We’re always tempted by cast-offs on the street.

I was struck by this deconstructed barbecue as I walked up Liverpool Street.

I found myself wondering who has three derelict barbecues sitting around just waiting to be assembled into a poetic bit of street art, but then I realised. Maybe someone else is dreaming of taking things home and seeing if they work.

Woman’s Day circa ‘99/last year’s Harpers are fine for most surgeries, but East Sydney Doctors, across the road from the National Art School on Burton Street in Darlinghurst, takes a different approach.

The current show’s by Emerald Fitzgerald and Andy Hopkins. Adam Cullen and Cash Brown have shown here, too, among others.

They blog too.

Walking about the neighbourhood we often spot peoples’ cast-offs. Inevitably, one of us will ask: “Should we take it home and see if works?”

I saw this old Hoover vacuum cleaner today on Burton Street, up near the art school. I really wanted to try it out.

When you see a stencil on the wall it’s usually pretty direct. Words, characters (human or otherwise), streetscapes. The meaning might be ambiguous, but the picture’s usually fairly clear.

I saw this one on Hardie Street in Darlinghurst this afternoon. I’m not sure if it’s a stenciller gone abstract or just a slip of the spray can.

Either way, I like it.

There’s a car wash wedged between Darlinghurst Road and Victoria Street, in Darlinghurst, near St John’s Church. It used to be a great thoroughfare: good to drive through, good to walk through.

The ‘Splash’ carwash/car park was only recently rebranded, but, as you can see, it’s closed for the moment.

The car wash is bound on one side by a leg-high wall stamped with stencils by the likes of Kill Pixie. A friend from London visited a few weeks ago, and knowing he’s obsessed with street art, it was one of his first stops. Gone or just another haphazard change for this random car wash?

The public art/guerilla garden at the corner of Cathedral and Palmer Streets, Woolloomoolloo, wasn’t removed by council (as we wrongly guessed a couple of weeks ago). It was the group behind the original display, Guerrilla Gardeners, and they’ve returned.

I like the latest desert inspired installation.

Just in time for Baz’s blockbuster.

Everyone who passes takes a look inside, wonders what it means, and moves along.