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Friday, July 11, 2008

Pottery Photos in Spring - Pottery Images - Art Pottery - Art Romero Pottery - Pottery photos Outside and Inside - Colorado Pottery

Amazing, Exquisite, Beautiful Colorodo Artist Pottery photographed inside and outside in Wisconsin, May 2008. Pottery by Art Romero. Photo by Mike Fisk

Here's some gorgeous pottery pieces of Art Romero of Windsor, Colorado. Click on the pics to zoon in and check them out:

Listen to Free Soul Amp Jam Band Music: Click here for free Soul Amp Rock MP3 Index - No ads - no gimics

Strange Blowup Bathroom Trashbag - Architecture airduct error or construction error - Friday Bizarre Thing - Trash bin built into wall

Ever expanding batchroom trashbag - photo by Mike Fisk

Found this weird thing at work. At night the janitors change the bathroom trash bags. Because of an error in either the way the walls/airducts were constructed, some of the bags blow up. Cracks me up and I've never seen anything like. Check it out.

Have a great weekend!!

Check out a recent Soul Amp song about Jet Lag.

Nord Electro too distorted and overpowering the mix....a new tune from an April 2008 Farkusville Studios basement live recording from WI Jam Band

Yep, swamped the Zoom H4 with Nord... but there are some good things to listen to here. Just what you get when you make up stuff on the fly... some of it soars... some of it roars... and some of it snores..... you get it all in the long version (about 22 minutes).... If you dare, take a listen... probably won't be your favorite tune, but some of it will stick to you some. Happy Friday Everybody!!

Take Them Away

Take Them Away - Long Version

Check out us talking (kind of funny):

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/you-got-my-beer-contagious-spider.html

You got my beer.... contagious spider toxins.... goofy Milwaukee jam band talk

Us talking at an April basement (Farkusville Studios) jam session:

You got my beer - contagious spider toxins

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Photo Collage - Sunset Feathers from a Jet Window Smudged - Fun with Paintshop Pro - Psychedelic Images - Enjoy

Photo Collage - Sunset Feathers from a Jet Window - photo art by Mike Fisk

Check out where this image came from here:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/photo-collage-sunsets-from-jet-airplane.html

Here's another Photo Collage:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/flower-photo-collage-psychedelic-photo.html

And another (using flashlight photo art):

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/picture-of-floating-umbrella-house-of.html

Here's more psychedelic Photo Art pictures:

Psychelic Queen Anne's Lace in Space

Autumn Collage

Flower Photo Collage with lot's of depth and detail to get lost in

Glass Earth Globe with blue LED light Photo Art - Looks like electric bolts

Strange finger peace sign LED Photo Art

A Weed surrounded by strange lights

Autumn Leaf and Tree

Swirling Autumn Pschedelic Leaf and Tree Photos

Street spin photo

Close up of a flower

Sunset Feathers from a Jet

Sunset Cloud Quilt

Here's a bigger copy of the above pic:

http://soul-amp.com/pics/pics_to_post_sunset_from_jet_window/sunset_photo_from_airliner_collage_smeared2__soul-amp.jpg

Here's some songs:

Free Songs

And here's a song that needs some work, but that I like a lot:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/love-this-tune-to-me-it-rocksred-tulip_12.html

Photo Collage - Cloud Quilt - Sunsets from a Jet Airplane - Jet Lag - Sunrise or Sunset - Fun with Paintshop Pro - Collage Jigsaw Puzzle.

That's a photo collage I made of sunsets from a Jet Airplane. This went along with our new song:

Jet Lag

From our House of Guinness gig.

I took the photos from the Jet Lag post:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/improvisational-songs-sunset-photos.html

Yep, I said I didn't think I would make another one anytime soon (since the Flower Rainbow one took so long to make). But this one was much easier. You can see the Flower Rainbow collage here:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/flower-photo-collage-psychedelic-photo.html

Here's a bigger image of the Sunset College if you like:

http://soul-amp.com/pics/pics_to_post_sunset_from_jet_window/sunset_photo_from_airliner_collage__soul-amp.jpg

Here's the psychedelic version of the above Sunset Collage:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/photo-collage-sunset-feathers-from-jet.html

Here's more psychedelic Photo Art pictures:

Here's free soul amp music for your enjoyment:

http://soul-amp.com/freebies

Improvisational Songs - Sunset Photos from Midwest Airlines M80 Jet - Jet Lag Song - Fender Strat, Nord Lead 2, Nord Electro 2, Lugwigs, On the Fly

