There’s a person with a cute animal trio on the wall in Hanslow Street, Surry Hills.

It’s hard to tell exactly, but I think there’s a rhinoceros (could be a hippopotamus), one giraffe and one elephant, and a person.

UPDATE (26/9/09): The paint stuck to the wall a bit better when this stencil appeared on Williams Lane, Paddington.

It’s definitely a rhino, with a giraffe, an elephant and a fairly stocky person.

There’s a rooster and a fantastical island scene down at the corner of Foley and Langley Streets, Darlinghurst.

It’s just behind Oxford Street, near Taylor Square, and along with a Kill Pixie diss by some Slayer lover, there’s a fetching rooster stencilled on the wall.

There’s also this vaguely occult collection of symbols pasted up: an island palm, a pyramid, a skull, waves and sand.

Walking home last night, about 10.30pm, I caught ZAP in the act.

Nonchalantly, I walked through the car wash between Victoria Street and Darlinghurst Road, silently cursing myself that I’d left the camera at home. All the while, 2 capped men plastered a “J” on the wall of the stencil gallery, adjacent to the rapping dinosaurs.

This morning, their handywork was up for all to see.

Strange message, Zap.

UPDATE: 21/8/09

Mystery solved. But like most solutions to mysteries, it’s a bit disappointing.

Walking past the Green Park Hotel this morning, I caught sight of a familiar couple.

Keep your eyes peeled.

They get around those two.

The car wash between Victoria Street and Darlinghurst Road is home to a veritable stencil gallery, but it’s been quiet for a while.

It was shut for a couple of months over summer, and the latest car wash business to step in to the space – Star – might have dampened enthusiasm. But this week, we spotted some new activity.

Looks like the artist, ZAP, might have done a large scale paste-up to get around the proprietor.

Two dinosaurs rapping? Hip-hop gesticulation?

Another afternoon, another character walking down a quiet lane.

This time it’s on Clarkson’s Mill Way, a tiny lane – really just a pedestrian path behind some terraces – that links Darley Street and Darlinghurst Road in Darlinghurst.

He looks downcast. GFC victim? Things must be looking up though, he’s being mobbed by butterflies.

Okay, so my co-blogger saw this and passed, thinking we’d played out on stencils.

She may have a point. But it’s good.

Just people walking on the block. Checking out a Lily Allen tour poster. Heading over to Messina for a gelato.

This is on the corner of Burton and Victoria Streets in Darlinghurst.

Update: spotted a much more produced sticker version of this on a pole outside the Darlo Bar. It’s Mini Graff, which I should have realised.

Motivational message spotted on Gurney Street, in Paddington.

Looks like the work of Canberra girl Hanna Davies…

There’s a nordic man peeking out from a corner, just behind Taylor Square, Darlinghurst.

His helmet says ’3111′ – what’s that about?

These birds flew down Clapton Street Place, Darlinghurst, the wrong way in October.

Now balloons are falling amongst the birds.