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

3. The trash must
already be flattened
perfectly. She will
not flatten it herself.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

4. Once Kim finds a perfect piece
of trash, she finds the perfect
portrait for that piece.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

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

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

7. I have never met Kim.
I found her work on Vimeo,
which led me to her
web site , home of these images.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

8. Kim’s work gave me
an idea, which led to
this Slideshare.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

9. My work may give
you an idea.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

10. It may take ten
minutes or 1,000
years for this work
to inspire a
spectacular idea.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

11. 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

12. We are all connected.
Your ideas and actions
impact other people,
even when it seems they
do not.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

13. The connections
between us are often
neither immediate nor
obvious.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

14. The people you impact
may think very
differently than you do.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

15. Do not wait for a
response.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

16. The best response to
your work may not
come for 100 years.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

17. Image by Kim Alsbrooks

18. “Great artists steal,
bad artists borrow.”
Harry Chapin, quoting Stravinsky
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

19. Steal as many great
ideas as you can from
the past, from the
present, and from the
future.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

20. Mashup the world in
your own highly
personal and unique
way.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

21. Then watch as others
do the same to you.
Image by Kim Alsbrooks

22. All images by
Kim Alsbrooks
KimAlsbrooks.com
Slideshare by
Bruce Kasanoff
ghostwriter & speaker
Kasanoff.com
Image by Kim Alsbrooks