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Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting

In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris began a project in which he used his trusty Olympic Stylus 35mm film camera (he’s since gone through six) to take a self-portrait each day and then posted the results on his website. The project, which began long before the widespread popularity of blogging, Facebook and Flickr, allowed viewers to follow one photographer along on his adventures. “I didn’t want 365 images of me sitting on the couch each day,” says Harris. “There could have been that tendency, especially during the cold dark winter months to stay inside all the time, but this project inspired me to get out there and seek out interesting things.” This year, Harris embarks on year fourteen of what has turned out to be an epic, inspired and ever-evolving art project that documents a life well lived.

The Random Pixels Losers Corner welcomes...

Alex Rubin

....Alex Rubin.

By day, Rubin is a marketing executive.

But, at night - "when the fun starts" - he's also a SoBe hipster who fancies himself a rap star and nighttime party animal.

On New Year's Eve, Rubin, and a dozen or so of his homeboys ponied up more than $700 to party at Louis nightclub at South Beach's Gansevoort Hotel; but they ended up being treated no better than a bunch of sun-burned tourists from Kansas.

Rubin - whose rap handle is "Rube" - and his crew got to stand "outside the velvet ropes while the rest of the world toasted 2012," according to the Miami Herald's Adam Beasley.

Seems the promotional company let too many people into the event.

“It ruined my night," said Rubin.

Rubin, as you might suspect, is pondering a lawsuit.

But he tells the Herald's Beasley “I’m not sure how anyone can compensate us for the good times missed and the bad times gained on New Year’s as a result of this incident.”

Sucks to be you, Alex!

Anyway, congratulations Alex.

You are 2012's very first inductee into the Random Pixels Losers Corner.

Random Pixels visits Wynwood Wall Art

I took a ride down to Wynwood a few weeks ago to take a look at the wall art.

Here's a little of what I saw.


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Proof that Fidel Castro is still alive!

Twitter was on fire Monday with rumors that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was dead.

It's not the first time that rumors of The Bearded One's death have been spread on Twitter.

But if Castro is dead; who in the hell was that at Lebron James' engagement party New Year's Eve?

Take that, Internet rumor spreaders!

Castro apparently not dead yet!

Twitter exploded this afternoon with rumors of Fidel Castro's death.

As I write this at 8pm Monday evening, the rumors are just that...rumors, with no basis in fact.

It appears that the latest rumors got their start on Twitter, as was the case in Aug., 2011.

Here at Random Pixels World News Headquarters we're monitoring developments closely.

It should be noted that  we predicted that Castro would die on April 10, 2010. Word is he postponed his death just to annoy me.

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Dead or not dead, none of that's stopping people from having some fun on Twitter.

Here are a few of the best Tweets so far:

Does that mean I can I unfollow Fidel now? #castro

did Twitter just kill Fidel Castro?

Apparently Fidel Castro is either dead or not dead. Definitely not undead though. Delete as appropriate: My mistake / Morally ambiguous RIP.

Twitter rumors are blowing up about Fidel Castro taking the Penn State job.

If I read one more tweet that says "fidel castro dead? you're havana laugh", people are gonna die.

I hope Fidel Castro isn't dead! He's like a laid back Stalin!

Is Fidel Castro dead or is twitter killing people again?

By the way, this is the 53rd anniversary of Castro seizing power in Cuba...not that any of that matters.

Sunday night blues with Joe Bonamassa

Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe (2007)
Recorded at Djurs Bluesland in Denmark - April 2007.



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