Jejune Stardust

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The app allows hotel guests to enter information about where they’re staying, including the hotel name and room number. They can also upload four pictures of their room.  Investigators across the U.S. can then cross-reference those pictures with hotel photos of trafficking victims that typically appear online to see if there are any similarities using cutting-edge image analysis.

“The algorithm that is being run is actually matching data points in the clean photos that the public is uploading and comparing it to photos that are found online,” says  Molly Hackett, creator of the app.

“Having an app like that will be a very beneficial and useful tool,” says Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Detective Larry McKinnon.  He says it could tip off investigators to a victim’s location and save valuable time when lives are on the line.

“They can get that information back to law enforcement and maybe save someone’s life,” McKinnon says.

So far the app has accumulated more than 1 million hotel photos.  Developers say they have an 85% success rate of returning the correct location to investigators within the first 20 hotel options.

Video Wednesday No.15 - Leafy Letter A

I’ll be doing a series of Leafy Letterforms but I need to figure out a few different styles and this is one of them.

Those Letters Won’t Draw Themselves by Jamie Clarke

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LS VIII, 2015 (part 2)

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