I do have one question, though. Now that Celeste is signed with Derek Hay/LA Direct, does he get a piece of her clip store revenue? That is one concern I would have signing an agency contract in the current business environment. Unless Derek can help her with scenes she produces herself (providing camera and editing equipment would be two biggies, providing filming locations would be another) he shouldn’t get a piece of that revenue. She could have signed with much worse than Derek Hay (Tee Reel/Ideal Image and Riley Reynolds/Hussey Models are two that come to mind) but I do agree that mainstream porn is declining. I think things should shake out over the next few years, leaving a few of the stronger companies to thrive (my money would be on New Sensations — which is told to be still making a profit even with business as bad as it is right now, Greg Lansky’s websites and probably Evil Angel surviving) but things are very dicey in pornland right now.

Look at it this way, she has a solid fan base if she does one clip and sells it for 10 bucks and sells 1000 of them, which given her base she could likely do she makes 10 TIMES or more what she will make for one scene in porn. if she does one scene a week and paces her releases and what she does she makes serious money, the kind of money she will only make in porn valley if she starts hooking, and even at that she would have to become VERY popular….
and even the exposure isnt that big of a deal…in the 90s there were about 14000 video stores across the country, the average release would sell 3000 to 5000 copies in the first 30 days now even Evil Angel doesnt sell 1000 copies of a new release, video stores have closed or moved to novelties because people dont rent videos anymore, on the other hand Neil Orkin could buy Evil Angel Video with a single months profits…easily…(Orkin owns C4S) and whats an AVN cover worth? nothing..AVN only goes out to retailers the average Joe on the street doesnt know the names of any porn chicks because theres a plethora of them, they are in and out so quickly and unless you have fucked the President nobody in mainstream cares about you because you arent news…you arent even a curiosity anymore so there is simply NO upside to doing porn. It wasnt always this way but it is now, anyone who made good porn has long since left because they saw the writing on the wall…Vivid doesnt release videos and hasnt in years, theres a reason for that….Ms Vega has the opportunity to do very well for herself but if she does it via porn valley she will be long forgotten in a year or two and the only thing she will have to show for it is Herpes and a shitload of free scenes of her on tubesites.

And I’m sure Celeste will love the Christian missionary style passive aggression: “You’ve just made the dumbest decision of your life, and you look like a little boy (and you’re a micro niche with only tiny tiny appeal) but you’re still terrific and special and meant for great things!”

After reading this gem, I am left wondering why anyone ever thought Mike South only had negative, insulting, bitter or angry things to say about the adult business….