From the course: Von Glitschka: The Making of an Illustrative Designer

Africa

- [Interviewer] So I do want to end with this, and that is, as we've been able to get to know each other, I also realized that you are a big softie. You have a big heart. And you went with me and a team to Africa. - [Interviewee] Yeah. - [Interviewer] What was that experience for you? Is there anything that you still carry from that experience? - [Interviewee] Oh yeah, that was an eye opener. Other than the culture shock, it was a great experience just, the whole name of the documentary you guys did. This is not my normal, so kind of stepping out of my normal and to somebody else's and experience life from their perspective, it really does open up. I think, travel in general does that, tends to open up how you view the world and in this case, in regards to the work you're doing for life and abundance, and now you're doing it for Lifewater too. I don't know, I appreciate everything you do because it's definitely impacted me. And I know when I came back from that trip, I was motivated to plug in at least locally on some level. And so me and my wife and now my youngest daughter, there's a group that we call Under the Bridge. So every third Thursday of every month, we're feeding the homeless, under the bridge. - [Interviewer] Wow. - [Interviewee] So that's been really cool. We enjoy it. It gets a little crazy at times, but that's part of the fun. (laughs) - [Interviewer] I remember, in Africa, you had brought a bunch of Sharpies and little- - [Interviewee] Little pads. - [Interviewer] There were no pads there. And you drew little sketches for the kids. That was awesome. - [Interviewee] Yeah, and just seeing the kids draw, they say, what do I draw? Just draw anything you want. And I remember this little eight-year-old Dennis, he drew this smoking cool sports car. And it was in perspective and it was just really well done. And I was just blown away. Here's this little kid hanging out in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, and he knows what a cool sports car looks like. So I think kids are pretty much... The nice thing about kids is I can go to a group of kids like that, hand them all these creative supplies and just say, be creative and there's no hesitations or encumbrances, or they're not second guessing themselves or worrying about what other people think, but you go into a group of adults and he did the same thing and oh, like you get every excuse why they can't do it. So that's kind of what I'm doing now is I'm trying to tell older people that they can do creative things. You don't have to worry about getting hung up on how good they are at it. So, that comes with time.

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