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                 Digital Artists Invited to Submit Entries

    ALYS BEACH, Fla., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A Florida beach resort town
will host a unique festival on Labor Day weekend.

    "Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach" was created to celebrate and promote
the world's most talented and innovative digital artists. But the event has
a very unusual twist.

    "We're inviting digital artists from around the world to project their
original artwork onto our town's famous white walls," said Kelli Arnold,
Alys Beach's Events Coordinator. "Our entire town will literally become
their blank canvas."

    Sometimes referred to as "Photon Bombing," "Guerilla Projection,"
"Projection Bombing" or "Urban Projection," underground artists around the
globe have already been using the latest design, animation and projection
technologies to cast their images onto skyscrapers and other urban
structures, as a means of artistic expression.

    "Some of the talent that we're finding is truly stunning," said Arnold.

    To help lure that talent, Alys Beach has announced numerous award
categories and over $5,000 in cash prizes, including a $2,500 "Best of
Show" award. A certain number of qualified artists may also be eligible for
cash stipends to help them attend the event.

    The festival will be hosted by several celebrity and industry expert
judges, including Alan Hunter -- MTV's very first "VeeJay," co-host of the
"Big 80's" channel on Sirius Satellite Radio, and co-founder of the
Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, and Warren Heaton, an award-winning
digital media artist and UCLA professor, whose film, video and interactive
media projects include such clients as Adobe, Aquantive Microsoft,
Concorde-New Horizons, DirecTV, Motor Entertainment and Walt Disney
Imagineering.

    Artists are encouraged to submit their original works of digital art
for consideration as soon as possible. Entries may include new or existing
abstract digital imagery, short films, photography, VJ sets, animations,
YouTube videos, Adobe PhotoShop creations or entirely new interactive
concepts. All subject matter is eligible for the festival, although a
special $1,000 prize will be awarded to the best entry with a "green" or
environmental theme. The deadline for all submissions is Friday, July 11,
2008. The festival will be held on the evening of Saturday, August 30,
2008.

    Alys Beach is located in Florida's panhandle on Scenic Highway 30A,
between Destin and Panama City Beach, along what The New York Times said
"may be the best beach in the continental U.S." In April, Forbes.com named
Alys Beach America's "Best Spot for the Design-Savvy."

    For more information about Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach, visit
http://www.alysbeach.com/DG , call toll-free 1-866-481-8387, or email
events@alysbeach.com .

    ABOUT ALYS BEACH

    One of the most beautiful new towns in the world, Alys Beach's
extraordinary architectural vision drew inspirations from both Bermuda and
the family courtyard homes of Antigua, Guatemala. When complete, the town
will be home to over 600 villas, rowhouses, courtyard homes and family
compound retreats, as well as numerous restaurants, parks and shops. All
homes in Alys Beach are built to Fortified ... For Safer Living(R) building
standards, as certified by the Institute for Business & Home Safety, and
are also built to the Green Home Designation Standard of the Florida Green
Building Coalition.

    "Alys Beach may be the most truly innovative community under
construction in the United States today, and it will eventually be imitated
everywhere," said Andres Duany, who was ranked one of the Top 5 most
influential people in home building by Builder magazine.

    For sales or rental information, please call 866-481-8387 or visit
http://www.alysbeach.com .

 

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