Thursday, September 25, 2014

Video Game Pick #2: Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim

A wonderful real-time strategy game set in a fantasy world, the various missions require you to build up your town and develop your heroes while fighting against various monsters bent on your destruction.

David Teniers the Younger painting

Temptation of St. Anthony
by 
David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690)

Circa 43.9" × 58.6"
Flemish artist born in Antwerp

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Jan ten Compe painting

Delft: A View of the Town Hall Seen from the Grote Markt
by Jan ten Compe (1713-1761)
Between 1745 and 1755, oil on panel, 11.4" x 14.6"
Landscape painter, born in Amsterdam

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Literature Pick #83

Vanishing Point
by C. C. Beck
A sci-fi short story from the July 1959 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Charles-François Grenier de Lacroix painting

Fishermen at Dusk (1768)
by Charles-François Grenier de Lacroix (1720-1782)
French painter, born in 
Marseille