Thinking about Bassics

I Dreamed I Moved Along The Elysian Fields: I don't think THE perfect bass exists. (thoughts on choosing your on bass)

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:50:41 -0700

I Dreamed I Moved Along The Elysian Fields: I don't think THE perfect bass exists. (thoughts on...

designsbyfranklloydwright: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Randall Fawcett...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:55:49 -0700

designsbyfranklloydwright:

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Randall Fawcett residence (1955), Los Banos, California

I would like to play my bass in the living room of this house. I think it would have nice resonance.

It's the Pizz.

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:52:22 -0700

It is very important to have control of the bow for a variety of timbres, even for the most...

swissjazz: Der Fledermaus Bass Built by Lajos Kovacs 1943 for...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:55:53 -0700

swissjazz:

Der Fledermaus Bass

Built by Lajos Kovacs 1943 for the double bass virtuoso Lajos Montag

storyboard: Rebranding America’s Schools — One Tumblr Post at a...

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:03:09 -0700

storyboard:

Rebranding America’s Schools — One Tumblr Post at a Time

In the heart of East Los Angeles, in an office building turned magnet school, Jonathan Araiza speaks into a camera. “My dream is to get out of high school,” the former gang member says. “I will be the first one to graduate in my family.” The man behind the lens, Jason Pollock, would say that Araiza is “undroppable” — he has persevered, against trying circumstances, to graduate this year. For the past two months, Pollock has interviewed hundreds of students like him, in some of the poorest districts in the country, to find out what keeps them from dropping out. The result — a documentary film project and vast social media campaign that launches today on Tumblr — is called Undroppable.

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"Moon landing was real. Evolution exists. Tax cuts lose revenue. The research has shown this a..."

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:48:25 -0700

“Moon landing was real. Evolution exists. Tax cuts lose revenue. The research has shown this a...

theatlantic: Double rainbow from space!

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:45:56 -0700

theatlantic:

Double rainbow from space!

"To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them."

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:44:18 -0700

“To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in...

"Good health is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of ‘pursuit of happiness.’ Whenever the miracles of..."

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:42:05 -0700

“Good health is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of ‘pursuit of happiness.’ Whenever the...

"If women are ever to achieve real equality as leaders, then we have to stop accepting male behavior..."

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:40:59 -0700

“If women are ever to achieve real equality as leaders, then we have to stop accepting male...

theatlantic: Debunking the Health Claims of Genetically...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:56:47 -0700

theatlantic:

Debunking the Health Claims of Genetically Modified Foods

On the basis of this research, they argue that a large body of scientific and other authoritative evidence demonstrates that most claims for benefits of GM foods are not true. On the contrary, they say, the evidence presented in their report indicates that GM crops:

Are laboratory-made, using technology that is totally different from natural breeding methods, and pose different risks from non-GM crops

Can be toxic, allergenic or less nutritious than their natural counterparts

Are not adequately regulated to ensure safety

Do not increase yield potential

Do not reduce pesticide use but increase it

Read more. [Image: FikMik/Shutterstock]

theatlantic: Farmers herd a flock of ducks along a street...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:55:39 -0700

theatlantic:

Farmers herd a flock of ducks along a street towards a pond as residents drive next to them in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on June 17, 2012.

[Image: Reuters/China Daily]

Sometimes teaching feels like this!

theatlantic: Introducing the Post-It Desk, a Piece of Furniture...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:55:33 -0700

theatlantic:

Introducing the Post-It Desk, a Piece of Furniture You’re Supposed to Draw On

When you’re a kid, surfaces are made to be doodled on. Walls are crayon-canvases; wooden tables seem naked without some colorful finger paint prettying them up. It takes a while — from parents’ perspective, a very long while — for us to learn to contain our decorational impulses. Creativity, we’re gradually conditioned to accept, is best confined to paper.

The lesson must be learned, but the learning is sort of sad nonetheless. And it’s why I love this desk: a giant Post-it note that exists to be mucked up by random writings and drawings. The work of Lisbon-based designer Miguel Mestre, the desk is so retro that it’s actually cutting-edge.

Read more. [Image: Designtaxi]

condenasttraveler: Norway’s Resplendent Rest Stops | Rondane...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:33:14 -0700

condenasttraveler:

Norway’s Resplendent Rest Stops | Rondane National Park

Looks to me like the Republican-led “back to basics”...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:26:29 -0700

Looks to me like the Republican-led “back to basics” movements of the 80s and 90s and 00s are major influences on this pervasive lack of planning and misunderstanding of complex situations. I would not be surprised to learn that very few of the people responsible for these fiascos have any significant training in music or the other performing arts.

theatlantic:

U.S. Military Admits Major Mistakes in Iraq and Afganistan

When President Obama announced in August 2010 the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, he complimented the soldiers who had served there for completing “every mission they were given.” But some of military’s most senior officers, in a little-noticed report this spring, rendered a harsher account of their work that highlights repeated missteps and failures over the past decade, in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

There was a “failure to recognize, acknowledge and accurately define” the environment in which the conflicts occurred, leading to a “mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions, and goals,” says the assessment from the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. The efforts were marked by a “failure to adequately plan and resource strategic and operational” shifts from one phase of the conflicts to the next.

From the outset, U.S. forces were poorly prepared for peacekeeping and had not adequately planned for the unexpected. In the first half of the decade, “strategic leadership repeatedly failed,” and as a result, U.S. military training, policies, doctrine and equipment were ill-suited to the tasks that troops actually faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

all by myself

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:38:58 -0700

Mom always said that you can’t get along with others unless you can get along by yourself. I...

beingblog: “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:22:53 -0700

beingblog:

“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”

—Anne Lamott from Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.

Photo by Ross Griff. (Taken with Instagram)

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Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:20:51 -0700

Life is Like Space Mountain

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:23:28 -0700

Life is Like Space Mountain

"It’s hard to not respond with texting because you’re not exactly sure what somebody said. You didn’t..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:06:23 -0700

“It’s hard to not respond with texting because you’re not exactly sure what somebody said. You...