Heavy Metal Woman

This 30 foot tall woman made of scrap metal doesn't mind telling you she ways 9 TONS!

HIGHLIGHTS

• Titled: Ecstasy
• Featured at Burning Man Festival
• Artist: Karen Cusolito
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Darkside Johnny: Onward Through The Fog

Darkside Johnny: We Don't Need No Darkness

Homemade Jamz Custom Guitars Made From Car Mufflers

Here are some pictures of the Homemade Jamz Blues Band, the custom guitars are made from car mufflers (by their father).

The first set of lead and bass guitars made are on display in a B.B. King museum.

This was at the 2011 King Biscuit Blues Festival in historic downtown Helena, Arkansas, October 8.

FLIPSHARE PICTURES OF MUFFLER GUITARS

Homemade Jamz Blues Band 2011 King Biscuit Blues Festival (Helena, Arkansas)

Homemade Jamz Custom Guitars-SMOKING!

SMOKING GUITAR!

Custom Bass-Muffler Guitar

(when he threw his hat off, I knew the Hendrix tribute was coming!)

HENDRIX!

Homemade Jamz Blues Band "gettin' down"

*whew*

This is the Flip video that the pictures were extracted from using the FlipShare software.

Music: Cowgirl in the Dark (Captain Morgan Mix)

My Flip recorder started messing up on the video/audio syncing, but the end result was a different kind of video, especially after using the YouTube Cartoon effect on the video. This was a late night jam session with a Neil Young Backing track by, ChocolateMilkYummy.

Life: Shop Gets A Mig Welder

The Scrap Metal Philosophy shop gets a wire-feed welder, the motorcycle chopper made from scrap metal is a step closer to becoming yard-art.

Art: Scrap Metal Frog Drummer

They say he's the busiest drummer around the pond, he never passes a chance to jump on the set and practice, practice, practice!

Scrap Metal Philosophy Gets A YouTube Channel & New Blog Ideas

I bought a Flip Ultra HD video recorder on the way to the 2010 Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, (usually around first full-weekend in August), and not only captured some great live acts, but just about the whole downtown festival area and have continued filming as I roam since then.

I live in West Tennessee and the entrance to the Mississippi Delta area is about a 5-6 drive, a nice road trip to a part of the world rich with "Delta Folk Art", mostly because many of the artist still live there.  I have a story to tell later on about butting-heads with an "Outsider Art" vendor at the 2011 Juke Joint Festival, (also in Clarksdale, Mississippi). She was from Georgia, where "it all started". And maybe she's right about "Outsider Art", but not "Delta Folk Art".

But, this is not what this blog post is about, although as you can see, a blog post in where I delve into "art philosophy" (maybe in the form of a rant, maybe a historical perspective) is forth coming. 

What I'd like to announce is that I have a lot of video that did not get posted within the reasonable time-frame that fellow YouTubers would consider "fresh material", as that is what my  Carroll Gazette YouTube channel is mostly about, recent events, in most cases, Blues Festivals in the Mississippi Delta.

So, instead of letting them sit on my hard-drive as scrap video, I'm going to load them on my new YouTube channel, Scrap Metal Philosophy, with a focus on the various intsrtaments used by the musicians made from scrap.

Slide Guitar made from Scrap Wood

Take an old wooden fence plank, install an electric guitar pickup, string it up and cut yourself off a piece of PVC pipe to use as a slide and you have a guitar made from scrap wood and metal. Throw in a drum set and you're a One-Man-Band!

This guy is playing on historic Cherry St. in downtown Helena, Arkansas during the 2011 King Biscuit Blues Festival.

Scrap Metal Recycling: Alien vs Predator

While sailing the Electron Sea, seeking examples of scrap metal treasures, I find the alien Predator is no stranger to the Scrap Metal Art world. What Stan Winston seen in flesh, Robo Steel, seen in scrap pieces of heavy metal, this sculpture rocks! This Predator is wielding a battle ax and just made a fresh kill. It seems his issue with the Alien creature was over the water bottle. The Alien used the non-biodegradable water bottle as bait to lure in kill on the hot desolate planet, the Predator knew it was worth 5¢ ... in Maine.