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Arms company CTA demonstrating their fire power on an 2mm thick aluminum target, Nikita Teryoshin - Nothing Personal: The Back Office of War (GOST, 2024) / The Empyrean (highest heaven), from the illustrations to The Divine Comedy by Gustave Doré

#nikita teryoshin #gustave dore

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British Embassy, by Sir Basil Spence (1971).

Rome, Italy.

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another little rough sketch

#dont know where else to put them sorry #tactically cropping the area where the anatomy breaks down completely

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Shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli game board, city of Ur, Sumer, circa 2450 BC

from The Penn Museum

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#errand day so im sketching at a glacial pace

#thought about kip for longer than 10 mins

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A "gate-blocking knife-cart," or 塞门刀车, an ancient Chinese siege-defense. Works as one might imagine from both its name and appearance; wheel it into a gate or entryway and slam it into enemies attempting to attack through the breach point. Earliest mention of the knife-cart comes from the Spring and Autumn period (771-476 BC) though it was used the most during the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE)