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Event Includes Screening of Excerpts from Vivid’s “Deeper Throat” Premium Cable TV Series Debuting that Evening

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–World of Wonder Productions, (WoW) an independent film and television production powerhouse, will present an exciting new exhibit titled “All-American Porn: 25 Years of Erotic Photography from Vivid Entertainment,” at its popular storefront gallery at 6650 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028.

The exhibit, which will start on Sunday, February 15th will be a cornerstone event in the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of Vivid Entertainment. An extensive collection of cover art collectibles and never-before-seen, limited edition behind-the-scenes photos that chronicle the history of modern porn will be on display.

Vivid is widely recognized as the world’s leading adult film company, with iconic Vivid Girl stars such as Jenna Jameson, Tera Patrick, Ginger Lynn, Christy Canyon, Sunny Leone, Nikki Jayne, Hanna Hilton, Savanna Samson, Monique Alexander, Meggan Mallone and many others.

An opening reception party takes place on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14 from 7PM – 11PM, with an open cocktail bar at which guests will be able to meet Vivid Girls. Guests will also enjoy a screening of excerpts from “Deeper Throat” Vivid’s third premium cable TV series which debuts that evening. The exhibit continues for four weeks through March 13th with hours of noon to 6pm from Tuesday through Saturday.

A free star-studded Vivid panel discussion will be offered along with the exhibit on Thursday, Feb. 19th starting at 7pm and followed by a party with an open bar to meet the presenters. The panel will be hosted by World of Wonder co-founder Fenton Bailey (co-director of Inside Deep throat; co-executive producer of Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation) Topics include:
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How Vivid became the world’s top adult studio offered by the company’s co-founder and co-chairman Steven Hirsch;
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How to direct an adult movie, presented by legendary director Paul Thomas and
- What it takes to be an adult superstar with inside tips from Vivid Girls.

RSVP for media for the Feb. 14th opening party or the Feb. 19th panel, contact Jackie@vivid.com.

RSVP for non-media attendees is Thairin Smothers at gallery@worldofwonder.net. Please specify which event you will be attending. All guests need to be 18-years-of-age or older.

“Vivid revolutionized the adult film industry – bringing high production quality to adult films for the first time and creating some of the most iconic names in pop culture by cultivating the careers of stars like Jameson and Lynn,” said WoW founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. “Vivid had a dramatic impact on the industry with its very first movie, “Ginger,” starring Ginger Lynn in 1984. Until “Ginger” most adult movies were marketed with explicit images on their VHS covers, and as a result were hidden from view by retailers. Vivid changed all that with beautifully designed covers that had strong mainstream appeal and showed gorgeous women, glamorous photography and stylish art direction. Of course, it wasn’t long before most other companies in the industry followed Vivid. Our exhibit will focus on the greatest covers of the past quarter century and compelling behind-the-scenes photos from Vivid Entertainment, Vivid-Alt and Vivid Men movies and many are truly works of art.”

Since its founding by Steven Hirsch and David James, Vivid has led the adult industry to an unprecedented level of mainstream media acceptance. By emphasizing its famous “Vivid Girls,” the elite among adult actresses, Vivid has established a clear brand name identity. It has solidified its strong leadership position in domestic U.S. adult video sales and rentals, expanded the market by producing films enjoyed by couples in addition to the traditional male audience, and developed diverse revenue streams in international markets. The company is unequaled in mastering fast-growing areas such as wireless communications and video-on-demand (VOD). It was the first to introduce movies in both HD DVD and Blu-Ray formats with its production of “Debbie Does Dallas…Again.” Vivid movies and talent have won more AVN Awards than those of any other adult film company.

Mr. Hirsch continued to differentiate Vivid in a crowded market with compelling cut-through-the-clutter cover girl packaging for its video box covers. He also pioneered the “Vivid Girl” concept, early on which revived the Hollywood studio system of signing the most beautiful and talented adult stars to exclusive contracts. He then made the faces of Vivid Girls familiar through billboards in high traffic venues such as Sunset Boulevard and Times Square and through advertising, publishing, marketing and extensive product licensing.

