Marc Horowitz

November 19 2009, 11:31pm

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.