Creative Spark

The video that I have chosen to watch is called Embracing the Remix that was given in 2012 by a man named Kirby Ferguson in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the video, he talks about Bob Dylan and how his career was reaching its peak back in 1964. Ferguson goes on to telling the audience that Bob Dylan has been accused of stealing other song writer's music. The technique he says was used to do this is called remixing; this consist of copy, transform and combine; one takes bits and pieces from different songs, breaks the songs down into small sections, and puts those pieces back together again to make a brand new song; the new song is comprised of old songs. Kirby says that to him, everything is a remix, and is a unique way of creativity; this is his first point that he made.

The next point that Kirby Ferguson makes in the video is the topic of patent laws, and how the goal to promote the progress of science and all of its useful arts by putting into place for investors to have exclusive rights to whatever it is they discovered. Ferguson believes the patent laws, which haven't been altered much since they were officially introduced back in the 18th century, need to be rewritten to incorporate the "Everything is a remix" theory into the law of the land.

The last point that Kirby Ferguson makes, he states that "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." I would imagine that what he means by this is that someone has already done something in the past, but that doesn't mean that it can't be reinvented, or remixed as he puts it. Ferguson used as an example an old video of Steve Jobs and how he talks about how he takes ideas from other sources frequently. This goes on to prove that people "borrow" things from other sources all the time and turn them into their own creation; they put their stamp on it.

I am in the restaurant industry; I work as a chef in a nursing home and my passion for the business is big. I believe in making people happy, and one way I can do that is by preparing a meal for them that they won't stop talking about when the topic of food comes up. My passion and experience with food goes all the way back to when I was fourteen years old, getting together with family for the holidays and helping and watching my Grandmother cook the holiday meal for that evening. I believe that if my passion continues to burn for this industry, my passion alone will contribute something