Pixelon

Pixelon was a dot-com company founded in 1998 that promised better distribution of high-quality video over the Internet. It gained fame for its extravagant Las Vegas launch party, followed by its sudden and violent decline less than a year later, as it became evident it was using technologies that were, in fact, fake or misrepresented. Its founder, "Michael Fenne", was actually David Kim Stanley, a convicted felon involved in stock scams who was "on the lam and living out of the back of his car" when he arrived in California two years earlier. In the year 2000 Pixelon began to fire employees and reduce its operations until its bankruptcy.

iBash '99

The party event for Pixelon's product launch, called "iBASH '99", was held October 29, 1999 at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, at a reported cost of US$16 million. The lineup featured performances by Chely Wright, LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Dixie Chicks, The Offspring, KISS, Tony Bennett, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, and a reunion of The Who.

It was announced the event would be broadcast over the Internet as a demonstration of Pixelon's technology. This failed, with the only people actually seeing the event being those attending in person, a severe blow to Pixelon's reputation. The Who later released their set as a DVD titled The Vegas Job, featuring two short pre-show interviews with Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle, and a short after-crash interview with David Kim Stanley, admitting to embezzlement.

External links

• David Kim Stanley's personal web site