Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Kazakhstan is on many people’s minds these days thanks to Borat. I just saw this movie and never laughed so hard. Here’s the trailer for those of you that haven’t seen it yet:________________________

While browsing around Wikipedia Commons recently I found this beautiful picture of Kaindy lake in Kazakhstan. According to Wikipedia, the [...]

There is a very famous documentary from 1969 called “The Trout” featuring a group of legendary musicians assembling and performing Schubert’s famous quintet.
The musicians featured are:

Daniel Barenboim, pianoItzhak [...]

This is worth checking out. See what happens when the blender blends a rake handle.

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 calls [...]

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 no [...]

Apple has released some really excellent ads over the years. Their short-lived but very famous 1984 Superbowl ad is very memorable:

Steve Job’s keynote address announcing the Macintosh from the same year is also really great:

A more recent ad for the “sunflower” iMac is also cute:

Here is Apple’s appeal to idiots:

Finally, here are six 2006 [...]

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 [...]

Matthew Wengerd recently posted this Milt Hinton video on his 104 Weeks blog. Check out his post here , his website here, or his personal blog here. This is a cool bass video:

Here’s a video I put together with some of the photos and footage I’ve used on this blog over the past year. I’m looking forward to taking new videos and photos and using them in posts to come for 2007:

I will be performing with the Chicago Philharmonic at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on the Northwestern University campus this Sunday at 7 p.m. We are playing the Brahms Symphony No. 2 and the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Andreas Deák is the conductor for this program, and the soloist is violinist Krista Stuart. Ben Rachlis [...]