On the contrary, if anything can be said to unite the jewellers featured, it is the diversity of their inspiration, material and aesthetic.
Throughout the panel, it was apparent that the series is a love letter to documentaries, to the point where the team even consulted the creators of the inspiration material for accuracy with shots and lenses.
Miles Hochhalter Lewis, also part of an online collective, The Metaphorical Association, draws on the massive archive of "stuff" online as inspiration and material; his digital compositions begin with material generated by search engines.
Their path to radicalisation involved inspiration from material from Osama bin Laden's mentor, Abdullah Azzam, online material, and using the internet to chat with extremists overseas.
Biomimetic or bio-inspired microstructures are increasingly being explored as a source of inspiration for material innovation.
More recently American missiles have rained down on the footsoldiers of Somalia's Shabab ("Youth") militia, an Islamist group that looks to al-Qaeda for inspiration and material support and which has overrun swathes of Somalia.
The Crisis Group says many of these new groups are small and ad hoc, and while they still seek inspiration and material support from large jihadist organizations, they act independently.
But he excitedly tripped over his own syllables as he talked about his three new shows, each of which uses classic pop songs as inspiration, raw material and organizing theme.
Genji's moonlit trysts and complicated court intrigues have been supplying Japanese artists with inspiration and material through the ages, and the poet Ryutei Tanehiko (1783-1842) tapped into that tradition in 1829, when he began publishing "A Rustic Genji" as an illustrated serial — do we dare call it an early manga?
As the fundamental biology of the cellular microenvironment is often the inspiration for material design, the review focuses on modifications to control bioactive cues such as adhesion molecules and growth factors, and summarizes the current applications of biomimetic scaffolds that have been used in vitro as well as in vivo.
Like Hardy's Wife for Sale, who knows what will prove a dead-end and what the inspiration or material for a book?
