This easy challenge will be solved using reverse image search and shows the power of such tools in investigations to identify objects and recognizable items on a photo.
Link to the OSINT challenge video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4q7XrAy5g4
I urge you to try by yourself before looking at this solution
Solution
We wont lost any time and directly perform a reverse image search on the painting seen in the video:
We have several matches for this painting. The first ones are related to the artist who made it. But it doesn’t give us any clue about its location.
So if we scroll down a bit and browse the results, we find these interesting links:
It says Hi-Wire Brewing. So let’s search for this brewing:
There are multiple shops in different states.
If we go back to the previous reverse image search, in the results, we see something starting with Knoxv....
We’ll investigate this way.
On the Hi-Wire Brewing website, we can list all the shops:
https://hiwirebrewing.com/
Bingo, this matches our previous search!
We only need to find the address of this one:
We can even validate with photos taken and uploaded in Google Maps:
Let’s go in front of the shop to manually validate the location:
Answer
Location: 2020 Barber St, Knoxville, TN 37920, United States
GPS coordinates: 35.95815723250257, -83.90631919225315