Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this week’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. The Weekend Reader features a handful of the most interesting articles featured on the ‘Smack over the past week ranging from tips and tricks to inspirational designs, processes, and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week. Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too. The Art of Getting Things Done: Overcoming Procrastination Isn’t as Difficult as You Think “With a seemingly endless supply of content and social media updates getting hurled at us 24/7, it’s…
Around the castle it crept, a small, yet indecipherable gurgle of bones shifting. It was tall, lanky and faceless, yet with a whistle like a canary heard after a jolt of these links. Slava Triptih – HE has a way with ink. Beautiful black cloud spray portraits and even more ink illustrations and artwork. Little Prince – The making of the stop motion animation with Production Designer Alex Juhasz and Lead Animator Anthony Scott. Exploring Porto – Three photographers take you on a beautiful tour throughout Porto, Portugal with the Leica M-D. Video is a must see. Egg Rugg – and other breakfast food related hand-corcheted rugs and such by…
It’s incredible what can be done with so little these days. While PDFs can now be signed from our smartphones and entire presentations can be given off of our tablets, the need for a laptop still hasn’t entirely gone away for most – particularly those who do 3D modeling. While it’s hardly a performer for any system-intensive 3D modeling program, the $299 Lenovo N22 Windows Notebook is ideal for students, everyday users, and those looking for a budget laptop solution for their Cloud computing needs. Rocking an Intel Celeron dual-core processor with 4GB of RAM and 128 GB of SSD storage, the N22 Windows Notebook also features a 10-hour battery, a…
Remember the Mechwarrior model we shared a few weeks ago? So. Good. We’re in the process of printing up one of our own and can’t wait to paint it. Gambody, the same place we bought the model, has a interesting little operation going. They started as a marketplace for 3D prints of video game models. Now, they’re preparing to launch an online workshop with video tutorials and step-by-step guidelines on everything from printing to painting your 3D printed miniatures in home conditions. The first glimpse of this is the paint process on a TAU XV109 Y’Vahra battlesuit from the Warhammer 40k miniatures game, perfectly sped up to catch all the…
Having graduated from the ISI Yogyakarta (Art Institute) of Indonesia as a Craft Major just last year, 24-year-old Indonesian native Dedy Shofianto’s wood sculptures carry the same level of expertise you would expect from artists twice his age. As the winner of multiple Craft Prototype Design competitions during his tenure at ISI Yogyakarta, Shofianto specializes in creating kinetic sculptures of insect-like creatures made from locally-sourced jati (teak) wood that he animates with hidden electronics. Having plotted the kinetic schematics before carving all the wood parts by hand, Shofianto carries that rare hybrid of engineering and art that leads to impressive kinetic sculptures like these wild mechanical beasts: https://youtu.be/MsHCXKb2ovs Find out…
Now on Kickstarter, the Metal Delta 3D printer from Blue Eagle Labs offers some very interesting features at a very low price. Blue Eagle Labs previously sold the Kossel Clear delta 3D printer on Kickstarter in 2013, which was wildly successful, reaching almost 27X their funding target. It took them a year to make and deliver the machines, but they did so. Now they’re launching a vastly improved machine, the Metal Delta. While the new machine is also a delta-style device, like its predecessor, the Metal Delta includes a number of interesting features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5UeCGArVt4 First, the machine include a number of robust parts, some made from “3mm hot rolled steel”,…