Hello, everyone! I’m breaking from my traditional written content today to bring you this video. This is a presentation I did for Knoxville’s Pecha Kucha Night back in June, 2011. It’s my first experiment narrating a video and uploading it, so I’m pretty excited. I wanted to share this with you today, because we’re one week out from Knoxville’s Volume 4 PKN. Volume 4 will take place on 11.11.11 at Relix Variety Theater. Come check it out!
In this presentation I talk about the nature of ideas and present the process behind my artwork. I’ve got a transcript below this video so if you’d rather read the presentation, just scroll down. If you click on the first slide, it will open up a slide show view.
Let me know what you think! I would love to recruit some more PKN presenters, so if you’re thinking about doing it (whether in Knoxville or for your local group), feel free to ask questions about my experience in the comment section.
Warning: the text on the intro slide is too small to read. I think if you click the top to view on YouTube, you can see it better. But I narrate all the text, anyway, so you won’t miss anything in the small view.
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- Slide 1 | Your Ideas Are Waiting for You
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- Slide 2 | Ideas Are Non-Transferrable
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- Slide 3 | Ideas Love Attention
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- Slide 4 | Your Unique Idea
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- Slide 5 | Patina, Pattern, and Relief
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- Slide 6 | Patina : Idea
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- Slide 7 | Patina : Testing
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- Slide 8 | Patina : Implementation
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- Slide 9 | Patina : Result
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- Slide 10 | Pattern : Idea
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- Slide 11 | Pattern : Testing
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- Slide 12 | Pattern : Implementation
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- Slide 13 | Pattern : Result
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- Slide 14 | Relief : Idea
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- Slide 15 | Relief : Testing
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- Slide 16 | Relief : Implementation
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- Slide 17 | Relief : Result
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- Slide 18 | Body of Work
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- Slide 19 | Your Ideas
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- Slide 20 | Talk to Me
Very inspirational. Often times, I am guilty of not giving my ideas the attention they need, and get overly stressed by their lack of development. Ha! This will help me remember to pay some attention to them and it will all work out. Spanks! :)
Haha, I do the same thing. Sometimes I get really frustrated that I haven’t gotten the results I want on a certain project. Then, when I think over the time I’ve actually spent on that project, I find it’s next to nothing! It’s easy to confuse speculation or worry about a project with work, but the only way to make it happen is the latter. Thanks for reading, Betsy!
Exactly. This post could not have come at a more opportune time for me. I am juggling a new, uncharted territory of restaurant branding/graphic identity (and working freelance with a client). Although ecstatic about the opportunity and pay :), I was definitely feeling a bit stifled, anxious, excited and scared. Since I read your post, I have been giving my ideas the attention they deserve and all is well! Thanks so much for lubricating that situation. I am looking forward to your next post. I am hooked! You’re great at this ;)
Betsy, you’re awesome! Thanks for reading and for your encouragement. Sounds like you’ve got a killer opportunity. You have just the right mix of detail oriented personality and ambition to do an excellent job. You go girl! Keep those ideas flowing!