Redfern Visions 14: Guerilla Gardeners in South Dowling Street

On the border of Surry Hills and Redfern at the corner of South Dowling and Cleveland Streets there has lately appeared this example of public art and/or guerilla gardening.

Surry Hills side:

Redfern side:

Colours 2: Red

Good luck for the Chinese, blood and revolution and anger for others — so many connotations. My Toshiba laptop is red… So are the Pope’s shoes…

Red Soil Country Australia

Red sky in Devon, UK

Sydney: World Youth Day 2008 fashion

Given the rules of the game laid down by Morrie Dilemma and his friends — How the NSW government has made World Youth Day into a problem — Ninglun Fashions of Surry Hills has come up with a range of tasteful plain t-shirts that may perhaps be acceptable under the special law.

EXTRAORDINARY new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance” to World Youth Day participants…

…The laws, which operate until the end of July, have the potential to make a crime of wearing a T-shirt with a message on it…People who fail to comply will be subject to a $5500 fine…

 

But is it art?

Here in Sydney even Kevin Rudd has expressed his disapproval…

NOW A PAGE.

For Jim Belshaw: Tibet train pastiche

Linked to source.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway really is an engineering wonder, and so useful for clamping down on riots… The photo is faked, as Marcellous explains in a comment here, but Jim Belshaw wanted to see it again.

Gustave Dore’s “Ancient Mariner” illustrations

Paul Gustave Doré (1832-1883) — French wood and steel engraver.

See the full set by clicking on the image.