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"we copy, we love copying, just not from us." Truer words have never been spoken.

This is my last video folks! Thank you all so so much for your time and attention over these many, many years. I’m still here, just in a different and still emerging form. The best way to keep up with me is via my newsletter: kirbyferguson.ck.page/93185dc305 If you'd like to make a donation you can do so here:​ www.everythingisaremix.info/donate/ ​And of course, you can buy shirts and worksheets here: www.everythingisaremix.info/shop

Kirby. Since the first edition your documentary is inspirational for me. I use your material in my class. Thank You for your extraordinary effort. More value You add at each iteration.

BABE WAKE UP EVERYTHING IS A REMIX GOT UPDATED

fanTAStic update. I feel like I've seen several versions of this over the years, and you're still keeping it on target. I hope you keep updating it, because it's one of the truly best lessons to learn.

Thank you for this Kirby. I've been following your work for more than 10 years and found your insight into remix culture so fascinating. Amazing to see it culminate in a brilliant piece of work. I have used it in my own work as a therapist too. This idea that we borrow, use, inhabit, and remix ideas, cultures, identities and beliefs to form a coherent sense of self, is so often overlooked when it comes to improving mental health, but it is, without doubt the cornerstone of how humanity works. Donald Winnicott, a therapist in the 1960s said, "there is no such thing as a baby, we are all born into a relationship with another" I think fits well here. Remix culture is an articulation that we are born into a fabric of identity created, and remixed by others, and that life is about our relationship with that fabric. Thanks again for all your hard work over the years. Good luck with what you move onto next.

I've seen your “everything is a remix” video from years ago, many times and shared. It's one of the best I've seen and one of those videos that transform how we perceive the events and the world. It was a great joy to see you made this new updated release. Instantly seen it all in a row. Well done Sir Kirby! Well done indeed! I'm going straight to your Patreon or tshirt (just wanna contribute). You must receive support so you can keep on benefiting to.

Thanks Kirby, this defines our times better than anything I've seen so far. Great work, all the best!

This is great. Thank you for all the work and best wishes for your future projects.

I've seen these videos when they first came out. I keep them in mind a lot. I'm happy you are updating them and keeping them alive!

This series has always been good. Good to see you stick the landing. I'm very excited to see what you obsess over next.

FANTASTIC!!! Well worth the wait! Best wishes to you for all your future endeavors!

Your work is so amazing! Thank you for updating this again.

From the day my best friend asked me to watch the first edition of this video more than a decade ago, it remains the most creatively inspiring thesis I've ever seen. It has inspired me to take myself both less and more seriously and not disregard any form of creativity that comes my way. My taste in all art forms has been expanded and it genuinely has been thanks to you. With all the noise around AI, I thought of this video and was glad to see you crystallise all my feelings about it so well, again. I'm also sad to see that this is your last video, but thank you for inspiring me all these years and to complete the circle, I'll be sharing this updated version with my friend! Good luck with everything!

Thanks for this latest version Kirby, I have for many years used these videos as a required watching for interns and junior designers/product developers wanting to work with me. It is the best reference I know to explain the true nature of the creative processes.

Absolutely love every second of these. Taught me so much about how art, especial commercial, works when it's presented to the masses. Also has greatly inspired my own creative process.

Amazingly well done. Thanks for this. I'll now go straight to your previous referenced videos.

Amazing work. You have really created something special here. I hope many more people watch this.

Kirby, I remember watching the first edition of “Everything is a Remix” back in 2012 and it completely blew my mind! I’ve rewatched it every year since then. You’ve completely outdone yourself with this new edition!! It’s just as inspiring and it makes me sad to know you will no longer be continuing this great work. I’ve followed all of your work including your TED Talk (which I watch over and over again). I fully respect your decision but deep down I hope one day you will reconsider and discover more lucrative opportunities in the video content realm. I’ve grown so attached to your content. Thank you so much Kirby for all you’ve done and I wish you tremendous success in your next chapter👍🏾

I had great fun watching this!!! And I had great expectations when I saw this in my feed. Great work! Have fun!!!

Congratulations Kirby, I've seen the first one a long time ago and it's always a pleasure to hear your thoughts. I use your work in my film school and they love it! Can't imagine what your timeline would look like... cheers from Paris!

I've been following you from the start and I can't believe you're not more widely known. Great work. Again

If & when I ever resume teaching, I will once again use this series in my classes. Such a stellar resource! Thank you

Damn. I always agreed to this and knew this. But the way you have made this video is just amazing. Amazing work, amazing video. Worth the whole watch and over again.

This video opened my mind about creativity, thank you! Really inspiring!

