—INTERNET TV SUPERSTAR BRIAN BRUSHWOOD RECOGNIZED FOR
AMAZING MAGIC TRICKS—

San Francisco, CA – December 1, 2008 – Brian Brushwood, host of Revision3’s Scam School, continues to captivate audiences across the world. The hit program won a WonderHowTo Video Award for “Best Video” in the “Magic” category.

Garnering 43 percent of the votes from 190 countries, the Scam School episode entitled “Lift a Friend with Super Hero Strength” was selected as the best of over 3,000 videos by WonderHowTo.com visitors. WonderHowTo hand-picks and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites, including topics such as how to dance, how to cook, how to tie a tie, new ways to save money and beyond, and is the one-stop shop to browse and search the expanding world of free video tutorials.

Brian Brushwood is the next generation of magician. His showroom: the bars and back alley pubs in college towns across America. In the winning program, Brian teaches viewers how to lift a friend—with the secret help of another friend. For more information about the WonderHowTo Award and to comment on the winning Scam School episode, log onto http://www.wonderhowto.com/awards08/magic/.

“Scam School” is a short-format series, with each episode teaching a usable bar trick, street con, or scam to pull on friends. The show is based largely on Brian Brushwood’s book Cheats, Cons, Swindles and Tricks: 57 Ways to Scam a Free Drink, Brian’s lecture “Scams, Sasquatch, and the Supernatural,” and the dozens of bar-tricks, puzzles, and scams Brian has picked up over his eight years of touring nationwide. Episodes of Scam School air every Thursday at 12 p.m. EST at www.revision3.com/scamschool.

About Revision3
Revision3 is the first media company that gets it. Born from the Internet, Revision3 is the home of Internet Television, creating and producing shows for a new audience: passionate, committed fans who want to watch shows about technology, modern culture and music that entertain, educate and help to expand their life experiences.

The company was founded in 2005 by technology visionaries Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson and David Prager because they couldn’t find anything they wanted to watch on traditional television. The company is now led by Internet TV pioneer Jim Louderback. With more than 60 million views to date (and six million per month), Revision3’s programs can be found everywhere from Revision3 to a wide range of platforms, including iTunes, YouTube, Joost, Hulu, Viddler, Blip.TV and TIVO. Shows can be watched on any device, from a cell phone to an Apple iPod to a computer or a TV.

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