{"id":4899,"date":"2014-06-26T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:01:10","slug":"inspiring-advice-from-matthew-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/inspiring-advice-from-matthew-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Inspiring Advice&#8221; from Matthew Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Words of Wisdom from an Unexpected Citizen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7rXlbHtcqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/matthew-silver-tn.jpg\" alt=\"matthew-silver-tn\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4912\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t get away from your heart. Because life is a paradox. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mirror of confusion. So, love now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Framed by some sites and social media posts as a video featuring &#8220;inspiring advice from a mentally insane person,&#8221; something felt off. Student film? Branded content? Or somebody&#8217;s rush to judgment?<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, this is a performance artist named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maninwhitedress.com\/\">Matthew Silver<\/a> and this is his schtick, in a video made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/EnlistedFilms\">Enlisted Films<\/a> uploaded last week. The filmmaker &#8212; who was unattributed by most social media shares due to how Facebook hosts unsearchable video (except <a href=\"http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/raving-lunatic-guy-reveals-the-meaning-of-life-1595850709?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&#038;utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&#038;utm_medium=socialflow\">Gizmodo<\/a>) &#8212; notes that it&#8217;s a piece about &#8220;a man who runs around NYC in underwear saying and doing radical things. A friend and I stopped and actually listened, and he said some beautiful things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One commenter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rajmarathe\/posts\/10152933371404867\">Raj Marathe<\/a>, notes that Silver &#8220;puts on unique performances and is good at being effective and acting. He is not a bum, a homeless person or anything like that&#8211; like some [point] him out to be. His day job involves editing wedding videos and being a filmmaker. He attended Ithaca College. His message is spreading awareness of loving yourself and others, to stop judging people, and other social awareness issues. You will hear him often refer to the &#8216;Love Movement&#8217; in his discussions and presentations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Silver&#8217;s website features Gothamist&#8217;s video interview with him, which really explains his methodology in his own words:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Your City: Episode 4 (Matthew Silver)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWEk0_Y333o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In regard to the &#8220;viral&#8221; video, it&#8217;s a testament to the power of editing &#8212; and the rush to judgment that is easily made when presented out of context and without attribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t get away from your heart. Because life is a paradox. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mirror of confusion. So, love now.&#8221; Framed by some sites and social media posts as a video featuring &#8220;inspiring advice from a mentally insane person,&#8221; something felt off. Student film? Branded content? Or somebody&#8217;s rush to judgment? Sure enough, this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}