Catlanta

There's a local artist who's turned his late-night graffiti sessions into citywide scavenger hunts for little bits of his art. Catlanta has an avid set of followers (including yours truly) who will drive like bats out of hell at all hours to snag his magnets stuck to random mailboxes and fences across the city.

I first ran across Catlanta when I saw this cute mural near my house a couple of months ago.

 Then a friend told me Catlanta had started making magnets of this little character _ called kittens _ and was hiding them around the city. AWESOMENESS.

Here's how it goes:  It starts with a tweet and a Facebook post linking to his Flickr account, where Catlanta puts a photo of where he's left his kittens. After that it's a race against the clock. These little suckers have disappeared almost instantly, it seems.

(Read this great ScoutMob piece on him.)

Today? I won. VICTORY IS MINE, CATLANTA! I found this little guy after hauling ass to a restaurant near my office (in rush-hour traffic, no less).

Isn't he so cute? Now the challenge will be not wanting to drop everything and run every time I see he's posted new ones. Hoarding is not a good look, especially when so many people are hunting for these. That would just be unfair.

These are the thoughts I was having when I got a text a few minutes ago alerting me that a new one had been put up less than a mile from my house. I grabbed my Pajama Jeans (yes, I said Pajama Jeans) and dashed out the door. I arrived at the spot less than five minutes after he tweeted and it was gone! But I did run across two girls who were also looking for the kitten and were just as disappointed as I was that it was gone. I justified looking for another one by telling myself I'd give it to a friend or maybe to Hot Pants for his office.

But who am I kidding? This shit's addictive!