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    Jakob Lodwick Auditions for Psycho Blue Man Group Spinoff

    When do we force ourselves to look away from Jakob Lodwick's seeming public breakdown? The Vimeo founder shot this insane, angry video beautifully. Could a genuine trainwreck be so intricately choreographed?

    Maybe it's all just performance art, the half-naked party appearances, brandishing that knife and going all Taxi Driver at a diner. But that doesn't really make it any less sad, the notion of a hipster millionaire fameball still clawing hungrily, strategically for attention. It would be more impressive if this were all some guerilla marketing campaign for a new class of hallucinogens. See excerpts from the latest installment above.


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