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Everything Is A Remix (Full Film)

StarveTheSystem2 · 298.3K views · 2012-06-25 · 36:25

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Kirby Ferguson's film argues that creativity is built from copying, transforming and combining existing works, examining music, film and technology. It makes the case that everything is a remix.

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Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2013–2025

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icegreentea · 2015-11 · Recommendation

You will enjoy this documentary (Everything a Remix). [VIDEO] Hardly 'scientific'... but how do you quantify copying.

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WestCoastJustin · 2013-08 · Recommendation

> doesn't seem to have broken any new ground, only mashed together two existing technologies I'd argue that new inventions are created by mashing existing technologies, often emerging or bleeding edge, and creating something new. Henry Ford didn't invent the combustion engine, transmission, suspension, etc, but he did mash these things together into something new. What we are seeing in the video and research is something new and pretty exciting if you take it a couple steps further. Think about replaying these signals, building a play book, etc. ps. If you have some time to kill, I would check out this video called, "Everything Is A Remix", which talks about this idea @ [VIDEO]

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zxvkhkxvdvbdxz · 2025-01 · Reference

Indeed, one could argue that everything is a remix of pre-existing expressions. This, of course does not rhyme well with current copyright laws. [VIDEO]

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