Remix/Video Notes: Kirby Ferguson

Remix- To combine or edit esisting ideas to create something new.

(Music) - Hip Hop is a remix

-Music, Videos, Photos- anybody can remix anything
"Everything is a remix"

In a remix you can still see the original existing things

-Creativity use to be considered devigne (heightened accomplishment) (Talented/Gifted)

-Metaphor for creativity = lightbulb... just flip a switch.
Usually however, it's not a single moment.

*Three Basic Elements
-Q: How do we create?

• Domain Knowledge- Speak like everybody else. "copying" (mimicking)

ex. Artists do covers of a popular song.

• Transformation- taking existing thing and producing variations. (typewriter = Literary piano)
• Combinations- taking existing things and merging them together

ex. Albert Einstein developed E=MC2 ...but he didn't develope the E, M, Or C.. but he put them toghether in a way that worked.

-Copy, Transform, Combine

-Implications- Original ideas are now considered property.
"cross Aversion"

-Two Distortions:
1. The lone creator
2. Ideas are property/ Can't steal an idea...only copy it.

*Ideas contain other ideas

- I think we are smart enough to realize that people before us have good ideas and we could just find a way to improve on them.

*"By idolizing those whom we honor we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves.. we fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise"