Art

An employee of the Tate Modern gallery poses as she looks at an installation entitled "Stained-Glass Composition IV for the De Lange House Alkmaar" by Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg.

Serve

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus serves to Serena Williams of the U.S. during their quarter-final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.

Haiti

A boy watches as French soldiers put up tents for earthquake victims in Champ de Mars, Haiti.

Give?

Ballet

Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith in Pas De Deux from the Fifth Season in San Francisco Ballet's opening night gala dress rehearsal.

Books

Build This Bong: Instructions and Diagrams for 40 Bongs, Pipes, and Hookahs
(ISBN: 9780811855822)

Art of the Bookstore, The: The Bookstore Paintings of Gibbs M Smith
(ISBN: 9781423606437)

Jesus and Money: A Guide for Times of Financial Crisis
(ISBN: 9781587432743)

How to Be Inappropriate
(ISBN: 9781593762537)

A few of the titles I came across on this month's order list.

Bobsleigh

Team Netherlands 1 with pilot Edwin van Calker and Sybren Jansma starts at the first run of the two men's Bobsleigh World Cup event in Koenigssee, Germany.

Sunspots

If you're a Ham (and surely you are) you'll appreciate this website about the 24th Solar Cycle which is just starting to start up.

Chinatown

Chinatown family life - what tourists don't see.

Interesting article and photos on the conditions some families face living in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Swingin'

Sammy Hines, 3, gets a ride in a swing at San Clemente State Beach on Wednesday.

Apologies for the lack of updates. Have spent the past few weeks moving 15 years of junk from our former apartment into our new home. Soon back to normal (ha ha ha)...

Santa

Michael Walters hits the sauce while reveling with other Santas during Santarchy on Saturday in San Francisco.

War

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Grayson Barnette of Maryland from the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion gives candy to Afghan children during a patrol in Khan Neshin.

Art

Multiple Peaks, 80 x 80 inches, Watercolor on canvas, 2009.

Conrad Ruiz's first solo show features large-scale watercolor paintings inspired by the epic scope of Hollywood cinema and history painting. Drawing from Gericault and Delacroix, as well as James Cameron, Ruiz’s expansive canvases unfold as kinetic and often explosive compositions, which capture moments of collective euphoria. Through these fantastical, excessive and bizarre tableaux Ruiz explores the ever-changing permutations of class, masculinity and race as they circulate through the popular lexicons that shape our collective imaginary. At once whimsical and formally rigorous, his work unfolds as a visual historiography, which traces the processes through which the contemporary becomes codified as the historical.

Fish

The nice poster from tonight's Phish concert in Charlottesville, Virgina.

Cat in Window

A cat looks out from a shop that went bankrupt in Timisoara, westen Romania.

Cheese!

A Romanian soldier takes pictures of her colleagues before a military parade to celebrate Romania's National Day in central Bucharest.

Dead Fish

A fisherman paddles his canoe through dead fish along Manaquiri River, a tributary of the Amazon, near the city of Manaquiri.