As images from the film "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides" flickered across the small screen in the Brainerd Arboretum meeting hall, eyes glanced admiringly to the table in the corner of the room.
In Westminster Hall, my eye was caught by Dr Rupa Huq's debate (2.30 - 4 pm) on anti-corruption strategy and the illegal wildlife trade - focusing on the vast profits from dealing in products from endangered species, like ivory and rhino horn, and the link to money laundering.
Rather than walking around Huntsman Hall with eyes so tired and desperate for a Goldman internship they are weighed down by designer eye-bags, George Lessner III found the happy, casual medium of being a financier and painter, and still living each day one step at a time.
There are no cup cakes or whoopie pies on the menu, no designer wallpapers in the hall, no eye-watering prices.
He designed London's city hall, an eye-catching if utterly weird structure that looks like a bicycle helmet attacked by a madman wielding a large, dull ax.
I rubbed some on my arms and shoulders, the only parts of myself that I could touch, with Mrs. Winner standing there watching, and then we went out into the hall, my eyes avoiding the mirrors, and she opened another door and I went into the next room alone.
"I believe the design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall suggests music," says Gehry, "and I hope that when people attend concerts in the hall, their eyes will wander through the shapes of the building and find that what they see harmonises with the music they're listening to".
Hall's eyes light up when he talks about performing to kids.
As a fan of non-amplified solo recitals, the sound environment of this recording is like sitting in down-center Orchestra in a world class concert hall and having eye-to-eye contact with an artist whose big guns vocals penetrate clear to the soul.
In the church's social hall, two camps eye each other suspiciously as one finishes its meal of rice and beans while the other prepares steaming pans of chicken lo mein.
