Matt Harding
Where The Hell Is Matt? is a series of short video clips. You can see Matt Harding, a young man who dances in various locations around the world. On the Internet, the films acquired cult status.
Person
Matthew " Matt" Harding ( born September 27, 1976) is an American from Westport, Connecticut. Before his travels he worked in the computer game industry for Pandemic Studios. After developing a concept for a child-and family- oriented game that rejected his bosses on the basis of market research, he made the sarcastic suggestion, a game in which aliens destroy the humans to develop. When the idea was enthusiastically taken up and Destroy All Humans! arose, Harding announced in February 2003.
From his savings he went on a world tour and settled there - at the suggestion of a colleague - filming in different places at a comparatively simple dance, which he himself describes as "Dance like three year olds who scurry clueless and fidget with the poor ". " I did not continue development of this age. " When his savings were exhausted after half a year, he returned to Seattle and cut out the short video scenes a movie and released it in 2005 on his website. The chewing gum manufacturer Stride Gum sponsored it in 2006, then another trip.
The following year, Harding told the company that its " bad dance basically is not so interesting and other people much better bad at it [ sc are in dancing ]. "He therefore proposed to once again travel around the world and all the people who had written to him in the meantime, invite together to dance with him. Stride Gum let adapts to it and also financed this trip, so Harding in 2008 was able to publish a third video. On July 22, 2008 was "Where the Hell is Matt? 2008" the " Astronomy Picture of the Day" from NASA.
Matt lives with his girlfriend Melissa Nixon in 2009 in Seattle, Washington. On 20 April 2009 he announced his book Where The Hell Is Matt - on Dancing Badly Around the World, which was published on June 2, 2009.
In preparation for the 2010 World Cup, the fourth video with scenes created exclusively in South Africa. In June 2012, four years after his third video appeared "Where the Hell is Matt? 2012," his fifth video. In this video, Matt Harding dance and many other dancers at 71 locations in 55 countries and 11 U.S. states. For this video Garry Schyman composed the background song "Trip the Light", which was sung by Alicia Lemke. On 10 July 2012, "Where the Hell is Matt? 2012" as already the video from 2008, the " Astronomy Picture of the Day" from NASA.
Authenticity
In view of the great effort and financial resources needed the authenticity of the video clip is questioned regularly. In the FAQ of his website we find the following, ambiguous entry:
"Question :: " This is all a big hoax, is not it? You did it with a green screen. You never left your house. It's true, is not it? " Answer: " Yes. " Answer to that: " I knew it I'm telling everyone 're nailed, buddy! " Question: " This is all a big hoax, right? You have done with green screen. You never leave your house. Is not that right? " Answer: " Yes. " Answer: "I knew it. I'll tell you all. You're pinned down, mate, " "
Also, in the released of him YouTube clip outtakes Harding has taken up the issue and shots around the cutouts of the famous video clips shown that should refute bluescreen shots. The authenticity of the video also speaks of the fact that the company Stride has financed his travels and have now reported renowned newspapers about his travels, including about the New York Times, 8 July 2008 dedicated to him a longer article.
At the conference Entertainment Gathering Harding has stated in December 2008 that the videos were fake, he was not a game designer, but actors and the videos were created with robots and expensive video editing. On his website he declared afterwards that it is this explanation is the joke and he had of course made all the travel. At the MacWorld Expo, he showed his satirical presentation that was meant to be obvious hoax and typical elements of conspiracy parodied, but was misunderstood by some private citizens and journalists.
Music
In the first two video clips of the song Sweet Lullaby from the band Deep Forest can be heard, but in the second video in a modified, unofficial version. The original text comes another loud recorded by Matt Harding video from a song called Rorogwela that a musicologist has taken in a village in the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea in 1971; it was sung by a woman named Afunakwa.
The music Praan the video clip from 2008 was written exclusively for the Video by Garry Schyman and sung by a 17-year Palbasha Siddique. The text is Bengali and is based on the poem Stream of Life ( Stream of Life ) by Rabindranath Tagore from his work Gitanjali.
Marketing
2012, the following videos and songs are commercially available:
- The title song " Praan " of 2010
- The background song "Trip the light" to the video of 2012
- The outtakes video show video from 2012 that shows a lot of scenes and places that were cut in the original,
Video scenes
First Video (2005)
Third video ( 2008)
Second video (2006)
Fourth Video (2010)
In preparation for the 2010 World Cup, the fourth video with scenes created exclusively in South Africa.