What’s in a name? A lot, if you ask these musicians, each of whom ditched their birth names and adopted an alias before hitting the big time.

Check out the gallery and list here and find out the real names behind 100 pop-star pseudonyms.

Another clever art form is coming, that is album cover art. The visual pioneer is Christian Marclay. As for Marclay, I think most of us know him because of his music. Right, he is a famous DJ and composer who firstly uses gramaphone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collage. While besides, he likes collecting record covers of Michael Jackson, Doors, Donna Summer, David Bowie and many others to re-join new pieces. Christian Marclay might just take Bowie and put him together with MJ or the Black Eyed Peas. No sexism from his side, ladies are caught up in the mix as well. The following are some work from him. I’m they will give a fresh visual effect.

Christian Marclay Body Mix

The inkQuencer was created by Danish designer Sebastian Ronde Thielke as a way to bring “‘a more direct tangible way of experimenting with sound and rhythm.” With this mind, the inkQuencer has the ability to play music based on input processed via a camera hooked up to the program. The computer captured photograph is further compressed into a 32 x 30 pixel format which then processes the image accordingly for playback.

inkQuencer from Sebastian Thielke on Vimeo.