InvisiblePeople.tv: spotlighting Mark Horvath
Written by admin2 on December 4th, 2009Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal, Campaign Watch, Irked Videos
“On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; ‘Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?’ For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly: ‘I certainly did something about it. I made you.’”
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Video segment via CNN:
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Fourteen years ago, Mark Horvath was in crisis. The former exec was living on the streets in Hollywood, California, where for a dollar he let people take a photograph of his pet iguana, named Dog.
“I was sitting by the Chinese theater with my iguana, surrounded by Asian tourists, with my head down, thinking, ‘How am I going to get out of this?’ ” said Horvath, whose nickname was the “Lizard Man of Hollywood Boulevard.”
Last month, Horvath returned to Hollywood Boulevard, this time as a featured speaker at the 140 Characters Conference, a Twitter-inspired gathering attended by movers and shakers in social media. Horvath told the audience how he uses an arsenal of social networking sites—Twitter, Facebook, Whrrl, MySpace, YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr—to illuminate the plight of the nation’s homeless.
Armed with a hand-held videocamera, a microphone, a laptop and an iPhone, Horvath approaches homeless people on their own turf and empowers them to share their personal stories. He posts the raw, unedited video interviews on his Web site, InvisiblePeople.tv, and other places.
For Horvath, the stories he captures hit close to home. He was once a Hollywood distribution executive with a six-figure salary. In 1995, he lost it all to … Continue reading this feature-length story on cnn.com
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