If I was Matt Harding
A search on Wikipedia will indicate the following about Matt Harding.
"Matthew "Matt (Mathias)" Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game developer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since achieved notoriety through widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets. Originally from Westport, Connecticut, where he began his game industry career working for a video game specialty store called Cutting Edge Entertainment, Harding later worked as an editor for GameWeek Magazine in Wilton, Connecticut, and then as a software developer for Activision in Santa Monica, California and then Brisbane, Australia. Harding claims that a sarcastic joke of his about the popularity of shoot 'em up games led Pandemic Studios to develop the game Destroy All Humans!, on which he received a conceptual credit. Saying he "didn't want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone", he quit his job and began traveling, leading to the production of his first video.[5] Harding has subsequently moved to Seattle and continues to work on video games."
I was introduced to Mathias (Matt) Harding on http://www.indiamike.com/ in a thread in which members of the forum were discussing their favourite youtube videos. The one below was linked in one of the most liked videos.
Where the hell is Matt
About the video, the wikipedia says
"Harding was known for a particular dance, and while videotaping each other in Vietnam, his traveling companion suggested he add the dance. The videos were uploaded to his website for friends and family to enjoy. Later, Harding edited together 15 dance scenes, all with him center frame, with the background music "Sweet Lullaby (Nature's Dancing 7" Mix)", a 1992 world music song by Deep Forest that uses lyrics from a dying Solomon Islands language.
(The original "Sweet Lullaby" music video, which was nominated by MTV for music video of the year, consists of a little girl riding a tricycle in front of iconic scenes from around the globe. The same clip was used as a station identification for the SBS television network.)
The video was passed around by e-mail and eventually became "viral", with his server getting 20,000 or more hits a day as it was discovered, generally country by country due to language barriers, before the launch of major video upload sites.
Harding created a second version of the video in 2006, with additional dancing scenes from subsequent travels, called "Dancing 2006". At the request of Stride, a gum brand, he accepted sponsorship of this video, since he usually travels on a limited budget.
His videos are viewable on YouTube, Google Video, and his own site wherethehellismatt.com. His second video has been watched 7,265,087 times on YouTube as of July 1, 2007 and Harding's YouTube channel is ranked "#30 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Directors" as of March 25, 2007."
Matt produced this video for a company, which liked his earlier video on something similar- and therefore gave him money, timetable and locations to shoot a video exclusively for them for the purpose of a commercial. His earlier video was this
Where the hell was Matt
It has since the introduction to me, has become my favourite youtube video… the music and the locales are haunting…whenever I have self doubts, I just play this video in front of me and relax. If a computer geek born in 1976, an year after me can do it…may one day I will also do it… I have to just stick around and wait for my turn. The issue of course would not be money but of time. And of stability.
If such an opportunity is given to me… then what are the places I will choose…
My list will be (having both the natural and man made wonders)
· India- The ruins of Hampi
· China- The Great Wall of China, somewhere
· TAR, China- The Lhasa Palace
· Indonesia- Borobudur Temple
· Cambodia- The Angkor Wat
· Jordan- Petra
· Turkey- The blue mosque of Istanbul
. Syria- Palmyra Ruins
· Russia- Kremlin in Moscow
· Romania- The Count Dracula's castle in Brasov
· Spain- Barcelona Church
· Italy - Any place in Venice, I love the images of entire city
· Egypt- Hatepshut Temple in Luxor
. Mali- Timbuktu town
. Ethiopia- Lake Tana on a canoe
· Uganda- In the Bwindi forest with the mountain gorillas
· Peru- Macchu Picchu
· Brazil- Jesus the Redeemer in Rio De Janerio
· Australia- The Great Barrier Reef
· USA- The Grand Canyon
20 places, 19 countries. As we say in Egypt- Inshallah, I will be there. 2 done and 18 to go.
"Matthew "Matt (Mathias)" Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game developer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since achieved notoriety through widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets. Originally from Westport, Connecticut, where he began his game industry career working for a video game specialty store called Cutting Edge Entertainment, Harding later worked as an editor for GameWeek Magazine in Wilton, Connecticut, and then as a software developer for Activision in Santa Monica, California and then Brisbane, Australia. Harding claims that a sarcastic joke of his about the popularity of shoot 'em up games led Pandemic Studios to develop the game Destroy All Humans!, on which he received a conceptual credit. Saying he "didn't want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone", he quit his job and began traveling, leading to the production of his first video.[5] Harding has subsequently moved to Seattle and continues to work on video games."
I was introduced to Mathias (Matt) Harding on http://www.indiamike.com/ in a thread in which members of the forum were discussing their favourite youtube videos. The one below was linked in one of the most liked videos.
Where the hell is Matt
About the video, the wikipedia says
"Harding was known for a particular dance, and while videotaping each other in Vietnam, his traveling companion suggested he add the dance. The videos were uploaded to his website for friends and family to enjoy. Later, Harding edited together 15 dance scenes, all with him center frame, with the background music "Sweet Lullaby (Nature's Dancing 7" Mix)", a 1992 world music song by Deep Forest that uses lyrics from a dying Solomon Islands language.
(The original "Sweet Lullaby" music video, which was nominated by MTV for music video of the year, consists of a little girl riding a tricycle in front of iconic scenes from around the globe. The same clip was used as a station identification for the SBS television network.)
The video was passed around by e-mail and eventually became "viral", with his server getting 20,000 or more hits a day as it was discovered, generally country by country due to language barriers, before the launch of major video upload sites.
Harding created a second version of the video in 2006, with additional dancing scenes from subsequent travels, called "Dancing 2006". At the request of Stride, a gum brand, he accepted sponsorship of this video, since he usually travels on a limited budget.
His videos are viewable on YouTube, Google Video, and his own site wherethehellismatt.com. His second video has been watched 7,265,087 times on YouTube as of July 1, 2007 and Harding's YouTube channel is ranked "#30 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Directors" as of March 25, 2007."
Matt produced this video for a company, which liked his earlier video on something similar- and therefore gave him money, timetable and locations to shoot a video exclusively for them for the purpose of a commercial. His earlier video was this
Where the hell was Matt
It has since the introduction to me, has become my favourite youtube video… the music and the locales are haunting…whenever I have self doubts, I just play this video in front of me and relax. If a computer geek born in 1976, an year after me can do it…may one day I will also do it… I have to just stick around and wait for my turn. The issue of course would not be money but of time. And of stability.
If such an opportunity is given to me… then what are the places I will choose…
My list will be (having both the natural and man made wonders)
· India- The ruins of Hampi
· China- The Great Wall of China, somewhere
· TAR, China- The Lhasa Palace
· Indonesia- Borobudur Temple
· Cambodia- The Angkor Wat
· Jordan- Petra
· Turkey- The blue mosque of Istanbul
. Syria- Palmyra Ruins
· Russia- Kremlin in Moscow
· Romania- The Count Dracula's castle in Brasov
· Spain- Barcelona Church
· Italy - Any place in Venice, I love the images of entire city
· Egypt- Hatepshut Temple in Luxor
. Mali- Timbuktu town
. Ethiopia- Lake Tana on a canoe
· Uganda- In the Bwindi forest with the mountain gorillas
· Peru- Macchu Picchu
· Brazil- Jesus the Redeemer in Rio De Janerio
· Australia- The Great Barrier Reef
· USA- The Grand Canyon
20 places, 19 countries. As we say in Egypt- Inshallah, I will be there. 2 done and 18 to go.
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