Tuesday, January 16 2018

This Google app finds your classical art doppelgänger, and we tried it on Columbus celebrities. 🎨🖼

January 16, 2018

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Welcome to Tuesday. It's James.

Ever wonder if someone who looks just like you commissioned a painting of themselves hundreds of years ago?

Ok, me either. But this app Arts & Culture app from Google that takes a selfie from you and finds your fine art twin is still a great time, especially in an office or with friends. And parents, it also works with kids. From what I've seen it actually works great with kids - I've seen a couple of results that are just about frame worthy.

We had some fun with local Columbus figures including Jack Hanna, Mayor Ginther, Urban Meyer, all our local news anchors, and others. See what you think at the link below.

Tuesday Weather 🌡☁️ 🌨High of 13. Mostly cloudy with a chance of flurries after 1pm, and very, very cold. Wind chills as low as -7.

Navigator Originals ✏️The Acorn Bookshop Will Close Its Doors After 25 YearsGrandview, and all of Columbus, are losing something special with the closing of The Acorn Bookshop. 25 years is real local history, and it says so much that they survived this long with the increasingly difficult landscape for booksellers. If you want to say good-bye, or just check it out before it's gone, the store will be putting their inventory on deep discount over the next month. All the details at the link.A New Nat Geo WILD Show Will Feature The Columbus ZooZoo Life will premiere in May, and all six episodes will be centered on the Columbus Zoo staff and animals.The Blowout Bar Will Open A New Short North LocationThe Blowout Bar continues their run of success, opening their third location this spring.

Around Town 🏘On MLK Day and considering social justice and where we stand, it seems timely that this story went viral yesterday. Just north in Detroit, a 39 year old immigrant with a wife and two children was deported Monday morning. He was brought to the US when he was 10 years old, and is just slightly too old to qualify for DACA (applicants had to be under 31 years old on June 15, 2012.) He has been in the United States for 30 years. [Detroit Free-Press]Do you know what a snow devil is? Think dust devil except with snow, and extremely rare. A Zanesville woman caught one on video over the weekend. Very, very cool. [Weather.com]A Mount Vernon remodeler was featured on a DIY Network show last night about turning barns into homes. The builder had to accelerate his normal process and turn an 1860's barn into a home during the summer and finish before Thanksgiving. Most DIY shows stream online, and you can check for re-runs here. [Dispatch/Weiker]

Picture of the Day ❄️Franklin County was under a snow emergency for part of Monday, and at least early Tuesday as well. I discounted the potential for disruption on Monday big time, probably due to some hype fatigue from Friday's storm (which, in fairness, did turn out to be an awful lot of snow.)

Longread 🖥"She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look."Note this quote: "I was a very strange person,” Good says. “Rural Ohio is not a nice place to very strange people."Longreads: The Encyclopedia of the Missing

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