I love peeking through the gaps on neighbourhood redevelopments, like this one on Campbell Street, Surry Hills.

Sometimes the city streets seem so fixed – apartment blocks and shops and street signs are such planned things.

I love moments of change – not so much when restaurants or other businesses fail, that’s always sad – but those moments of transition when a house or a warehouse implodes to form something new, they’re totally exciting for me.

The Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, warehouse below has been in redevelopment for months. At first, you could peek in and see the hollowed out shell. But now it’s pretty dark and full of floors.

I guess I just like moments when you realise how ephemeral the buildings and structures of the city are, it makes me like them a lot more.

Back to work, and at least on this Liverpool Street downpipe, it’s back to meetings with suits and briefcases.

It’s that time of year, I guess. Darlinghurst isn’t too corporate, but when people are stepping out about now, it’s for meetings not parties.

This farm yard animal appeared on Liverpool Street this week.

It’s just down from the crossing with Palmer Street, and diagonally across from East Village – but what it actually is, I’m far from certain. At the site, I had it picked for a cow. On photo, it seems obviously porcine.

This spider caught the eye of one of our semi-regular contributors, Blake, as he walked past Onde restaurant on Liverpool Street.

It’s peeking from behind a tree, across the road from Bills cafe.

A leftover Halloween decoration or another arachnid installation a la the Hardie Street spider series?

As school went back for term 4, Darlinghurst Public School announced their new, grassy playground on the message board at the south-western corner of the school.

Since then, each time I walk past, I gaze longingly down at the lush greenery, wishing I could walk on it barefoot.

This morning, it looked so glorious, and we wondered if it could really be real. It is just so green. Without going in the school gates, we got as close as we could, and it did seem to look decidedly non-plastic.

While we were pondering, a cleaner came out of one of the offices and proceeded to walk across said lawn. I called out to him, to get the facts.

It is plastic grass.

Looks lovely though.

I rode past this ribbon on the corner of Palmer and Liverpool Streets, Darlinghurst.

It reminded me of this stoop we passed on Crown Street, on the left.

The one on the right is on Langley Street. And there’s another around the corner on Kells Lane.

Someone’s gift-wrapping our neighbourhood, and we want to know why.

This telegraph pole provides power and telecommunications to the street, would it kill you to look at it once in a while?

This poster is on Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, almost at the corner of Oxford Street.

It’s the kind of sign we wouldn’t be surprised to see on a new local blog called Signs Around Darlo, which hosts photos taken of signs that people leave for each other around Darlinghurst.

I do love a good stoop.

Stoop is actually a Dutch word, meaning “small porch.”

East Sydney and Surry Hills have many a great example.

These are along Foveaux Street, between Crown and Bourke Streets.

These stoops are on Crown Street, between Stanley and Liverpool Streets.

Our apartment building lacks a stoop. I think I would enjoy sitting on the stoop, if we had one.

Artists are trying all sorts of techniques to get by right now. The occupants of a top floor terrace on the corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, have paintings in the windows with a sign saying they are for sale.

Then these appeared.

Norman Pentzien, who’s based at 3 Darlinghurst Road, according to this, plastered poles around the neighbourhood this week.

If you need artwork on your wall, truck, clothes, or anywhere, small, big. Call me: 0406075108. Norman, I am experienced with any kind of architecture.

He’s on Facebook, and according to his Myspace page, on the road – Berlin, Goa, Sydney?

This chalk alphabet riddle is puzzling, but we have eyes on the street. Step by step, we’re getting closer to the answer.

One of our regular contributors, Blake, doesn’t think it’s a riddle/code. But he’s been keeping his eyes open for new examples. He found a copycat today, right next to E is for “entropy” on Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst.

And Blake seems to have caught the (original) alphabetic graffitiist in the act:

Lex and I came across this copycat graff this afternoon right next to E is for Entropy and started chatting to another couple who were admiring the work. One of them had seen the culprit in the act! He was described as male, with a beard, carrying a shoulder bag-satchel type thing and an English Staffordshire Terrier by his side.

We’ve had another eyewitness account in the comments, from Nathan:

On Wednesday evening, a surreptitious man was seen on the corner of Hardie and Liverpool Streets, before producing a large piece of chalk from his pocket and wielding it in front of an innocent group of bricks. His accomplice was an unleashed wolf on lookout. The man left the scene and may or may not have a fake beard.

Copycat graffiti! Eyewitness accounts! We’re getting close.