TV Pixie

TV Pixie is a British website about television programmes founded in 2009.

History

TV Pixie was founded by Alex Guest after he left Zattoo, where he was the UK country manager, in 2009. The site was conceived as an ad-funded portal for television viewers to discover new TV programmes and to read reviews.

In November 2011, TV Pixie's blog was ranked 140th out of 4,935 television-related sites globally by Technorati, putting TV Pixie's blog ahead of The Guardian newspaper's TV and radio blog, ranked 210th.

Awards

The company was one of the winners of the IC Tomorrow competition run by the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board in 2011.

TV Pixie's entry is a finalist in the Technology Strategy Board's 2012 Race For Apps contest.

References

Pixie

Pixies (also pixy, pixi, pizkie, piskies and pigsies as they are sometimes known in Cornwall) are mythical creatures of folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the high moorland areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name.

Akin to the Irish and Scottish Aos Sí, pixies are believed to inhabit ancient underground ancestor sites such as stone circles, barrows, dolmens, ringfort or menhirs.

In traditional regional lore, pixies are generally benign, mischievous, short of stature and attractively childlike; they are fond of dancing and gather outdoors in huge numbers to dance or sometimes wrestle, through the night, demonstrating parallels with the Cornish plen-an-gwary and Breton Fest Noz (Cornish: troyl) folk celebrations originating in the medieval period. In modern times they are usually depicted with pointed ears, and often wearing a green outfit and pointed hat although traditional stories describe them wearing dirty ragged bundles of rags which they happily discard for gifts of new clothes. Sometimes their eyes are described as being pointed upwards at the temple ends. These, however, are Victorian era conventions and not part of the older mythology.

Pixie (disambiguation)

A pixie is a small humanoid creature in British folklore. Pixie or Pixies may also refer to:

Media and entertainment

People

Technology

Pixie (photographer)

Pixie (born 1973) is an American photographer, known for fantasy & celebrity portraiture, event and music band photography. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, one of the nation’s leading colleges of art and design. In 2003 she moved to Los Angeles, CA, where she began her photography career. She is the owner of Pixie Vision Photography, with her work featured nationally and internationally in galleries and publications.

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