It’s been a whirlwind two months for Toronto’s Duncan McCabe, who went viral in late November for utilizing Strava maps from his day by day runs to create an animated dancing, hat-waering stick man. McCabe’s feat has been featured in The New York Occasions, Washington Publish and BlogTO, and now the 32-year-old is showing on The Kelly Clarkson Present.
McCabe’s section will air on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 4 p.m. ET on CityTV, the place he will likely be featured within the last section of the evening referred to as “#WhatImLiking.”
McCabe, who works as an accountant for the cloud-based software program firm PointClickCare, says the method of being featured on the present is one he’ll perpetually bear in mind. “They confirmed me the way it was made and let me watch the entire thing from the producer’s standpoint,” McCabe says. “When it bought to my section, I couldn’t imagine how briskly it glided by.”
When you’re unfamiliar with McCabe’s viral video, he spent 10 months between January 2024 and October 2024 making a Strava artwork drawing of a stick individual. Ultimately, he mixed his 121 runs to create one large fluid animation set to Sofi Tukker’s hit tune “Purple Hat.” The video has since been seen practically 30 million instances throughout X and TikTok.
McCabe advised Canadian Working in a earlier interview that the most important problem of creating the video was sustaining fluid transitions, which took him months to map out.
“I feel The New York Occasions piece was my favorite,” McCabe says. “The reporter understood the challenge, and now I’ll perpetually have a full-length article about me within the Occasions!”