Echos bellowed with a razor battered cut and clang against the steel rock-conveyor troughs. All was not what was heard and even less what was seen. Beneath the rumble a stretching screech, drawn from deep within the cavity between each breath that carried with it the odor of these links. Aw Anqi – Light and dark, angels and demons, but moreso the tension between the chacracters in an array of vibrant environments. 808303 – A web-based version of a Roland TR-808 and Roland TB-303 for you to setup a loop for the rest of the Smackdown. 12 Sunset – Ed Ruscha started photographing Sunset Strip in the 60s. Getty has…
Crocs, Inc. is an American company based in Niwot, Colorado that offers comfortable leisure footwear and is known for innovation. In 2020 Crocs sales have surged partly due to people staying at home in response to COVID-19. The company saw a 14% increase in March 2020 when compared to 2019 sales numbers. Crocs has done what some had thought impossible by making their shoes stylish and cool by creating collaborations with some of the most influential businesses, musicians, and artists in the world today, including but not limited to KFC, Balenciaga, Post Malone, and Takashi Murakami. Influencer demand sometimes creates a market imbalance, which not only causes shoes to sell…
Different pillow types fit different people. I, for instance, like rock-hard pillows and can’t stand pillows that are too soft and airy. You might think the opposite, which is why pillow companies work tirelessly to create a wide variety of choices for those with distinct sleeping patterns and behaviors. There have been countless attempts to create the “perfect pillow” which fits everyone, but Franky’s Pillow might just be one of the few that have come close. Despite its name, Franky’s Pillow isn’t just for founder Frank Stoel. It’s designed for optimal adjustment of the thickness and firmness by adding or removing different layers, allowing you to customize the pillow to…
If you use SOLIDWORKS now or used it in the past, one person you have to thank is Vic Leventhal. Vic passed away, October 3rd, 2020 at the age of 74. Vic was the COO of SOLIDWORKS from its inception in 1995 up until 2003, well after the acquisition by Dassault Systemes in 1997. That quick acquisition, and the huge growth of SOLIDWORKS, was in part due to Vic’s sales strategy, his experience as the former-CEO of a CAD reseller, and the value he had for partners. As Engineering puts it, “The reason was that he invested in developing a competent chain of resellers instead of internally taking on the…
It’s always nice to see old machines get a new lease on life, and old cars are no exception. After digging their 1950 Chevrolet pickup truck out of the junk yar, the guys at Hagerty decided to take it apart and restore it to its former glory. While they have taken the liberty to fix every aspect of the truck, we’ll just focus on our favorite part: the engine. Stovebolt 6 Rebuild After taking out the engine and suspending it, Davin starts taking it apart piece by piece to see which parts can be reused and which need changing. Once the parts he can take out by hand are removed,…
This week, NVIDIA officially snapped their suspenders announcing the next in their series of GPUs sporting the latest graphics-crackin’ Ampere microarchitecture – the RTX A6000 Pro Viz GPU and the A40 Data Center GPU. They follow on the mainstream GPU availability of the unexpected, highly demanded, hard to come by RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 and, later this month, RTX 3070. NVIDIA Ampere GPU Specs If you love the 1st-gen RTX GPUs, the next-gen is going to make you all sorts of giddy. The Ampere cards build on the Quadro RTX capabilities and introduce the 3rd-Generation of Tensor Cores tech to speed up AI operations, 2nd-Generation RT Cores to speed…