Sunset from a Midwest Airlines jet airliner M80 in November 2008 on the way to Phoenix, AZ. Photo by Mike Fisk

Jet Lag

Before we get start on Soul Amp's new tune, I just wanted to mention that M2 has a new blog:

http://ravenscrye.blogspot.com/

You need to check it out. It has a lot of cool pics. His other blog (the darker side) is:

http://voodoodrums.blogspot.com/

Be sure to check out the Storm video (freaky how much lightening there is in it):

http://voodoodrums.blogspot.com/2008/07/storm.html

Also, have you seen Bradly's YouTube channel?:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Bradly62

Lots of great sailing stuff and confessional stuff. You need to stop by and learn about Bradly; one of my and M2's best friends, not just a bandmate. Check it out.

So now, here's another Bradly "made up" a tune. Just some more Soul Amp improvisational music. M2 asks the audience for a song topic and then we invent a new tune right then and there. This is the 2nd the tune of the May 2008 House of Guinness Gig.

Our set up at the HOG is in the picture below.

Kurzweil, Korg CX-3, Nord Electro 2, Nord Lead 2, and pretty blue Ludwigs. Not pictured is Bradly's Mexican Fender Strat. This is our set up at the House of Guinness in Waukesha, WI. Photo by M1

We've got a new PA amp that can run stereo (I'll get you details later). So now you'll find the keyboards are spread out into the left and right sides of the stereo spectrum... listen to some of the old live recordings to hear the difference.

Anyhow someone yells out "Jet Lag" and so we make up a tune about it (well Bradly mostly does, as he makes up the lyrics on the fly which are largely unintelligible to me).

The photos are from a trip I took to AZ last November (2007). We flew in the evening and so I snapped some shots of the sunset from the window. Some of them turned out all right. I hope you enjoy.

Jet Lag

Monday, July 07, 2008

Photo Collage-Psychedelic Flower Photos-Flower Rainbow - Bass line on Fender Guitar - Find band in pic - Photo Art Super Collage - Lillies - Live Jam

Flower Rainbows - Psychedelic Flower Collage - be sure to zoom in by clicking or get the larger image below - Photo art and photos by Mike Fisk

Check out this new piece of art work... it's a massive photo collage of mostly flowers (and some other surprises for you to find). You might find yourself spending a lot of time looking at this thing. I may do this again although it's quite time consuming.

If you are into it, click this link to see a much bigger image and download it for zooming in:

http://soul-amp.com/pics/pics_mindedelic_flower_rainbows/flower_collage_mindedelic_flower_rainbows2__soul-amp.jpg

The tune is from our HOG gig back in May of 2008 (the year of this posting). It is the 3rd jam of the 2nd set and fourth from last. It features the Nord Electro and Nord Lead 2 quite a lot. There's a bit of piano and some Hammond B3 as well. It was recorded using the Zoom H4 on a tripod. The picture was inspired by the song. Remember we make up most of the stuff at our gigs and this tune is an example of that....

Mindedelic Flower Rainbows

The tune is about 15 minutes long and so will give you some time finding all the weird stuff in the pic. All the photos were taken by me (M1) very recently. So they are mostly from the 2008 Wisconsin Summer (with a few others thrown in).

Here's the image that makes up one of the major themes in the pic (see if you can find it):

Lily over a concrete curb - Photo by Mike Fisk

Here's another photo collage if you're into that:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/11/autumn-collage-psychedelic-autumn-tree.html

And another:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/picture-of-floating-umbrella-house-of.html

And another:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/photo-collage-sunset-feathers-from-jet.html

And here's more psychedelic Photo Art pictures:

Be sure to check out some free music (mp3s) here (Top Ten Soul Amp Songs):

http://www.soul-amp.com/Top_Ten_Songs.html

And more here:

http://soul-amp.com/freebies

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Crazy Peace Sign Photo.....

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/05/life-and-beauty-is-all-in-shit-time-to.html

Monday, June 30, 2008

Lovely Sea Monster in an Underwater Automobile Graveyard.... InstruRock...Watercolor, pastel, flashlightphoto art....

Lovely Sea Monster in an Underwater Automobile Graveyard. Painting and photo by Mike Fisk

Lovely Sea Monster in an Underwater Automobile Graveyard

Here's the next tune (click the link below the picture) from the House of Guiness in May 2008.... it's another strange one... Enjoy.

It was M2's death metal percussion that melted into something else.... strange, strange, strange.... don't do drugs... just listen to this tune.

