This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tuneage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw, or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these fresh tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “Lone Star” from Trance Farmers and work our way through tracks from Big Thief, Brazos, Inner Waves, Adult Mom, The Palms, and others before wrapping up with “I Don’t Mind” from Keeps. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want…

If you’re an Overwatch fan or just need an obnoxiously large and enormously uncomfortable, yet completely badass pistol to tote around, look no further. It doesn’t fire bullets, pellets, Nerf darts or anything else, but with McCree’s Blackwatch Peacekeeper in hand, people will know you mean business (nerdy, gamefan business). And, should you need to use it to defend yourself, you could do worse than a solid, gun-shaped chunk of solid plastic. Jill Cope is our fav new, super geeky prop maker supreme. She’s made all sorts of weapons including Hanzo’s bow from Overwatch and the Underlight Angler Artifact from WoW. She runs Obsydiann Props building all sorts of costumes and props on commission.…

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. Each Monday, we’ll 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. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.…

When the hood was pulled back, the amount of tentacles spilling forth was overwhelming to the eyes–And with each holding a maraca, the sound matched the sight. You ask yourself what to do in a situation like this. That is until you realize you’re the one with the maraca tentacle face, trying to use the sounds waves to find the latch to release these links. Julien Gauthier – A huge range of talent in scenes with ships, characters and creatures. Love the wide field of view and scale he brings to his concept work. Super Friends League – You know the new Justice League movie? Well, this the trailer using…

Last week Carbon and Adidas announced a deal to produce 3D printed midsoles. But how big is this deal, exactly? It’s hard to gauge the magnitude of a business deal from popular reports, but I believe it can be estimated based on the statistics shown to the public. Carbon has developed a custom resin specifically for this application, which will obviously require a flexible material that is resilient, able to withstand considerable forces as it is to be located on the business end of shoes, and must exist in harsh outdoor conditions for long periods of time. With this material, Carbon will produce production-ready midsoles for Adidas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXE-icw28n8 What do…

Code. You don’t have to be a computer science hotshot to take the deep dive—heck, some people are up and running with their first project in a matter of weeks. But knowing where and how to enter can be half of the battle. The recently-launched Learn How to Code 2017 Bundle is the perfect entry point and includes over 156 Hours of premium coding instruction, from Python to Ruby & everything in between. Consisting of ten courses in total, the ‘Pay What You Want’ bundle covers not just specific code languages, but also how and why you may decide to choose one over another depending on the project at hand.…