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Creativity isn't magic. Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen.

To support this project please visit: everythingisaremix.info/donate/

Buy the music at: everythingisaremix.info/part-3-soundtrack/

Nelson and Valdez of Wreck and Salvage each produced videos inspired by Part 3. Check 'em out:
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Brad Dougherty 8 months ago

This is a truly awesome series. Can't wait for the final one!
Stephen Niebauer 8 months ago

love every minute of these. great stuff.
Hassan Saddiq 8 months ago

What this guys said^^^ wow oh wow, very interesting stuff for sure
Philiac Music 8 months ago

we are going to remix this video
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

I will so sue you. ;)
Standard Def Love 8 months ago

;))) we are going to sue. I will. you remix this video.
James Isbell 7 months ago

^^ clever lol ;)
Liviu Berechet 2 months ago

"we are going to remix this video"
"I will so sue you. ;)"

=))))))))))
Jr.canest 8 months ago

It's here! :)
Adam Hirsch 8 months ago

Will someone please give this man an award?
Joe Bolger BIGvideos VJ 2 months ago

i second that
Jamie Dubs 8 months ago

Droppin science as always. Keep up the great work
Viper Studios, Inc. 8 months ago

Always look forward to these. Great pieces of work. Thank you for making them
K C 8 months ago

So glad this is finally here. Once again, great stuff. Good job!
Tele-funken.tv 8 months ago

Reallye good! Coungrats! subtittle versions really would help!
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

They're coming!
Gustavo 8 months ago

Good!
Jhon Peña 8 months ago

I could help with the Spanish subs if you need.
fergus ryan 7 months ago

and Chinese!
mr_mahadzir 6 months ago

and malay! haha
George Plesu 5 months ago

and Romanian!
Stefan Lee 8 months ago

Finally ! (:
Larry Ransom 8 months ago

Thanks for making these. Can't wait for part 4. Keep up the great work!
Short of the Week 8 months ago

Very nice. I don't mean to induce groans, but I thought it was the most "creative" of the series in your filmmaking and visual choices, and i'm happy to see the larger, all-encompassing focus.
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vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek
shortoftheweek.com/2011/06/21/everything-is-a-remix-part-3/
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Thanks, I think it's the best one too.
Arne Schiek 8 months ago

fantastic, awesome and great work again! feat. @ droppingby.de/2011/06/21/everything-is-a-remix-part-3-the-elements-of-creativity/

Thanks!
mpared 8 months ago

brilliant stuff as always Kirby as all previous parts its up at thecuriousbrain.com/ well done
Remi 'Merci' Cabarrou 8 months ago

Great.
Christian Santiago 8 months ago

sickkk i've been waiting for this !
Sam Morrill 8 months ago

Kirby Ferguson > Malcolm Gladwell
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

If only I got his speaking fees.
Sprinkle Lab 8 months ago

Ha! Zing.
Blake Whitman 8 months ago

Really polished and expository. The research here is evident and I'm loving the graphics. Such an awesome series.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Thank you Blake!
James Kanka 8 months ago

Curious where you got the idea to put credits in the middle.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Steve Jobs.
Damien Rufus 7 months ago

Now that's a remix! lol...
Josh Baldwin 8 months ago

Awesome but I am also curious about the credits in the middle. More remix action perhaps? Can't wait for Part 4.
Colin Hennessy 8 months ago

great work kirby!
Stefan Lee 8 months ago

You are really awesome! (:
movingsandwich 8 months ago

Ive been trawling for inspiration today. Just found it. Thanks
Christian Holse Salicath 8 months ago

This was really interesting. Great work, Kirby!
ImprovEverywhere 8 months ago

great work Kirby. I was bummed I didn't get a chance to meet you at GEL.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

That would have been great. We should grab a coffee sometime!
ImprovEverywhere 5 months ago

Agreed! Shoot me an email sometime - the contact form on my site goes right to me. improveverywhere.com/contact/
Matt Schwarz 8 months ago

Really amazing work, can't wait for 4!
mkluis 8 months ago

Fantastic stuff.
Thomas Gasson 8 months ago

amazing work
logopilot designstudio 8 months ago

thank you!
Mike Thompson 8 months ago

Wow, great work Kirby!!!
Vini N 8 months ago

Another great vid. Part II still my favourite.
Andrea Allen 8 months ago

Hey Kirby,
It's better than I imagined. Congratulations on a great result of all that hard work.
Pablo Marques 8 months ago

Thanks so much for putting all of this together mate. Great series.

Also love all the design sensibility on its presentation. Very good looking stuff.
Suely Parente Souza 8 months ago

Adorei!
Isaac Middleton 8 months ago

You have no idea how helpful and well timed these videos are. I'm a musician, working on writing my first EP. I started feeling guilty when all my songs were sounding like badly written rip offs from all of my favorite bands. But like yous said, it is from the soils of copying where creativity comes from. I can't introduce anything new and original until I'm fluent in the language of music, and I learn that through emulation. I think I understand you. Thanks for this.
diarmo 8 months ago

great stuff...
Megan Clegg 8 months ago

Excellent work! These just keep getting better and better. Fall 2011 seems much too far!

Also, I had a good laugh when you mentioned Malcolm Gladwell at the end - his Cannes Lions talk referencing the Apple-Xerox stuff was written up yesterday (tinyurl.com/6zs4hyk) and I read it just MOMENTS before watching this. Thought I was having deja vu.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Interesting, I wonder if he's working on a book about that.
Matt Haughey 8 months ago

I liked it and when I heard it would be about Apple I naturally thought about all the old Xerox tech they basically copied (the Alto had laser printing like the Apple's laserwriter, right?).

