Website Inspires Community to be the Next Live Large Artist, Musician, Photographer, and Filmmaker 

(Los Angeles, California) ? Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood?s most prominent retail and entertainment destination, launched earlier this summer livelargehere.com as a community portal for showcasing local talent in the site?s four components - Art, Music, Film and Foto. 

?This city is just buzzing with emerging talent. Hollywood & Highland Center looks forward to supporting the artistic community in L.A. by hosting a website that enables artists from all walks of life and from all disciplines to show off their work,? says Annette Bethers, Sr. Vice President Strategic Marketing for Hollywood & Highland Center. 

View it or Do it 
Artists can participate in two ways: 

Artists are invited to illustrate their take on the Live Large theme through any medium (painting, sculpture, graphic art, etc.). If selected art will be featured in the website?s online gallery and the best of the best will be invited to display and sell their art at Live Art. Live Art is an all day celebration of leading edge talent among LA?s art and music scene on November 3. 

Artists can also send in their personal interpretation of the Live Large Elephant Art. If selected, their work will be featured in the online gallery plus they may be chosen to have their elephant art posted all over L.A. 

Hollywood & Highland Center has plastered LA with Live Large elephant posters featuring work by artists including Buff Monster, David Kinsey, Abigail's Party, Sage Vaughn, Saiman Chow and Florencio Zavala. Watch the street for the latest Live Large art created by Ben Loiz and Carolina Chaves, as well as Richard Leigh and Mark Owen. 

There is even elephant art for kids. Download the elephant art, color it in and send it back to win cool prizes and be featured in the online kids gallery. 

Submit at www.livelargehere.com 

Play it or Make it 
Be the Next Live Loud Musical Artist in the online gallery as well as laweekly.com?s Local Jukebox featured artist. Musicians selected by LA Weekly?s music editors could be invited to perform at Live Art. 

Submit at www.livelargehere.com 

Watch it or Shoot it 
Be the next Live Large filmmaker. The selected short film will be featured in the online gallery plus the film could be chosen by the editors of Filmmaker Magazine to be screened at Live Art. 

Submit at www.livelargehere.com 

See it or Take it 
Be the next Live Large photographer. Photos selected by 944 Magazine editors get exposure in the online gallery and an opportunity to be included in the magazine?s monthly feature, LIFE. The best could be invited to display and sell their photography at Live Art. 

Take a look on the website to see the brilliant and talented works of local photographers. 

Submit at www.livelargehere.com 

About Hollywood & Highland Center 
Situated in one of the country?s most densely populated markets, Hollywood & Highland Center attracts over 15 million visitors per year. At this one-of-a-kind, high profile destination the best in retail, fine dining and unique entertainment venues come together with the vibrant world of today?s Hollywood. 

Directly connected to the historic Grauman?s Chinese Theatre, the center is a hot spot for locals as well as a ?must see? destination for international visitors. The center features over 60 top retailers, nine of L.A.?s finest restaurants, Grauman?s Chinese 6 Theatres, two popular nightclubs and Lucky Strike Lanes, a high tech and trendy bowling alley/nightclub. 

The center?s renowned Kodak Theatre is the venue for the world-wide live broadcast of THE ACADEMY AWARDS? CEREMONIES as well as other notable awards shows like THE BET AWARDS, THE ESPYS, THE AMERICAN IDOL FINALS and THE AFI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS. Throughout the year, live performances at the theatre include musicals, ballets, concerts, plays and original programming. 

The center?s award-winning, Renaissance Hollywood Hotel features 640 sumptuously appointed rooms, including 33 luxury suites and an elegant, Mid-Century Modern d?cor. 

The Grand Ballroom located on the fifth level of the center is operated by famous chef and restaurateur, Wolfgang Puck. The popular venue draws A-list events, parties and conventions. Most notably, it is the site of the exclusive Governor?s Ball, following the Academy Awards? ceremonies each year. 

Exciting Changes 
New retailers recently added to the center include: XXI Forever, ISSI, GUESS, Giordano, Vino100, and a newly expanded Louis Vuitton. 

Coming soon to Hollywood & Highland Center is a hot new nightclub from the founders of LAX in Hollywood. SpaLuce, an upscale, full service spa will open spring 2008 along with H&M and Zara just steps away. 

About CIM Group 
CIM Group is an integrated, full service real estate investor with in-house acquisition, development, finance, leasing, and management capabilities. CIM Group directs its efforts towards districts of high population density, including the downtown areas within large cities, smaller "main street" districts within towns and suburban cities, and other locations which lie within the metropolitan areas of the country. Since its inception in 1994, CIM Group has been a leading force in the creation of great streets in the cities of Santa Monica, San Diego, Pasadena, Brea and Hollywood.