day trip to long island city

saturday morning, the boy and i decided to check out ps1 in long island city. ps1, formerly a public school, is a contemporary art gallery that has parties with deejays and live bands on saturday afternoons in the summer. we arrived around 4:15 pm and checked out the exhibits first. as with my previous experiences with modern art, i find some of it amazing, some of it absurd, and some of it to be incomprehensible or unremarkable. nonetheless, i love the concept of ps1 and enjoyed myself immensely.

a live band started to play around 5, so we grabbed a couple seats on the stairs to listen to the band and people watch. the scene was incredible. all types of people representing all the boroughs- the preppy, frat boy types, the 80s punkish hipsters, the buff and beautiful gay men in tight shirts, and so on. it was even more fun watching the way people dance.

























the crowds fleshed out by 6:30 and the crowds and heat were starting to wear me out, so we headed to the "cooling room" which just turned out to be a room with blocks of ice. . not very cool unless you sat on it, which some ppl opted to do.

around 7 i had reached my limits so the boy and i headed over to long island city water taxi beach. . it's a totally random, surreal place. a beach in the middle of nowhere with people playing volleyball, loud reggaeton, and grills and bars set up. it's just a stone's throw away from manhatta with an unparalleled view of the manhattan skyline. . it was definately neat to see and check out. we watchd the sun set then called it a night.