One neon-based sculpture included lights shaped as eyes, lightning bolts and the infinity symbol; another showed a bomb in the shape of Mickey Mouse wearing an S&M gag mask.
I gave it the evil eye, hoping lightning would strike it Slightly off-centre work came from Sally Keith (The Fact of the Matter) and Marjorie Welish (In the Futurity Lounge).
The whiteness sees with the eyes of lightning things that don't fit.
It isn't the poet or viewer alone who notes the oddities, but the "whiteness" itself ("the white glow from the wakened corpse"), which "sees with the eyes of lightning" and "is eager".
While some of the graphics evolved directly from Ament's sketches, Pendleton took some inspiration from his past work, such as a series of skateboards he painted "based around icons and logos", and the very first image sent to Ament, an eye with a lightning bolt which Pendleton made back in 2006 for a failed project, that evolved into the album cover.
A wiry, wizened gamine whose brooding deep-set eyes flicker with lightning, her Michele is a fortress of strength and devotion but devoid of sentimentality.
The more than 100 other acts on the bill include Lauryn Hill, PJ Harvey, the Strokes, Animal Collective, the Black Keys, the Chemical Brothers, Best Coast, Brandon Flowers, Bright Eyes, Cee Lo Green, Gogol Bordello, Lightning Bolt, Nas and Damian Marley, the Swell Season, Scissor Sisters, Erykah Badu, the National, the New Pornographers and Titus Andronicus.
It wasn't especially weird but coupled with my lightning eyes and odd demeanor and unaccountable fixations, maybe it was.
I had pressed "call" before I had time to think it through, and was considering the ways to backpedal out of the situation when I saw his green eyes flash like lightning over a rough sea -- powerful, beautiful and dangerous.
See A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE BARRY GIFFORD A man we would never want to cross, Barry Gifford has electric hazel eyes that shoot lightning and the deft hands of a welterweight champ.
"You'll feel the warmth from his heart, the sparkle of his eye and the pure lightning from his fingertips," explained Jonathan Warren, chairman of the Liberace Foundation.
