It’s the first day of February, 2016. Time for the biggest CAD industry event for a single software package. SolidWorks World 2016 is on and there’s an ethereal feel in the air. Maybe it’s the rapturous, simultaneous geeking of thousands of SolidWorks users. Maybe it’s the 75 degree Dallas, Texas weather in the middle of winter. Maybe it’s a bit of both. As is usual, they’ll have guests and announcements galore, but what are you hoping to hear from SolidWorks?
From the resurgence of movie franchises based on comic book characters to the growing trend of vinyl record sales and hi-fi audio, the demand for bringing back the past has never looked (or sounded) as good as it does today. For Fuseproject founder and designer Yves Béhar, this meant bringing back one of the most iconic and loved pieces of photo and video history ever created: the Kodak Super 8 camera. “Super 8 taught me how to be a filmmaker,” explains legendary actor and director Steve McQueen. “At the time, it was all about expense, meaning that I had to know what I wanted to shoot or at least edit…
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 MICRO is the Strongest, Most Minimal Wallet You’ll Ever Want “While some people stuff anything and everything into their wallet, others prefer the minimalist money-clip approach with that ever-so-modern feel…
We blew past them in a spritz of gravel and glass, popping the shrubberies like catapulted rocks into the air. We could handle the speed–oh, we could handle the speed–what we couldn’t handle was how fast our skin would recoil once we came to a stop. Five seconds before that happened, the unthinkable occurred. The light bent, time slowed, and our departure was cushioned by these links. Gabriel Levesque – Amazing two-dimensional and other worldly work from the Montreal-based artist with an mind for the surreal. Board Game History – All the way back to 2600 BC. The knuckle-bone dice are my faaaavorite. 10/1 – 10 floors of a communist…
Pennsylvania based Cabot Gun has designed and fabricated a pair of 1911 pistols made out of a 35kg (77 lb) chunk of the Gibeon meteorite. Called the “Big Bang Pistol Set,” they will be chambered in 45 ACP and come in a special display case. Cabot, known as the “Rolls Royce of 1911’s,” has stated they wanted to make the world’s most expensive pistols.
With over a million views on his primitive technology-related videos, the YouTuber appropriately known only as Primitive Technology has indeed found the recipe for viral success. While primitive technology and streaming video might go together as well as oil and water, a recent surge of views in survivalist-related content – particularly those that document primitive craftsman processes – have proven that old world processes can hold their own in the age of Vine and mobile video. “What I love about (these videos) is that it shows ancient people were not “primitive” in the sense of stupid,” says Marialla, a YouTube user. “They were extremely intelligent and made the best use…