Newtown Signs

On July 4, I spent the day taking photos around Sydney's hipster suburb of Newtown, a very interesting area visually. Even the Fire Department has a sense of humour! 

Cemetery of the Dead People's Graveyard for Deceased Persons

John, who loves Grimes (whoever that is) and the grave of Ernestine. 

Newtown

Iroha

'Iroha' is a famous Japanese poem from the 11th century; each hiragana character is used once in it. Read vertically right to left, the poem translates as:

Iro ha nihoheto (Colours are fragrant, but they)
Chirinuru o (Will eventually scatter)
Wa ka yo tane so (Who in our world)
Tsune naramu (Is unchanging?)
Uwi no okuyama (The deep mountains of karma)
Kefu koete (We cross them today)
Asaki yume mishi (And we shall not have superficial dreams)
Wehi mo sesu (Nor be deluded.)

Permission to come aboard, Cap'n?

"No."

Queen Victoria

Listen to the ta-may-tah wit' da melons, the great Herschel "Krusty the Clown" Krustofsky once quoth, and he knew what he was talking about, believe me. And on that note, I've spent my birthday week in Sydney, folks! Here's the first of the sketches I did there: the statue of Queen Victoria outside the building that bears her name.

I've made her look a bit less of an old crone here, not to say the actual statue doesn't look good though. And if you're in Sydney and want to see a beautiful old 1880s building with an amazing interior with stained glass, tiled floors, incredible clocks hanging from the ceiling and heaps of shops, you'd be well advised to check out the QVB. Go now! Tell 'em Pete from Nonesuch sent you!