Where the Hell is Matt?

By now, the crazy videos that Matt Harding posted in 2005 and 2006 have become Internet legend. For those not familiar with the Where the Hell is Matt series, here's the gist: Matt, a young, travel-hungry fellow, goes around the world to amazing places and dances like a fool in each one, filming his journey.

Here's the first:

And then he made another, 10x better than the first.

(This is the one that most everybody has seen, and was financed by Stride Gum.)

And then he kept making them. Apparently somewhere there in the meantime he found out that the music used in the first two was illegally sampled, and spent time finding the originator, and doing great things to help the singer's family.

And he keeps making these little dancing films. He doesn't dance particularly well, but that's not really the point. He's bringing people together, and spreading joy wherever he takes his dancing and his camera.

From 2008:

And then the one that just came out a few days ago:

Ethan Zuckerman (whose blog is a great read, if you've got some spare time) just did a post on Matt and his journey - When the World is Your Dance Teacher - which contains much more information and links to all of Matt's films, plus a post on what Matt did for the family of the man who sang the lullaby in the first two little films.

(These are good videos to save someplace for when you're feeling down in the dumps, because they're an instant antidote to disillusionment and depression, at least for a little while!)