5. I’m Just Walkin’

Matt Green, who once walked across the entire country, has decided to keep up his walking project by walking on every street in New York City. To his (and our) knowledge, he is the first person who has attempted this challenge of walking somewhere between 6000 and 8000 miles by early 2015, which is when he expects to be finished. Like many of the other big thinkers in this roundup, Green acknowledges that there is so much that has yet to be discovered in New York. He doesn’t expect to find them all, but he admits that “it is profoundly encouraging to think of how many secrets will still lie undiscovered after I’ve walked every last one of these goddamned streets.” Although this project is not exactly centered around photography, Green updates his blogs  with photos of his quirky finds.