We were standing by a claw-grab machine that was filled with anatomically imperfect plush giraffes.
Works include "stalagmite sculptures", multi-coloured phallic statues of dripping plaster that look like melting scoops of ice cream; fairground "candy-grabber" machines filled with knitted green pears and red apples; and a print of the night sky from which eyes stare down.
Part interactive installation and part psychological experiment, Brigitta Zics and John Shearer's Eye Resonator seems like it'd be used by optometrists in some ultra-surveilled, dystopian future not unlike the eyeball-grabbing machines of A Clockwork Orange and Brazil.
That might be why the New York Sports Club, whose customers also park in Liberty Way, makes sudden announcements over its public address system that the meter maid is coming, giving club members enough lead time to slide off their treadmills and weight machines, grabbing car keys and spare change.
Grab the machine gun and cover us.
If you don't have that sort of patience, you can also just grab a machine gun and wipe out the whole base.
They reportedly want to do what Michelle Obama - who was recently spotted slapping her husband's hand as he checked email during his daughters' soccer game - has probably itched to do for years: grab the machine out of Obama's tightly curled fist, shove it in a drawer and lock it away for ever.
Very early on, the story was that the guys showing up with guns were some sort of spontaneous militia consisting of shockingly energetic locals who up and decided to slap on some camouflage, grab some machine guns and assault rifles, and start seizing airports across the Crimean peninsula.
"The young men grabbed his machine gun and beat him up, but he did not die.
Faisal ran into the library and grabbed his machine gun, and when I followed he told me to stay inside.
