Great Ideas Take Time

22

description

Your impact on the world may be greater than you ever imagine. Learn more at http://www.kasanoff.com

Transcript of Great Ideas Take Time

Page 1: Great Ideas Take Time
Page 2: Great Ideas Take Time

Kim Alsbrooks paints 17th and 18th Century portraits on trash she finds in the streets.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 3: Great Ideas Take Time

The trash must already be flattened perfectly. She will not flatten it herself.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 4: Great Ideas Take Time

Once Kim finds a perfect piece of trash, she finds the perfect

portrait for that piece.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 5: Great Ideas Take Time

(I’m not sure whether it is harder for Kim to find the trash or paint the portrait.)

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 6: Great Ideas Take Time

The people Kim paints died long before TV, computers, Coke and Bud were invented.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 7: Great Ideas Take Time

I have never met Kim.I found her work on Vimeo,

which led me to herweb site , home of these images.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 8: Great Ideas Take Time

Kim’s work gave me an idea, which led to this Slideshare.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 9: Great Ideas Take Time

My work may give you an idea.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 10: Great Ideas Take Time

It may take ten minutes or 1,000 years for this work to inspire a spectacular idea.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 11: Great Ideas Take Time

Or… you might just be slightly nicer to your spouse… or child… or friend… because Kim’s work made you smile.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 12: Great Ideas Take Time

We are all connected.

Your ideas and actions impact other people, even when it seems they do not.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 13: Great Ideas Take Time

The connections between us are often neither immediate nor obvious.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 14: Great Ideas Take Time

The people you impact may think very differently than you do.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 15: Great Ideas Take Time

Do not wait for a response.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 16: Great Ideas Take Time

The best response to your work may not come for 100 years.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 17: Great Ideas Take Time

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 18: Great Ideas Take Time

“Great artists steal, bad artists borrow.”

Harry Chapin, quoting Stravinsky

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 19: Great Ideas Take Time

Steal as many great ideas as you can from the past, from the present, and from the future.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 20: Great Ideas Take Time

Mashup the world in your own highly personal and unique way.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 21: Great Ideas Take Time

Then watch as others do the same to you.

Image by Kim Alsbrooks

Page 22: Great Ideas Take Time

All images by Kim AlsbrooksKimAlsbrooks.com

Slideshare byBruce Kasanoffghostwriter & speakerKasanoff.com

Image by Kim Alsbrooks