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• As CSI Files previously reported, CSI: Miami star David Caruso (Horatio Caine) recently created a fine art print called Chinerica I in collaboration with Alan Locke. The print is the first product from Caruso Art, which the Miami actor formed in 2008 "to produce intellectually stimulating art, including screenprints and digital renderings that represent American and global culture." (Source: Art Info)

• CSI: New York's Hill Harper (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) played basketball with Harvard classmate and good friend President Barack Obama the day of the election. "The way someone plays a team sport is a metaphor of how they are as a person and the type of leader they are," Harper told Hollyscoop after Obama's inauguration. "He's the type of person that wants to make the team better."

• Tony Geraldi is the general operations manager for the Sonoma County Airport Express bus service in California. After seeing QR codes used in the New York episode "Dead Inside", Geraldi looked into the technology. Airport Express now has signs next to their bus stops that use a QR code to allow people with a camera-equipped smartphone to access their mobile website and see route schedules and fares.

  The original article, including more detailed information about QR codes, is from the Press Democrat.

• The "CSI: Live" stage show will be at Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Performing Arts in South Carolina on February 2. "Whether it's analyzing mysterious gases, launching projectiles into targets or firing a laser beam across the stage, the CSI recruits will have to be on their toes to help solve the crime before it's too late," said Brooks Center director Lillian Harder. (Source)

• CBS has ordered a pilot presentation of Missing You, a reality series that follows a team of investigators as they try to solve actual missing persons cases. If Missing You gets picked up, it will add to the CBS roster of crime shows which already includes the CSI franchise.

• Minor spoilers ahead

  People reports that country singer Taylor Swift described her upcoming appearance (more spoilers at the link) on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as "life-changing":

  When I'm really old and can only remember one story about my life to go back and relive, and tell over and over and over again to the point where my grandchildren roll their eyes and leave the room – that's the story.

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