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Shia LaBeouf Is Using Twitter to Hitchhike Across the US

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From The Verge:

Aspiring artist and Gemini Shia LaBeouf has quite literally taken to the streets in his most recent attempt to prove himself as a performance artist. His new project, #TakeMeAnywhere, asks people to pick up LaBeouf and his two collaborators, Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner, on the side of the road and take them on a journey. Here’s how it works: over the course of one month, LaBeouf will randomly tweet the GPS coordinates of his present location. Any enterprising people without any more pressing engagements can then go find LaBeouf and his crew, and take them anywhere in the country.

This is the most Shia LaBeouf thing I’ve ever heard.

The trio started the project this past Monday, and are currently traipsing through the mountains of Colorado. The first people to pick them up were the three dudes in the video above. After they found LaBeouf, they all ate lunch together and seemed to have no plan of action beyond that.

Oh Shia. One day I want to grow up to be an eccentric millionaire like you. Apparently, he was even commissioned for this.

#TakeMeAnywhere isn’t just something that sprouted out of LaBeouf’s own brain. It was commissioned by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Finnish Institute in London for the MediaLive festival, Vanity Fair reports. It also appears to be a collaboration with Vice, because the project’s landing page is hosted on Vice‘s website. MediaLive’s festival director, Nicole Dial-Kay, said the project is meant to examine “goodness” and “corrupt nature,” according to Boulder’s Daily Camera

Godspeed Shia. Hope you don’t get murdered.

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