Did you know we sponsor a softball team? The “Crash Pad Crashers” are a LBGT softball league in San Francisco, and we’ve been their sponsor for a few years now. Check out their upcoming games through the San Francisco Gay Softball League. (sfgsl.org)

They’re also recruiting, so check with them when the next round starts!

Gooooooooooooo Crashers!

San Francisco, CA — (April 22, 2012): Crash Pad Series (CrashPadSeries.com) took top honors last week at the 7th Annual Feminist Porn Awards, held in Canada. Presented by Toronto’s feminist sex toy store Good For Her, the Feminist Porn Awards are an annual event recognizing excellence in ethical and female-focused pornography.

CrashPadSeries.com is based on director Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film “The Crash Pad”, which won Feminist Porn Awards’ Best Dyke Sex Scene. The website continues from where the film left off, portraying a clandestine San Francisco apartment where a voyeuristic landlord (played by Houston herself) supplies keys to the pad’s pleasure-seeking occupants so that she can observe their sexual escapades through hidden cameras.

A diverse cast of over 150 first-time and professional porn performers appear in a variety pairings that transcend normative gender binaries and sexual orientations. With over 300 episodes and behind the scenes videos the series has quickly become the top recommended site for audiences seeking high quality feminist porn and authentic queer sexual chemistry. It stands as much of a queer cultural documentary as it is a hot porn destination; episodes from the series are often screened in colleges and universities by sex educators and campus LGBT groups interested in authentic and explicit examples of queer and trans sexuality.

“I believe there’s a lot of room and need to create adult content that’s real, that’s respectful and powerful… I think it’s the perfect place to become political. It’s a place where money, sex, media, and ethics converge.”
- Shine Louise Houston, Founder & Director, Pink & White Productions

2012 is an important year, as this summer the website will turn five years old, and has recently enjoyed an update with features such as monthly live-streaming shoots, transcribed behind-the-scenes videos, improved navigation and layout, and much more.

For information about Crash Pad Series, a press membership, or interviews with Shine Louise Houston contact alliance@crashpadseries.com. For more information and a list of all the winners of the 7th Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards, see GoodForHer.com

About the Good For Her’s Feminist Porn Awards
Started in 2006, The Feminist Porn Awards are produced by Good For Her, a Toronto, Canada based feminist sexuality education centre and sex store. This event was started when Good For Her realized it wasn’t enough to criticize adult films for not adequately representing women’s – and in many cases, men’s – sexuality. The Feminist Porn Awards were created with the goals of celebrating ethical, feminist porn, exposing this work to a larger audience, and creating community amongst filmmakers, performers and audience members. Since starting the Feminist Porn Awards, Good For Her has handed out over 70 awards to movies, short films, websites, directors, heartthrobs, boundary breakers and visionaries, while shining a light on the astoundingly sexy work of these feminist artists and filmmakers.

About Pink & White Productions
Shine Louise Houston founded Pink & White Productions in 2005, aiming create a sustainable adult entertainment company that exposes the complexities of queer sexual desire. Taking inspiration from many different sources, Pink & White is dedicated to producing sexy and exciting images that reflect today’s blurred gender lines and fluid sexualities. Recognized internationally for smart and sexy work, Houston’s projects include four feature films, regular DVD volume releases of her popular queer porn website crashpadseries.com, and her newest endeavor, HeavenlySpire.com.

Houston’s past projects (The Crash Pad, Superfreak, The Wild Search, CHAMPION: Love Hurts) and popular Crash Pad Series DVD volumes have been recognized year after year by AVN Awards and the Feminist Porn Awards. In 20120, Houston was honored 2010 Feminist Porn Awards “Trailblazer”. Last year, her masculine sensuality site HeavenlySpire.com received a website honor. This year, the award went to the company’s oldest and most popular site, CrashPadSeries.com.

