Chromatics: Shadow

While most who tuned into the Twin Peaks’ season premiere last night were perhaps elated by the new Angelo Badalamenti scoring, a musical performance that closed out the spectacle delivered a very different sort of Lynchian experience. Portland’s Chromatics played their 2015 track “Shadow” for those at the Bang Bang Club. They followed this up with an official video for “Shadow,” where they perform in …

AI Invented Paint Colors With Silly Names

From a purplish blue color named “Sane Green” to a “Gray Pubic” sky blue, an artificial intelligence experiment by research scientist Janelle Shane saw a series of colors invented and named by a neural network. Through inputting 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors and their RGB values, Shane trained the system—by way of an algorithm called char-rnn, which predicts the next character in a sequence—to generate new …

Electricity-Powered Zero Motorcycles

Simple, sophisticated machines breaking milestones among electric vehicle

From their inception in 2006 to today’s rapidly escalating sales, Zero Motorcycles have pioneered the aesthetic and technological worlds of electric motorcycles. These are, as the brand states, hand-built high-tech machines designed and produced in northern California. Zero Motorcycles happens to be the leader for electric bikes (in an EV market that reached 170K last year, in the US alone). They’ve achieved this by stripping …