An old friend of mine in San Francisco, Cianna Stewart (one of the Sexiest Geeks Alive), is becoming quite a prolific independent filmmaker … her latest project, just going into production, will be a documentary about Zivity.com, a new online social network for connoisseurs of pin-up photography.

Zivity has been garnering a fair amount of attention in the mainstream (ABC, New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle) and financial press (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes, amongst others) for its business model.

Cianna’s basic treatment of the film is as follows:

It’s Not Porn: Behind the doors of a modern pin-up company

In the world of erotic photography, sexy women are objects whose pictures garner huge profits for other people. A handful of young entrepreneurs have decided to upset this system, putting control into the hands of the models & photographers, challenging who defines “sexy,” and creating a new revenue model for the next wave of the internet. Will they succeed? And what happens when regular women become known as online pin-up stars?

Now if I can just figure out a way to get an invite to the beta.

Cianna is looking for investors to help finance the film; so if you happen to know anyone willing to buy shares, head over to Thumbnail Productions and get in touch. For those that want to support, but can’t afford to the extent of investing, donations will also be accepted, with a thank you to be determined (I’ve suggested a private premiere screening, or a copy on DVD) …

So the past couple days, the stock market has been down; including a little mini-crash (or “market correction”) yesterday … what does this mean? Well, for me it means that since Friday, I’ve lost almost $4,000.00.

So what do I do? I take the opportunity to rebalance, shifting some money out of my stable value fund to buy more of my company’s stock. We’ll find out today if this was a good plan, or if I should have waited.

In other news, the Financial Times is reporting:

The rapid expansion of biofuel production may be welcome news for environmentalists but for the world’s beer drinkers it could be a different story.

Strong demand for biofuel feedstocks such as corn, soyabeans and rapeseed is encouraging farmers to plant these crops instead of grains like barley, driving up prices.

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It’s a good thing I’m a vodka drinker, because as we know, vodka can be distilled from damned near anything; even grapes, as evidenced by my current favorite, Ciroc … mmm, yummy.