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 12, 2012

Ames Einn is the name of this chair from Icelandic designer Erla Óskarsdóttir. My usual three-quarter view shot of the chair is de rigueur, but perhaps a better view is the one from behind, where the seat seems to tongue up behind you and lick your spine.  An early 90's graduate of design school in Copenhagen, the Reykjavik-born Óskarsdóttir has pieces in museums in the Netherlands and Iceland. I like the fluid smooth forms of her chairs - she specializes in seating design.  See a rather heavy-weight webpage here with some good pics. I can imagine I'll have to revisit her collection for future chairvatars.