Speaker Highlight: Marc Horowitz

// November 19th, 2009 // LA

Marc Horowitz is many things: a virtual cross country explorer, a comedic performance enthusiast, sheep shearer, social experimentalist, and possibly the first would-be inventor of a brick-house, diesel-truck, hybrid helicopter.

His most recent digital adventure landed him on NPR’s Weekend Edition – discussing the Los Angeles to Richmond, Virginia road trip he and friend, Peter Baldes, took via Google Maps without ever leaving their homes. Prior to that, Marc was challenged to to live 168 hours straight in a 2007 Sentra for the “Seven Days in a Sentra” national ad campaign.

And before his rise to fame with Nissan, Marc spent the better part of a entire year traveling from stranger’s home to stranger’s home for dinner, all along a route determined by a coast-to-coast signature on a US map.

Other projects include: the Talkshow247 internet broadcast, his involvement with the Center for Improved Living, The Me & You Show, the Human Video Game experiment, and well, you get the idea. Marc is a busy man, with many talents. He is currently developing both a non-scripted and scripted shows for TV and web.

Q & A:

What excites you about the future?

Global Warming. Not really. I lied. Maybe Laser Disks will make a come back?

What’s a site you couldn’t live without?

Google Maps. I know… boring… but true… and you know it. At least I didn’t just say google.

What’s something you wish you would have known before you found out the hard way?

That you can get mouth herpes from eating undercooked monk fish. It’s not a good idea to get on an onramp at 65 miles an hour. Root canals are actually REALLY painful. And Neil Young, turns out, is not that friendly in person.

Learn more about Marc on his blog – which was named by Dazed & Confused Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites. Or follow him often hilarious updates on twitter.