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...
Feb 17, 2011
Eero Aarnio Subtraction. The Ring Chair introduced by Eero Aarnio in 2009 is a cool idea. Take his iconic 1966 ball chair, or more accurately his '68 bubble chair and remove the bubble. 
You can see the thinking. There are materials available that can support the occupant without the ball's structure - so why not lose it? In my usual silhouette presentation, you get the effect quite well. There is even a clear version of the bubble chair that would probably look exactly the same at 100 paces. It's a great play on his original work.
