Inspirational Book: Where the Hell is Matt?

There are a few videos on YouTube that almost every Internet citizen has viewed, at least a few times, and a handful of those are from Matt Harding — aka the Bad Dancer — who travels the world and “does his little dance.” After picking up sponsorship from Stride Gum, Matt has been able to go on more trips around the world and film his dance with his online fans. And then release a book about everything behind the scenes.

Here’s the latest video of Matt in HD, featuring his bad dancing, along with the semi-bad dancing of many fans, in many inspirational locations throughout the globe. Over 20 million views can’t be wrong.

Back in 2003, when I built my first self-hosted blog at bubbo.com, I included a unique travel (or, Where the Hell is Mike?) section that could dynamically track my current position around the globe. You can still see it at http://michael.bubbo.com/upcoming but here’s a quick screenshot:

I’m thinking about adding a plugin to MichaelBubbo.com to achieve the same idea, due in part of the creativity and pure genius of Matt’s inspirational goal. I won’t be doing any bad dancing, but I would like to keep a visual journal of where I’ve been and where I am going. It would be neat to connect it with the built-in iPhone GPS feature, as soon as I jump onto the iPhone bandwagon.

I recommend you order a copy of Matt’s book, Where the Hell is Matt?: Dancing Badly Around the World, as you can still get the Hardcover Edition here for about $10 — well worth it for a reminder of true inspiration and passion for something that looks meaningless at inception, but turns into a world-wide phenom.

You can keep up with Matt’s travels at his website: wherethehellismatt.com

You can also download the great music from the video: for $1 from amazon.com