Chair Avatars
This is a display area for my spare chairs - my various Twitter avatars.
Why Chairs?
Chairs symbolize social interaction. They invite you to sit down and stay a while; take a load off. You're probably sitting right now. We sit down to digest news. We sit to think. We sit to be social. You might say chairs are the first social media. Okay, you wouldn't but let's pretend.
Some beautiful chairs are painful to sit on (talkin' to you Frank Lloyd Wright, and owners of Indian restaurants everywhere). Many comfy chairs can look quite ugly. Chairs can fit with all situations - from thrones to bean-bags. Lawn chairs say "relax, enjoy the weather." Kitchen chairs say "have a bite." Dentists' chairs say "sit down and scream a while."
As an early user of Twitter in '07, I began to explore a dynamic avatar idea – it was always easy to identify my feed based on the avatar's subject matter, but the actual image changed often. If you followed me and my meanderings, I hope you found the conversation fun and/or thoughtful. Pull up a chair.
The avatar history is captured below...
Dec 12, 2010
Changing my posting approach here a bit, I'll post individual avatars perhaps, rather than lumped together.
Turning to Arne Jacobsen, Denmarks gift to the world of chair design. He created the important plywood and steel Number 7 chair as well as his slightly more famous 'egg' chair. This version of the Number 7 has the added cool-factor of the armrests, added while still retaining the stack-ability. This chair had a bit of bawdy fame in the context of the Profumo Affair. The chair was featured as the prop in a nude photo of the siren of the British political scandal, Christine Keeler. 