He cites the seminal British director of the 70s, Nicolas Roeg, as his principle inspiration, recalling the closest he himself came to fainting in a movie as being in a cinema in Belsize Park, north London, watching Roeg's neglected 1983 movie Eureka, starring Gene Hackman.
Taking its title and principle inspiration from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it is written as a series of short sections entwining the author's diary of a Saharan journey with a devastating thesis on the origins of the Nazi holocaust in 19th-century colonialism.
Yet Khan's exploration of the story of Amba owes just as much to other influences, particularly that of the poet Karthika Nair, whose book of poetry based on the female characters in the epic saga, also called Until the Lions, provided Khan's principle inspiration.
But that hasn't stopped the audiovisual duo Recent Arts (Tobias Freund and Valentina Berthelon) from using these two universal principles as inspiration for their new experimental video, Static Universe.
The Soviet authorities held up Mr. Botvinnik's playing as a model, saying his success had come from following institutional principles, not individual inspiration.
Finally, in paper (973806), the authors look to the evolutionary principles themselves for inspiration.
However, the implementation of design solutions which exploit these principles is where inspiration for man-made structures should be.
In this context, it is possible to enhance the error resilience of typical predictive video coding schemes using as inspiration principles and tools from an alternative video coding approach, the so-called Distributed Video Coding (DVC), based on the Distributed Source Coding (DSC) theory.
But the "Cloud" purportedly distinguishes itself from more conventional do-good design because its principle source of inspiration is the slum itself.
That's another way to go – taking inspiration from principles revealed through optical control using microbial opsins, and then using it with human genes.
Save the Children, the UN Global Compact and UNICEF hope that these Principles will serve as inspiration and a guide for all business in their interactions with children.
