Viva Creative Group News Updateshttp://www.vivacreativegroup.com/news/Copyright Viva Creative Group News Updates Cuba Photography Exhibit and fundraiser Photographer Victor Barajas went to Cuba recently and came to El Paso with hundreds of amazing images. El Paso Inside and Out Magazine is featuring some of the images in a feature story in the December issue of the magazine and in a photography exhibit that will take place at Club Blu, on Thursday, December 7th. The photographs will be for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to the El Paso Media Group Endowment for the Arts. December 7, 2006 6pm-9pm 7pm Artist Presentation 209 S. El Paso St.Wednesday 29th of November 2006 11:43:50 PMhttp://www.vivacreativegroup.com/news/el_paso_awareness/cuba_photography/ABOUT THE PATRICK O'BRIEN FOUNDATION The Patrick O'Brien Foundation is dedicated to promoting awareness of a currently incurable illness, Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (known also as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). It is established in honor of Patrick Sean O'Brien — an artist diagnosed with ALS at the uncommonly early age of 30. Support is provided to those diagnosed with neuro-muscular illness for life's work projects that provide a unique insight into the experience, mind, and heart of living with their disease. My name is Patrick. Sometime during the fall of 2004, I noticed an involuntary shaking in my legs. For a long time the exact cause eluded definition. On May 24th, 2005, however, I was officially diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), a terminal disease that results in the progressive degeneration of the nerves and muscles responsible for voluntary movement. It is a fatal and incurable disease. I was 30 years old. _Patrick O'Brien Visit the site Monday 23rd of October 2006 04:41:00 PMhttp://www.vivacreativegroup.com/news/foundations_help_support/the_patrick_obrien_foundation/The Shine Gallery has worked for El Paso's artistic resources to a national awareness, combining contemporary furniture, art, music, movies and the ideas of thinkers -young and old; Shine Gallery is interested in the well being of a creative society as whole. Owner Miguel Bonilla has brought light where there were once only southwest landscapes. The Shine Gallery has brought the best of contemporary art to El Paso and given a platform for local artists to become noticed. Their newly redesigned website is ready for your viewing pleasure. Developed with PHP/MYSQL and CSS/XHTML, its ready for all platforms. There shopping cart with be inserted with plentiful goodies for you to purchase very soon. And it doesn’t stop there… The Shine Gallery will be having their official website launch party November 2, 2006. Among the bands performing that evening will include bands from Austin, Texas and Viva Creative Group's very own Edward Guillen. Paintings for sale and tons more….updates to this event will be posted in the near future.Wednesday 18th of October 2006 01:26:00 AMhttp://www.vivacreativegroup.com/news/websites/the_shine_gallery/ Two months in the making and the core of our newly re-designed website is ready for your viewing pleasure. We are proud of the design and functionality. 99.5% is made with CSS valid XHTML. What does that mean? Well, the site loads a lot faster and it's great for those Search Engine Spider Bots. We want to thank, Brandon Silverstien of Impulse Development for his handy work in some of the flash animations in our site and Sheldon Lynch in helping debug/test this extensive beta site. Why the new site? Moving into a new office space felt the need for a new and improved site. Improved in what ways? All of our creative projects are proudly done in-house. What does that mean for you as a client? Smaller budget projects can be taken in without any hesitation; so that you can utlizie the rest of your budget on other medium services, thus making your marketing campaign a successful one. On a large scope? We can handle large corprate accounts just like the smaller projects. Always one step at a time and on time, even if you needed it done "yesterday". Thursday 05th of October 2006 04:35:27 PMhttp://www.vivacreativegroup.com/news/home/new_website_launch/