Madonna used it in a video or a movie.
Not sure what you mean by unusable..
I like the look and they way they made it(certainly not the easy way).. and the fact that it just plain, cant really be imprved much to look better visually..
Maybe I am wrong on that, but I doubt that it made the impact it did, and fetched such a price because it wasnt appealling to most.
I think some of the metalpounders, are maybe in the wrong business..