Earth Day has sort have lost it's impact over the last couple of years. Environmentalism has as a whole, in fact. A large percentage of the population think the concept of global warming is a farce and believe in the myth of "clean coal". Some in Congress even want to do away with the Environmental Protection Agency.
I was trying to think of a video that inspired me when it came to this great little planet we call Earth. I came up with two. They are both from Matt Harding, a video game developer for Pandemic Studios, that decided in 2003 to start traveling the world until the money that he had saved up had run out. A friend of his videotaped him doing a corny dance on the streets of Vietnam, and 'Where the HELL is Matt?' was born. Using 'Lullaby' from Deep Forest as his backing track, he put together a montage of clips of himself dancing in various locations during 2003 and 2004.
In 2006, he was approached by Stride gum to do another video. This time he traveled to 39 countries on 7 continents.
Matt went back to the executives at Stride in 2008, with an idea for a third video. Not so much focus on his silly dancing, but more on the people that he meets along the way. For some reason, maybe it's the music, maybe it's seeing people from so many different cultures, this one tugs at my heart.
Years after seeing these videos for the first time, one word comes to mind when describing them: inspirational. We live in such a beautiful and amazing world. I hope you enjoyed the videos as much as I did.
I was trying to think of a video that inspired me when it came to this great little planet we call Earth. I came up with two. They are both from Matt Harding, a video game developer for Pandemic Studios, that decided in 2003 to start traveling the world until the money that he had saved up had run out. A friend of his videotaped him doing a corny dance on the streets of Vietnam, and 'Where the HELL is Matt?' was born. Using 'Lullaby' from Deep Forest as his backing track, he put together a montage of clips of himself dancing in various locations during 2003 and 2004.
In 2006, he was approached by Stride gum to do another video. This time he traveled to 39 countries on 7 continents.
Matt went back to the executives at Stride in 2008, with an idea for a third video. Not so much focus on his silly dancing, but more on the people that he meets along the way. For some reason, maybe it's the music, maybe it's seeing people from so many different cultures, this one tugs at my heart.
Years after seeing these videos for the first time, one word comes to mind when describing them: inspirational. We live in such a beautiful and amazing world. I hope you enjoyed the videos as much as I did.
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