A portion of the profits from the sale of any of the photo art from this exhibit will be donated to AIM (Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation). AIM is a non-profit corporation which cares for the physical and emotional needs of sex workers and those who work in the adult entertainment industry through HIV and STD testing, treatment, counseling and support services.

The exhibition was co-curated by Thairin Smothers, James St. James and Steven Corfe.

“We’re looking forward immensely to unveiling this show where porn meets art. Having the Vivid Girls in attendance is going to make it an exciting and beautiful event,” said Mr. St. James.

Note: Photos from the exhibit are available upon request at jackie@vivid.com.

About World of Wonder:

World of Wonder was founded by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey in 1992. Since then the company has amassed a library of branded properties across all platforms, including such well known films as Party Monster, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Inside Deep Throat, and television shows Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, Pam: Girl on the Loose, Million Dollar Listing, RuPaul’s Drag Race and entertainment blog The WOW Report (worldofwonder.net). WoW’s third cable TV series with Vivid is titled “Deeper Throat” and debuts on premium cable TV on February 14, 2009. The producers have never shied away from controversial themes and have worked with every major network, including HBO, BBC, Showtime, and Bravo. Their most popular online arena, The WOW Report, boasts 500,000 unique visits per month.

About Vivid:

Vivid Entertainment Group, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2009, is the world’s leading adult film company. Vivid has always placed heavy emphasis on high quality erotic film entertainment and has created wide brand-name awareness through its films and with a licensing and marketing program that extends to advertising, apparel, book publishing and many other products including the best selling book ‘How To Have A XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide’ co-authored by the Vivid Girls and published by HarperCollins. For more information contact Jackie@vivid.com.

Contacts

Vivid Entertainment Group
For more information, photos or interviews:
800-762-4761
jackie@vivid.com

Both the Z1012 IS and Z1015 IS feature full manual mode, image stabilization, and impressive 28mm wide angle lens. Price of the Z1012 will set you back at $250 while the other one is only $50 more expensive.

The difference between than two is still not clear expect for the price tag. Let’s expect more details this November when Kodak officially releases them.

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This cute camera is loaded with 8MB of storage capacity, 1.3″ LCD screen, auto-flash, and a VGA 640 x 480 digital resolution. It’s not pro but not bad for your kid’s first camera.

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ATLANTA, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — myPhotopipe.com, Inc. (Pink
Sheets: MPPC), a web-based online provider of digital photo processing and
related services, today announced that industry data released this week by
PMA, a trade organization of photo manufacturers and retailers, reports
that the number of prints made from digital photos continued to grow at
double-digit percentage rates during April 2008.

The report also shows that growth in online ordering with mail delivery
again outpaced all other methods of ordering prints, including in-store
kiosks and other retail models. According to the PMA report, the number of
prints made from digital photos increased 19% in April 2008 versus
prior-year levels, while online ordering with home delivery rose 37%. The
share-of-market for online ordering with mail delivery grew to 16.5
percent, or about one out every six prints made from digital images. Kiosks
were flat at 14.8%, the second consecutive month where they fell behind
online.

“Photography has interlocking links that spread across the Web in ways
that keep people on their computers and within the Internet like no other
retail product,” stated L. Douglas Keeney, Chief Executive Officer of
myPhotopipe.com, Inc. “Photography has become more computer- and
online-centric than most people realize, and we think that means important
things to our future. We get advice instantly from blogs and forums. We
share photographs on Facebook and mySpace and flickr. We organize photos
with Google’s Picasa, and we use services like Blurb to make our
photobooks, SmugMug to host our professional events, and jalbum to skin our
own websites. And that’s not counting all of the resources online that
touch our world of digital images.”

