Shia LaBeouf Is Hitchhiking Across America Via Twitter
Shia LaBeouf in Cannes earlier this month (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Shia LaBeouf is hitting the open road – and he’s asking fans for a lift to wherever they want to take him.
Commissioned by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Finnish Institute in London for the MediaLive Festival, and Vice, LaBeouf — per Vanity Fair — is embarking on a month-long cross-country trek accompanied by collaborators Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner. The gimmick is that, during that time, he’ll be randomly posting his GPS coordinates to Twitter via the hashtag #TakeMeAnywhere — and anyone can then go pick the trio up at that location and drive them to any destination they please.
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The former child star-turned-Transformers-headliner-turned-iconoclastic celebrity has been on a performance-art kick as of late. Last November, he live-streamed a video of himself watching all of his movies, in chronological order, at NYC’s Angelika Film Center. A month later, he launched an installation called #TOUCHMYSOUL at Liverpool’s Fact gallery — along with Rönkkö and Turner — where he live-streamed himself taking phone calls from fans. And then in February, he again beamed 24-hour footage of himself riding in an Oxford, England elevator for a project dubbed, fittingly, #ELEVATE.
Watch some guys who picked LaBeouf up (some NSFW language):
LaBeouf began his latest adventure on Monday, and so far has taken a group of guys to Colorado’s Oskar Blues microbrewery, where (according to Time) he regaled them with predictably strange stories and, reportedly, also schooled them on proper cinematographic technique.
#TAKEMEANYWHERE 👍
40°14'45"N 105°32'06"Whttps://t.co/cLdcd3taog pic.twitter.com/KSkXb5mQe9— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) May 23, 2016
You can follow along with LaBeouf’s progress via Twitter or at the Vice site.