twigged.net

Weird America.com is the brain child of Chuck Cirino, director, composer and artist extraordinaire! The site’s tagline says it all: “A journey into America’s crawlspace” - this is not a collection of your average youtube videos ladies and gentleman, this is Chuck’s intrepid foray into the lives of some of North America’s unsung heroes. It’s the contemporary equivalent of a latter day freak show.

Some personal favourites amongst the huge archive of titles are: Francis Gabe’s Self Cleaning House, Alessandro Thompson’s Difficult Things to Say as a Man and the Ghost Town Shake Down. After half an hour of visual onslaught, I’m left wondering how on earth Cirino comes across these people? Is this the fruit of research or just luck and a lot of travelling around?