Is Photography only a Remix?

I have just stumbled across these interesting thesis from Kirby Ferguson.

Kirby is a genius!

His statement disillusioned me in thinking creativity is more special and something different.

He claimed that everything creative is only a remix. There are three simple principles of remixing:

… copy, transform, combine…

This sounds really simple and populist. So let us photographers discuss about his statement.

Is there anything special in creativity?

Can everybody learn and live creativity by learning these principles?

Why are some people so successful creative and others aren’t?

What is creativity for you?

I’m really curious about the discussion…

But maybe first see his films and then discuss: