Where the Hell is Matt?

I like talking. I'm good at it. You've noticed that if you read this thing. And, as much as I really want to talk about this video, and how awesome, but also super important, it is, I'm just going to let the thing speak for itself.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Ultimate Reality

Words escape me tonight. I know that you know that's pretty unfathomable, because alas I not only like to talk, I like to use lots of words when I do it. But Jimmy Joe Roche and Dan Deacon have changed that, and tonight I will be silent. I let their work speak for them. I need only say that whether you are a fan of Schwarzenegger or not, your mind will be sufficiently blown if you watch all six parts of this thing.

May I present you with Chapters 1-6 of 40-minute-epic Ultimate Reality. (Watch it as soon as you can. It's only up for a week, and I don't know how long it's been up. Then again, you could always buy it on DVD.)

Earth Day

Hell yeah!! Earth Day never felt so goooood!

Horseballs

How can anyone be so blissfully ignorant? This video is positively infectious. It's even adorable. And its about horseballs.

Best Game Ever

If you play a sport as a kid, especially when you do it because you like it, it's easy to entertain pipe dreams of making it to the big leagues, being a super-athlete with screaming fans and big paychecks. Sometimes, just being on the field and making a big play is enough to feel like you've already made it.

Of course, it helps to have all those screaming fans, and a jumbotron with NBC sports doing the announcing. That's why Improv Everywhere decided to take it to the fields in their most recent stunt, selecting a random Little League game to make two teams worth of ten year olds feel like they're in the majors.

Improv Everywhere strikes again.

Ptv preview

The d-bags over at Pitchfork released a behind-the-scenes "audition tape" as a preview for Ptv, as well as to test their video player. They've encouraged everyone to put the embedding code on their sites to test out to see if it works, and I wanted to oblige them. While not all that funny, the clip does poke some self-deprecating fun at Pitchfork and its elitist nonsense, which I definitely appreciate vis-a-vis my last post about their douche-baggery.

Anyway, here's the player. Let me know if you have any problems with it:

Moving barns

There's a fella in California who thinks he's cracked the Stonehenge question. That question, if you're not aware, is, "How the f-bomb did they make that thing by hand?!?!" No cranes, no lifts, no machinery of any kind, just pure human strength would have had to have made the glyphs, and they're several tons per stone.

But this California native is moving blocks that big (and things even bigger, like an entire barn) by hand. By himself. He's using nothing but gravity and wood, and forgotten technique. Maybe Sufjan should rewrite his song about Flint, MI to include this dude!

Apollo Pony

I had completely forgotten about this site until I was cleaning up my Bookmarks... Apollo Pony is a great, though rarely updated, site that is chock full of interesting video-based art, film, music videos, etc. Enjoy this little tidbit!

Mario vs. Quantum Physics

I think it's no surprise that videogames can be considered in philosophical terms. In fact, anyone who plays videogames, I think, has some kind of philosophical thought process going on in the background, directly related to the game(s) being played. So, when I found this video and accompanying explanation of Many-Worlds Interpretation, the concept of many different worlds existing, branching off of a single moment of quantum decision so to speak, I thought it was a fun and simple way to be introduced to the concept. Enjoy!

And, as a bonus, this video reminded me of a video I'd watched a year or so ago that was, luckily, linked in the related-videos section, so it's included here:

FISA loves you

Courtesy of Mark Fiore, the following cartoon would be funny. If it weren't true.

http://www.markfiore.com/?phpMyAdmin=7aTx1mD0FvhOPGcsUo36-OZMqo4

Classics ala Spongebob

Oh man, tons-o-fun.

Whoa, Dudeo.

What do you get when you have three guys with some money, passion, understanding of technology, and TONS of free time? Something badass, that's what.

Self-promotion

Every now and again I've got something on the internet of my own that I'll promote for a little exposure, either through the ImoCopter or The Dead Chinchilla. This is one of those times. I edited the following two clips, and also shot the second one. They are specs conceived of by my good friend Jordan Breindel for Verizon and jobhunt.com. It was fun, good practice, and In My Opinion they came out pretty dang good! Enjoy. Share.


a day in the woods from Jordan on Vimeo.


Work from Jordan on Vimeo.