EL SEGUNDO.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--According to Al Marco, ceo of Brightcube, the hereafter couldn't be any brighter for his newly formed company.

Brightcube was formed end a recent merger of FrameYourArt.com and the other properties that make up the utmost Velocity Group and Photoloft, a developer and provider of digital-imaging Internet infrastructure technology.

further the formation of Brightcube is just the latest in a string of accomplishments that have l Marco to be single in kind of the top dogs in the relatively recent and constantly evolving Internet art market.

Marco is a 17-year veteran of the publishing industry and is the caster of Marco Fine Art, a company which portrays artists like John Asaro, fright Buffet and John Nieto. For Marco, this digital revolution all began just sum of two units years ago, in the summer of 1999 with a Web site called FrameYourArt.com. It was created to be a top e-commerce art site, linking consumer shopping for art and custom framing online with retail framing galleries.

"I started the company because I was disturbed about my dealers and I wanted them to do well" he explained. "And Art.com had proceed on the scene and created a vast market and scared the hell not at home of everybody. I created the site to help the dealers. The Internet is what it is, and it's going to be as powerful as it is, thus I figured I would just give them their have site so they could in fact drive the business back to them."

As FrameYourArt.com got rolling, Marco said the company was able to show different products that made a fate of sense. We gave computer to clients. We started gone out with the Buyers Club. We started a site for artists, which was a religious thing. As the community grew we were able to provide them with their admit sites if they were our members."

Marco then purchased a company that dealt with paper and got involved with paper guru Ralph Roessler to work onward a technology called print-on-demand. He also met with Elizabeth Wenner, who had her be in possession of Web site called Artlister.com, a site Marco calls "the eBay of art," purchased her company and asked her to join the company, which was named the ultimate Velocity Group (EVG).

"The company started rolling," explained Marco. "We did seminars, we did all kinds of essence and it was doing exceedingly well. Along the way, we had flow into a company that worked in photography called Photoloft. Photoloft was impressed with our type We started working on an alliance with them and it went remarkably very well."

In the meantime, the company formed working relationships with Art.com and BigNose.com, a supplier of custom large format results from digital images for online and retail partners. The company eventually merg with Photoloft and became the Brightcube entity.

According to Marco, this merger means big things for FrameYourArt.com and its properties. "Nothing has changing," Marco said about the company's existing properties. "We have foundations available to pursue additional opportunities moving forward. We have become stronger It takes FrameYourArt.com and makes it super-powerful. It's really made the company extremely strong."

The merger also means big things for a technology called print-on-demand, or the ability to choice an individual image, have it delivered to a abstracted location digitally and printed at that location onward high-quality, archival papers and inks. According to Marco, the merger will commingle PhotoLoft's online Internet imaging infrastructure technology with EVG's first mover advantage in the art market and its rapidly growing nationwide network of offline brick-and-mortar art galleries and frame stores and its proprietary line of inks and paper for digital applications.

Marco said he is in the proces of bringing the technology to manufacturers in this way that print-on-demand technology will be available for galleries and publishers. "We're going to be able to work with our the community to give them some phenomenal tools," said Marco. "It's a really virtuous thing for our network. We're headed in that direction right now. The technology is already implemented into near galleries, and we're continuing all of that implementation now. We want to work with the manufacturers. We want to empower them and work with them and help them earn through this. We will just be another vehicle to work with the publishers and different tribe to deliver product to help streamline the proces and help the galleries."

Up nearest for the company will be an appearance at Artexpo recently made known York next month, where according to Marco, the company will be offering print-on-demand demonstrations with several hands-on opportunities.

Indeed, that wholes like a shining recipe for success

EDITOR'S NOTE

In new months, FrameYourArt.com and its properties have been busy with several strategic partnerships and alliances. mostly recent is a merger with Photoloft to form a just discovered company called Brightcube. Here, we take you from the inception of FrameYourArt.com brace years ago to today and explain by what mode Al Marco and his Web empire have luckily tackled the tricky Internet art market.

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