Career
Harding has since received widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets, and was hired by Visa to star in their Travel Happy campaign. He is originally from Westport, Connecticut. He began his game industry career working for a video game specialty store called Cutting Edge Entertainment.
Harding later worked as an editor for GameWeek Magazine in Wilton, Connecticut, and then as a software developer for Activision in Santa Monica, California and then Brisbane, Queensland.
Harding claims that a sarcastic joke about the popularity of shoot "em up games led Pandemic Studios to develop the game, on which he received a conceptual cartulary-register Saying he "didn"t want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone", he quit his job and began traveling, leading to the production of his first video.
Where the Hell is Matt? is an Internet phenomenon that features a video of Dancing Matt (Matt Harding) doing a dance "jig" in many different places around the world in 2005. The background music in the video is the song Sweet Lullaby Dancing Remix by Deep Forest.
The video garnered popularity on the video sharing site YouTube.
There are now five major videos plus outtakes and background videos on YouTube. In 2007, Jawed Karim, one of the founders of YouTube, stated that Harding"s video was his favorite on YouTube at that time.
