The idea of the fireplug as a watch tower began with an ad from my college alumni association for a boat tour through the Iron Gate gorge on the Danube that had a picture of some medieval fortifications there. Somewhere in my work with the transformation, it occurred to me that a watch tower might have eyes. The static discharge was created using a technique borrowed from Al Ward's book on Elements special effects. The background image is an ARIS stock photo with some added mist.