I just got a message from sculptor Robert Toth, who apparently creates busts of philosophers like Freud and Socrates (no Husserl yet, it appears!) and other cultural figures, and is also a very thoughtful guy.
So, for instance, if you have a toy piano and want a life-size disembodied head of Beethoven to sit on it and stare at you to make you feel inspired and/or to have your own inferiority constantly in mind (I think that was really Schroeder’s deal; he was a self-hating over-achiever), here’s an option for you.
$350 Freud “Sculpted Life Sized Mask.” He sees your Oedipal feelings.
-Mark Linsenmayer
I want one of Conan O’Brien.
He looks like he’s silently judging me.
Just get your head embalmed. They show Bentham like this at annual meetings.
http://www.heritage-images.com/Preview/PreviewPage.aspx?id=2361753&pricing=true&licenseType=RM
There’s no way to embed an image in a comment, but I have a picture of a friend from high school who studied at UCL standing next to the embalmed Bentham. Apparently before they encased him, his head used to get stolen a lot.