TEDxAmsterdam

Rik Mahieu

Rick 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