Dylan has been filming with us since the beginning: Not only was she in the original Crash Pad Series DVD, but the first episode of CrashPadSeries.com as well! What other models from the Crash Pad’s early days would you like to see return? Talk about this, or anything else, in the comments below!

GREAT NEWS!!!

Crash Pad Series was honored at the 7th annual 2012 Feminist Porn Awards last night! I’m sure there’ll be an official announcement soon, but I just wanted to say thanks to all the members and supporters who helped to make it happen and congrats to Shine, Alexa, Tristan, Shawn, Chris, and everyone who works behind the scenes. AND especially congratulations to our site’s brave models.

I had a blast in Toronto, and was joined by other Crash Pad stars Drew DeVeaux, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Dylan Ryan, Rozen DeBowe, Courtney Trouble, Arabelle Raphael, James Darling, Tina Horn, and Nenna (who played the Ref in CHAMPION — congrats on your win!).

Much thanks to Good For Her for hosting this fantastic event and recognizing our work. I’m very proud to be a part of it.

– Okay, off to the airport… see you soon SF!

This is an unpaid gig… but trade in porno is negotiable!
There will also be food provided after the shoot.

Note:
Models must be over 18 years of age.
Must have valid and current proof of age via a US Government-issued ID.

If you or someone you know is interested in being an extra, please email alliance@crashpadseries.com.

Happy Friday! The latest episode is now live at Crashpadseries.com for all members!

This week’s episode stars CPS veteran Dylan Ryan as well as newcomer Nikki Hearts. Here’s how Nikki ended up at the Pad, according to her bio:

“When I was younger I lived in a big feminist punk house where we would project queer porn onto the side of the house and have discussions about it, Crashpad was of course a go to for material to screen. These parties are what got me interested in doing porn, and Crashpad was always the company that I was most inclined to work for.”

In the spirit of Nikki’s formative punk porn parties, let’s have a discussion here on the Blog. In the thread below, tell us what you thought about the latest episode. Is watching porn ever a communal experience for you?

Also don’t forget that tomorrow we’ll be shooting, and that means Level 3 members can tune in live!

The popular queer porn website Crash Pad Series has a new voyeur… YOU!

Ever wanted to sit-in on a porn shoot? Fans, film buffs and feminist porn academics across the globe can now log in and observe as award-winning director Shine Louise Houston films installments of the popular queer porn site CrashPadSeries.com, from Pink & White Productions.

Based on the original “Feminist Porn Best Dyke Sex Scene” smash hit “The Crash Pad“, the website carries on the film’s hot sex scenes week after week, with diverse genders and fluid sexualities soaking the camera in all manners of toys, kinks, and tricks. With over 12,600 photos and 250 mobile-compatible Video Episodes and exclusive Behind the Scenes interviews with over 150 models, Crash Pad Series is the largest and most diverse queer porn site on the web. Now, viewers can log on and watch the action unfold in real time through a Level 3 Membership.

Live-shoots attract fans of queer porn stars and Shine Louise Houston, as well as those interested in feminist and queer pornography such as womens’ studies scholars, graduate students, researchers and journalists. At each shoot, a special seat is open for invited guests to observe the shoot and meet the cast and crew in person.

On April 14th, the special guests will be Vanessa de Pinto, blogger and sex writer for the SFWeekly and Huffington Post. We welcome scholars, filmmakers and journalists to join us for the creation of our unique queer, indie video site.

Images right to left: Estella, Christoph, Lily Cade, Kathryn Dupri. Images courtesy the models. For more images and information, please contact alliance@crashpadseries.com

Our first shoot of the day is a couple shooting with us, Estella and Christoph, live-streaming at 11am PST. “I first saw Crash Pad when I was 19 and it was super hot,” says Christoph. “I’d never seen anything like it before. It’s exciting to be shooting with Crash Pad now because I never thought that I would be a part of something so fucking awesome especially with an amazing partner who shares the same ideas.” Estella adds, “Being part of the queer porn revolution is important to the both of us because queer people need equal representation in porn and no one else should be telling us what is sexy.”

