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Big Response to New NineShift Monthly Email

Over 566 people read our first monthly email, which went out last week. Thank you! And 463 people visited the NineShift blog in December. Thank you. Thank you. We will continue the monthly NineShift email. If you did not get the December email and want to receive it, just email me at [email protected] and I will add you to the list

First Train for Florida Brightline Coming

The first train for Florida's new private sector passenger train has been built in Sacramento and is headed to Florida!

Brightline still expects to begin service on the first leg, from Miami to West Palm Beach with a stop in Ft. Lauderdale, in 2017.

Workers at the Sacramento train factory celebrating.

 

Now Watch the Video of the Van Gogh Paintings - - Amazing

 

Here's my co-author Julie Coates' video of the video in the art gallery at the Institute of Art in Chicago featured with the originals of the three Van Gogh Bedroom paintings.  Notice how you can see detail of just an inch or so, something I could not see standing right in front of the paintings. Amazing. 

 

How Technology Enhances Van Gogh

Technology not only creates art in this century. It also enhances the art of the past. 

Here's one of the three Van Gogh Bedroom paintings he did over 18 months.
It is about two feet by three feet in real life.  
When I stood five feet in front of the painting, I could not see the detail in the two inch faces on the wall.
With the help of technology you dear reader/viewer can see what I could not see just a few feet away from the original Van Gogh paintings.
First, one of the Bedroom paintings.

Technology Changes Art in this Century

Art Changes Now Too

100 Years Ago, culture and art changed to match the Industrial Age.  
Today culture and art is changing to match the Knowledge Society.

Digital Art is evolving.  A friend of our son has a job in digital art. 
Here's me testing virtual art at the campus of the University of Southern California earlier this year.