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Map of Mt McKinley in Swiss topo style.

#maps #mountains

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Impressive scale model of San Gimignano in Italy, ~1300.

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Marrakesh | Morocco (by Bobby Ghadami)

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Sometimes the meandering of a river is best seen from above. Because of the way water moves to negotiate a bend in the river, any curvature of a river will get carved into a more extreme curve over time. Eventually the river’s course becomes so exaggerated that a loop can bend almost back on itself. At this point, the river often pinches off the bend and shortens its course, as the Colorado River did several thousand years ago with the abandoned meander labeled The Rincon near the bottom of this satellite photo. Left to its own devices, the Colorado would eventually cut away the loop west of Lake Powell, too. (Image credit: NASA/Expedition 47; via NASA Earth Observatory)

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Wilhelmina Cousland and the layers of her outfit previously posted here. Also here’s a gif of them all together.

#character design #clothing

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Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

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3D reconstruction of Athens in the 2nd century AD.

#cities #buildings #aerial #maps

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Jasalyn Thorne | Deerhound

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Veszelyite Gorge, by Iacocca Khen

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Finally I can start to show you images from the big project I worked on this autumn, Katarina Botwid’s recently published thesis The Artisanal Perspective in Action – An Archaeology in Practice.

I’m starting out with this reconstruction of a Bronze Age storage building.

I’m so immensely proud of how this collaboration turned out. And I have evolved a lot as a craftsman and illustrator in the process, conquering new aspects of technique and expression. Naturalistic and explanatory images, architecture, complex images built from scientific data… and not least, to make detailed planned images without them getting all stiff and boring :) And already interest is pouring in! Wow!

#this is IMMENSELY cool #art #architecture #buildings

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Some of you might recall the post with the drawing of this Bronze Age dwelling from December. Here is the finished color version recently printed in Katarina Botwid’s thesis The Artisanal Perspective – An Archaeology in Practice!

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Switzerland

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My sharp against a friend’s newly commissioned replica of the same inspirational sword. Considering the difference in price tag I’m still happy with how mine compares.

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Rrrowrrr… 8-P

These are interpretations of the “Munich Longsword”, Oakeshott Type XVIIIa (”Records of the Medieval Sword”, 1991) or XVIIIb (”The Sword in the Age of Chivalry” 1964, before the categories were refined down a bit).

Oakeshott wrote that it was:

”…perhaps the most lovely sword of any period or place…absolute perfection of line and proportion…its preservation is perfect, and the decoration of grip, pommel and cross is restrained and beautiful…”

I have all his books and, without checking every single line, I’m pretty sure this and the Type Xa (A.459) held in the Wallace Collection…

…are the only two occasions when he praises any sword so unreservedly.

It’s held in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, where I’ve seen it in the “flesh” (steel and leather, anyway) and Oakeshott was right: what makes it perfect are its graceful lines rather than any ornamentation. That’s why replicas like the OP, “plain and unadorned” like a certain Ring, look so very good. This one’s by Regenyei Armory of Hungary.

The original is hard to photograph since it’s not alone in its case and reflections are a bugger; polarizing filters do help, but not many people seem to use them, maybe since they’re Big Camera kit not phone or compact.

That’s it on the left and yes, the sword immediately beside it has a CRYSTAL pommel. Boy, peening that into place must have caused the smith some worries! (Photo by Markus Nussbaumer, found on MyArmoury.com.) More on this Pinterest page.