{"id":1790,"date":"2019-01-23T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T03:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2019-01-23T19:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T03:46:26","slug":"lets-talk-about-butt-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/lets-talk-about-butt-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about butt-shapes."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s not what you\u2019re thinking. I\u2019m not about to discuss butt sizes and which is more attractive. Let\u2019s leave that in the eyes of the beholder. I\u2019m talking about the shape left behind if your chair were made of styrofoam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me tell you a story:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m on Skype with my parents. It\u2019s around 8 pm, they\u2019re sitting by the fire in their Virginia home complaining about the weather (it\u2019s 10 below 0! I\u2019m not sure if they meant F or C, but either way\u2026 that\u2019s cold). The lunar eclipse is about to happen so we chat about that too. Anyway, at one point, my mom starts laughing off-screen and my dad lifts up a piece of white styrofoam with two half egg-sized dimples in it spread about two fist-lengths apart. I look at him with my eyebrows raised, perplexed. I can’t help smiling a little.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre you guys conducting a product design experiment?\u201d I ask. My dad doesn\u2019t answer directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour mom sat on this and look what shape she left. Ha ha ha!\u201d Then he flips the styrofoam piece over to show me the other side. \u201cI mean, look at the difference compared to when I sat on it.\u201d he continues to laugh. His side had not much character, just evenly pressed down in a semi-elliptical shape, with some variance in the middle.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butt<\/g> seriously<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The conversation turned to other things, but as a designer, this massive difference stayed in my mind. I thought about it during yoga, while rolling out my hamstring injury, and more recently in the shower. What if I conducted an experiment to see more butt shapes? I laughed a little at the thought. How weird, but how possibly enlightening. It would even be interesting as an art project with product design implications. An intimate exploration, dare I say.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We in the western world spend many hours in our lives sitting, but I haven\u2019t seen as much thought put into chairs as I\u2019ve seen in similarly time-spendy items such as mattresses (for sleeping), or shoes (for running\/walking). I know I\u2019m not the only one to think of chair ergonomics, but I\u2019d be interested to see if anyone has seen such experiments done before, and what they lead to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have anything to add? Do you have a chair that you really like\u00a0 (or hate) to sit on? What makes it so great (or so terrible)? Feel free to comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not what you\u2019re thinking. I\u2019m not about to discuss butt sizes and which is more attractive. Let\u2019s leave that in the eyes of the beholder. I\u2019m talking about the shape left behind if your chair were made of styrofoam. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,263,4],"tags":[289,269,80,288,290],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-while-in-the-shower","category-design","category-thoughts","tag-butt","tag-design","tag-fun","tag-product-design","tag-styrofoam","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ildikototh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}