Keeney confirmed that myPhotopipe.com had an excellent April as well,
paralleling the industry’s overall growth. “Our sales rose 26% versus
year-ago levels in a month when the industry was up 19%. This reflects the
power of the professional photographer. Professional photographers
generally lagged the consumer in the adoption of digital cameras, waiting
for higher quality models to reach the market. Then they again lagged
consumers as they integrated digital management into their workflow. When
they finally turned to online services, they found soccer mom web sites and
photo mousepads. myPhotopipe.com believes professional photographers do not
spend upwards of $4,000 on digital cameras to make photo t-shirts.
myPhotopipe.com is a ‘pure play’ online photo processor for digital
photographers. We offer more than 1,000 print options in five substrates,
but no mousepads,” concluded Keeney.

About myPhotopipe.com, Inc.

myPhotopipe.com, Inc. is a web-based online provider of digital photo
processing, photo finishing, photo sharing, and related services. The
Company’s unique blend of 1000 print options, combined with manual print
inspections and professional color management, have positioned
myPhotopipe.com as one of the fastest-growing providers of digital
photography services for professionals and serious amateurs.

The Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and its common stock
is listed on the OTC Pink Sheets under the symbol “MPPC”. Additional
information is available on the Internet at http://www.myPhotopipe.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Act of 1934 that are subject to the “safe harbor” created by
those sections. Such forward-looking statements are based upon current
information and expectations regarding myPhotopipe.com, Inc. These
statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, are not
guarantees of future performance, and involve certain risks, uncertainties
and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes
and results could materially differ from what is expressed, implied, or
forecast in such forward-looking statements.

myPhotopipe.com, Inc. assumes no obligation to update the information
contained in this release. Any forward-looking statements in this press
release may be materially impacted by any number of factors, any or all of
which could have a negative impact on sales, operating results, financial
and budgetary constraints. The statements made herein are independent
statements by myPhotopipe.com, Inc. The inclusion or mention, if any, of
third parties in this press release does not represent an endorsement of
any myPhotopipe.com, Inc. products or services by any such third party.

Contact:

L. Douglas Keeney, CEO, at (502) 419-5837 or via email at
dougk@myphotopipe.com

or

R. Jerry Falkner, CFA, RJ Falkner & Company, Inc., Investor Relations Counsel
at (830) 693-4400 or via email at info@rjfalkner.com

http://www.myPhotopipe.com

“Taking one of the world’s largest and most-active social networks to
the mobile Internet is very exciting,” said Cyril Zimmermann, CEO of
Fotolog’s parent company, Hi-Media Group. “Fotolog members get a powerful
tool that fits the way they live and communicate, while we take another big
step toward our vision of providing integrated online media solutions
spanning publishing, advertising, payments and mobile solutions.”

Fotolog’s mobile service allows members to use their phones to upload
photos to their personal Fotolog pages, see who is posting messages to
their guest books and leave messages for their friends. The service is
available in seven languages including English, French, German, Portuguese,
Spanish, Swedish and Dutch.

The launch of Fotolog’s mobile service is the first major milestone
after the acquisition of the French mobile internet and SMS payments
specialist, Mobile Trend, by Hi-Media, which was announced on June 24, 2008
http://www.hi-media.com/visu_uk/corporate/080625.php. The acquisition,
which marked Hi-Media’s entry into the multi-media mobile Internet market,
enables the company to:

— strengthen the leadership of Hi-Media’s Allopass micropayments
business, Europe’s number one micro-payments network;

— expand the presence in the emerging mobile advertising market of
Europe’s third-largest online advertising network, Hi-Media Network;

— and, integrate mobile solutions into the web properties of Hi-Media
Publishing, one of the world’s top-100 web publishers, while developing
stand- alone mobile sites.

“The Mobile Trend acquisition was strategic and will create value
across Hi-Media Group for users, partners, shareholders, and employees
worldwide,” said Mr. Zimmermann. “Launching Fotolog’s mobile service
illustrates the power of the integrated model we have created and is just
the first result of many more to come in the mobile arena.”