The afternoon shoot welcomes the return of Crash Pad hottie Kathryn Dupri looks forward to initiating Crash Pad newbie Lily Cade, saying “I’m so excited to come back and shoot for Crash Pad — so many new things have happened since I’ve been here — San Francisco is now my HOME for starters, I get to shoot 2 times this month (makes me very happy since April is my birthday month) AND I get to have sex with Lily Cade! Can’t wait to shoot!” Follow Kathryn on Twitter at @kathryndupri, and Lily at @lily_cade.

Who’s the lucky new visitor Kathryn gets to initiate? None other than LA’s very own Lily Cade, who is no stranger to the Crash Pad saga. Lily says, “I’ve actually been interested in shooting for Crash Pad since before I had a porn career. I literally wrote a term paper about the original Crash Pad movie and held a screening of it while I was at USC (no, I don’t know where that paper is). I applied to Crash Pad Series when I was still a callow amateur dyke… but a shoot never happened and my career developed in LA, in more mainstream lesbian porn. I started directing for Filly Films, run my own website at LilyCade.com, produce content for a couple other companies, and of course shoot in front of the camera whenever I can. So when Kathryn Dupri asked me if I’d like to shoot with her for Crash Pad, I told her that I would love to! I’m really excited about this shoot and about getting to work for Shine.” We’re excited to finally get to work with Lily, too!

The live-streaming happens Saturday April 14^th, 2012 at approximately 11AM and 3PM PST.

Level 3 Memberships are $37/month and include full access to the site. Members unable to make the live-streaming event can watch the finished edited episodes to be posted in updates a few weeks after the shoot. Visit CrashPadSeries.com or for press passes or other information, contact alliance@crashpadseries.com. Crash Pad Series boasts a competitive Affiliate Program of 30% recurring commission for webmasters.

CrashPadSeries.com is based on director Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film “The Crash Pad”, which won Feminist Porn Awards’ Best Dyke Sex Scene. The website continues from where the film left off, portraying a clandestine San Francisco apartment where a voyeuristic landlord (played by Houston herself) supplies keys to the pad’s pleasure-seeking occupants so that she can observe their sexual escapades through hidden cameras.

Nominated 2010 AVNAward’s “Best Alternative Website” and recognized at the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards, the site was created in 2007 and has included professional and first-time performers alike in high-quality video episodes and smart behind the scenes interviews. The site features a diverse cast of amateur and professional porn performers in a variety of pairings that transcend normative gender binaries and sexual orientations. The series has quickly become the top recommended site for audiences seeking high quality feminist porn and authentic queer sexual chemistry. As much of a queer cultural documentary as it is a hot porn destination, episodes from the series are often screened in colleges and universities by sex educators and campus LGBT groups interested in authentic and explicit examples of queer and trans sexuality.

About Pink & White Productions

Founded by Shine Louise Houston in 2005, Pink & White Productions is known for portraying authentic queer desire and fluidity of sexuality and gender in adult cinema. The company’s featured films and projects have screened world-wide, and presented at academic institutions, most recently atStandfordUniversity. Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards inBerlin and was notedToronto’s Feminist Porn Awards’ Visionary, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator. Her work adds representation to queer sexualities, spanning communities of color, gender expression, sexual desire, body politices, BDSM and other marginalized experiences with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. Following the popular best-selling movie “The Crash Pad”, the company’s website CrashPadSeries.com portrays an illustrious San Francisco apartment where queers go to have the best sex of their lives. Houston’s newest site, HeavenlySpire.com explores masculine sexuality in her signature style. For more information about Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions, visit PinkWhite.biz.

This week–by popular demand and available to all members–is an encore of our Very Special April Fools episode. We get frequent requests for Shine Louise Houston to get down in front of her own cameras, and finally she obliges! Sort of. Regular updates will resume next Friday with a brand-new episode, and don’t forget the next live shoot is Saturday the 14th!

