Inspirational

Cascade Handcrafted offers different building styles for beautiful log homes.  A couple of the different styles are known as “Piece en Piece” or “Staggered Flares”.  Piece en Piece is where the traditional cross corners have been replaced by large cedar flared posts.   Staggered log flares, is where the root butt of the logs are exposed on every second wall log at the corners. 

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Muchas veces, la gente no sabe lo que quiere hasta que se lo muestras.

Steve Jobs (via elcielosobremi)

Ideas al vilo con pensamientos al vilo

Se conducian con sistemas binarios 0 y 1; cero por NO y 1 por SI.
Vivian en un mundo feliz y robotizado; no sabian que la malfuncion o dano era parte de la condicion misma de la existencia del ser humano.
Pero ellos eran perfectos, y les gustaba su felicidad robotizada de 0 y 1.

El Crucigrama

SEGUNDA ESCENA

La niña, mira como su mama lee todos las preguntas, y cuando mira hacia el otro lado, mira otra hoja suelta con otro crucigrama que dice:

Dia, después de ayer?

Código personal que se usa para abrir archivos?

Qué hay adentro de la envoltura (wrapping paper) de un regalo que el novio regaló, y lo puso en el trunk del carro, en INGLES y todo en minúsculas, una sola palabra y cinco letras?

Después la mama sigue leyendo, las otras instrucciones que están en la hoja.

Como se le llama al conjunto de lineas de conductas que se ponen en una escuela o en las casas por los padres para evitar conflictos?

100 dividido entre 2 = 

Qué se hace para quitar el polvo de los objetos?

Cómo se le llama a la persona que participa en una sociedad junto a otra persona?

Cuál es la autoridad máxima y el tipo de autoridad que le otorga el Estado a un diplomático para ejecutar negocios en su nombre?

El tipo de autoridad que se establece sólo en una region específica es: regional, estatal, o nacional? 

Cual es el señalamiento que se pone a una obra de remodelacion en las calles?

Los museos tienen fechas de apertura? Cuándo?

Las audiencias están en canales distintos, y las represas están listos para abrir la compuerta, que llevarán al río de su inauguración.

Look for Letter to the protagonist, and follow the instructions.

Las casas, tienen los aromas y los aires, de los dos que la construyen?

This is a logo designed for  What' Up San Antonio. A radio news program that will be reaching the youth in San Antonio, Texas. The tagline has been changed to "News from a Young Perspective". The people in that background represent young people gathering in a certain place to have fun and "do their own stuff", even though they are quite different, and involved in contrasting activities. Everything in that picture denotes life and movement as a youth icon.

The word "What's Up" is a young slang that represents  "Hello, how you are doing",  and San Antonio is the place where the news for youth are being delivered. According to Laura Ries to brand a product we need an image and a few words, and that image should have emotional power and should be your visual hammer. Our image includes youth playing in a background, and the words are "What's Up San Antonio", which is the name of the radio program.

Another aspect about branding is the Name of the product, and the Logo that identifies the brand as "unique". Name and Logo ideally should answer three questions: What exactly you do, who your customers are, and how you are going to be unique. When branding, all of the elements should be coherent, and gladly all of these three questions are accomplished in our product by the name of the radio program, the logo, and its tagline: What's Up San Antonio is a radio program (who are you?) reaching the youth (who are your customers?) and we are delivering "News from a Young Perspective" (How are you going to be unique?).

According to the Law of Color, red is the color of energy and excitement, and blue is peaceful and tranquil. We included those colors into our logo to denote that passion and that peacefulness in that specific background. (The 22 immutable laws of branding. Al Ries and Laura Ries).

How To Write Friendships Pt. 2

🦢        ―        &. FRIENDSHIPS . ( steps to develop friendships )

4) Give Them A History That Shines Through.

By no means do you want them to seem like they just met each other yesterday, if your two friends have known each other for a while now. What you need to do is throw out hints that these friends have known each other for a while ― you need to make the readers curious about these two friends and their history with each other.

And even if your characters meet within the timeline of the story, sneaking in hints that these characters are learning more about each other is a great way to develop your friendship.

Here are a few ways to show that:

1) Give Them An Inside Joke.

2) Give Them A Silly, On-going Argument.

Friends aren’t always going to agree on everything and their points of conflict don’t always have to be some dramatic issue ― they can be arguing over which one is better: Star Trek or Star Wars, they can argue over whether pineapple belong on pizza or not or maybe they argue over who is the taller one.

Giving them a silly, ongoing argument will make the characters feel real and simultaneously reveal different shades of their personality. Not only that, but it also offers a window into how they handle arguments between themselves. Who is the one that gets really worked up? Who is the one who makes all the great points?

3) Utilize Nonverbal Communication.

When you can start communicating with someone without words, that's when you really know someone. For example:

Let your characters be comfortable sitting in silence with each other

Use gestures and facial expressions to convey meaning to each other

Give them an unspoken rule

One friend asks a question, the other answers with silence

They can predict what each other are going to do

5) Create A Glue.

What is keeping your friends from parting ways? Without something to keep them together, your characters might grow apart. What is the glue that keeps this friendship intact? This can be a character, a goal, or the two of them are just thrown into a situation where they can't get away from each other.

One friend is the gardener of the other

The two of them must deliver a secret message to a Jedi

They both go the same extracurricular club 

They are toys who both have been captured by an evil kid who likes to torture toys

One friend can't  achieve his story goal without helping the other friend win a cart race

6) Create Meaningful Scenes.

Now that you have all the key components to an amazing friendship, it’s time to develop it through your story. Insert a few key friendship moments in your novel and show your reader the power of this relationship. 

Here are some ideas:

One friend gives the other a gift

They play a game together

They share a jacket 

They eat food together

They teach each other something

One friend gives the other a foot massage

7) Don't Make Their Relationship Perfect.

People aren’t perfect, and your friends can’t get along together all the time. But that doesn't mean you should stuff in a bunch of contrived conflict between your friendships. Instead, set up situations that will naturally occur because of who these characters are, and what they believe.

Maybe their differences get the better of them, maybe they react differently to a pivotal event in your novel, maybe one of the friend's internal demons gets the better of them, and the other friend has to call them out on it. This only results in more tension between them. This is an especially brilliant method to enhance a character arc.

Or simply make their friendship a more complex. Perhaps your two characters look out for one another, but they are always being compared to one another, and they need to overcome their deep feelings of jealousy for each other or they work well together, but one friend is keeping a lot of secrets from the other.

These complications and character differences not only add to your story, but watching these characters overcome these obstacles and still come out as friends makes your friendship feel more real, deep, and deserved.

Sweet!

Como diria, en una noche estrellada En un camino solitario... Las palabras A aquel amor Que le hace suspirar Con un sello propio Muy de suyo Para denotar esos sentimientos Que surgen Entre la noche bella y oscura