Creative Writing Ideas: Release the Kraken!

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In “Clash of the Titans,” both the Ray Harryhausen monsterfest from the 80′s and the recent remake, this epic command from the King of the Gods signals that things are about to get ugly: Release the Kraken! Over the past few years, the phrase has also become a meme for introducing the bizarre and the unaccountably strange. The images and concepts that follow this phrase are often so far out of the box that they may have never even seen a box or come from a universe with no right angles. **Learn about Poetry: What It Is and How to Understand It  with this free, online course from Professor Margaret Soltan.** Creative writing exercises are absolutely essential for anyone who intends to communicate clearly. Whether you intend to be a novelist or a writer of better memos, the essential skill you need is to create convincing pictures with your words. That means mastering the art of the metaphor and the description

Business Name Ideas: What’s Your Name Again?

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Great business ideas are often lost simply because of poor names. Inc. magazine recently ran a slide deck of the Worst Company Names of All Time, including Bookgoo, AirTran, Vonage, Incuby and Fairtilizer. **Get the 21 Critical Lessons for Entrepreneurs: FREE course that offeres key insights to starting and succeeding with your own business** Under increased competition, businesses can only survive by building a brand that customers can root for in a global marketplace. Your business name and logo are the foundation of that brand, so it pays to spend as much time as you need to get them right. Of course, it is always possible to change your name later on and still retain your customers, as when The Haloid Company became Xerox or when Datsun became Nissan, but the risks are rarely worth it.

How to make a music video: Don’t waste time and money making newbie mistakes!

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There’s quite a lot of knowledge and skill that goes into creating a music video. You can’t just point your camera phone at a band and call it a music video, at least not if you want anyone to take you seriously. Begin by writing a song and practicing your performance. Once you’ve got the music right, it’s time to storyboard your performance. After all the segments of the video have been shot and the audio is recorded, you can hit the editing room to splice it all together. Lastly, you’ll need to market your video and protect it with a copyright notice

How to Make a GIF From a Video in Less Than 5 Minutes

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Source: i.imgur.com Animated GIFs are the best way to liven up your social profile or create addictive memes that will get shared all over the world. For those of you who somehow missed out on the wonder and mastery of animated GIFs on social networks, Buzz Feed was kind enough to collect the 54 Best Animated GIFs of 2012. From the slapstick to the mesmerizing, from the endless ice cream sandwiches to the noble capybara who just needed a backrub, GIFs have changed our lives…for about 2 to 3 seconds. ** Learn Photoshop with this FREE Photoshop Training Tutorial** The best GIFs, like the best jokes, are here and gone. They are the ultimate in planned obsolescence. They capture a single mood, a goofy animal, an amazing trick or a heart-rending child at their cutest.

Best Logo Design: How to Create a Visual Identity for Your Company

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A logo says a lot about your company. It’s a visual identity that can signal to clients that a company is familiar and trustworthy, while also setting an organization apart from the competition. Those reasons are enough to justify the high prices that graphic designers can charge, but there is an argument in favor of doing at least some of the design work yourself: a graphic designer who just has a short-term association with your company may have a harder time creating a brand or an identity for your organization, at least compared to someone who lives and breathes every part of the business. For long-lived companies, like Coca-Cola, having internal design teams has proven crucial in maintaining an established look while modernizing it over a century. Learning how to design a logo, along with the other materials your company needs to develop a recognizable brand, can help you better communicate with your customers. You can add a whole new element to your visual identity

Vegan Ice Cream at SilverHills.ca

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Veggies at SilverHills.ca

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How to Make A Documentary: It’s Easier Than You Think!

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A documentary is defined as an official, factual record of some event, generally in movie or film format. Documentaries are often serious, educational attempts to describe reality, but the approach of filming and creating a documentary can include humor, satire, and irony. Documentaries can focus on current events, people, places, things, or they can look at historic occurrences. Material can be factual or fictionalized, but it is the “actual” and “real” nature that tends to separate documentaries from other types of movie media. Documentaries can range from a basic YouTube video explaining how to program your phone to a full-scale in-depth analysis of the Boer War in Africa.

Breakfast at SilverHills.ca

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Short Film Ideas: 6 Film-Ready Concepts

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You’ve got 10 minutes. That’s the average length of short films at festivals throughout the world and it’s a good goal to shoot for overall. Short films can run as long as 45 minutes but if you need all that time, you might as well go feature length and really explore the world you’ve created. There’s not a lot you can say in 10 minutes. Don’t try.

Small Business SEO: Staying on Google’s Radar

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When it comes to SEO, smart businesses follow Google’s recommended guidelines and avoid techniques that can cause websites to be delisted. This is harder than it sounds, especially since Google is constantly changing the rules. Every Google update changes the way websites are ranked. These changes are caused to Google’s continual search for better quality and surfer satisfaction. The best way to make sure that your website is always on Google’s radar is to build content for the customer instead of for an algorithm.

Starting a Blog in 4 Easy Steps

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Starting a blog is easy. You can set up just about any blog on any platform in a matter of minutes. However, starting a blog the right way takes a bit of finesse. Whether you’re starting a personal blog, or implementing a blog for your business there is a series of steps that need to be carried out to ensure you’re getting the most out of the blogging experience. It’s important that you don’t rush through these steps, and that you carefully plan your moves throughout the entire process. In this post we’ll go through five essential steps to the blog setup process that will save you some time, money and extra headache. **Start blogging: learn how to build a WordPress blog in less than a day with this FREE course** 1