Here's a link to a bigger copy of the above picture:

http://soul-amp.com/pics/Lovely_Sea_Monster_in_an_Underwater_Automobile_Grave_Yard.jpg

You can catch more flashlightphoto art here:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/picture-of-floating-umbrella-house-of.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/05/curse-of-derrick-turnbow-bobblehead-may.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/03/flower-power-flashlight-photos-still.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/03/artistic-band-photo-using-flashlight.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/lovely-sea-monster-in-underwater.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/05/life-and-beauty-is-all-in-shit-time-to.html

Here's a water color and pastel image to check out:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-weird-artthe-hat-stick-and-wind.html

Also, here's another odd painting the you might like:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/01/milwaukee-photographer-and-alternative.html

Friday, June 27, 2008

Ten Dollar Bill Song, Strange Picture of Trash, Money,Smiling Faces, $$$$ Image... Rock n Roll weirdness...Live at the House of Guinness, Waukesha, WI

Strange pic of Ten Dollar bill being pulled from a trash can surrounded by smiling cartoon faces. So called "Art" by Mike Fisk

Ten Dollar Bill

This is the 2nd to last tune we did at House of Guinness. It's a cover of ourselves (unlike most of the other tunes, we didn't make this one up on the spot even though we weren't sure how to play it). You can find the the original version in this post:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2005/08/got-ten-bucks.html

....sh*t, that was 3 years ago... time sure the hell flies...

Have a great weekend everybody... and enjoy some free music:

Free Soul Amp Tunes and Other Stuff

Check out this crazy photo collage of flowers:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/flower-photo-collage-psychedelic-photo.html

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Tornado Warning Sirens - Audio Recording, Milwaukee, WI, June 2006, pics of Greenfield Park siren.. spooky sounds of thunder and sirens

Photo of Tornado/Warning Siren in West Allis (Milwaukee), WI, June 2008. Photo by Mike Fisk

Here's an audio recording taken in West Allis, WI (suburb of Milwaukee) of the tornado warning sirens before the torrential rains hit on June 7, 2008 (it's pretty haunting and spooky):

Tornado Sirens and Thunder

I dig the person screaming at the start of it and the way the different sirens blend in with the constant rumble of the thunder. There is beauty in the terribleness of nature. Also, the birds keep chirping throughout.

Here's photos of one of the warning sirens. It's over in Greenfield Park in West Allis, just a mile or two North of my house.

Here's links to all the June 2008 flooding posts:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/dias-under-water-photo-of-park-place.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/pictures-of-flooded-park.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/storm-is-coming-ominous-storm-clouds-in.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/milwaukee-river-almost-flooding-video.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_2341.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_10.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-june-7-2008-west.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/audio-recording-of-tornado-warning.html

Check out free Soul Amp music here:

Soul Amp Freebies

Terrace under water photo.... Photo of Park Place Pond flood, Milwaukee, WI June 2008

Here's another pic of the Park Place Pond flood. This is terrace/patio thing that they have next to the pond. It's nice, but is usually full of goose crap. Unfortunately, the bricks have started to buckle since the flood receded.

Here's links to all the June 2008 flooding posts:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/dias-under-water-photo-of-park-place.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/pictures-of-flooded-park.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/storm-is-coming-ominous-storm-clouds-in.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/milwaukee-river-almost-flooding-video.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_2341.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_10.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-june-7-2008-west.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/audio-recording-of-tornado-warning.html

Pictures of Flooded Park Benches...Romantic place to sit..take your date on a swampy picnic...adds to Mississippi flood? subcontinental dvide?

Photos of Park Place Pond Benches, flood of June 2008, Milwaukee WI, 2008. Pics by Mike Fisk

The Park Place pond was a good 2 to 3 feet or so higher than normal. It took about 3 or 4 days for it get back down to normal levels. I believe the water on this side of the subcontental divide flows to the Mississippi rather than the Milwaukee River, but I really don't know. It probably flows into the Fox river and from there ultimately all the way to New Orleans. Click here for an interesting article on the subcontinental divide. And here's a map of the subcontinental divide.

You can check out the benches when there's normal water levels by clicking this link:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2007/07/park-place-milwaukee-wi-find-benches.html

Listen to the top ten Soul Amp hits here:

Top Ten Hits

Here's links to all the June 2008 flooding posts:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/dias-under-water-photo-of-park-place.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/pictures-of-flooded-park.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/storm-is-coming-ominous-storm-clouds-in.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/milwaukee-river-almost-flooding-video.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_2341.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_10.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-june-7-2008-west.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/audio-recording-of-tornado-warning.html

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Storm is coming - Ominous Storm Clouds in Milwaukee, WI flooding in June 2008.... these occurred after the June 7 and 8 storms....

