theartofanimation:

Song Gum-Jin

art-of-swords:

Custom Gothic Bough Hunting Sword

A piece of steel from a mid 19th Century bridge was re-forged to make the blade of this Gothic Bough style hunting sword. The use of the sword for the hunt was quite common in the medieval period and was considered an excellent practice for war.

This piece is detailed with a guard forged to represent a twisted branch and has the lug on the side of the hilt in the same fashion. This lug on the guard was a common feature on hunting swords and messers of the period. The grip is a piece of stag antler that fit beautifully to the hand and was a favorite style of grip for these swords.

Source & Copyright © 2004-2009 Arms & Armor, Inc. 

tavington:

EVEN MORE STOLEN IMAGES, PLEASE RE-BLOG

Please look at these images. This “stall” belongs to a Dealer who exhibited at London Expo this weekend.

Images look familiar? They should. They’re all STOLEN.

This guy claims to be the “genius” behind these works of art. Truth is, the majority, if not ALL of them, have been swiped from deviantART, printed on canvas and sold WITHOUT PERMISSION.

This guy is a fraud, a plagiarist, a thief and liar. Why is he even allowed to exhibit at London Expo.

We all need to gather proof that this guy isn’t all he claims to be. If you recognise ANY of these images. PLEASE SHARE OR COMMENT BELOW. A lot of these works are by American artists. We need to inform them and put a stop to this.

Please, please share and let a team of us put this right. We need to gather a lot of solid evidence to get this guy thrown out.

He didn’t have any business cards (no surprises there) but he’s exhibited and sold at London Expo many, many times.

I intend to write a deviantART journal about this and spread the word myself. It would help greatly if you could share your photos here too and we can pool all our evidence in one place and compare photos.

BY THE WAY, THE GUY IN THE FOURTH PHOTO IS THE MAIN STALL-HOLDER, I BELIEVE, HE WAS PUTTING ALL THE CANVASES OUT ON DISPLAY.

Thank you all for reading.

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The Lonely But Nice Wolf by Katharina Ortner

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purplekecleon:

Previous winners (sorry for taking so long!) of the big pony button giveaways to select 10 from the whole set are:

http://nizmir.tumblr.com/

http://sapphirefiber.tumblr.com/

http://autumn-bell.tumblr.com/

http://leanonberger.tumblr.com/

http://ryuredwingsreturn.tumblr.com/

http://asknromrore.tumblr.com/

http://whereismypenis.tumblr.com/

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• Now, to this giveaway!  There will be two winners, each to receive two keychains of their choice.  Unless we go over 1500 notes, then at that point another winner’s added. Every 500 past that is another.
• Or if you want to buy them, they’re here (along with the buttons!) — I apologize that I don’t have the rest of the buttons/prints up yet, in case you wanted to order more than ponies, but we’re working on that.  If you have no interest in ponies, the regular shop has everything else.
• They’re each 1.75” x 2.75” hard clear double-sided acrylic keychains.

victoriousvocabulary:

DEHABITATION

[noun]

the process of eliminating animal habitats; deforestation.

[Kate MacDowell]

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