Chairama

022 Hug Chair

2007-07-11T20:33:00.001-07:00

If you die in the electric chair, as Roger Coleman is scheduled to do in Virginia on May 20, you will be literally burned to death internally -- and you will feel it, for many long seconds. Afterward, your body will likely be fouled by urine, feces and vomited blood. It will be too hot to touch for several minutes, and the smell of cooked flesh will permeate the execution chamber.
- Hendrik Hertzberg

021 Flash Gordon Chair

2007-06-22T02:26:00.001-07:00

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald

How much do you know about Flash Gordon?

020 Megaphone Chair

2007-06-20T05:15:00.001-07:00

Complacencies of peignoir, and late Coffe and oranges in a sunny chair.
- Wallace Stevens

019 Slab Chair

2007-06-17T20:16:00.000-07:00

A passenger in a vehicle undergoing uniform motion will neither be pressed into his or her chair nor pulled to one side.
- Stephen Fleishman

018 1984 Chair

2007-06-15T05:15:00.001-07:00

In a case of battery the amount of contact or force is unimportant, if it is made without permission. It may amount only to a touch on the shoulder, or the striking of a person's car or the chair in which a person is sitting.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

1984 by George Orwell: A searchable online version

017 Vegas Chair

2007-06-13T15:08:00.000-07:00

Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) painted La Chaise et la Pipe (Chair and Pipe, 1888) while living in Arles.
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

2007.03.24 Chair, originally uploaded by MaxChu.

016 Vertical Chair

2007-06-12T01:55:00.001-07:00

Of course, Alexander the great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
- Nikolai Gogol

015 Achievement Chair

2007-06-11T04:23:00.000-07:00

On the coast of Coromandel, Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. The two old chairs, and half a candle, One old jug without a handle - These were all his worldly goods.
- Edward Lear

014 Lilian Chair

2007-06-10T17:24:00.001-07:00

We shall meet, but we shall miss him, There will be on vacant chair.
- Henry Stevenson Washburn

Perspectives, originally uploaded by Mexicanwave.

013 Weathered Chair

2007-06-10T17:19:00.000-07:00

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in the wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright.
- Ben Jonson

012 Simple Chair

2007-06-08T23:17:00.001-07:00

The officiating bishop sat near this ALTAR in an armchair, or cathedra; this chair eventually gave its name to the cathedral, which, in contrast to a parish church, is one over which a bishop presides.
- Edward T. McClellan

Singapore Chinatown: Street Chair, originally uploaded by mrtruffle.

011 Normah Chair

2007-06-08T23:12:00.001-07:00

Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy chair.
- Alexander Pope

010 Blinking Chair

2007-06-07T19:09:00.001-07:00

She locked Soon-Yi in the bedroom in her apartment -- there's a lot of corroboration of this -- beat her on numerous occasions, smashed her with a chair, kicked her, raised black-and-blue marks so the kids at school said, Where did you get those? Finally, through the intervention of, I believe, a doctor, she got out of the house and went to live up in the college dormitory.
- Woody Allen

Shadow and light, originally uploaded by magic fly paula.

009 Petal Chair

2007-06-07T19:04:00.000-07:00

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

008 Winter Chair

2007-06-06T22:31:00.001-07:00

Here on the golden chair was seated the prince of Wales in a lovely ermine cloak and a small but costly crown.
-Daisy Ashford

blue chair on snow......, originally uploaded by gadjoboy.

007 Risky Chair

2007-06-06T22:25:00.001-07:00

Sit, sit back into the risky preposition
You might not remember when
but you will remember, how unsetling
Sit, sit down on the brisk composition
of shapes and countour of or the risky chair.

The prisoner is strapped in a chair, and sodium cyanide pellets are dropped into a bucket of acid. If the prisoner breathes deeply, death comes almost at once.

In 2002, 71 persons in 13 States were executed -- 33 in Texas; 7 in Oklahoma, 6 in Missouri; 4 each in Georgia and Virginia, 3 each in Florida, South Carolina, and Ohio; 2 each in Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina; and 1 each in Louisiana and California.
Of persons executed in 2002: 53 were white, 18 were black. –The Death Penalty

006 Squid Chair

2007-06-05T22:34:00.001-07:00

In your rocking chair by your window shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

- Theodore Dreiser

a chair, originally uploaded by teamscuby.

005 Donut Chair

2007-06-05T22:25:00.000-07:00

Among the great religious works painted by Raphael on canvas or panel during his Roman years is the Madonna of the Chair (Pitti Palace, Florence).

004 Spiritual Chair

2007-06-04T23:05:00.001-07:00

I sit in my spiritual chair to be tantalized by the naughty thought. I close my eyes, and feel my back bent slightly to the chanting of the cushions, and the taps of the back rest. I enlighten my bottom.

If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. -Lenny Bruce

003 Negative Chair

2007-06-04T22:55:00.001-07:00

"O.K., it was like this," he says, rubbing those big hands together and rocking slightly in his chair. "They told me, `Time to put in some work for your homies. Here's the gun. There's the car. Get up and go, boy.' " In other words, welcome to the big time, Jimmy. Time to prove your stuff by shooting some rivals. Try not to hit someone's mama or baby, but mainly just pull the trigger bang bang bang -- and don't lose the damned gun.
- Jon D. Hull

Smokers' Lounge, originally uploaded by Vanessa Berry.

002 Remedial Chair

2007-06-03T15:42:00.000-07:00

America is a large, friendly dog in a very smallroom. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

-Arnold Joseph Toynbee

001 Virtual Chair

2007-06-03T01:23:00.000-07:00

Virtual chair, existing only in the moment of established connections. Constructed on network of structural elements based on the strength of relationships. The comfort level paled by the flexibilities of each nodal relations.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson