Well, if the film focuses on the establishment of the arts center and the process of making the film about the making of the film about the arts center, may I suggest the project be retitled "Synechdoche, WA"?
@3 you're referring to We Live in Public by the insane, ridiculous and brilliant Josh Harris. It did implode, and spectacularly. This is a very different sort of venture as far as I can see.
Ditto on what @5 said. YU has the potential to be a significant center of cultural production, discussion, and dissemination in the Northwest. Walden 3 has the potential to be better than "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist."
I understand that fact-checking isn't a strong suit of The Stranger, and I can practically see the hearts pouring out of Brendan Kiley's eyes as he writes about Mr. Lundgren, but I'm surprised no one has taken either to task for the fact that the statement, "There are more millionaires in King County than in the entire state of Connecticut," is completely fabricated. According to multiple sources, each of them more reliable than either this writer or his subject, Connecticut has in the 89,000 range of households with a millionaire (the only way these things seem to be tracked), and King County has in the 68,000 range.
Surprisingly, it imploded.