Almost everything visual; street signs, billboards, advertisements, movies and movie titles, the work of Bill Viola, Kyle Cooper, Pablo Ferro, Neville Brody, Roger Black and Saul Bass. My wife Christina's poetry, the poetry of Marie Howe and Phillip Levine. The bands, Underworld, Rachels, Low, Talking Heads Fear of Music, Cat Power. the work of my peers; Ian kovalik, Todd Purgason, Josh Ulm, Matt Owens, Dr. Micheal Davis (and the rest of Razorfish designers) and many more that I'm too jammed to list at the moment.