Here's an assortment of things I've found influential to my work, thinking, or perspective.

I believe in the Jenny Holzer truism that “all things are delicately interconnected”, and that everything informs everything else in surprising ways.

Read

• The Power Broker — Robert Caro
• The Medium is the Message — Marshall McLuhan
• Palo Alto — Malcolm Harris
• The Freaks Came Out to Write — Tricia Romano
• This Must Be the Place — Jesse Rifkin
• Antkind — Charlie Kaufman
• Grapefruit — Yoko Ono
• Meggs’ History of Graphic Design — Philip B. Meggs
• The Industrial Design Reader — Carma Gorman (ed.)
• Magic Ink — Bret Victor
• The Sentence is a Lonely Place — Garielle Lutz
• Understanding Comics — Scott McCloud
• East of Eden — John Steinbeck

Listen

• 4′33″ — John Cage
• Space 1.8 — Nala Sinephro
• Watermusic II — William Basinski
• Journey in Satchidananda — Alice Coltrane

Watch

• Raiders of the Lost Ark — Steven Spielberg
• Cure — Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Wayne’s World — Penelope Spheeris
• In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
• Daybreak Express — D.A. Pennebaker
• Chinatown — Roman Polanski
• Children of Men — Alfonso Cuarón
• Being John Malkovich — Spike Jonze
• Licorice Pizza — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Zodiac — David Fincher
• Mulholland Drive — David Lynch

Experience

• Michel Majerus — Paintings
• Richard Mayhew — Paintings
• Sanford Wurmfeld — Paintings
• Giorgio Morandi — Paintings
• Constantin Brâncuși — Sculpture
• Isamu Noguchi — Sculpture
• Piet Oudolf — Landscape
• Lee Friedlander — Photography
• William Eggleston — Photography
• Saul Leiter — Photography
• Chris Maggio — Photography
• Louis Kahn — Architecture
• Tracy Ma — Design
• Tadanori Yokoo — Design