The Legend Sessions started as small jam sessions after hours when we discovered a few staff members were musicians. Since the jamming took place in front of our original RV, the name stuck. Since then, these sessions have evolved into a way for us to showcase the musicians that have been featured in our documentary series .
Jason from our Outreach department is an inspiring dude!
We all have different sources of inspiration. Inspiration can really come from anywhere or anyone. Many of us know individuals in our lives who have impacted us in some way, either once or every day. This special person we admire can be a family member, a teacher, a child, a colleague, or a friend.
For this week’s May Challenge, we want to hear about who inspires you. It’s easy; just snap a pic and tell us why that person inspires you. To put our money where our mouth is, I thought I’d share with everyone where my source of inspiration comes from.
Video to paper, paper to video, video to paper, paper to video…
Roadtrip Nation’s very own video editor, Willie, has stimulated our brains and eyes with an experimental video side project he’s calling “Screengrab.” After watching this video, you’ll be questioning what’s real and what’s not!
The video has been circulating around everyone’s computers here at Roadtrip Nation and blowing our minds. Apparently, it’s also been blowing the minds of everyone else on the web. Willie’s video has been hand-picked by the folks at Vimeo and featured as one of their Staff Picks, reaching more than half a million views already!
Check it out, and get ready to say ‘Whaaa? How did he DO that?!’
SCREENGRAB from Willie Witte on Vimeo.
This week, for our Roadtrip Weekly Challenge, we asked you to go out and do something for someone…anything. If it’s sounding a little vague, well, that’s because the possibilities are limitless, and it’s all about finding those opportune moments to help someone out. Buy a stranger coffee, or make eye contact with someone and smile if you can tell they’re having a bad day. There’s nothing too small or too big you can do— get creative!
Helping people out can come in many forms. Check out this interview highlight of Roadtrip Nation Leader Lori Pappas, who found her own way to help out others.
Even before Lori became the CEO of Global Team for Local Initiatives, she always knew she was meant to do something to help other people. Her mission every day is to help indigenous people of an Ethiopian tribe acquire the resources and skills that will ensure the long-term survival of one of the world’s oldest cultures.
So, if you choose to accept this challenge, make sure to send us some photos, videos, or a description of what you did for the week’s challenge, and remember to include #RTNChallenge.
Good luck, and may the Green RV “force” be with you!
-Sasha
“You did it! Now go away.”
Joshua Davis is an artist, web designer, technologist, author–and quite simply put, an all round bad ass (pardon our French). To say Joshua has experienced great successes would be an understatement. His work is in the Smithsonian, so he’s kind of a big deal.
Hello, Online Community!
I hope this month of May is finding you well! We decided May was a better month than ever to set a few community-driven challenges. After all, May the fourth brings out a special kind of power for the rest of the month—the kind of power that brings out the Jedi warrior in all of us.
Here at Roadtrip Nation, we not only hope to inspire and empower others to follow their own Roads, but we also look for inspiration around us, as well. We like to share the stories of others who are on their own journey to encourage others.
“Living on One Dollar” is a film that follows a group of young friends as they set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. They battle hunger, parasites, and find no easy answers as they attempt to understand how 1.1 billion people survive at this level.
The film is available for free on on Hulu and Hulu Plus until May 3. Watch as Zach, Chris and Sean carve their own Road in Guatemala. Be inspired.
Go to www.hulu.com/living-on-one-dollar to view the film.
This summer will mark Roadtrip Nation’s 12th year on the Road and we already know it’s going to be an amazing one. Over the past several weeks, Willie and I (the two filmers for the Roadtrip) have been working with the Roadtrippers on Skype to the plan the trip, and we’re excited to announce the route is finally set.
What is the 99U conference, you ask? It all stems from a Thomas Edison quote:
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”
Oh, failure. The big ‘F word.’ The downfall; the third strike, you’re out; the moment you realize, “Yup, that definitely didn’t work.” We’ve all had a failure (or like, 3,000 of them). Some of us have even been able to deem them ‘epic’ fails. But as negative as failure may seem, is it really as bad as we are made to believe?
