Thursday, July 10, 2008

Ecclesiastes 3:4 "...a time to dance"




I haven't used this site in some time, so I thought I'd kick things off again with this post that I picked this up from NPR this morning, made my day.

“Matt Harding has gained a cult following for making and posting YouTube videos of himself in various exotic locales — dancing badly.

Harding ditched his job as a video game designer in 2003 to backpack around Asia. The recordings of his international jigging soon gained him Internet fame. Corporate sponsorship followed, funding more travels and new dancing videos.

In 2007, with backing from a gum company, Harding announced his intention to circle the globe again. He received more than 20,000 invitations from fans around the world to come dance with them in their hometowns. He took them up on their offers and roped others he encountered on his travels into boogieing with him as well.

The video Harding made from these travels, of communal bad dancing, went instantly viral when it was posted on YouTube at the end of June. Fueled by blog postings and e-mail forwards, the video garnered more than 3 million views its first week up.”