Taxidermy

Sometimes things done really badly give a much better insight into what they're about than things done really well. The aims and ideas are clumsily and charmingly on show where subtlety and skill efface them to produce something that looks 'natural'. Bad taxidermy is a particularly charming example. Partly because all taxidermy is so doomed to failure, it's just a matter of degree. There are some wonderful essays on taxidermy at ravishing beasts.

Things to do with dead physicists

Yes, yes, you can make a statue of them and then put their remains inside the statue. Alternatively, you can make a giant asymetrical space shuttle and let them drift around in space (Lebbeus woods' design for Einstein's tomb) - or you can make a gigantic cenotaph with holes in the domed roof in the pattern of the constellations (Etienne-Louis Boullée's Cenotaph for Newton). When Newton died, he was the first scientist in England ever to get a tomb as good as a poet. You wait a few years, and now no one's interested in dead poets drifting in space. (More here and here, and a beautiful collection of giant spheres at cabinet here).

Pilates Motivation

This is Joseph Pilates showing how it's done. This is exactly what it will be like. And if it's not, they're not doing it right.