I ran across two cool and intriguing initiatives during my daily surf sessions. To start with the simplest of the two: this guy called ‘Matt Harding’ from Connecticut, has created a hype of some sort, by traveling across this globe, visiting all the nice places (well, most of them anyway) and then doing a weird dance in front of the camera. He did this to keep a journal for his family while he was all over the place. Now, the cool part is: people started to e-mail each other his videoclips and and soon he became a famous web-person. After a while this company that makes chewing gun (www.stridegum.com) picked up on the hype and started to sponsor Matt. He then re-did his original journey during a 6 month trip through 39 countries on all 7 continents. How is that for cool? What is also funny, is all the people posting video’s in response to his.
The second cool thing is an initiative that I think is really smart and fun! We all know the concept of time-sharing an appartment right? Well this guy has thought up a really cool thing: Island Sharing! What’s the idea: there is this really cool island called Vorovoro close to Fiji in the South Pacific. If you want to be able to visit the island for a certain time a year, you can join a program and get your share of the island and stay there for free… The whole initiative looks nice and pretty ecological. Just pop over to www.tribewanted.com to check it out! It kind of sounds like Fantasy Island 🙂
Where the hell is Matt?