You changed my live Kirby, your video is one of the most important lessons I've ever learned. Thank you

Incredible video. Very well put together, thought-provoking, and engaging throughout.

Another banger! Thanks Kirby.

That was great. Really enjoyable and visually pleasing.

Such fun and inspirational to watch, thank you!

was waiting for an update since a long time , thanks u a lot !

17:06 "…Every word we speak is a meme that triumphed in the Great Meme Battle Royale. The English language, and _every_ language, is a megaremix of mouth sounds from around the world." My very favorite bit of insight from taking linguistics and language history courses with phonetics is this: Every mouth sound we make, and how we recognize each sound as part of our convention for creating words, has each gotten its start with single individuals. One person who's gone, "dammit, this is how I speak". And then, another individual has listened and picked up for themselves this funny, novel way of using sound. For every single sound, and the letters we use to symbolically represent them, too. One individual. It boggles the mind.

Just thought of this video for the first time in a few years and see you've uploaded this recently. Thank you.

This series is so inspirational, thank you!

Your documentary was a revelation to me. It completely blew my mind. I have no enough words to define this MASTERPIECE. Deep deep thanks. I just recommended it to all my friends. I wish you all the best from Barcelona and keep up the great work!

This is the definitive edition. I feel like my mind got blown, just like all these years ago when watching the first iteration on Vimeo. And the AI part is a great addition. Thanks!

great wotk buddy !! ive been followiong you fot some times now from france keep up the good work!!

Bravo. Thanks for this. It came at the right moment for me.

Apple did NOT invent the smartphone. The iPhone was released in 2007. Not everybody may know that there was the IBM Simon in 1994, but many should remember the Blackberry Curve 8300, released in 2003, the Nokia N95, released in 2006 or one of the Windows Mobile smartphones. One of my classmates had a Nokia Communicator in the late 90s. Apple were probably the first, which made smartphones actually good, though. I remember Windows Mobile Phones being really sluggish and unintuitive. They often came with a stylus. My Blackberry had a trackball.

Congratulations! I can see this Fantastic Documentary hit Major Streaming Platforms and be known for the masses. Respect

This was Awesome! Great job! ☆☆☆☆☆

Thank you for the great video! One important thing you forgot talking about "ethical AI": All the images in the training set had to be labeled. (e.g. "This image contains a cat.") Especially violent pictures, because you would not want an AI to produce them. So the AI firms pay really poor people who have to look at gruesome pictures the whole day for a few millicents per tagged image. OpenAI did this in Kenya for ChatGPT with texts, Amazon did it in India. If you want to talk about ethical AI, you should include that the tagging of the data should be ethical as well and not happen in 3rd world sweatshops...

This is a fantastic video

This is such a classic series that has influence a generation of creators & entrepreneurs and helped demystify creativity for the world.

Thank you for this masterpiece of a video. Insightful and awesome. Looking forward to seeing part 5 in the year 2030 maybe? Anyway thank you and keep up the good work.

Good shit as always my guy

Love the stories you tell

Thank you

This series + RiP: A Remix Manifesto have been some of the most influential creations on my music career. It is one of my greatest hopes that this understanding of how culture *actually* evolves keeps spreading and that the old beliefs around intellectual property can be shrugged off.

OK, but I was JUST telling my husband that we needed to re-watch your original video because it's been a while and we need the refresher. Thank you so much for updating it!

I got depressed of this limitless copy world last year, a wise man told me that I have to keep doing it, finish something up, and use any way to make something either called a new project or something never done by me and I did. I am now feeling better. Today I found your video. Thank you for your work, now I could also explain to people who question AI is a cheating tool. There is no such thing called original perhaps a few but since the Big Bang, everything is a remix.

this is still one of the greatest videos of all time and im still watching and learning from this 10 years later

I was obsessed with this 10 years ago. Ive bought it many times as gifts for friends and family

Great video!

Enjoyed every second of this, thank you Kirby !

It is very relevant for everyone to think of artistic work as a remix, because without a rich public domain, creatives will not be able to create. Great foresight and great follow up Mr. Feguson. I believe you have created a focus on what is relevant to art and those that produce and create.

Bravo!! This was a fantastic series and IMO should be mandatory viewing in high school and college. Thank you so much for putting it together and sharing with us. Top notch all the way.

Thank you for an educational and joyful watch, an eye-opening 🤯moment. My creative batteries are replenished!

This is amazing

Seems to me that the main difference between influence and a copyright issue is simply the potential amount of money involved ..

You simply reinvented yourself. Thanks for sharing.

