"The World Before Your Feet": A Documentary

This blog celebrates all things NYC but perhaps no one has celebrated it quite like a guy named Matt Green -- who literally walked on every block in every street, and in every park, and passed  by every house and every building, across all five boroughs, some eight-thousand miles. It took him six years to complete and cost him his apartment, his job, and two girlfriends. 

This journey of a lifetime, this incredible accomplishment, is the subject of a recently released documenary The World Before Your Feet that is now playing in theaters.

I haven't seen it yet but, obviously, want to. According to the reviews, the documentary is less about a guy exploring his city but more a study of obession, of striking out to accomplish something while everyone else in your life things your crazy to do so.

I love NYC and would love to see a lot more of it but I don't know if I have the physical or mental stamina to do something like this. But this guy was brave enough to do it and it's literally made him a movie star. 

See, obsession gets you somewhere.