Ayyappadas Vijayakumar

Artist, Blogger, Designer, Engineer, Filmmaker, Musician, Photographer, Technologist

He is currently a Video editor and Designer but that is what he chose to do in his life after having worked in many other areas including but not limited to Information technology, administration and post production. He likes silence the most as we can listen to so many other things around us which we don't usually listen to when have noise around us. He likes his world to be as large as possible and his home is this planet,not India, not Canada not anywhere or anyplace that humans have named themselves but this planet, The Earth,and his world just starts from there. His most favorite picture ever is the 'Pale Blue Dot' that was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft back in 1990. He often delves deep in to things that doesn't make a difference to the normal ways of living of human beings(Why do people seem to have a good understanding of time when we do not know exactly what it is except we try to explain it away and that is the only way we know how to deal with it!" on this planet and hence been called "flat out of his mind", a lot of times. A simple particle of stardust that is floating in the air.

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I am what they call, a rebel. I am what they call, an outcast. I am that man who refuses to follow the usual routine of the rest of the 95 % of the population on this planet. I am that man who, without a doubt, believes that corporatism is in-fact, modernized slavery. I am that man who refuses to become the gear inside the machine that churns out profits. Finally,I am that man who only knows, how to love all the living and non-living things in this universe.

Cinematography, Cosmology, Graphic Design, Information Technolgy, Motion Graphics, Philosophy, Photograghy - artist, Post Production Workflows, Video Editing, Visual Effects

Ever since 2009 TED videos have helped me overcome depression, taught me how to think differently and be true to myself and to others around me. When I started watching TED videos, it was not as big as it is currently. There were not even these many videos and this website was far less intuitive as it is today. I am what I am because of the ideas that I have gathered from these talks that I have listened online and offline over the period of so many years from the most brilliant 'brainiacs' that are alive on our planet. I like to listen to these talks because of their brevity in delivering the messages rather than dragging it along for hours on end. These talks have helped me in conveying messages to other people around me that normally very difficult to explain in typical ways. How would anyone know about the strange interstellar object that whisked past our little planet that we did not know about when it happened? No one will believe me if I told them but luckily I can point to a talk on TED that will explain the same thing in detail to them without any doubt. That is the beauty of TED. I have conducted numerous shows of TED talks when internet was not as readily available as it is today. I come from a small town in the southern tip of India and it was not until recently that internet exploded along with smartphones and everything. The time before that was really tough for someone like me who was trying to understand the world from a different perspective. When I entered TED zone for the first time, I got hooked on to the space and astronomy videos along with the science videos. They were rare but they were treasures for me as I started opening up my brain up to new and endless possibilities and I knew that I had to change my way of thought. I fought depression, anxiety and self doubt with the ideas that I learned from these videos and I found my new self. Even now, I dedicate hours from my schedule to volunteer or translate talks to my native language so that those people who are looking for knowledge do not have any difficulty in getting it just because they can't understand the language in which it is delivered in. I like to think that this is one of the best things that I have ever done in my life and I am looking forward to translating more and more talks so that everyone who are interested in them can obtain the info in them without thinking about the linguistic part of them.

grateful for being alive