The end of an era. I can only imagine how you feel, not to mention how much time you must've spent on this! Good luck on your future endeavors 😁👍

I really appreciate what you did, at some point there was some onions being cut in the room... at some point well done very good much love to you good luck in the next adventure.

Thank you for this. As an artist and educator I've spent the majority of my professional life so far working to convince students, friends, or anyone else that drawing, painting, whatever is not creativity. Creativity lives in the idea, not in the skill used to express that idea. Ideas are always influenced by other ideas, there is nothing new under the sun. The panic among other artists regarding AI image generation is likely not much different than the uproar caused by the invention of photography in the mid 19th century. Yet there were a group of artists who took the principles of that technology, (focusing on how light defines the world around us) and used them as a starting point for human creativity. Today even with the fullness of the 20th century between us and them, people still remember the work of the Impressionists. Personally, I find the AI image generation revolution exciting and super interesting, and I'm keen to see how we artists can embrace this new technology to create something novel and exciting. When we lower the barrier to entry for creative expression I think we all win. Viva La Remix!

My guru ask me to watch everything is remix. Really 😮 my mind. Thank you for you compilation and insight. I love it! Everything is a remix!

dane forced me to watch this

solid video

"Trajan is the Movie Font" was the first video of yours I had the pleasure to enjoy, back in 2007. Been here since and I'm so glad I have.

Brilliant!

That "Max Richter's - Spring 1" on the minute 30 was spot on. Awesome choice, made my night!

stunning, brilliant documentary!!!

I understand this updated version addressing the AI angle on creativity and art, but I am curious if there is a reason that the conclusion from the first version regarding the Copyright and Patent system seems noticeably absent from this latest update.

This is amazing! Really helps to give ourselves permission to create more! Not sure if I agree with the last part about AI though.

thank you for corroborating my biases in a genuine way

Adobe firefly AI is trained on Adobe licensed work, public domain work and artists that choose to be have their works included for compensation so someone has done this now.

GODDAMN Kirby i could watch this a million times!!

Genuinely shocked that this only has 100k views and fewer than 1k comments. I think this is such an important topic and Kirby has done an incredible amount of work making this video.

What a great video.

Loved this and your earlier work. Though I'm a little confused by the defense of AI lifting art work as a standard we don't apply to people followed by the idea it would be better if it used fair use--the standard that we apply to people. Ai not abiding fair use is a big part of the problem.

Lol that turned into something else. I love the pretty precise prediction at 48:57 and your confident "No" 😂

And guess what? I'll happily rewatch every remake of this film. Watched this series as part of a philosophy course when I went through the business apprenticeship program Praxis. Never forgot it!

Your series should be mandatory viewing for jurists of every dumbass copyright trial.

Common Good, thanks i learn something today.

The First Documentary from 11 or 12 years ago is Fantastic, this one well they got cocky and petulant!!! Specially in part 4

Oof part 4 went out of date in days after release. Brilliant doco thanks!

Great video, updated to the ai era. Great work.

This video(made by a human)is so amazing and especially the third and fourth parts engaged my mind and Siriously have made me think.

Bro! Who are you!? This is one of the greatest videos I have ever seen on KZfaq!

You legend you!

Even Free Guy’s popularity comes from its pop culture references

yup, which makes people complaining about AI art absoloute muppets.....we use a word - Inspiration. You jump over a gate...I jump it higher with more style - same gate, same action

Esse conteúdo é um pote de Insights, um grande divisor de águas para a minha percepção sobre Criatividade e Direitos Intelectuais. É incrível perceber o quão interligadas estão as mentes humanas ao ponto de compartilharem conceitos, filosofias e ideias, ainda que separados por Kms de distância. Certamente hei de rever esse vídeo

48:00 Thank you for pointing this out!! I came across "Everything is a Remix" years ago, I think it was on Vimeo, and I thought it´s excellent. I loved the mindset you are up to, because it makes just totally sense AND I hate the idea of "oh, that is called stealing, you have to be 100% original" (what´s that, 100% original??) and "look at all the copycats" (pfff...) which kinda never made sense to me. Also, the thing with Led Zeppelin makes me laugh every time :) So, I to rediscovered your work here on KZfaq lately and I´m happy this project still exists! Great work, thank you for doing it! P.S.: This subtle humor is most amusing 😀

Part 4 would be great as a standalone video.

I like that you show both positions on the future of AI.

the soundtrack was on POINT!!

Everything is a Remix has been the best sh*t since like 2010.

I have tio watch your video as an assignment then write a lil essay, but aside from the hw this is actually interesting ngl

Nice update - memes age fast, so you'll have to do another one in a couple of years. Looking forward to it.