About Fotolog, Inc.

Fotolog is the 4th most trafficked social networking site in the world
(Alexa, May 2008) and represents one of the most active communities on the
internet today. Among social networking sites in Latin America and Europe,
it is ranked first, second, and fourth in Chile, Argentina, and Spain
respectively (comScore, May 2008). More than 18 million member accounts
from 200 countries have shared over 550 million photos since Fotolog’s
inception in October 2002. Fotolog has grown virally since its founding,
with virtually no marketing or member incentives. Fotolog was acquired in
2007 by Hi-Media Group (http://www.hi-media.com), one of the top 100 media
companies worldwide, with advertising, publishing and micro-payments
businesses.

(1) Alexa, May 2008

Media contact information:

Andrei Bogolubov
NEWPR Group
917-849-9300
Andrei.bogolubov@newprgroup.com

http://m.fotolog.com

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The Sanyo Xacti could perhaps be a nice companion underwater. Waterproof digicams are okay but a videocam is better. For example, the Xacti underwater camcorder lets you go deep into the sea and take photos of other divers and the life underwater.

The $500 Xacti is ideal for taking close-up pictures, thanks to its 5x optical lens. Its got a spacious 2.5″ LCD screen and can simultaneously shoot 6-megapix still pictures and 640 x 480-pixel video clips.

Here are Xacti’s other specs:

• Product Dimensions: 2.8 x 1.6 x 4.8 inches ; 8 ounces
• Built-in image stabilization
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• MPEG-4 Stereo Audio provides superb 48 kHz, 16-bit, 2-channel sound
• Voice recorder function: up to 16.8 hours recording w/1GB card
• Advanced TTL 5-point autofocus system with manual focus option

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NEW YORK & BERLIN–From June 20–30 artnet Online Auctions will feature a special sale of Photographic Portraits celebrating icons of film, entertainment and popular culture from the 1930s–1960s.

Leading the sale is a selection of photographs of film stars including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Marilyn Monroe. Among the highlights is a luminous photograph of Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the 28th Annual Academy Awards taken by Allen Grant in 1956 (estimate $7,000–8,000). Other highlights include the Garbo Portfolio I, 1929–1931, by Clarence Sinclair Bull, a portfolio of five gelatin silver prints that capture the star in various poses at the height of her career ($2,500–3,500) and Jean Harlow, “Bear Rug,” 1934, a classic portrait of the actress by George Hurrell (estimate: $5,500–7,500).

The sale also celebrates music legends from the Jazz era to the 1960s with portraits of Duke Ellington, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan. Duke Ellington, 1947, is an exuberant portrait of the Jazz great by William Gottlieb. Elvis Waving, 1958, one of several works in the sale by Life Magazine photographer Bill Ray, captures the enthusiasm of the young pop star as he embarks upon his military service (estimate: $1,500–2,000). Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo, New York, 1963, by Don Hunstein is an atmospheric color photograph of the artist and his companion strolling in the snow (estimate $2,500–3,000).

“The photographic portraits in this sale offer collectors a rare glimpse into the lives of these legendary artists and performers,” said Hans Neuendorf, CEO of artnet. “We are delighted to offer collectors such an outstanding selection of works by leading photographers.”

Sale Contacts:
Christopher Sweet
Photography Specialist

csweet@artnet.com
+1 212 497 9700 ext. 165

Susanna Wenniger
Photography Specialist

swenniger@artnet.com
+1 212 497-9700 ext. 172

Images available upon request.

About artnet Online Auctions:

Artworks on artnet Online Auctions are evaluated by artnet’s specialists. There is no buyer’s premium. Every seller on artnet Online Auctions is authorized and registered, and each auction lot features comprehensive art market research on both the artist’s career and the artwork. Please visit us at www.artnetonlineauctions.com.

Contacts

artnet Worldwide Inc.
Press contact:
Sarah Bradley, +1-212-497-9700, ext. 197
sbradley@artnet.com

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