Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I just discovered this blog post containing some stunning photos from Africa.

The 2007 Whitewater Winter Bassfest, an event that I started five years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, just happened a couple of weekends ago. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW and a member of the Milwaukee Symphony, was teaching there, as were double bassists Kate Nettleman and Peter Tambroni.
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I always knew that my cats stole my baton and conducted imaginary symphonies when I left hom, but I didn’t catch them until just now.

Matt Heller, my double bass colleague who was recently featured in the New York Times, recently posted this shot of a building on fire near the Plymouth Hotel (a residence for New World Symphony members):
Those of you who have read my exploding car gig story know how much I dislike fire.

Here is an outstanding shot from the NASA website:
The caption reads:
Io is a colorful place. The closest large moon of Jupiter, Io has the most volcanic activity of any moon in the solar system with its surface being completely buried in volcanic lava every few thousand years. The black and red material corresponds to the [...]

The cats are now running things here.

All they ask is that you don’t pick them up.

If you want to read about real winter misery, check out my story titled Freelancing + Snow = Pain.
We’ve been socked left and right with horrible, miserable weather here in Chicago this month. First we got hit by a massive Arctic bubble of air, plunging temperatures down to around zero degrees Fahrenheit. Wind [...]

I hate being passed by trucks in the winter. Getting slush and gravel splattered on the windshield of my puny car always makes me grip the steering wheel a little tighter. At least I’ve never been passed by trucks like these (photos from Dark Roasted Blend):

Does that truck look stable to you?

The following image comes from the NASA archive. Volcanoes are an amazing thing to behold:
Here is the NASA data for this plume of smoke:
At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams from International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 contacted the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) to report that the [...]

This is a follow-up to a post I wrote highlighting the world’s most dangerous roads. The original source where I found these insane photos is Dark Roasted Blend, one of my favorite blogs. These photos of Yakutsk area roads in Siberia are pretty disturbing. Bad things happen when one builds cities on [...]