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 tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “The Grass By the Roses” from Girls in Airports and work our way through tracks from Chico Hamilton, Funki Porcini, Herbie Mann, Tycho, and others before wrapping up with “WEIGHT OFF” from KAYTRANADA. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want…
In this video tutorial, I offer up a brief modeling tutorial on how to use the engineering draft feature inside PTC Creo Parametric modeling software.
It goes without saying that if you own a piece of equipment that can blast away material at 60,000 PSI, chances are you’re going to be spending a good deal of time having all sorts of dangerous fun with that kind of water-blasting power, too. Such is the premise behind the Waterjet Channel on YouTube. “We were told that a waterjet can cut through anything, so we decided to put that to the test,” explains the crew—and there’s really no better way to put it. To date, the creators have blasted everything from rubber band balls to cans of silly string with 60,000 PSI of water terror. But it’s their…
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.…
The dawn splintered through the trees, atop their burrows, and one by one they emerged. Covered in willow roots wrapping them through the centuries, but none the worse for wear, save a patch of fur missing here or there. So we watch from afar, and for days it went on, more emerging, more unwrapping, more rising to gather these links. Niels Prayer – A treat to see the progression and experimentation the Paris based motion design and director has created over the years. Stranger Things Christmas – An absolutely brilliant mashup of Charlie Brown Christmas and Stranger Things. Merry Christmas Will Byers. Things I have Drawn – Tom Curtis turns…
Microsoft just did what nobody thought they could ever do–Make people fall in love with one of their products. Yet, at Microsoft’s Surface PC event, they did just that. Microsoft revealed the Surface Studio, a 28″ all-in-one PC display. It’s a beautiful piece of hardware. Microsoft nailed both the execution and demonstration to deliver a product on the top side of innovative-enough-to-make-me-want-to-toss-my-desktop-PC-out-the-window. Though all-in-one and drawing board style monitors are not new, the Surface Studio brings a familiarity and excitement people want to see in technology today. So, what’s so special about this computer? Surface Studio Specs & Pricing The Surface Studio will be configurable with the base model sporting a sixth-gen Intel…