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Posted By dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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dissent5 months, 3 weeks ago
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"About Matt
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Matt is a 32-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the money he'd saved to wander around Asia until it ran out. He made this site so he could keep his family and friends updated about where he is.
A few months into his trip, a travel buddy gave Matt an idea. They were standing around taking pictures in Hanoi, and his friend said "Hey, why don't you stand over there and do that dance. I'll record it." He was referring to a particular dance Matt does. It's actually the only dance Matt does. He does it badly. Anyway, this turned out to be a very good idea.
A couple years later, someone found the video online and passed it to someone else, who passed it to someone else, and so on. Now Matt is quasi-famous as "That guy who dances on the internet. No, not that guy. The other one. No, not him either. I'll send you the link. It's funny."
The response to the first video brought Matt to the attention of the nice people at Stride gum. They asked Matt if he'd be interested in taking another trip around the world to make a new video. Matt asked if they'd be paying for it. They said yes. Matt thought this sounded like another very good idea.
In 2006, Matt took a 6 month trip through 39 countries on all 7 continents. In that time, he danced a great deal.
The second video made Matt even more quasi-famous. In fact, for a brief period in July, he was semi-famous.
Things settled down again, and then in 2007 Matt went back to Stride with another idea. He realized his bad dancing wasn't actually all that interesting, and that other people were much better at being bad at it. He showed them his inbox, which, as a result of his semi-famousness, was overflowing with emails from all over the planet. He told them he wanted to travel around the world one more time and invite the people who'd written him to come out and dance too.
The Stride people thought that sounded like yet another very good idea, so they let him do it. And he did. And now it's done. And he hopes you like it.
Matt lives in Seattle, Washington with his girlfriend, Melissa, and dog, Sydney. He hasn't had a real job since Stride called him up. Matt doesn't mind working, but he doesn't much care for having to show up at the same place every day.
Matt is not rich. Matt also doesn't have some magical secret for traveling cheaply. He does it pretty much the same way everybody else does."
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AnteUp5 months, 3 weeks ago
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When I first heard of Matt's dancing - I thought it would
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be another stupid reality spin-off. Yeah - it proved so
stupid, it makes me cry every time I see it.
I suppose the cynics (and I can be one too) would say the
stupidity is in thinking it can be that easy. Okay, so it
doesn't bring immediate world peace - but it highlights
how easy it is to see the commonalities!
Thanks for sharing, dissent.-
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dissent5 months, 3 weeks ago
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i see it as life affirming stuff. you know, "what the world needs now... etc"
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matt's stupidity is more sane than any dour-faced bullsh*t presidential speech about why we've got to bomb some 3rd world backwater into oblivion, why it's the right thing to attack, invade and occupy people's homes, why we're doing what's best for them by controlling their resources, and why we are so freakin morally superior because we kill hundreds of thousands of them in the process
think about it. in a lot of these shots of happy, dancing people from different parts of the world, with enormous cultural differences, they're no different to the countless numbers we've killed to justify our bloody wars.
and then we "strategize" and scratch our heads wondering why we're not winning hearts and minds... now THAT is stupid
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