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...

Jan 1, 2013

Paris Café

I'm cheating a bit – resurrecting an avatar from June '09.  But I'm recently back from Paris, and I thought this an apropos update to avoid my avatar getting too stale.  This style of chair with minor variations is everywhere in Paris - there must be a million of them on sidewalks everywhere.  They are comfortable and durable in all weather.  There are plastic imitations of the original Rattan ones, and strips of plastic seem to function pretty well too.  Really, if you can sit down and not notice the chair while you watch the world go by, that's what it's all about.