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Where the Hell is Matt?
“One little dance, danced all over the world.”
- Featured era
- 2005
- Peak era
- 2006-2008
- Company
- Matt Harding
- Category
- Viral Videos
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Matt Harding's "Where the Hell is Matt? 2008"
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About This Video
- From:
- Where the Hell is Matt?
- Added:
- June 20, 2008
- Length:
- 4:29
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What Was It?
Where the Hell is Matt? is a series of videos in which Matt Harding, a former video game developer, does the same little dance in front of landmarks and street scenes around the world.
Harding quit his job to travel in 2003, and his companions in Vietnam suggested he film his dance. He edited 15 scenes together to Deep Forest's "Sweet Lullaby" and put the video on his website for friends and family. It spread by email before the big video sites existed.
Stride gum sponsored a second video in 2006. For the third, released on June 20, 2008, Harding invited people to join him, and spent 14 months traveling to 42 countries where strangers danced alongside him. Its song, "Praan", sets a Rabindranath Tagore poem to music by Garry Schyman, sung in Bengali by Palbasha Siddique.
Things You Probably Forgot
- The same dance in front of every landmark
- Deep Forest's "Sweet Lullaby"
- "Praan", sung in Bengali by Palbasha Siddique
- Strangers dancing along in 2008
The Story
- 2003 Harding first filmed his dance while traveling in Vietnam in May.
- 2006 Stride gum sponsored a second video, "Dancing 2006".
- 2008 The third video, filmed over 14 months in 42 countries, was released on June 20.
- 2008 NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day featured it on July 22.
Its Legacy
The 2008 video is still on Harding's channel. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day has featured his videos several times, noting that few people can watch them without smiling.
Memories
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