The official party flower, a red rose, was emblazoned in giant stylised form either side of the main podium, uplit in blood red. |
Their faces uplit in the floodlights, Rudy and Seth were almost like players in the climax of some gothic silent-film drama, but they didn't have the poise or imagination to know it. |
Every light fixture is theatre: uplit, downlit, backlit. |
It's Persia by way of Vegas: picture a travertine-clad villa, an indoor three-story waterfall and 16 uplit granite columns topped with double bullheads. |
He also uplit the upper facades of the building to accentuate the tower's verticality. |
As a nerd, if there's anything more uncomplicatedly cool than a robot cigarette that exudes puffs of uplit nicotine vapour in glowing, silvery black, I've yet to hear about it. |