Rik Mahieu
Posted by Alexander Klopping on October 11, 2009 at 11:55 pm
What is your TEDx job?
Motion Design. I’m responsible for the TEDxAmsterdam Teaser and all video related content for the website.
What would you tell during your 3-minute TEDx Talk?
The subject of my 3 minute Talk would be “Life Experience”. Someone very close to me once said, that in a past life she was an aboriginal. As funny as this may sound (I laughed about it, more than once), but this is a universal feeling and what she meant to say was that she has a strong bond with these people which goes beyond her understanding. So what I would do is, make a documentary about this quest for her roots, make a visit to Australia and look for different (unconventional) explanations of this ‘past life mystery’, from Psychology to Neurology, from Astronomy to Geometry and Religion to Quantum Physics. And in this 3-minute Talk I would tell my experiences making this documentary.
Come up with five keyword that define you:
Focus, determination, caring, stubborn, learner
What is your favorite TED talk?
I like unconventional explanations to mysteries people think about. To me that’s creativity and open-mindness, factors that are capable of providing a breakthrough.
On a substance level, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of my heroes. But on a performance based level I enjoy watching Poet Rives with 4 a.m. and Siegfried Woldhek’s true face of Leonardo da Vinci
More about Rik
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Photo credits: Jan Jaap Heine. 
