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Message # 22082.2.1.1

Subject: "Vacation" wasted such potential!

Date: Wed 26/04/06 23:39:43 GMT

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In the video for Vacation, we see the girls waterskiing in short dresses. Unfortunately they remain dry throughout the video. I don't understand how that was possible. Is it really possible to waterski and remain totally dry, or was this shot with a blue screen?

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Wasn't the original Go-Go's fountain sound called "Vacation"? [nt]

By wet white & Blue - Wed 26/04/06 11:41:18 GMT

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Re: The famous Go-Go's fountain video

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Wed 26/04/06 11:10:55 GMT

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The short answer to both your questions is: some people just can't leave well enough alone.

Some "bright spark" had the idea to remake/remix the original song and remake the video to go along with it. Hence the other group of girls who, with the magic of digital image manipulation, suddenly appear with the Go-Gos in the fountain.

Shots containing the mystery girls are new footage for the "fatboy slim" remake

Shots containing only the original Go-Gos are original footage for/from the original video

Shots containing both are the result of digital image processing, artificially adding new girls into the original fountain footage, demonstrating the extent to which a scene can be faked and to what lengths someone will go in their efforts to "improve" upon past works.

George Lucas may have been the vanguard, but technology has since created an army of Orwellian moving image "historians".

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The famous Go-Go's fountain video

By Sopping - Wed 26/04/06 09:35:04 GMT

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There is a good overview of one of the best wetlook videos ever made, IMO, "Our Lips are Sealed," by the Go-gos in the 1980s, here. http://www.nordstromsilverscreen.com/gogoBehind.html.

You have your choice of a "behind the scenes" look at the fountain frolic, as well as the video itself. There is something that I found to be mysterious though. There is a second convertible, a blue one, with another group of pretty girls, who also appear to end up in the fountain. They do not show up in the final video, but there are tantalizing glimpses of them in the sequences. Anyone have any ideas here?

Also, in the video I taped when it first came out show the girls coming out of the store with shopping bags. This does not seem to be in the video here. Hmmm?

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