14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me.
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I was invited to give an Ignite Talk at Gnomedex in Seattle on August 22nd, 2008. I decided to explain how we got people to come out and dance in the 2008 video.
Visit http://earth.google. com/matt to check out some of the places I went during my travels. Just download Google Earth and my KML file, then start exploring.
The coconut (or robber) crab is the largest land crab in the world. It can grow to one meter in leg span and live for 60 years. I had never seen or heard of one until this happened.
Christmas Island is in the Indian Ocean, near Indonesia. There are around 100 million crabs living on the very small island. Most of them are not this big.
I have a bad case of arachnophobia. Sure, crabs have no relation to spiders, but tell that to my deep, irrational fear. Talking helped calm me down, and insulting the crabs actually made them less scary.
Footage culled from three long days on safari in South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. That lioness in the end is only a few feet away. Also, the vehicle has no doors.
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Added: November 12, 2007
Turn your volume up when the camera drops in the water. You can hear them singing.
Diving into the hull of the Heian Maru, a Japanese WWII shipwreck that was destroyed by US bombers during operation hailstorm.
I shot this with the same Canon Powershot SD500 that I used to make the dancing video. Canon sells an underwater housing that allows me to bring it down to 130 feet. The camera and housing cost less than $500 combined.