Archive for January, 2012
Friday, January 13th, 2012
These photos are from the Double Decker Bus Tour around Hollywood. Although I am a local and have lived around here for all my life, it never dawned on me to take a tour of Hollywood. However, XBIZ had a bus tour in Chicago and London, and I thoroughly enjoyed both of them, so I decided I would give it a shot. It was a beautiful, picture postcard day in Hollywood, so spending an hour riding around in a convertible bus was not a bad way to spend some time.
The tour was interesting on its own, but I think what is did more than anything else was point out locations to check out on foot later on. I experienced the same with the London tour. Chicago was just too cold to go walking around. All in all, it was a great ending to XBIZLA 2012. (more…)
Friday, January 13th, 2012
These photos are from Wednesday at the adult entertainment B-to-B event, XBIZ LA. The day began with a mix and meet market, which is the substitute for the days of yesteryear when adult shows had large rooms with dozens of large booths. Now it is more intimate and cost effective to have the smaller set up for an hour or two of booths instead of three days. I guess YNOT can get credit for pioneering them back in San Diego. After the Mix & Meet, we had lunch at Simon LA again, followed by another Speed Networking session.
The panels included an anti-piracy discussion with Allison Vivas of Pink Visual and Doug Lichtman, a UCLA Law Professor who is an expert on patent and copyright law, telecommunications regulation and general legal issues pertaining to technology firms and the Internet. It was enlightening to say the least. The keynote was a discussion between Colin Rowntree and Ron Cadwell, which was very entertaining. The day ended for me with the State of the Industry panel, 3 Minute Showoffs and the AWE cocktail reception. (more…)
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
After the XBIZ Awards show, the hardy partiers headed to the Fleshlight After Party at the Wilshire Restaurant in Santa Monica to continue their celebrating. I headed over to grab a few photos, but unfortunately, my camera’s batteries decided they had enough for the night, so I ended up leaving before SMPD showed it, so no photos of that incident. (more…)
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