So anyways. I’m Erik, 28 years old and living in Amsterdam.

I’m a bit of jack of all trades. I have an academic background in History and Journalism. But I mostly combine these two fields with programming and interaction design. It’s a mix of self initiated and client work.

I get along with almost anyone (not sure if this is positive or negative). I’m quite curious. I don’t really like conflicts, so I try to avoid them. I like talking, but I’m bad in monologues. (If I talk longer than 1 minute straight, my talking becomes some sort of rambling.)

Interests

• humanities
• design
• photography
• documentaries
• politics
• technology
• traveling
• painting
• history
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Patterson, Goodbye Lenin, Das Leben der Anderen, Karakter, Everything is Illuminated, King of Kong, Wiener, Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Adam Curtis, Louis Theroux.
Nescio, Karel van het Reve, Willem Elsschot, Joseph Roth, Murakami

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

* Getting lost inside a highway gas station (in my defence: I was 13)
* Staying at a Russian village hospital for four days while not speaking any Russian and them not speaking any English

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands