One of the few non-controversial Michael Jackson stories to develop this past week is actually less a story and more an homage -- literally a moving tribute. It's EternalMoonwalk -- a website, project, social experiment, and international memorial comprised of thousands of home movies of Moonwalking people, animals, and inanimate objects, strung together to create one continuous Moonwalk montage.
EternalMoonwalk was created by Belgian radio station Studio Brussel, and the homemade videos range from completely amateur to shockingly inspired. They're from every corner of the world and every town in between -- shot in bedrooms in Beirut, verandas in Versailles, bungalows in Brazil, offices in Oslo, and in classrooms, crosswalks, kitchens, and clubs. I even caught a woman on a miniature horse, a Moonwalking cat in the Netherlands, and a guy in Hamburg Moonwalking backwards into a swimming pool.
The site is searchable by location, and you can also play Michael Jackson sound effects and email or Tweet your favorite clips, if you can catch them fast enough.
One of the most interesting about Eternalmoonwalk is that it uses the Internet to memorialize an element of Michael Jackson that made him famous almost three decades earlier. And amazingly, as fans all over the world upload their Moonwalk videos 26 years later -- in death as in life -- people still wanna be like Mike.
+ Watch Michael do the Moonwalk for the first time in 1983.
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