About | WeirdGood

What is WeirdGood?

Weirdgood is the site that chronicles those instances when the awesome collides with the bizarre and you just can’t look away. Weirdgood is chocolate-covered bacon. It’s zombie apocalypse survival training. It’s a feeling. It’s a state of mind. You can’t always describe it, but you know it when you see it.

There is an infinite amount of awesome out there on the internet. But there’s also a lot of sites that waste your time (spam, pop-up ads for hairplugs, the list goes on). And who has the time to sift through it all? Weirdgood does the work for you. We scour the web to find you all the strangely cool food, technology, art, fashion and locales that you can handle. Weirdgood is your go-to site for funny misfits, crazy hybrids, unique oddities and intriguing hijinks. You’ll laugh, you’ll cringe, you’ll call it Weirdgood.

What Kind of Weirdos Run This Thing?

Ricky Lee LaPraim | Publisher

Internet entrepreneur Ricky Lee LaPraim is the founder and CEO of Editio Media, an American media company that creates high-quality original online content. He is the managing editor of a series of weblogs that focus on specific subcultures, trending topics, and groundbreaking ideas. LaPraim values one-on-one collaboration with real people in his approach to developing, branding and promoting the work of all kinds of artists. His aim is to create unique and innovative content that pushes the boundaries of contemporary culture and reimagines what the internet can be. | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | GOOGLE+ | EMAIL |

Emily Watanabe | Illustrator

Emily Watanabe is an illustrator/designer with a wide array of interests, ranging from website design to conceptual art. A native of Nara, Japan, Emily has held a lifelong love of Asian art and design. She likes to incorporate these aesthetics into her work, in the form of motifs and compositional style. At the moment, she is particularly fascinated by vector art and illustrations created through the use of flat shapes.

In her spare time, Emily likes to watch movies, play video games, and read – in other words, hunt for inspiration! Her artwork can be viewed on her website and on her blog. | WEBSITE | BLOG | EMAIL |

Justin Engles | Content Writer

Justin Engles is a writer, editor, and journalist. His work limns the ways in which different subcultures are capable of holding a mirror up to our present. A novelist and poet, he is a devoted aficionado of steampunk, and is currently exploring how the aesthetic exposes and interrogates our definitions of progress, self, beauty and art.

His obsessions include finding talented artists and authors to admire and then admiring the hell out of them. Justin’s interests are vast and varied; if you want to try to discern a pattern among them you can follow his Tumblr. | TUMBLR |

Elle LaPraim | Content Writer

Elle Lapraim is a Sci-fi and Fantasy author who lives in Portland, Oregon. She currently has several short stories available on the kindle and nook. Her first full-length Science fiction novel will be published during the middle of 2012.

Elle has been writing down the many stories in her head since she was a little girl, keeping them on a shelf collecting dust while getting her degree in Deaf Theater and working in Hollywood. It wasn’t till she was in her late twenties that she finally gave in to her passion and began publishing the stories that had been with her for years.