Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

This is something that has to be seen to be believed. John Kilduff does a cable access TV show called Let’s Paint TV where he paints, exercises, blends, and takes calls all at the same time. In this episode he paints a pie, eats a pie, runs on a treadmill, takes [...]

News at Seven is a recent project launched by Northwestern University (my Alma Mater). This thing is really amazing. It is a completely automatic news generator. Using characters from Half-Life, the program creates a news feed by scraping news sites, blogs, videos and more to create a news program with absolutely [...]

I have another audition story I’d like to share. If you like this story, you may want to check out my stories about what to never bring into an audition, my disastrous audition for the San Jose Symphony, or any of my other gig tales.
A certain bassist (who shall remain nameless) in [...]

I just read a really good musician story on Dave Belden’s website. Dave is an actor, filmmaker, web developer, and violinist in the Chicago Sinfonietta, and he has a scary tale of his violin getting stolen in Europe. Check it out here.
Dave has designed websites for many prominent musical and theatrical [...]

This is a fun website and definitely worth checking out:

HOW RICH ARE YOU?

Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world.
Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. [...]

I have created a lot of videos over the last year on Eyespot.com. This service is extremely cool, and I’d encourage everybody to check it out. I wrote a blog post about all of the features a few months back, and they have expanded their offerings since then. David Dudas of Eyespot [...]

Here’s a great video of Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) wrestling Harry Smith on CBS news. I can’t wait to see this movie:

I am not usually an Elton John fan, but I do like this song (Almost Famous used this song very well).
Tiny Dancer
I host a lot of audio files (about 270 total) on Odeo. They are a great service with a lot of cool features, including the ability to embed audio in websites like I [...]

This is from a couple of months back, but it is a great description of net neutrality:

I just found this in a recent post on Boing Boing, and although it is not music or bass related in the slightest, I still think it is worth posting.
From the National Geographic:
Conflicts between baboons and humans in the suburbs of prosperous Cape Town have gotten so bad that monitoring teams have [...]