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...

Sep 18, 2011

Miesrolo Chair from Uros Vitas is a great exploration of tension and compression. Uros studied at the University of Belgrade and says that sustainable design is a key motivator for him.  With a judicious selection of angles on the wooden staves, and a high-tensile-strength fabric band, the chair will either roll up in one direction, or form a shapely chair in the other.  You really need to see the pictures in various states.  The band along the 'outside' must be under a lot of stress in spots! If it let go, that would be quite a dramatic drop to the ground, but meanwhile, it's an awesome use of materials and a great illustration of basic mechanical principals.