Potential Tornado Clouds in Milwaukee, WI, in early June 2008. Photos by Mike Fisk

We had a few tornado warnings in that first week and a half of June 2008. Very stormy. One storm after next...the train as they call it. The clouds were amazing...

Crazy Storm Clouds in Milwaukee, WI, in early June 2008. Photos by Mike Fisk

Listen to Free Music Here

Click here for Root River flooding pics.

Milwaukee River almost flooding video, June 2008

After the rains of early June, the Milwaukee River is almost flooding here at Kletzsch Park.

Listen to Soul Amp's top ten hits here:

Top Ten Songs

Here's links to all the June 2008 flooding posts:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/dias-under-water-photo-of-park-place.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/pictures-of-flooded-park.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/storm-is-coming-ominous-storm-clouds-in.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/milwaukee-river-almost-flooding-video.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_2341.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-in-wisconsin-video_10.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/root-river-flooding-june-7-2008-west.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/audio-recording-of-tornado-warning.html

Monday, June 23, 2008

Strange Flashlight Umbrellas photo - Last Song Last Gig - InstruRock - Flashlight PhotoArt Constellation Collage - Crazy Tune - Floating Umbrellas

Docious, floating umbrellas flashlight photo collage. By Mike Fisk

Here ya go at last. A new Soul Amp tune:

Docious

This is the last jam of the last set we did at the House of Guinness in May of 2008. It was recorded using the Zoom H4 on a tripod as per the usual. One difference is that we ran the keys through a new amp and into the PA and so the keys are a bit more stereo this time as opposed to previous HOG gigs.

It's InstruRock....

The picture is a clue to the name of the song.

Click here for a bigger copy of the picture if you like.

Here's a pic of the House of Guinness set up:

Soul Amp's House of Guinness stage set up... love the CX-3 and blue Ludwigs. Photo by Mike Fisk

You can catch more flashlightphoto art here:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/picture-of-floating-umbrella-house-of.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/05/curse-of-derrick-turnbow-bobblehead-may.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/03/flower-power-flashlight-photos-still.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/03/artistic-band-photo-using-flashlight.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/06/lovely-sea-monster-in-underwater.html

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/05/life-and-beauty-is-all-in-shit-time-to.html

Here's another umbrella (I think, or is it a hat)... it's a painting:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-weird-artthe-hat-stick-and-wind.html

Here's another photo collage:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/photo-collage-sunset-feathers-from-jet.html

and another:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/flower-photo-collage-psychedelic-photo.html

Scenic Shore 150 - 150 miles - 1 weekend along Lake Michigan Shore, WI - July 2008 - money for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society - hybrid bike in sky pic

Scenic Shore 150 - hybrid bicycle shooting for the sky. Photo by Mike Fisk.

Hi all, I'm asking for a donation here.

I'm riding in the Scenic Shore 150 on July 19th and 20th.

The Scenic Shore 150 is a 2 day charity bicycle ride in Wisconsin starting from Mequon along the lake shore to Potawatomi State Park. Here's info on it --> Scenic Shore 150. All money donated goes to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to fight blood cancers. If you'd like to make a donation, it would be much appreciated.

You can make online donations that will be tracked againt my fundraising goal (no Mom, not you) here:

http://www.active.com/donate/2008scenicshore150/ss150MFisk

Thank you so much for your consideration.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Root River Flooding in Wisconsin video 3

Root River Flooding in Wisconsin Video 2

Root River flooding in Wisconsin video 1

Here's Soul Amp's top ten songs:

http://www.soul-amp.com/Top_Ten_Songs.html

Here's the Milwaukee Skyline:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2007/10/sailing-in-milwaukee.html

Here's some other coldest day pics:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/01/coldest-day-in-milwaukee-2008-milwaukee.html

Here's some pics of a stranded sail boat:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2007/12/chinook-34-wrecked-milwaukee-sailboat.html

Monday, June 09, 2008

Root River Flooding June 7, 2008 West Allis, WI....June flooding in Milwaukee County

Strange that my last post was of the Root River flooding in April. But this flood beats that hands down. The parkway became a river for a short while. Glad to say that it's finally back to normal. All of us in Wisconsin are hoping this break from the rain lasts. Check out the folks in their waders.