The single greatest video ever made in the history of the world
Posted by David Hepworth on 9 July 2008 - 10:22am.
Forgive me, I can't remember whether we've posted this or not. Never mind, it deserves a second look...
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A tip
Rather than clicking "Play" here, double-click on the image to go to the source page. Click "Watch in high quality", and the single greatest video ever made in the history of the world (which it is, you're not wrong) becomes even greater.
And. . .
It's in even hi-er hi-def on his own site, here.
one great idea...
is all you need, eh? had me grinning from ear to ear..
thanks for that, made me feel all good about the world. sure it'll pass..
but seriously nice one..
a friend sent me this the other day which i thought was really lovely too...
Thank you for that
it has hit a spot that loves being hit.
I wonder where Matt got his dance from?
The Origins of Breakdancing
That's a great film,
So is this,
I'm clearly a terrible person...
I loved the idea, but after about a minute of it I felt I'd sucked all the juice out of it, and was waiting for something different to happen. Clearly I'm a sadly jaded person who needs an influx of continual novelty, and can't just enjoy a joyful piece of footage as it unfolds. Don't know what made me that way - music videos, perhaps?
I thought it was brilliantly constructed
every 30 seconds or so there's an extra-cool one (the Papua New Guinea tribespeople, the weightless plane, suddenly syncing his dance to the Indian dancers' moves...) to keep your interest up.
Read the who is Matt bit on his website
Its a good story and he seems a fine fella. Link here -> http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/about.shtml
I Love Life Again
God, It´s restored my faith in humanity. That man, Matt Harding, should be given a prize.
I actually saw a troupe of Dancing Cossacks once , and it was just like that, except with crappier music.
Tune's
a bit crap though isn't it?
Jeez
*Sigh*.
I now want to hug someone
But I'm home alone and the builders next door look a bit sweaty.
I shall just bask in the warm glow.
Love the bit at
1:54 in the DMZ!!
Great bit in India with the synchronised dancing.
Fair made me day!
Yes!
The Indian bit gave me goosebumps.
While we're all feeling the love
I like this ad for the Discovery Channel very much.
....and the discovery channel from the animal pov
(secure headphones if at work)
Pass it on
Make someone's day.
I would like to travel to different warm locations around the globe and be photographed in exotic bars surrounded by attentive beauties and reading a magazine. Any chance of sponsorship from The Word? It's either you or Bella magazine. Don't miss your chance.
Dog - Kuwait City
At 43 secs - terrific
Thank you, David,
for instilling a warm glow. And thanks to Diz for pointing out the Kuwaiti dog - I'd missed it.
I, too, loved the Indian dancers in synch. And godnose what the North Korean border guards will have made of it.... (although as Sting reminded us, the Russians love their children. Perhaps the same principle applies.)
Cross-generational
Showed it to my ten year old grand-daughter, the Bean, after school today. She loved it too. We tried to share it with her Mum, but their PC wasn't co-operating. (To misquote Homer S : "Computers - the solution to, and cause of, all life's problems...")
Matt
But he's never been to Wales? Or did he get to Merthyr and someone pinched his camera?
It was him was it?
Dancing beside me to Salsa Celtica at Cornbury. Talk about manic!! Hope I'm in the new video.
Out-chews them all
It's got a wonderful uplifting innocence to it hasn't it? While watching it it struck me that this is exactly the kind of thing that gets picked up by advertisers and adapted for some sickly commercial. But it seems that Cadbury's "Stride Gum" got there already.
To be fair...
....it's a follow-up to an earlier one called "Where's Matt?" where he danced on his own all over the world. It was only afterwards that the chewing gum people gave him some money to have their name on it. Which I'm saying is one of the smartest advertising decisions I've ever seen.
Four and a half minutes in search of a punchline...
Validated by commerce apparently. Ho hum.
I'm surprised...
...by my reaction.
It made me weep little tears of joy. People doing something pointless for the shear joy of doing something pointless.
Mind you when I saw the sponsor tag line I did feel like crying...
I actually
had goosebumps at one point.
Even on my second & third viewing it had the same effect.
Sorry
to poke a stick into this whirling bicycle wheel of manly blubbering but can I humbly suggest, once more, that it's just a grinning goon doing a rubbish dance to some sub-Eurovision drivel? And it goes on and on and ( yawn ) on.
And on.
There's also
something disturbingly ob-com about someone spending so much time and effort to do it. Considering true joy is spontaneous, I don't really think, on reflection, it's all that joyful, either. I'll stick with the Small Acts Of Random Kindness approach, I think.
Glad I'm...
... not alone in finding the whole thing pretty resistible. Then again, maybe I really am just the heartless bastard I always suspected…
I
quote: 'Considering true joy is spontaneous...'
Really?
Can I enter this in a future thread; 'Sweeping generalisations I have made without really thinking.'?
Can I further suggest that, whilst the naysayers are perfectly entitled to their view, they do it on www.grumpymale.com?
I'm off to dance around the office. Wa-hey!
Without really thinking?
You reckon? I'm dazzled by your insight into, and detailed knowledge of my thought processes, Eggbloke. So how many times have YOU experienced joy as a result of careful planning and premeditation, as opposed to suddenly encountering it unexpectedly, from the proverbial Clear Blue Sky?
Can I further suggest that, whilst the naysayers are perfectly entitled to their view, they do it right here, in full view of the Eggy Thought Police?
Not married then, Paul?
My point being, of course, that joy can be derived both spontaneously AND via careful planning and pre-meditation. Mr. Dancer planned, carried out said plan, brought a lot of us joy. 'Nuff said.
Just to tie up
the loose end: yup, I'm married. And scratching my head wondering what assumptions underlay that question!
I'm
assuming, unless you shot off to Vegas dressed as Elvis, that your decision to pop the question was pre-meditated, the joyous day was planned and both events gave you great joy.
All flippancy aside, I just don't buy it that all joy is spontaneous - the best joy may well occur that way and I'd be easier to convince if that was your argument, but a life where joy only arrives unannounced? Feels like the bits in-between would be fairly dull...
Anyway, the dance made me smile.
Hey
www.grumpymale.com is available. Am sorely tempted.....
Know what you mean
I like reading about people handing out vast amounts of money to complete strangers. Never happened to me yet so I will derive pleasure from watching others having fun doing silly things.
Mr H, This One's for you
Made me smile
and I liked the music, and I thought that in the Zambia clip (1:18) he suddenly turned into Mark Ellen.
For all you nature/discovery channel people out there...
This is the greatest video of all time. Some crazy fool took a balloon to the edge of space, tied a camera to his helmet and then leapt off, freefalling for a good twelve minutes, filming the experience from his point of view. Boards Of Canada incorporated some of the footage for this rather splendid video which never fails to amaze me.