Happy Clouds, Happy Trees by Kristin G. Congdon & Doug Blandy & Danny Coeyman

Author:Kristin G. Congdon & Doug Blandy & Danny Coeyman [Congdon, Kristin G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2014-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

Bob like Close, by Danny Coeyman

Appreciating the breadth and depth of the network associated with Bob Ross is key to understanding Bob Ross the person, Bob Ross the icon, Bob Ross the teacher, and Bob Ross the legend. This network is dynamic and nonlinear. Links within the network are physical (locations), personal, and conceptual. The individual people, places, and concepts associated with this web of interrelationships, if considered theoretically, can be described as individual nodes connected to one or more nodes ad infinitum. A data analysis of this network would be fascinating and likely to reveal clusters of relationships as well as paths between relationships. Also of interest would be an analysis of this network that would determine which nodes are the most influential in either blocking connections with other nodes or cultivating the connections between nodes. One wonders if a distributed Bob Ross intelligence exists across this network and what constitutes that intelligence? What contingencies regarding individual and collective choices are at work within this network? What would a map of this network look like?

Considered systemically, an analysis of this network could reveal what events were most significant to the development of this network, what constitutes change within the network, what is contributing to the stability of the network, and what modes of communication exist within the network. Centers and edges of the network could be identified, including how the system is bounded and what actors are trying to push or constrict the boundary. This is a system within which subsystems exist, for example, Bob Ross, Inc., those connected by love of Bob Ross parodies, and so-called fine artists connected through an incorporation of Bob Ross into their work. Thinking systemically about the Bob Ross network raises important and as yet unanswered questions about the existence of authority, hierarchy, and the tolerance of transgression within the network.

While a full exposition of the Bob Ross network falls outside of the scope of this chapter, discussing two distinct nodes or participants within the network does suggest what characterizes the network and the people and their motivations associated with it. It is also possible to begin to appreciate who is contributing to a Bob Ross–distributed network intelligence. One participant is Davy Turner, aka the “Painterman.” (Turner’s quotes herein are from his emails with author Kristin Congdon, 2005–2013). Another is Danny Coeyman, one of this work’s authors. Including Coeyman’s case assists in illustrating the relationship of this book and the people associated with it to the larger Bob Ross network as described above.

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