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Reminded (again) of the beauty of life…Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen)
beingzoe over 3 years ago

I was searching YouTube looking for videos about sun screen to post here because we just added the Beyond Coastal Sunscreen line to the store here at CoTradeCo. I was hoping to find some valuable resources about sun and skin damage to share. Maybe I will still find them. But I didn’t get past the countless postings of Baz Luhrmann’s beautiful rendition of Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen. A simple search for sunscreen returned thousands of results and at the top of the list were dozen’s of versions of the Baz Luhrmann song set to a new theme, montage, and video.

About 4 months ago I posted one of those versions here. The simplistic beauty of this song never ceases to move me, give me hope and strength; a reason to not just get up in the morning but to do something better today than I did yesterday…because I can.

Clicking somewhat arbitrarily on one of the many visual interpretaions of the song, it was unclear at first if this were even the song. At first the cynical mind took over and threw up red flags telling me that this was some low budget short film interpretation of the song sans the song. Even as the song started I thought, “This is going to be bad.”

But the video I have embedded above is not cheesy. It is not bad. It is perhaps the most moving digital folk art interpretation of this inspiring piece I have seen yet. Watching the version of Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen above was so beautiful it were as if I had never heard the song, not yet felt the joy and hope of it’s sentiment, it’s advice.

Maybe on some level as I searched for sunscreen videos I was hoping to find this. It would do us all well, in our pod-casted over-personalized technical world to listen to this song at least once a day.

Dance. Even if you have nowwhere to do it but in your own living room. And always wear sunscreen.

The version shared here was made by an undoubtedly special group of people under the title Sunscreen Movie – Based on Baz Luhrmann Song – Everybody’s Free under the YouTube screen name, sunscreenmovie as a ferreira films production. They also have a website with a higher resolution quicktime MOV version that you can watch, download and share with family and friends. Please do! Visit their website at http://www.sunscreenmovie.com/

As I mentioned in my previous post on this topic, ‘Wear Sunscreen’ is the common name of an essay, (actually called ‘Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young’ [original essay at The full text – A storage area for long quotes ) written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.

Now dance.

You might also be interested in:

• Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)…be reminded of the beauty of life
• The dark side of Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen)…you need a sense of humor
• Sunscreen basics from Better.tv
• Putting things in perspective…Shift Happens UK version
• Which would you choose?