I was kind of bummed the iPod wasn't mentioned, I figured you would have shown some old 60s Braun electric shavers that looked pretty close to what the version 1 of the iPod ended up like, and maybe talk about how the iPod had a bit less functionality than existing mp3 players of 2001.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

I think that Braun stuff just isn't fundamental enough. It's an interesting branch, but it's not a formative example.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Thanks for the all kind words everybody!
raul gutierrez 8 months ago

Little sidenote. The film notes the assembly line as being invented 1867 in but the idea of the assembly line is much older. There are examples of it in China in 800BC. The idea is well documented in early China for the production of things like bronzes, lacquer, and ceramics. In the 17th century Jesuits observed ceramic factories where plates and vases went from person to person with artists painting only tiny bits of of the overall design which allowed Chinese factories to produce highly detailed ceramics at extraordinary volume. The Jesuits brought that idea back to Europe and it kicked around for a while before being widely distributed in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in his famous pin factory example...
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Yes, that's true. I was using the date of its use in meatpacking, which was industrial and seemed like a good date to choose.
Aaron Sorensen 8 months ago

SIMPLY amazing! honestly this is an amazing edit! and your voice is perfect for voice overs!! AWESOME!
Luke Sparkes Arnaoutakis 8 months ago

This is amazing!!
Rafael Kfouri 8 months ago

thanks a lot!
Ray Roman 8 months ago

Yes, been waiting for part 3!
ROLLER ▼ MONKEY 8 months ago

congrats, great job. Can't wait for the last episode.
Fernando Colares 8 months ago

Nice new sequence! Waiting for the 4th video!
This one is my favourite one, cause it defends that we cannot blame someone who copy or HAVE THE SAME IDEA than you... it happens, it kinda NEED to be done.
Great Doc! Congratulations!
sergio yamasaki 8 months ago

Thanks!!!
Dexter 8 months ago

Almost bought me to tears. Almost :) Inspiring.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Rats. Next time!
Nathan Eaton 8 months ago

forgive if already mentioned but this reminds me of RIP: a Remix Manifesto (another great doc about remix culture and the so called idea of 'intellectual property') but this is amazingly good as well. cheers

ripremix.com/
Stephen dela Cruz 8 months ago

From someone who had studied Alchemical Literature... this is Modern Alchemy 2.0! Act of Creation, Creativity... Transformation! :D
Nicolas Seiglitano 8 months ago

I've been waiting for part 3, and it sure didn't disappoint, great videos!
@pawlmadethis 8 months ago

Can't wait for part four. How has PBS not called you yet?!
lousy auber 8 months ago

master piece series.enjoyed watchin it so much.big up!
Andreas Climent 8 months ago

Really enjoying the entire series. The credits in the middle almost made me miss the last third though!
Fernando Martinez 8 months ago

Amazing work!
Now i kinda want that poster of the Basic Elements of Creativity!
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Hang on, it's coming!
Sebastian Rasche 8 months ago

inspiring work. really great.
Eclectic Method 8 months ago

That gives me an idea.
Kirby Ferguson 7 months ago

I look forward to seeing what comes of this comment.
FlameForgedSoul 8 months ago

Man, the flame wars one could start back in the day mentioning that what windows "stole" from Apple, Apple in fact got from Xerox, I look forward to part 4.
Patrick Johnson 8 months ago

Best one yet! Nice work.
couleurblind 8 months ago

So well done, interesting and educative.
I like it a lot, cannot wait to see the last part.
Shared it: couleurblind.com/
jcgarza 8 months ago

Really enjoying this series, thanks for putting it together. (I couldn't help but smile when you introduce yourself at the end as the "creator" of the series, though... ;-)
matt merrill 8 months ago

I think I'll go find something to copy.
Demi Raven 8 months ago

As a visual artist and as a software engineer, I see this ^all^ the time. I really appreciate the elegant manner in which you present the relationship between appropriation and innovation. Thanks, Kirby, for an awesome and worthy series.
jeff johns 8 months ago

These are great, they remind me a lot of the CBC Radio show "The Age of Persuasion". I love it.
chenrisius 8 months ago

Dude, awesome work!
Shane 8 months ago

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Ben Hanna 8 months ago

How far can we take this?

On October 5, 2010, Steven Johnson comes out with a book, "Where do good ideas come from" that traces the history of ideas, where they come from, and how they are created.

On October 14, 2010, - 9 days later, Kevin Kelly releases his book, "What Technology Wants" in which, among other ideas, he says that technology is inevitable, that we would have invented the same things in roughly the same order no matter who came up with it first. Some similar examples.

(These guys even met up while on book tour to do some events together)

Now fast forward to here and we have a video remix of ideas and examples put forward in books that are themselves remixes of thinkers in the field both new and old. (Richard Dawkins, Chris Anderson, etc...)

In fact, this comment is a remix of information from Amazon, litr.ly/9, and the books themselves.

Research is just prepping for a remix!
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

But isn't this the way it's always been?
Loren Morris 8 months ago

Can I do an autotune remix of this video?

-Great stuff.
Kirby Ferguson 8 months ago

Yes!
Mike Priebe 8 months ago

Thanks for this, very inspiring.
Aled Lewis 8 months ago

Completely brilliant. Wish there was more than 4 parts, but looking forward to the final instalment.
suVasH 8 months ago

Love this stuff, would be awesome if you assemble all of this into a documentary !
Joe Urbz 8 months ago

Excellent work on all episodes. Truly inspiring.