*UPDATE*

I'm heading out of town for the next 24 hours, and I'll be taking some dinosaur paintings with me to hide. I'm stoked to have the opportunity to get out of town and hide some more paintings for you to find!

I'd like to ask if you have already found a painting to NOT go look for these next three paintings. Let someone else have a chance, please.

I'll be posting clues as soon as I'm out hiding them. Thanks for participating!

CLUE #48 - FOUND!

Congratulations to Evan for finding Dinosaur #48!

 

The above message decodes to "There was no there there", a quote from Gertrude Stein, regarding a visit to her childhood home in Oakland, which was no longer there. There's a giant sculpture on the Berkeley/Oakland border regarding that references this, and at the foot of the "T", there was the painting!

CLUE #25 (25, 26, 27, 28 & 29 acutally) - FOUND!

Congratulations to Traci and Cole for finding the last of the dinosaur paintings hidden in this hunt!

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Traci wrote an awesome description of the hunt on her blog, which you can read by clicking on the picture above. They are standing in front of the final location, a newspaper rack re-purposed as a "Dinomatic Dinosaur Painting Dispenser":

Still haven't heard from the folks who found the other four paintings. If you completed the hunt, or stumbled upon a free painting by accident, I'd love to hear from you.

DINOHUNT TOMORROW!

Since my wife is due to have a baby any moment, and I probably won't be hiding any dinosaurs in San Francisco for the next six weeks (Hello, East Bay!) I'll be hiding FIVE paintings at the final location of tomorrow hunt. Please, if you participate and make it to the end, only take ONE painting.

When tomorrow? If everything goes as planned, EARLY! 8AM! If I run into any technical glitches (or if my wife goes into labor tonight)... a little later.

I'll leave you with this:

CLUE #24 - FOUND!

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Congratulations to Kelly Nabours for finding another dinosaur painting!

Here's a breakdown of the hunt from Kelly:

So, sent the clue through a binary-text converter.  We got a paragraph describing a public rooftop.  Corrissa did a google search, and voila, that entire paragraph is online discussing the rooftop patio at 150 California St.

So, showed up there.  I did show up around noon, and there were quite a few people eating their lunches.  So, trying to look nonchalant, searched for quite some time, not seeing anything.  Our illustrious artist, with his mad ninja skills, managed to see me searching while remaining unobserved. 

I finally noticed the dinosaur sticker on the base of one of the tables. (I was actually sitting at this table when he arrived, and decided I needed to leave, otherwise he probably wouldn't check the table for the next clue)

Looking under the table, taped to the underside was a manila envelope with another clue!  This one a crossword puzzle.

I didn't bring a pen, and had some slight difficulty.  Nonetheless, trying to keep it in my head, went out searching for the next spot. Quickly got to the corner of Sacramento and Davis to look for the Dinosaur Painting Underneath the Shoe Shoe Stand. (It mentioned the answer to #5 twice, it took me a little bit to realize this was 5-across and then 5-down.).  So finally finding the Shoe Shine Stand marked with Sweet Memory signs.

This nice fellow was running the stand, and there beneath it was this well-wrapped package.  I couldn't get it open, so brought it back to the office for scissors.  And there we are.

CLUE #23 - FOUND!

*Blogger went down yesterday and erased this post with it. I'm re-adding it, as the painting has still not been recovered*

Congratulations to Casey Caston for findind Dinosaur #23, hidden beneath the pinball machine at Dinosaurs, the banh mi sandwich shop in the Castro!

A big thank you to Chris Nguyen (the owner of Dinosaurs) for letting me stop by and hide a dinosaur painting in his shop!

CLUE #23 - 11 AM - MAY 12TH

The next clue will be here at 11AM TODAY!

Keep your minds sharp!

CLUE #22 - FOUND!

Congratulations to Alec Adams and Elijah Stoll for finding Dinosaur #22!

Clicking on the above link takes you to my regular blog (http://www.xadamdx.com for the uninitiated) which may have lost some folks. However, if you scrolled down, you would see that the text on one of the flyers had been changed:

I figured since I was going to be down in San Jose, playing a show with my band, I could use the opportunity to hide a dinosaur painting outside of my usual surroundings. Homestead Lanes is a little bit of a time warp, a suburban bowling alley that with a snack bar, video game arcade, and recently, a sports bar that allows all ages shows!

At the front door, there was a dino-sticker with a chalk arrow pointing back out into the parking lot. This led to more arrows, and after a bit of wandering around, the hunters came upon this in an alley:

This bit of information, when decoded, led the hunters to a person inside the show. When told a specific password, they were presented with a key:

Over in the Arcade area there is a set of lockers (different from the lockers over by the bathroom where the above pictures were taken), and inside locker 13, DINOSAUR!

So Excited!