Monthly Archives: March 2013

Please turn off your lights for Earth Hour

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Remains Lighting

This Saturday at 8:30pm (local time, wherever you are) turn off your lights, even if they are beautiful, and you bought them from Remains, and leave them off for at least an hour. Join me, the WWF, and participate in … Continue reading →

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Spongebob Would Feel Right at Home, More on the Shedd Aquarium

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Remains Lighting

After exhausting the possibilities of the front rooms of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and pestering the staff for more information on the fixtures (they had none) and on any other old, original parts of the building (“this is it”), … Continue reading →

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Spongebob Would Feel Right at Home – Nudibranches

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Remains Lighting

I had a few hours between meetings to explore the Shedd Aquarium, part of Chicago’s lakefront neoclassical cultural campus including also the Field Museum and the Adler Planetarium. The Shedd was conceived by John G. Shedd, designed by architect Philip … Continue reading →

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