A mash up video of films from the 1980's with Phoenix's song Litzsomania spurred a number of incredibly fresh videos from across the world. The original was taken down for copyright reasons, but you can still find it on You Tube with embedding disabled. (watch now) Brat Pack is a slang term, it refers to a group of actors from the 1980's making a number of films with at least two of the original Brat Packers. Some of these films from the 1980's are The Breakfast Club (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Outsiders, Class, Sixteeen Candles, Oxford Blues, etc. But in general brat pack refers to a group of successful people working in the same professional field.
Now a fresh contemporary take on this concept can be found in these videos. A group of friends having genuine fun.
Let's start with Brooklyin, New York.
Then follows San Francisco
Let's go to Europe now and see Amsterdam
The band Phoenix comes from Versailles, Paris. I like the span of generations in this one
The one from Riga is introducing us to another corner of Europe
But let's go Brasil now, Rio de Janeiro has some amazing views. It's so colourful and warm
And let's finish with Boston, hoping to find some more mash ups from different parts of the world. London, Barcelona, Turin...
And let me end by thanking Lawrence Lessig for letting me know about this. Let's keep the internet free and let copyright control understand this. Share culture.
