Let's get one thing straight: in this series of singular portraits, "weird" is good. Weird is what happens when you pursue the unique or unusual in a culture of conformity. This seven-part series peruses people with uncommon occupations, strange pastimes, and curious obsessions. You'll meet, among others, a recluse who designs amorous architectural monuments, a model mom dowsing for a buried aquifer, a punked-out wrestler diving off a garage roof, and a garish granny who still kicks butt on the roller rink. All these folks are united by their healthy exercise of eccentricity. Weird America is not so much about a country as it is about a state-a state of mind.
-Steve Seid
