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Has anyone seen this on LA cable tv? This, a review from LA Weekly's Doug Harvey:

When I first saw Let?s Paint TV, I was almost certain that this was a clever parody of the Bob Ross tradition of painting programs, perpetrated by some CalArts performance or video graduate who had never touched a brush in his life. Kilduff?s tone is slippery and a little sarcastic, and he was doing a portrait of some kind of rowdy street freak (probably another cable-access host), using what appeared to be an enormous house-painting brush. Later shows introduced a very peculiar array of models and still-life objects ? 99-cent-store toy insects, a clown dressed as Uncle Sam on stilts (who chased the artiste around the studio), a thrift-store ceramic bust of JFK and, for four entire episodes, a potty-mouthed Saddam Hussein brought in to experience the rehabilitative power of painting practice. It all smacked of prankish subversion. The problem was, Kilduff was too good. In spite of the zany antics and rough-hewn, possibly naive expressionism of the images, you could tell this guy had pushed some paint around.

And SpiderMan reviews Crayola Crayons (via Mat Gleason):

My oh my, can it be? Is it true? Do I have before me the ultimate crayon? The crayon to end all crayons? Have I found...black gold?

Posted by Dennis at September 2, 2004 7:19 AM