“I think it’s one of the fettucini’s”
Posted on March 22, 2006
Brandon Bird (if you don’t recognize the name, go here) recently organized a gallery showing entitled Boom and Bust. In short, he and a couple of other artists created a piece of art to accompany an audio story. The story, you’ll be interested to know, was The Ghostbusters Meet the Ghost Riders read-along book.
So, put on your art hat and enjoy - the results are pretty damn cool. You can download the Ghost Rider tracks, but they may have been edited, so don’t consider them a faithful reproduction of the read-along tape.
[UPDATE] While looking through his past work, I found this piece he did for The Believer. Did you know Aykroyd supposedly means Shining Hero in Chinese? I didn’t.
[UPDATE] I liked the show and said as much to Mr. Bird. When asked how the idea for the show came about, I got this reply;
“For nearly two decades, my younger brother and I had enjoyed the ‘Ghostbusters meet the Ghost Riders’ book on tape. Specifically, we enjoyed how completely unfaithful it was to any Ghostbusters canon before or since, and how its author obviously liked cowboys and mining more than ghosts. So a while ago I thought, ‘I will turn this into an art show, and use the tape as the guided audio tour.’”
credit | Chris and Lin (who’re way hipper than I am)
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Man, what a cool gallery. The cheesy kid’s read-along book really brings more depth to the images. I was suprised by how much I liked it. I’ll say one thing, if I ever hear that rendition of the GB theme on that tape again…it’ll be too soon.
Are you kidding? That GB theme ROCKS! In terms of kitsch, it ranks right up there with “We’re The Ghost Busters” and “Let’s Go Ghostbusters!” (the themes to the two Filmation series). I LOVE IT!!!!!
As for the artwork… meh. It really didn’t thrill me. Most of it wasn’t GB related. Only three paintings contained the GBs (and not particually well, in my opinion).
If you didn’t know better, you wouldn’t have known it was the Ecto-1 in one of the paintings and the town diorama. Not that you could see the car very well in the dark painting anyway.
I thought that the western-themed cake (complete with toy Ecto-1A), that was served at the gallery opening, was cute. I would have loved to have gotten a slice :-)
The read-along story was decent, and *might* have made for a good RGB story if fleshed out. Then again, “Ghostfight At The O.K. Corral” pretty much covered the same subject matter, so nevermind. I just had a hard time buying those actors as the voices of the GBs. Was this such a “cheap” read-along book that the company who produced it couldn’t have paid the extra few bucks to hire the RGB voice cast?!?
The new GB theme was the best part.
http://www.brandonbird.com/gb/mp3s/track12.mp3
Seven of the pieces feature the ghostbusters and one is named as a wink to the movie. It’s art - it may or may not suit your tastes. I’m just more interested that they used the storybook as a framework for the show.