Visit 17 countries in under 5 minutes

Video by Kien Lam who writes:

17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs. One incredible journey. Follow the adventure at http://kienlam.net/around-the-world

After I quit my job last year, I packed a bag, grabbed my camera and bought a one way ticket to London. 17 countries later, I compiled this time lapse of the many amazing places I came across.

Original Music: "Places and Faces" by William Lam. Will is an extremely talented musical composer whose range is barely touched in this composition he wrote specifically for the video. He's also my little brother.

All of a sudden, everyone's noticing the Miami Marlins

Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com asks his boss for a transfer to Miami:

To: Rick Jaffe, Senior VP, FOXSports.com
From: Ken
Subject: Request for reassignment

Rick,

Much as I enjoy covering all 30 teams as the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com, the time has come for a change.

I am writing to ask that you allow me to cover the Miami Marlins full time next season.

For the good of the company, of course.

[...]

Trust me, Rick, this has nothing to do with any desire of mine to live in Miami, party on South Beach and work at a new ballpark — I’m not that selfish.

You know me, Rick, it’s all about the story. And the Fish are about to make the old Bronx Zoo look like a petting zoo, turn Little Havana into their very own baseball asylum.

It all hit me Wednesday when the Marlins reached an agreement to send righty Chris Volstad to the Cubs for right-hander Carlos Zambrano and a psychiatrist to be named later.

Actually, one shrink won’t be nearly enough.

And Tony DiStefano at "That Ball's Outta Here" says the Marlins have become the craziest team in baseball:

The Miami Marlins have terrible uniforms, a bat shit crazy manager, shark tanks on either side of home plate, they are moving their pain in the ass shortstop to third to make way for another pain in the ass shortstop and have made themselves an absolute spectacle by acquiring Carlos Zambrano. They have officially become a car accident. The most interesting thing about this move is that it makes having shark tanks on the field seem rational.

H/T to Alfred Spellman who says the Marlins are now officially a "tabloid team."

One happy dog!

Q: What's better than a video of a happy dog running through a field with a soundtrack provided by Louis Prima?

A: Nothing.

Song: Jump, Jive an' Wail.

Stuff we like

From TIME.com Lightbox:

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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