Took my family (up from Melbourne) to see the Skipping Girls last weekend, between intermittent heavy showers of rain. The notice has been edited already - the original date of the girls' creation has been modified to '96(!). 13 years is a long time for something as ephemeral as uncommisssioned street art ( Read more... )

I thought the Skipping Girls had been removed - painted over, or the fence panels replaced - during the time I was away from my beloved neighbourhood, but this w/end has proved me wrong. Hooray!

Firstly, I saw a guy yesterday,selling framed photos of Newtown street art - naturally the first that caught my eye was a shot of the girls. He also ( Read more... )

I went for an early morning walk today, intending to walk down to and around Sydney Park, an old industrial site complete with brick kilns, which has been remediated and turned into parkland and wetlands. It has had even more work done on it since I was last there 2 years ago, including, so the council tells us, public toilets! (No more going ( Read more... )

Just got around to scanning a story I tore out of the local paper before Christmas,

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Last Saturday,on a stinking hot day, when early Spring was pretending to be mid-Summer, I joined a guided tour of Newtown's street art. Led by a girl with great hair extensions, & a guy with a sound system in a bright yellow wheelie bin (rubbish bin for recyclables), we followed, Pied Piper fashion to hip-hop, ska, rap & I don't know what other ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a public holiday, so I treated it like a Sunday & went for a good long walk. I walked from the northernmost end of King St to its southernmost end at St Peter's Station - about 3 kilometres. Add another kilometre wandering backstreets, and then the return trip & I figure I did about 7 ks ( Read more... )

Summer has begun - the frangipani are dropping blossoms on the footpath, bushfires are raging across parts of Victoria, SA, Tasmania and in the Blue Mts, & I have completed my last freelance assignment for the year ( Read more... )

Skipping girl is back!I went for a walk along the Redfern end of Wilson St on Sunday afternoon to clear my head & stretch my legs from writing about koala reproduction (you don't want to know!). I remembered to grab the camera on the way out, & was rewarded some interesting buildings, roofs, and a whole row of skipping girls. They had been ( Read more... )