shopping Network, Kilduff realized that if he combined his first calling as a painter with the ramshackle seat-of-your-pants inventiveness of cable access, he'd produce something new -- a mutant strain of instructional art television.
Boisterous, irreverent and surreal, Let's Paint TV is nevertheless utterly sincere in its espousal of painting as a path of creative liberation. If anything, it jettisons the inverse snobbery of the Bob Ross tradition, assuming a sophisticated audience informed by the inescapable influence of Modernism and the indeterminate sincerity of post -- Saturday Night Live television. It turns out Let's Paint TV is indeed a clever parody of Bob Ross and company, but -- like so much parody, from Don Quixote to the novelty music of Spike Jones -- this one turns out to be better art than that at which it pokes fun...
- "The Joy of Painting Saddam", LA Weekly (http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art/the-joy-of-painting-saddam/1392/)
...this is literally the GREATEST THING
How did I miss this? I'm going to have to buy a treadmill now
Epic thread resurrection!
And epic that Cracked.com is still just as damn addictive, 8 years later!
...And uber-epic that the treadmill-walking greenscreen background painting guy in a suit video is still there on YT after all these years :o
I'm guessing he makes some decent coin from his eBay offerings @ http://www.ebay.com/usr/johnkilduff-fineart
I mean yeesh $500 for a roll of toilet paper! http://www.ebay.com/itm/181568488451
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Toilet Paper Roll #2
Oil on Canvas
12"x 9"
Kilduff, John
This painting is part of my bathroom series....paintings for your bathroom!
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMTgy/z/PvYAAOSwZkJUSup0/$_1.JPG)
ftw.
I didn't even see how old the thread was yowza!
I'm glad YouTube hasn't died yet
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 22, 2015, 03:47:10 PM
I didn't even see how old the thread was yowza!
He's still at it!
https://www.youtube.com/user/letspainttv/videos
Also, that LA Weekly article linked above, the URL slightly changed, worth a read: http://www.laweekly.com/arts/the-joy-of-painting-saddam-2138759
Nice!