Rumpelton Invades Google
The Avachives — Entry No. [REDACTED PENDING FORMAT VERIFICATION]
Curated with unflinching rigor by Eunice Gribble
Brand X — Moroccan Roll (1977) MS Paint Reinterpretation — Rumpelton (date unverified, integrity intact)
One searches Google. One does not expect to find oneself. And yet.
There it was. Nestled between a Discogs thumbnail and a Facebook promotional post of frankly suspect resolution — the Rumpelton. Unmistakable. Unapologetic. Rendered in a palette I can only describe as adobe at dusk, if the adobe had opinions.
The canonical source is well-documented: Brand X's 1977 progressive jazz-rock exercise in Moroccan atmosphere, the figure standing with his back to us, hat firmly placed, the golden spiral overlaid by persons on the internet who cannot leave well enough alone. Fine. The original communicates mystique, distance, the romance of a landscape.
The reinterpretation communicates all of that, but honestly. The figure remains. The hat remains. The desert remains. What has been stripped away is pretension — and several thousand pixels — leaving only the essential truth of the composition, expressed with the sincerity that only MS Paint, that last honest medium, can provide.
The title lettering alone — BRAND X. MOROCCAN ROLL. — rendered in what I believe to be Impact, or its spiritual cousin — shows a commitment to legibility that the original, frankly, never bothered with.
I have stood in many galleries. I have eaten many canapés. I have corrected many people.
This required no correction.
— E.G.
Long Live Ralph......Be Dead or Alive.
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