“Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass says the results of two years of tests on famous Egyptian mummies show boy king Tutankhamun died of malaria.
Hawass points out King Tut was a sickly man, with a cleft palate and a club foot, which forced him to walk with a cane. He attributes Tut’s health problems to genetic deformations caused by the marriage of his father Akhenaten to his sister, the younger lady mummy, whose name is not known.”
(Voice of America)
Ancient mysteries don’t pop up everyday, nonetheless solving them, that’s about right next to finding missing links. But every so often, in the middle of all the every day news stories and apocalyptic prophesies of the future, there are little gems of mystery still left.
Hearing things like this just makes me feel like a kid again, it makes me feel that there are still amazing things we have yet to uncover – you just feel so small and in awe of humanity.
We all know what today is right? It’s strange to me out West how this holiday isn’t a very big deal, but in the South it still is very much so. We live in America, so we’re pretty starved for public radicals. Even if everything imaginable has been done to neutrailze King’s message and thought, he somehow endures against it. Plenty of people argue that Dr. King was a tepid version of more radical elements of the civil Rights movement, but there is a much more dangerous idea in King’s Universalism-derived-from-a-particular-struggle than originally meets the eye. A brave fighter who was taken from us too soon, and proof that in our current systemic landscape we are as-yet not ready to accept our true leaders when they arrive at our door. One can bitch and moan about King’s legacy and its liberal appropriation, but the radical meaning of King persists, if dormant. It is we that must prepare to reckon with it. Happy Birthday.
I did a remix for the band WE HAVE BAND a couple months ago and it just dropped on NME’s website! So thats pretty cool. It’s a pretty straightforward dance remix thats not really the style I’m working with normally, but I think it serves it’s purpose.
Check out the post here, and if youre a bro on hypemachine, give it some love here.
I’ve been nominated by the good people at mixcloud for a best of 2009 for my Swag Step mix I did back in June. If you were feelin it, please take the 2 seconds to click this link to go vote that would be much appreciated! And if youre a DJ, do yourself a favor sign up to mixcloud, it’s a great place to keep all your mixes for free, really well organized, plus it’s got a strong list of U.K. heavy hitters on board already.
Click HERE to go vote and follow the instructions below.
paste this url into the box for best mix: http://www.mixcloud.com/THEMJEANS/swag-step/ and this one for best artist: http://www.mixcloud.com/THEMJEANS
It’s On With Alexa Chung on MTV has officially come to an end as the enigmatic British host announced last week that the show will not be returning for another season. The enigmatic British sensation will be heavily missed by all of us here at Badbeat. No further news about the enigmatic British sweetheart’s future has been announced, but we are hoping for the sake of sanity that she returns soon whether it’d be on MTV, film, or taking over Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Some of us look for random bits of amazement that we try to incorporate into everyday life, in hopes of making the reoccuring act second nature at some point. It might have been opening zippo’s up like a gun or twirling pencils with both hands in diferrent directions at the same time, but it was something you may have sought out and learned for the possibility that it would become so habitual that it became a characteristic of your personality. In high school, I remember a dude named Dave that everyone always referred to as the dude that could give himself a blowjob and since then, all I’ll ever remember of Dave was that he was the crazy motherfucker who could suck his own dick.
Similarly, I’m guessing fellow wise guy and artist George Hart might have been one of those kinda dudes. An MIT Ph.D math whiz, Hart has documented a way to cut a bagel into two congruent halves when the path of the knife follows a two twist Mobius strip (read: one really long knife cut). In other words, some crazy nerd food shit.
“After being cut, the two halves can be moved but are still linked together, each passing through the hole of the other. (So when you buy your bagels, pick ones with the biggest holes.) <pause>” – George Hart
More on Hart’s random acts of weird bagel slicing here.
During a meeting of the United Nations this past September in New York, staff photographer for the New Yorker, Platon had set up a make shift studio adjacent to the floor in the General Assembly and lured nearly 50 of the world’s leaders to sit for him. In an interactive portfolio of these photographs on the New Yorker’s website, Platon recalls candid memories of the five day stakeout, and provides his commentary on shooting each subject.
Capturing images of leaders such as Muammar Qaddafi, Barack Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Platon’s descriptions of the varied reactions to each shoot offers a glimpse into the personalities of each individual and the cultural differences amongst them.
Click below for a small collection, or click here for the full collection.
The two coolest Matts I know do a podcast called PussyFoot. It seems to be getting better and better with each episode, this ones a doozy! They’ve traveled up north to sunny San Francisco to visit the infamous based god Lil B. For those who don’t know, Lil B is from the rap group The Pack, who had the song “Vans.” In the last year or so, he’s been going on a Lil Wayne inspired rampage; getting covered in bad tattoos and putting out an shitload of music, mixtapes, and multiple myspace pages. check it out!
Ableton debuts Max for Live, the first time a music making software lets you actually get inside the program, and redesign it, or use it to create your own plugins, sounds, and instruments. It looks awesome, and awesomely confusing. So if you’re one of those dudes in Berlin with the small framed glasses, this is for you. Oh you can also use it do stuff like turn your pen tablet into a Theremin:
At 20 years old, Daul Kim, a model, was found dead in her apartment in Paris on the 19th of November, she hanged herself. There’s something sickeningly fascinating behind deaths like that, strictly speaking of suicide; just the fact that so many people seek validation through beauty and when some are deemed beautiful there seems to be almost more unhappiness.
What is more bizarre is the rate of suicides among Koreans:
“South Korea, which has the highest suicide rate among the 30 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has had a string of high-profile suicides in recent months.
Roh Moo-hyun, the former President, jumped to his death in May while under investigation for corruption and the ex-chairman of South Korea’s oldest conglomerate killed himself earlier this month. In 2008, Choi Jin-sil, one of the country’s top actresses, committed suicide, shortly after a fellow actor did the same. One of South Korea’s popular soap opera actresses also killed herself recently.”
(Telegraph)
“She [Daul Kim] became the ninth South Korean celebrity to commit suicide in 2009.”
(Wiki)
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