To get the ball rolling, here’s our question to you: What do you think of the new look and features of the site?

I had the excellent privilege this last week to fly out to Philadelphia and participate in Swarthmore College’s Queer and Trans Conference. It was a jammed pack week of events featuring lectures, visual, musical and performance art. I arrived on Wednesday with my girlfriend and we had dinner with my very dear art mentor and queer, experimental filmmaker Erica Cho. Erica was a very gracious host and also brought me to Bryn Mawr College to speak to the narrative film class about my video artwork I produced in the performance art duo twincest with Jiz Lee. Specifically focusing on the intersections of fine art and pornography within the realm of performance art. Afterwards, I had one on one student critiques and got to see a lot of work from budding filmmakers and artists. There was a quick dinner then we all ventured off to the opening gallery reception at Kitao Gallery on the Swarthmore College campus. I met the organizer Miyuki Baker who is also a visual artist and recent Watson Fellowship recipient. Here is a little bit about their project:

Visibly Queer: Exploring the Intersections of Art and Activism
Morocco, Netherlands, Argentina, Singapore, Australia, South Korea, India
Making art is a way to physically merge visual cultures together, and to call people into action. In queer communities around the world, art – whatever the form may be – film, dance, poetry, painting, is being created in large numbers in an effort to increase visibility, combat homophobia and achieve equal rights. My Watson year will explore the art making of queer communities in seven countries. Why is a certain media of artistic expression chosen over another, and are these decisions enhanced or altered by the social and political environments or historical traditions of a country? By engaging in cultural intersections, I hope to learn the implications of being visibly queer.

Miyuki had Yuki (gf) sign a copy of Tokyo Bois! (see pic). We all ended up heading over to hotpot! Philly’s dessert reception and caught up. “hotpot! is an organization of Asian and Pacific Islander queer, lesbian, bisexual, gay women and trans*, gender variant, genderqueer, gender non-conforming identified folks working to build community that values differences, shared power, activism towards social justice, and friendship.” Em made a mean creme brulee and there was loads of interesting dialog about Philly’s LGTBQ scene. As you can see the QTC was filled with excitement since this was just day one!
Saturday was tech for the evening performances and it was great to see and perform in the same event with Papi Coxxx. We met the first time in SF during the production of Wild Search. They did an excerpt from a longer performance called “Dancer” which was fabulous. If you have a chance to see them perform live, do go. I am putting my performance piece on my site. The following day was the Screening Sex: A Conversation with Two Queer Pornmakers where I presented with Loree Erickson.

Loree, who self-identifies as “crip,” is a disabled queer porn actor who aims to show that the everyday experiences of people with disabilities can be not just sexual, but sexy. In exploring the question “what is sexy?” Loree reframes sites of shame as sites of pride and resistance (personal care relationships, bodies that challenge mainstream notions of beauty and desirability, queer sex, vulnerability, gender transgression, etc). She also brings to light the unspoken benefits of accessible spaces and presents them not only as locations of necessity but also as places of pleasure. By posing a complicated, insightful, honest, and sexy image of disability and queerness, Loree combats the stigma, fear, and shame that contribute to the desexualization and devaluation of people with disabilities, and combats bodily-based oppression in general.

Loree showed some hot clips from her work and I presented the Behind the Scenes from my shoot with Mickey Mod. We answered some great questions from the audience. You can check out the ‘live blogging’ from the event here. “Ultimately, the goal here is to move to a place where disabled people and our bodies are appreciated and wanted, not in spite of our differences, but because of them” Loree says. We spoke about the mainstreaming of queer porn and bodies, visibility, exclusion and consolidation of identities in the production process.

Shortly after I had a quick roll and then we packed up our stuff to catch a 6AM flight back to the Bay. Philly was gorgeous and I want to send a big thank you to the organizers of the QTC, Miyuki Baker, Erica Cho and hotpot! for all the queer love.