THE VIDEO SHELF · remix culture
Everything Is A Remix (Full Film)
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN brings it up in discussions of originality, invention, copying and attribution, including AI art.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- StarveTheSystem2
- Topic
- remix culture
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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> 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, …
WestCoastJustin on Hacker News · 2013-08
In Researcher controls colleague’s motions in first human brain-to-brain interfaceYou will enjoy this documentary (Everything a Remix). [VIDEO] Hardly 'scientific'... but how do you quantify copying.
icegreentea on Hacker News · 2015-11
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