the walk down....

third avenue---this walk, taken after a movie screening whose topic was cyber security and  then a panel which my friend Harlo, participatred in.  The screening and the talk was at a four year old work space called Neuhaus, on 25street a little east of Park Avenue. A fascinating space---cityboy walked in and immediately found it very alluring. Sort of a work space for elite idealists---if there is such a thing.
Closed off but social---perhaps a month long membership is what cityboy needs; there he could craft his "magnum opus", whatever that means. Or read, endlessly, better environment then a public library or one of the many coffee places around the city. It is something to consider, along with a lot of other things.
Anyway, the movie was penetrating if a little repetitive--the panel afterwards was really sharp---the essence of the discussion was how the consumer could take back his power (really his or her identity) from the internet. Some hung around afterwards, but cityboy did not. Time for a beer---and where better than on third avenue between 25th and 34th. So cityboy walked the walk, and looked into all the bars he passed (about seven or eight) making sure a baseball game was on, but alas, he did not feel comfortable venturing in to any of them. In the end, the walk continued to 42nd and Madison, at which point cityboy decided that a bus to 79nth street and then the cross town bus back to the west side, might be more appropriate. And that is what he did---the bus he took north on Madison was not very crowded, anyway, Madison, at that hour, seems like a ghost town. Got off on 77th sttreet---walked east for a block on 78th---noticed an older apartment house without a door man--amazing that those things are left around there---but yes, there is was---possibly cityboy himself might be living there at a low rent if he had found a space there in the late sixties. Sometimes the juxtaposition of residential Manhattan architecture is fascinating---at least that is what city boy found yesterday.
     The plan today: go to Ede Fox's campaign head quarters and possibly do a little data entry or maybe a little polling---though I really don't like to do that. Also, I will stop by the barbershop, north of Nostrand, and try to see if the two guys I spoke to last Saturday still want the Brooklyn is not for Sale t shirts. Have to arrange a plan to get it to them. After that choices abound---stay in Brooklyn for Catch at Invisible Dog space, or visit a Zine festival at Pete's But probably will head to Bronx Documentary Project (if I am not too tired for the opening of an exhibit there. Always fascinated by the visit---don't know what time it will end, will report soon.