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This clip has been making the rounds on the Internet, so odds are you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you should watch it, preferably in HD at Vimeo. At the very least, click the title of this post to see it full size. :)

The premise is simple: Matthew Harding took a trip to 42 countries to film short clips of him doing a silly dance, sometimes alone, sometimes with lots of local folks, often in beautiful locations. The result is this 4:28 video.

I’m proud to share the fact that this guy is from Connecticut. They don’t call us nutmeggers for nothing.

Update: The song is (called Praan) is available at Amazon’s MP3 store. The web site for the project is, appropriately, wherethehellismatt.com, where there are more videos and maps.

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That’s a surprising development.

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The graphics on Gears of War look pretty amazing already, but these two trailers for Halo 3 are incredible, if they’re what the graphics from the game engine will look like. The lighting is impressive. We’re not that far away from video games looking like Hollywood features. The sound is already there (5.1+ surround). The video is so close now. Check out these two clips. Even with the horrible Flash video encoding that YouTube uses, these look good:

That was the trailer. Here is the TV spot I found:

1080p, solid lighting and sound… just a few more polygons to smooth out and chisel out human features and we’re there. The metal uniform on the Halo characters looks amazing already.

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