Kirby Ferguson’s series, Everything is a Remix, is worth watching if you write, draw, compose, photograph, choreograph, direct, or otherwise create any form of content.

I wonder what influences my writing – there are some books, movies, and pieces of music that I know I reference, but I’m convinced there are others which have become so deeply integrated into my writing style that I don’t even realize the debts I owe them any more.

There’s a Buddhist aspect to this whole idea: action arises out of and in turn gives rise to karma, which persists through time, and spreads through the world.  Long after our death, the ideas to which our ideas gave rise ripple on, producing new patterns we never expected.

If you like that video, by the way, watch the rest of the series at http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/