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Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

 

The Monday evening class I am teaching--Creative Process--is causing me to examine and collect my thinking on the whole idea of how creativity works, where ideas come from and how one develops ones own 'creative process.' I have been less than enthralled with the 'it comes out of the air mode' as a stand alone view for a while now--I do think that inspiration comes in flashes, but I think those flashes come because work has and is being done. Fortunately, there are lots of people much brighter than me thinking in this area, so I have lots of stuff to steal (which, of course, is part of the process-one has to be in communion or dialogue with the world in order to create). I have been particularly helped by Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix project. The students are going to start reading Reality Hinger by David Shield's and we are going to livin into Martha Stewart's dictum, Fill the Void, i.e. create the stuff you want to read/see/hear/touch/taste/feel and do that by becoming aware of what already is...and remix it.

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[KB]

Weird - was put on to these vids just the other day by someone. They're really good. The stuff on Zeppelin in the first one is superb.