Matt Harding’s “Dancing” may have hit the Tipping Point! July 9, 2008
Posted by Mario Sundar in Community Marketing, Miscellaneous.trackback
My friend and colleague, Adam, may be one of the very few who actually couldn’t sit through Matt Harding’s “Dancing” video. Yes! the video of the dancing guy I blogged about recently. I’m just giving Adam a hard time for saying that. However Charles McGrath of the New York Times joins the chorus of ecstatic reviews that have peppered (I’ve always wanted to use that word in a sentence!) the blogosphere these past few days (via Andrew Sullivan).
In many ways “Dancing” is an almost perfect piece of Internet art: it’s short, pleasingly weird and so minimal in its content that it’s open to a multitude of interpretations. It could be a little commercial for one-world feel-goodism. It could be an allegory of American foreign policy: a bumptious foreigner turning up all over the world and answering just to his own inner music. Or it could be about nothing at all — just a guy dancing.
Actually, I’ve been asking Chris and Ponzi to invite Matt to speak at Gnomedex (one of my favorite geek conferences of all time). The best part is that Matt – the dancing guy, lives in Seattle, which is where Gnomedex happens year after year. Here’s my review of Gnomedex from last year.
Can’t have enough of the Dancing video. I thought I could entertain you with some outtakes from this year’s viral hit! The first attempt in particular is freaking scary! (video after jump)
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Matt, if I were not 60 years old, I would want to grow up to be just like you. I have knees and ankles that have been pillaged by organized football on three levels. One of my goals is to do your dance on those legs in one more month. After excercising, I want to cool down doing your stupid dance with Penquins.