Get that stretch out of your system with this week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist. It’s fashioned up, ready to make you pull your shoulder blades back and knock out another week of meaningful work while you bob your head to the beat. Whether you’re in the shop milling aluminum, sketching the latest product prototypes or modeling up a 3D storm, consider these tracks as a tool for your process. This week on SolidSmack Radio we’ll get the groove going with “Wayfaring Stranger” from Dean Wareham before diving into irresistible NEW tracks from Morcheeba, Aphex Twin, Blonde Redhead, Wild Nothing, and others before wrapping up with “Black Car” from Beach House.…

Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight…

Don’t get me wrong – today’s graphics cards are no slouch. While they deliver images which are almost on par with blockbuster movies, the biggest issue graphics cards have to deal with right now is light; more specifically, how it bounces, reflects, and refracts off objects similar to the real world. Nvidia Turing isn’t the name of the mega company’s newest graphics card, but rather, the tech powering Nvidia’s soon-to-be-released GeForce RTX 2080, 2080 Ti, and 2070 graphics cards. On top of the cards’ new RTX Quadro cards (which include 48GB of GDDR6 memory, 576 Tensor cores, and 4,608 CUDA cores), Turing adds real-time lighting effects by modeling the behavior…

When it comes to sketching and communicating your ideas well, nothing beats a good old-fashioned pencil and a keen sense of perspective. That said, adding depth to your form sketches with light and shadow is a natural next step in taking your sketches to the next level. When it comes time to cranking ideas out fast, our favorite go-to is a fistful of 2-3 Sketching Grays from Copic that give us great contrast. These ultra-blendable, low odor, alcohol-based inks deliver rich and smooth strokes that are ideal for quickly communicating product concepts. And unlike water-based inks, which tend to pill and oversoak paper while blending, Copics mix on the surface…

A fog heaved above the rusted arms as it peeled itself from the crucible. We were outside the radius of its detection as that delicate candied green lightning struck and shattered about. The tales were true and if we were to harvest any of the shards, we would need to distract it with these links. Ismail Inceoglu – Beautiful, sometimes intense, often serene, always intriguing scenes that capture an odd wonder with the feel of a memory. Travel Photography of the Year – National Geographic presents the 2018 gallery, including nature, ctiy, and people categories sorted by winners, people’s choice and week. Inventory – A project by oddviz showcasing the…

Mosaic Manufacturing announced their latest 3D printing product, the Palette 2. If you’re not familiar with the original Palette and Palette+, you should be, as they are among the most unique 3D printer accessories one could consider using. They can literally change a single extruder desktop 3D printer into a multi-material machine – without altering the printer in any way. Their concept actually sounds a bit crazy, but in fact it actually works: Their software analyzes the GCODE for 3D printing a multi-material 3D model and on the fly creates a custom filament by assembling different-length segments of separate base filaments. Wait, let’s try explaining that again: They splice bits…