'Weird U.S.' Book Series Partners with KPI to Bring New Travel Guides to TV; Production Company Also Explores Weird World of Broadband and Mobile.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Mark Sceurman Mark Sceurman, a lifetime New Jersey resident is co-creator of the Weird NJ magazine and website. His Internet success led him to co-create and co-star in the History Channel show Weird US. See also
Mark Moran, a lifetime New Jersey resident is co-creator of the Weird NJ magazine and website. , authors of the best-selling series Weird U.S., from Barnes & Noble Publishing, have granted mobile media and network television provider KPI KPI Key Performance Indicator KPI Kuwait Petroleum International KPI Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine) KPI Kernel Programming Interface KPI King Pin Inclination (vehicle steering geometry angle) (www.kpitv.com) rights to produce additional television episodes and new media content based upon upcoming titles. The new Weird The New Weird is an avant-garde literary movement or literary genre that began, nascent and unnamed, in the 1990s and culminated in a series of novels and stories published from 2001 to 2005. U.S. books investigates the unexplained, creepy, and offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. places throughout America such as cannibal albino albino (ălbī`nō) [Port.,=white], animal or plant lacking normal pigmentation. The absence of pigment is observed in the body covering (skin, hair, and feathers) and in the iris of the eye. villages, a town called Midgetville, Florida's dreaded skunk ape, Hitler's toilet seat, The hideous melonheads of Ohio, the frog people of Connecticut, as well as travels on Bloody Bucket Road and Spook Hill. However, the offbeat places Weird U.S. travels to are not just limited to other worldly destinations. From houses made specifically for time travel to six-story mountains painted in day-glow colors, the Weird U.S. book series is one strange road trip that shows just how weird America really is. "The Weird U.S. book series is a great fit for new media," said Vincent Kralyevich, president and creative director of KPI's TV, broadband and mobile platforms. "The Weird books are a proven brand--young people are its biggest fans, the stories are 'bite-size,' and the content has a viral 'hey you gotta see this' potential." During the next 10 months, Barnes & Noble will release Weird U.S. books which document weird destinations in the states of California, Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan and Maryland. Previous books in the series include Weird New Jersey, Florida, Kansas and Texas. "Readers love this sort of content," said Moran. "We get hundreds of emails a day telling us so. We also get hundreds of new ideas. KPI convinced us not to limit the brand to network television but that the emerging broadband market might be a fit for people who want the content on-demand." "At Barnes & Noble book signings we get a core audience of teenagers and young adults," said Sceurman. "TV has had problems grabbing the audiences we attract." "With broadband KPI is not locked into the 30 or 60 minute format and there is an opportunity to take these weird journeys to non-traditional outlets such as map and travel web sites," Kralyevich added. About KPI New York City-based KPI was founded in 1992. Since then, KPI has grown into a diversified media company specializing in both traditional and new media including programming for cable, corporate clients, mobile and broadband. KPI is a steady supplier of marquee specials--many in high definition--for networks including A&E, The History Channel, Outdoor Life Network, Discovery Health, Court TV and HGTV HGTV Home and Garden Television . The company also produces independent projects for DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and theatrical release, and has cultivated a strong international presence. KPI's independent film, Lucha Libre: Life Behind the Mask (2005), was an official selection of HBO's New York International Film Festival, 2005, as well as winner, Best Documentary, at the Sidewalk Moving Pictures Festival last year. |
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