Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html

Et tu, APoD?

djm

It’s clear that Mike Harding is a satellite, as he’s danced around the Earth at least once. Maybe the Astronomy Illuminati could upgrade his status to a planetoid.

Considering the types of music that cover the range of emotions, however, it seems that dance is limited to love lust and happiness. Are there dances of mourning?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YbGSDkvh8B0

I have seen that Matt video before in another thread. It is mesmerizing though. My favorite shot is the one in Buenos Aires.

There are different videos, with completely different shots in each. My favourite is the one in India where he does his own dance, and then joins in with same moves as the Indian Dancers. Beautiful!

That’s my favorite shot, as well. He was surprisingly well-synchronized with the other dancers.

rich boy slumming. how charming.

You got his number. :slight_smile:

He saved up money as a programmer, and Used his savings to take the vacation of his dreams (and made a silly video). Stride gum sponsored his second trip. For the most part it seems that he didn’t stay at the Marriott and eat caviar. He comments that “Aside from the flights, I spend less on any given day than I would sitting at home paying utilities, car insurance, parking tickets”. So I don’t think that I would put him in with the Paris Hilton’s of the world. He set priorities and was lucky.

Thing is, oleo, you characterized the locales as “slumming.” I doubt if Matt did.

Well, anyway. I think it’s a cool, happy video. I’m unclear what demographic characteristics might give someone else the street cred to make it.

I always check the socio-economic status of all residents living in areas where we might go for a vacation to make sure I’m not slumming. :wink:

Here’s how to dance!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwet0JLuqWY

Now that’s where I go when I want to go slumming and dancing or is that slimming and sliding?

That is the most pathetic display of, “Over here! Look!!! I’m over heeeeerrrrre!!!” that I’ve ever seen. Waving your Male on the beach is highly overrated.

djm

indeed not. master blueblood has come down to groove with the rest of us.

Matt Harding’s bio would seem to indicate a different perspective, but he is a tall white guy and therefore superior, not his fault :boggle:

Except that I look pretty much Heinz 57 Euro-mix myself, so I’m confused.
If there’s a message conveyed by the video, I’d summarize it by saying “people are people, whatever their ethnicity or nationality–see? We all like to dance silly sometimes.”

So what does the filmmaker’s ethnicity have to do with that? And who might “appropriately” make something similar without you suspecting him/her of condescending behavior?

Should caucasian guys from middle-America not travel? Or not record it if they do? I don’t get it. Help me! Help me!

This is untrue. There are ethnic and religious groups who forbid dancing.