The past week has felt more like a London winter, than a Toronto one. It has been mild, rainy, and gray. So right now feels like an opportune time to write about this solar-powered light/art piece called Sunne. Created by Marjan van Aubel, the light has been designed to hang right in front of a window using two simple cables. There's no need for an external power source, because it has an integrated battery that harvests sun during the day. The light then automatically turns on at sunset, and has the ability to simulate some pretty stunning sun experiences.
Now, if you happen to live in a place with a roof that gets good sun exposure, I suppose you could just install a bunch of solar panels and use them to generate power for cool-looking things in your home. But if you don't have the ability to do that -- for instance, maybe you live in a multi-family building -- then this feels like a clever and extremely beautiful way to harvest some amount of sun. I'm sure that, eventually, we'll have building facades that can generate a meaningful amount of solar power, but until then, you've got devices like Sunne.
P.S. For what it's worth, I'll take cold, snowy and sunny, over mild, rainy and gray, any day of the week.
Image: Sunne
We moved into our new apartment today, so I don't have a lot to say other than that moving is a good way to remind yourself that you have too much stuff. I was in my last place accumulating for over a decade.
I try my best to live minimally and there is certainly something liberating about this mindset. But there is also a part of me that is a collector at heart. (A great number of our boxes are filled with things like books.)
It also turns out that Boxing Day, or some other time over the holidays, can be an excellent time to move. Streets are calm. Buildings are quiet. The email firehose is off. And nobody else wants to move at this time.
Most importantly, though, it affords you some time to get your life back together. And that's exactly what I'll be doing for the rest of this week.
Here’s a potentially hypothetical question.
If you were in the market for a 3-bedroom penthouse, and its 1,100 sf wraparound terrace with skyline views just so happened to have an enormous neon-like sign above it, would you consider this to be a feature or a bug?
The past week has felt more like a London winter, than a Toronto one. It has been mild, rainy, and gray. So right now feels like an opportune time to write about this solar-powered light/art piece called Sunne. Created by Marjan van Aubel, the light has been designed to hang right in front of a window using two simple cables. There's no need for an external power source, because it has an integrated battery that harvests sun during the day. The light then automatically turns on at sunset, and has the ability to simulate some pretty stunning sun experiences.
Now, if you happen to live in a place with a roof that gets good sun exposure, I suppose you could just install a bunch of solar panels and use them to generate power for cool-looking things in your home. But if you don't have the ability to do that -- for instance, maybe you live in a multi-family building -- then this feels like a clever and extremely beautiful way to harvest some amount of sun. I'm sure that, eventually, we'll have building facades that can generate a meaningful amount of solar power, but until then, you've got devices like Sunne.
P.S. For what it's worth, I'll take cold, snowy and sunny, over mild, rainy and gray, any day of the week.
Image: Sunne
We moved into our new apartment today, so I don't have a lot to say other than that moving is a good way to remind yourself that you have too much stuff. I was in my last place accumulating for over a decade.
I try my best to live minimally and there is certainly something liberating about this mindset. But there is also a part of me that is a collector at heart. (A great number of our boxes are filled with things like books.)
It also turns out that Boxing Day, or some other time over the holidays, can be an excellent time to move. Streets are calm. Buildings are quiet. The email firehose is off. And nobody else wants to move at this time.
Most importantly, though, it affords you some time to get your life back together. And that's exactly what I'll be doing for the rest of this week.
Here’s a potentially hypothetical question.
If you were in the market for a 3-bedroom penthouse, and its 1,100 sf wraparound terrace with skyline views just so happened to have an enormous neon-like sign above it, would you consider this to be a feature or a bug?
The sign does turn off at 11PM, but before then, it creates this awesome/lovely pink glow on the terrace. My sense is that this will be fairly divisive. You’re either going to love it or you’re going to hate it. Which side are you on?
Let me know in the comment section below.
The sign does turn off at 11PM, but before then, it creates this awesome/lovely pink glow on the terrace. My sense is that this will be fairly divisive. You’re either going to love it or you’re going to hate it. Which side are you on?
Let me know in the comment section below.
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