Everything Is A Remix

remix: to combine or edit existing materials to produce something new.

• early example; Sugarhill gang and chics....same sample line has been played several times

Everything is a remix!!

• Remix means that you took something that was already existing and you combined it to something new....arrangement and transformation of samples
• Myths of creativity.... literature wasn't about romance 
• a light bulb: represents the moment of insights, nothing, blackness and then you flip the switch and you got light

how do we create?

          3 basic elements...

                       Domain knowledge... speak like everyone else... Copying.... flat out mimic what others have done or do... race, sex,

                       Transformation... taking existing stuff and producing 

                       Combination

Thomas Edison didn't create the light bulb! The light bulb was already created

       

Implications...loss aversion.... two distorting...ideas of property...ideas are property... ideas contain ideas... 

"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." 

                                                               -Charles V. Willie