Hye Yeon Nam is a visual and kinetic artist living in Atlanta, GA and originally from Seoul, Korea.  She’s a designer and artist who is inspired by her “personal experiences, emotions, and in-between state.”
At one point in time she asked herself the question “What if we no longer had the use of our hands to play instruments or produce various forms of music? Through what alternative could we express ourselves musically?” … So, she decided to come up with the answer for her own question.
The human tongue can actually rival …

I’ve got 2 large boxes completely full of old cassette tapes (remember those?) in my closet. There are probably over 400 tapes sitting there, degrading, losing their magnetic information, slowly dissolving into silence, or perhaps more correctly, white noise.
Will I ever listen to any of these again? Probably not. Heck, I don’t even own a tape player. Even if I did want to listen to any of them one day, I’m sure I’d be considerably dissapointed in the sound quality (if there was any music still …

Artist Pierre Blanc makes beautiful fancy vases with emblems of hard rock bands.  To me, this just seems like such a strange fusion of concepts that I simply can’t decide if they are compelling or just downright ugly.  Nevertheless, each piece is unique – signed, dated and numbered.
I’m not too sure who would buy these (they go for anywhere from 200 to 400 euros) or if there is actually any market for these whatsoever, but they sure are interesting to look at.